http://www.hpccommunity.org/blogs/beowulf/ en Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:53:56 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.hpccommunity.org/images/misc/rss.jpg http://www.hpccommunity.org/blogs/beowulf/ http://www.hpccommunity.org/blogs/beowulf/what-platform-cluster-manager-104/ Wed, 06 May 2009 04:57:37 GMT So Platform announced Platform Cluster Manager (PCM) this week. It is basically OCS rebranded. Why? 1. better name to tell people what the... So Platform announced Platform Cluster Manager (PCM) this week.

It is basically OCS rebranded. Why?

1. better name to tell people what the software is for (PCM is alot clearer than OCS)

2. Align with rest of Platform's naming convention

3. More catchy :-)

We are planning on Kusu2 and PCM2 new features and capabilities now, and I believe it will give cluster admins a much more usable tool to address the whole lifecycle of the cluster.

So while PCM now has no significant new features, it doesn't mean we are done... there are lot of ideas for Kusu2/PCM2.

For current users of Kusu, OCS and PCM - do give us your feedback on what you would like to see in Kusu 2!

Cheers! ]]> beowulf http://www.hpccommunity.org/blogs/beowulf/what-platform-cluster-manager-104/ http://www.hpccommunity.org/blogs/beowulf/busy-week-launch-cloud-innovation-centre-101/ Tue, 14 Apr 2009 04:19:20 GMT So we launched the Cloud Innovation Center in Singapore during GridAsia 2009... see press release. The CIC will make use of Project Kusu/OCS as... So we launched the Cloud Innovation Center in Singapore during GridAsia 2009... see press release.

The CIC will make use of Project Kusu/OCS as one of the fundamental building blocks...

We see Project Kusu evolving over time to address more than HPC.. as a provisioning tool.. I see it becoming a useful tool to people building clouds. ]]> beowulf http://www.hpccommunity.org/blogs/beowulf/busy-week-launch-cloud-innovation-centre-101/ http://www.hpccommunity.org/blogs/beowulf/so-what-hottest-topic-sc08-100/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:39:40 GMT For those lucky enough to be at SC08 and picked up the Platform's bjob t-shirt - good for you.

Those not there and missed out on the buzz at SC08.. checked out the awesome T-shirt.





Check back here regularly.. and you may just get yourself one of these T-Shirts... stay tuned...

Cheers! ]]> beowulf http://www.hpccommunity.org/blogs/beowulf/so-what-hottest-topic-sc08-100/ http://www.hpccommunity.org/blogs/beowulf/innovative-mac-cluster-usage-99/ Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:20:04 GMT Came across this innovative way to use a Mac 'cluster'...

YouTube - Mac vs PC

Happy Holidays! ]]> beowulf http://www.hpccommunity.org/blogs/beowulf/innovative-mac-cluster-usage-99/ http://www.hpccommunity.org/blogs/beowulf/red-hat-chases-redmond-hpc-play-94/ Fri, 03 Oct 2008 02:51:02 GMT Another story on Red Hat HPC and Kusu :) Red Hat chases Redmond with HPC play • The Register But to say that Red Hat chases Redmond is not... Another story on Red Hat HPC and Kusu :)

Red Hat chases Redmond with HPC play • The Register


But to say that Red Hat chases Redmond is not exactly right. It is more of Redmond chasing after the Linux HPC market.

I have seen the new Windows HPC Server 2008 and I must say it is very nicely done with good integration of management and monitoring tools. But what they have delivered in Windows HPC Server 2008 is what the Linux HPC market has since 2006; GUI based heat-maps? alerts? monitoring? - been there, done that!

Today, both the Windows and Linux crowd have the same set of tools and utilities to build and manage a cluster.

The real chase starts now in making clusters easier for the end-users (not the system integrators, hardware suppliers or cluster administrators).

This is where I feel the Linux crowd needs to pull together and work closely as a team. Microsoft's Visual Studio (VS) is a formidable opponent and with tight integrations of parallel tools into VS, it will give rise to a new generation of programmers who would be highly productive in the Windows world.

Have a good weekend! ]]> beowulf http://www.hpccommunity.org/blogs/beowulf/red-hat-chases-redmond-hpc-play-94/ http://www.hpccommunity.org/blogs/beowulf/red-hat-hpc-cometh-93/ Thu, 02 Oct 2008 08:31:10 GMT A nice little article from a friend in TheInquirer. Red Hat HPC Linux cometh - The INQUIRER Cheers! A nice little article from a friend in TheInquirer.

Red Hat HPC Linux cometh - The INQUIRER

Cheers! ]]> beowulf http://www.hpccommunity.org/blogs/beowulf/red-hat-hpc-cometh-93/ http://www.hpccommunity.org/blogs/beowulf/about-hpccommunity-org-initiative-8/ Tue, 08 Apr 2008 05:17:27 GMT The HPCCommunity.org effort is a technical community for the High Performance Computing (HPC) community. We focus on: * best practise in building,... The HPCCommunity.org effort is a technical community for the High Performance Computing (HPC) community. We focus on:

• best practise in building, operating and managing HPC clusters
• programming HPC clusters and Grid
• components of HPC clusters such as batch schedulers, cluster filesystems, cluster monitoring, systems management including deployment and maintenance of clusters
• high performance, low latency grid middleware
• enterprise grid resource management technology
• state-of-the-art, bleeding edge research within Platform and our global research partners

The community includes Platform Computing R&D team members, architects and developers, external collaborators and a growing community of users and developers in the HPC world.

We aim to share with the community our technology from 15 years of leadership in High Performance Computing (HPC) and Grid and we welcome the participation of all interested parties.

We strive to share mainly open source projects here. For various reasons, some projects need to remain closed source for now. It is this site’s promise that all downloaded software is free to use (as in beer) and distribute.

HPCCommunity.org consists of several communities and projects. Hopefully, this site will grow over time with the help of users and developers from the open source community. Our mission is to provide community members access to leading edge HPC and Grid technologies for them to use to build their next HPC cluster or Grid platform.

As the main sponsor of the site, Platform Computing will provide all necessary assistance and resources to HPCCommunity.org, however the real barometer of success will ultimately depend on users and contributors to this community.

So, whether you are a system administrator hoping to build the next HPC cluster or a developer wanting to build the next big Grid application, we hope you will find the necessary resources and access to a technical community here to help you achieve your goals.

We welcome any suggestions, ideas and improvement you may have.


Participating in the community

We encourage you to participate actively in this community by posting questions and answers in the forums and downloading code or projects to try out.

For the open source projects, we welcome code contribution, bug fixes, patches etc.

For the closed source projects, you can still contribute by building your applications on it and sharing your success (or failure) stories with the community.

We are always open to new or existing projects, which we can collaborate with that would enhance the objectives of this site.


Sincerely
HPCCommunity.org Team ]]> beowulf http://www.hpccommunity.org/blogs/beowulf/about-hpccommunity-org-initiative-8/