An Indiana University team recently set out to address a major concern of data-intensive research: How can we move massive amounts of data to supercomputing facilities for analysis? The team demonstrated data transfer over an experimental 100 Gigabits per second (Gbps) network—taking advantage of a link ten times faster than most in use today.
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The board of directors of OpenSFS, the Lustre community group in North America, has voted to fund Indiana University (IU) to develop features that will enhance the usability of the Lustre file system across wide area networks (WANs). OpenSFS is a non-profit technical organization dedicated to the promotion and development of Lustre in high performance computing (HPC) environments.
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Indiana University during SC11 this year will demonstrate the many ways its information technology experts have advanced the future of high performance computing. The annual International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis is the largest event of its kind, bringing together leading scientists and researchers from around the globe, as well as representatives from top universities, companies, and organizations in the supercomputing field. This year the event, SC11, takes place Nov. 12-18 in Seattle, Wash.
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Indiana University has established the Center for Research in Extreme Scale Technologies (CREST)—a research hub charged with developing breakthrough technologies that address challenges created by the ever-increasing volume of digital scientific research data. The university celebrated the center's opening with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at IU Bloomington's Wrubel Computing Center today (Nov. 10).
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Indiana University and Penguin Computing today (Nov. 2) announced a partnership to offer U.S. researchers access to powerful shared computing resources in a secure environment. This type of service -- also known as on-demand or cloud computing -- lets individuals and organizations share the resources of large computing systems without individually purchasing and maintaining the costly equipment.
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Currently, one of the best systems for storing massive amounts of data is called the High Performance Storage System (HPSS). IU has been a leader in use of HPSS software for a dozen years, and is right now hosting the annual HPSS Users Forum (HUF) at IU Bloomington. The conference concludes today (Oct. 21).
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