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Author Archives: Konstantin S. Solnushkin
X86 Has to Go Away, Revolution is Necessary
Sometimes I visit big vendors’ presentations where they talk about their new servers. The audience — systems administrators, engineers, technicians — are listening very carefully, trying to grasp every word. They like to hear that the new server, equipped with … Continue reading
InfiniBand: Who is the Market Leader?
So, Intel recently announced their plans to acquire QLogic, the manufacturer of InfiniBand hardware and software. I just wanted to compare the two major InfiniBand manufacturers, QLogic and Mellanox, by their sizes. Here is the graph: If you are a … Continue reading
Globus Online, the Data Transfer Solution For Scientists
The February 2012 issue of the “Communications of the ACM” features an article by Bryce Allen et al., “Software as a service for data scientists” (or see PDF). The main idea of the article is as follows. The amount of … Continue reading
Chroma Will Help to Provision and Manage Lustre Installations
Back to the good old days when I worked as a system administrator, I remember that I wanted to implement a Lustre file system for the two small clusters that we had (64 and 20 nodes, respectively). However, after learning … Continue reading
Russia Threatens to Build a 10-Petaflop Supercomputer
Russian supercomputing company, T-Platforms, was quoted on 23 December 2011 by “Computerworld” as claiming to build a 10-petaflop system. Okay, it was me who wrote “threatens”. T-Platforms didn’t state it so. What is more interesting is that their website still … Continue reading
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