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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
  
• 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 platform
  
• 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

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

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

bm_seer - Sun Fire X4450 SPECjbb World Records

May 9, 5:00 AM

Dave Dagastine's Blog covers Sun's two new SPECjbb2005 World Records on Sun's X64 systems. The Sun Fire X4450, 4-chip Xeon QC CPUs and Java SE 6 Update 6-P, now hold the 4-chip Multi-JVM World Record ...

redbeetle - AMD Expands Charter for OpenSolaris and Sun xVM

May 9, 5:00 AM

AMD announced that its Operating System Research Center (OSRC) has expanded its focus to include optimization and tuning advancements for Sun Microsystems’ OpenSolaris Operating System and Sun xVM ...

bm_seer - Configs used for SPECpower_ssj

May 8, 1:48 PM

Yet another SPECpower_ssj of a "different" configuration: tiny memory: ONLY 4GB! low GHZ CPU: only 2.83GHz QC tiny config: only 1 chip! Why do the servers that vendors publish on SPECpower_ssj2008 ...

chris - Keeping single slot jobs off of certain nodes

May 8, 1:01 PM

In this thread , Paul asks: "I'm looking at finding a way to either limit single-slot jobs, or requiring all jobs in a given queue to be running in a pe. Specifically, I have some SMP nodes, that I'd ...

chris - Think I'm going to like the new Sun wiki

May 8, 12:34 PM

One of the more interesting things (to me at least!) in the recent news about the SGE 6.2 beta was the word that all documentation and manuals would be moving to a new home at http://wikis.sun.com . ...

bm_seer - Single system world record TPC-H Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 Sun and StorageTek 2540

May 8, 6:17 AM

The Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 configured with SPARC VI processors, Sun StorEdge 2540 Arrays, and running Solaris 10 combined with Oracle 11g achieved World Record TPC-H performance of 118,573.3 ...

redbeetle - FlexRex: New Cartoon on HPC Portal

May 8, 5:00 AM

Our work-from-home hero stars in a new cartoon in support of the Sun HPC Community Portal . Watch as his four friends use the Portal and the Lustre File System to bolster Homeland Security. Full Story

Darryl Gove - When to use membars

May 7, 11:08 AM

membar instructions are SPARC assembly language instructions that enforce memory ordering. They tell the processor to ensure that memory operations are completed before it continues execution. ...

redbeetle - Cloud Computing on NPR

May 7, 5:00 AM

The term "Cloud Computing" reached a milestone this week as it was featured on NPR's Morning Edition : "Every Monday, the 'Morning Edition' has a technology theme. The Cloud Computing segment was ...

bm_seer - Easy Google date range search with dropdown

May 6, 9:07 AM

Want more from google like an easy date-range search dropdown on the main window? Check out this link: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=HP+benchmark+watts&as_qdr=w&btnG=Search To make this happen ...