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OpenSolaris Community: HPC Developer

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Community Observers

• COMSTAR: Common Multiprotocol SCSI Target
  
• CPU Observability
  
• Coarse Data Flow Parallelism
  
• Crossbow: Network Virtualization and Resource Control
  
• HPC Stack
  
• IP over Infiniband
  
• Image Packaging System
  
• Indiana
  
• NFS RDMA transport update and performance analysis
  
• NFS version 4.1 pNFS
  
• Performance Wrappers
  
• SAM/QFS
  
• Solaris iSCSI Target
  
• Support for OpenFabrics User Verbs / API on OpenSolaris OS
  
• Volo
  
• iSCSI Extensions for Remote DMA (iSER)
  

Welcome to the OpenSolaris HPC Community

This is a community for anyone interested in High Performance Computing (HPC) on OpenSolaris. Its purpose is to:

• Provide a home for the OpenSolaris HPC distro,
• Highlight existing features and future enhancements relevant for high-performance computing,
• Provide a forum to discuss issues and possible solutions to problems faced by HPC developers, and
• Provide pointers to pertinent resources and tools currently available

Vertical Communities

Over time, we will be launching additional communities that are focused on specific HPC verticals. The current list of active communities is:

• Manufacturing Community

Community Wiki

You can find the community wiki on the GenUnix site. Please add whatever content seems useful and/or appropriate.

Join Us

1. Register for OpenSolaris and become a contributor;
2. Join the OpenSolaris HPC Community discussions and keep up on all the latest information; and
3. Participate!

What's New

Manufacturing HPC Community

A new community has been launched for HPC in the EDA/MCAE vertical. You can find the community site here.

Sun HPC Developer Kit Preview

30 May 2008 -- the Sun HPC Developer Kit Preview has been released at the OpenSolaris HPC Stack Project.

DTrace for Open MPI

DTrace is a comprehensive dynamic tracing framework for OpenSolaris. It provides a powerful infrastructure to permit administrators, developers, and service personnel to concisely answer arbitrary questions about the behavior of the operating system and user programs.

This project proposes to add DTrace probes into the MPI library, leveraging the PERUSE / OTF instrumentation (Vampirtrace) to ultimately allow tracing of key point-to-point communication events at the ClusterTools Point to Point Messaging Layer (PML)

Traceable events will include:

• Initialization, Completion and Notify of Requests
• First and successive actions of sending data on a network
• Arrival of messages
• Inserting, matching, and removal of Receive requests on posted queue
• Inserting, matching and removal of Receive messages on unexpected queue
• Successive data fragments received for incoming messages

Related Products and Technologies

Sun Studio 12 – Includes Sun compilers, Performance Library, and Performance Analyzer. Free to SDN members. Be sure and check out the Sun Studio Technical Articles.

Sun HPC Cluster Tools 7 – latest version of Sun MPI based on Open MPI. For Solaris SPARC and x64.

Cool Tools – Free performance-focused software for SPARC and now both SPOT and ATS are available for x86.

Grid Engine open source project

GridEngine.info – community site for Grid Engine open source project.

Blogs

redbeetle - Video: Examining ZFS On-Disk Format Using mdb and zdb

Jul 4, 5:00 AM

In this video, Max Bruning presents on the ZFS On-Disk Format Using mdb and zdb. Recorded at the Open Solaris Developer Conference in Prague on June 28, 2008.

redbeetle - Video: Totalview Technologies Update

Jul 3, 5:00 AM

In this video, Nikolay Piskun, Director of Continuing Engineering, Totalview Technologies presents on the company's HPC solutions. Recorded at the Sun HPC Consortium in Dresden, Germany on June 16, ...

Roderick Flores - Aromatic Clouds?

Jul 2, 9:52 PM

If you weren’t at OSGC you missed a number of interesting presentations. From my perspective, one of the most intriguing technologies was EUCALYPTUS : Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for ...

redbeetle - Video: Lustre Roadmap Update

Jul 2, 5:00 AM

In this video, Sun's Peter Bojanic presents on the roadmap for the Lustre file system. Recorded at the Sun HPC Consortium in Dresden, Germany, June 15, 2008.

redbeetle - Video: Thebes Grid Middleware Consortium Update

Jul 1, 5:00 AM

In this video, Georgetown's Arnie Miles presents on the Thebes project. Recorded at the Sun HPC Consortium in Dresden, Germany, June 15, 2008.

Sinisa Veseli - About Grid Engine Advanced Reservations

Jun 30, 6:56 PM

Advanced reservation (AR) capability is one of the most important new features of the upcoming Grid Engine 6.2 release. New command line utilities allow users and administrators to submit resource ...

redbeetle - Video: Deployment of the TACC Ranger System

Jun 30, 5:00 AM

In this video, TACC's Karl Schultz presents on the TACC Ranger System, which was recently ranked as the fourth fastest supercomputer on the planet according to TOP500.org. Recorded at the Sun HPC ...

redbeetle - SC08 Newsletter

Jun 29, 12:04 PM

The latest SC08 Newsletter is out with these headlines: * SC08 Challenges Showcase HPC Expertise, Resources * Seymour Cray Computer Engineering and Sidney Fernbach Memorial Awards Nominations Now ...

redbeetle - Big Data Changes the Rules

Jun 28, 5:00 AM

HPC Wire's Michael Feldman writes that enormous data sets are forcing us to rethink the way traditional science is performed: "I suppose taking the human element out of problem-solving is the logical ...

marchamilton - Sun xVM Server Sneak Peak

Jun 27, 9:05 AM

Sun xVM Server is still under development. Early releases will be available late in the Summer of 2008. Until then you can get a sneak peek of some of the early user interface page designs.