[wplug-plan] GUM topic - clusters

[Alex]

David & Vance,

You might want to look into getting a speaker from
_the_ local cluster storage concern - Panasas, Inc. 
Now that they've introduced products targeted at
audiences below the HPC market (e.g., the ActiveStor
5000), they may be interested in communicating with
the local Linux community.  BTW, Garth Gibson, who is
a professor at CMU, is CTO and one of the original
RAID researchers from Berkeley.  

Panasas' storage will be used on the petascale
"RoadRunner" system at Los Alamos, scheduled for
completion in 2008.

Check out this article:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/22/panasas_pfs/

Check out Panasas at:
http://www.panasas.com

Note also that Panasas currently has 5 local job
listings on their web site: 
http://www.panasas.com/careers.html

Hope this helps.  :-)

..alex.

Alex Landefeld

--- David Ostroske <eksortso at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 11/21/06, Vance Kochenderfer <vkochend at nyx.net>
> wrote:
> > Since the latest Top500 list just came out and
> Linux has 75% of
> > the systems on the list, it might be nice to have
> a GUM about
> > clusters.  I think a cool hook for this could be
> to ask people to
> > bring their laptops to the meeting and set up a
> cluster on the
> > spot using ParallelKnoppix.
> 
> Sounds like a good idea for December.
> 
> Some links:
> http://idea.uab.es/mcreel/ParallelKnoppix/
> http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/11/09/1931219
> 
> > I can work on preparing for and setting up the
> ParallelKnoppix
> > cluster.  However, I'm not very knowledgeable in
> this area, so I'm
> > not really much of an authoritative speaker. 
> Perhaps we could get
> > someone from PSC?
> 
> What can we run on the cluster once we've got it set
> up? I'm open to
> anything, as long as it shows off what the cluster
> can do.
> 
> I may have a contact who knows somebody at PSC. I'll
> get back to you on this.
> 
> > I don't think it's feasible to have this ready for
> next week's GUM,
> > but December could work...
> 
> -- 
> David Ostroske <eksortso at gmail.com>
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