Put my Riemann Zeta Function sum reduction code on github
Repo is here: https://github.com/joelandman/rzf. There’s a lightning talk to go along with it, and I’ll make sure I can get it together for this as well.
Performance
Performance metrics and general discussions
Aria2c for the win!
I’ve not heard of aria2c before today. Sort of a super wget as far as I could tell. Does parallel transfers to reduce data motion time, if possible. So I pulled it down, built it. I have some large data sets to move. And a nice storage area for them. Ok. Fire it up to … Read more
Working on benchmarking ML frameworks
Nice machine we have here … root@hermes:/data/tests# lspci | egrep -i ‘(AMD|NVidia)’ | grep VGA 3b:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP100GL (rev a1) 88:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Vega 10 XTX [Radeon Vega Frontier Edition] I want to see how tensorflow and many others run on each of the cards. … Read more
Finally got to use MCE::* in a project
There are a set of modules in the Perl universe that I’ve been looking for an excuse to use for a while. They are the MCE set of modules, which purportedly enable easy concurrency and parallelism, exploiting many core CPUs, and a number of techniques. Sure enough, I had a task to handle recently that … Read more
I always love these breathless stories of great speed, and how VCs love them …
Though, when I look at the “great speed”, it is often on par with or less than Scalable Informatics sustained years before. From 2013 SC13 show, on the show floor, after blasting through a POC at unheard of speed, and setting long standing records in the STAC-M3 benchmarks … Article in question is in the … Read more
Brings a smile to my face … #BioIT #HPC accelerator
Way way back in the early aughts (2000’s), we had built a set of designs for an accelerator system to speed up things like BLAST, HMMer, and other codes. We were told that no one would buy such things, as the software layer was good enough and people didn’t want black boxes. This was part … Read more
Hows this for a nice deskside system … one of our Cadence boxen
For a partner. They made a request for something we’ve not built in a while … it had been end of lifed. One of our old Pegasus units. A portable deskside supercomputer. In this case, a deskside franken-computer … built out of the spare parts from other units in our lab. It started out as … Read more
Raw Unapologetic Firepower: kdb+ from @Kx
While the day job builds (hyperconverged) appliances for big data analytics and storage, our partners build the tools that enable users to work easily with astounding quantities of data, and do so very rapidly, and without a great deal of code. I’ve always been amazed at the raw power in this tool. Think of a … Read more
new SIOS feature: compressed ram image for OS
Most people use squashfs which creates a read-only (immutable) boot environment. Nothing wrong with this, but this forces you to have an overlay file system if you want to write. Which complicates things … not to mention when you overwrite too much, and run out of available inodes on the overlayfs. Then your file system … Read more
Not even breaking a sweat: 10GB/s write to single node Forte unit over 100Gb net #realhyperconverged #HPC #storage
TL;DR version: 10GB/s write, 10GB/s read in a single 2U unit over 100Gb network to a backing file system. This is tremendous. The system and clients are using our default tuning/config. Real hyperconvergence requires hardware that can move bits to/from storage/networking very quickly. This is that. These units are available. Now. In volume. And are … Read more