Today OpenSFS announced the agenda for the LUG 2014 conference. With technical presentations on Exascale, Hadoop, Big Data, Cloud, and new Lustre markets in Enterprise, the Lustre User Group event will take place April 8-10 in Miami. We expect this 12th annual LUG to have the largest attendance ever, but we are treating it like the very first. We’ve structured the...
This week OpenSFS announced that Stephen Simms, manager of high performance file systems at Indiana University, has been elected Community Representative Director for the 2014 term. We caught up with Simms to learn more about this role and the upcoming LUG 2014 conference in Miami. insideHPC: You’ve been re-elected as Community Representative Director for OpenSFS...
Just in time for LUG 2014, the OpenSFS Benchmarking Working Group (BWG) has released its new I/O Characterization Report. The OpenSFS Benchmarking Working Group (BWG) was created with the intent of defining an I/O benchmark suite to satisfy the requirements of the scalable parallel file system users and facilities. The first step toward this end was identified as...
Today at LUG 2014, Ken Claffey from Xyratex/Seagate announced that the company is donating the Lustre.org domain back the user community. As you may recall Xyratex acquired the Lustre trademark and other assets from Oracle last year. Oracle owned the assets as a result of acquiring Sun Microsystems in 2010, but the company was not interested in the HPC market. From...
Today at LUG 2014, Open Scalable File Systems (OpenSFS) released its inaugural Lustre Annual Report. Written by Intersect360 Research, the report covers the state of Lustre development, adoption, and outlook. At OpenSFS, we are committed to providing useful information andtools to the Lustre community to help further the growth and use of the Lustre file system,”...
Popular Climate and Trade Policy Proposals Expected to Comply with International Agreements WASHINGTON, DC – A first-of-its kind legal analysis released today by the Climate Leadership Council finds that carbon import fees, including proposals currently being explored in the U.S. Congress, are permissible under the rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO). The...
Murder Accountability Project: Are murders worth solving? A new analysis by MAP Are murders worth solving? A new analysis by MAP Since many cities and counties face a growing fiscal squeeze because of static or even declining tax revenues, some policymakers wonder if social programs to combat crime might be more effective than old-fashioned (and labor-intensive) law...
In this video from LUG 2014, Galen Shipmen from OpenSFS, Ken Claffey from Xyratex, and Hugo Falter from EOFS discuss the recent announcement that Seagate has donated Lustre.org back to the user community. From my perspective, this move is a great indication that Seagate intends to be an active, contributing member of the Lustre community. After years of upheaval...
Convicted serial killer Samuel Little in recent months has confessed to law enforcement that he’s strangled as many as 90 women in at least 19 states – a criminal career that would represent the largest homicidal series in U.S. history. Little’s confessions represent less than 3 percent of the 3,150 unsolved female strangulations reported by local police to the...
Spatial autocorrelation measures spatial and attribute similarity in one metric. If something is spatially autocorrelated, it means that objects of similar attributes tend to cluster together in space. It looks at the spatial distribution of an attribute in a dataset and asks the question, “how likely is it that this attribute is randomly distributed over space?” If...