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Delivering Hosted Private Clouds with Cisco and NetApp Managed EdgeCloud
Delivering Hosted Private Clouds with Cisco and NetApp Managed EdgeCloud
Over the past few decades, cloud consumption across the world has grown tremendously. We have seen servers get consolidated into the data center with
June 23, 2017
MPI outside of C and Fortran
MPI outside of C and Fortran
Recently, a reader asked me about how MPI defines its global constants. More specifically, the user was asking how MPI defines its interactions with
Aug. 17, 2015
usNIC inside Linux containers
usNIC inside Linux containers
Linux containers, as a lighter virtualization alternative to virtual machines, are gaining momentum. The High Performance Computing (HPC) community is
April 20, 2015
The “vader” shared memory transport in Open MPI: Now featuring 3 flavors of zero copy!
The “vader” shared memory transport in Open MPI: Now featuring 3 flavors of zero copy!
Today's blog post is by Nathan Hjelm, a Research Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and a core developer on the Open MPI project. The latest
Oct. 29, 2014
Networks for MPI
Networks for MPI
It seems like we've gotten a rash of "how do I setup my new cluster for MPI?" questions on the Open MPI mailing list recently. I take this as a Very Good
May 24, 2014
Java Bindings for Open MPI
Java Bindings for Open MPI
Today's guest blog post is from Oscar Vega-Gisbert and Dr. Jose Roman from the Department of Information Systems and Computing at the Universitat
April 30, 2014
Process affinity: Hop on the bus, Gus!
Process affinity: Hop on the bus, Gus!
Today's blog post is written by Joshua Ladd, Open MPI developer and HPC Algorithms Engineer at Mellanox Technologies. At some point in the process of
Jan. 10, 2014
Call for Workshops: EuroMPI/Asia 2014
Call for Workshops: EuroMPI/Asia 2014
The 21st European MPI Users' Group Meeting, EuroMPI/AISA 2014, will be held in Kyoto, Japan, 9th - 12th September, 2014. In addition to the main
Dec. 20, 2013
Hardware and software queuing
Hardware and software queuing
I've talked before about how getting high performance in MPI is all about offloading to dedicated hardware.  You want to get software out of the way as
Oct. 18, 2013
MPI newbie: Building MPI applications
MPI newbie: Building MPI applications
In a previous post, I gave some (very) general requirements for how to setup / install an MPI installation. This is post #2 in the series: now that you've
Oct. 12, 2013
Why is SR-IOV relevant in the HPC world ?
Why is SR-IOV relevant in the HPC world ?
One feature of the usNIC ultra-low latency Ethernet solution for the UCS Cisco VIC that we think is interesting is the fact that it is based on SR-IOV.
Aug. 13, 2013
MPI newbie: Requirements and installation of an MPI
MPI newbie: Requirements and installation of an MPI
I often get questions from those who are just starting with MPI; they want to know common things such as: How to install / setup an MPI implementation How
July 31, 2013