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• 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 Open Fabrics User Verbs / API on Solaris OS
  
• 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 - Google search features

May 16, 6:31 AM

Beyond getting a nice drop-down date range menu for Google search , there are some other things which can make google searching more effective: view:timeline - display a graph choosing the #results ...

redbeetle - YouTube: Quad-core Sun Fire x64 Server Walk-through

May 16, 5:00 AM

This walk-through video describes the new Sun Fire X4140, Sun Fire X4240, Sun Fire X4440 servers powered by Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors, delivering market-leading energy-efficiency, density, and ...

bm_seer - Sun Fire X4440 Best Opteron Multi-JVM Performance SPECjbb2005 at 606watts

May 15, 12:46 PM

The Sun Fire X4440 with 4 2.3GHz Opteron quad-core CPUs running Sun Java SE 6 Update 6-p achieved a result of 372467 SPECjbb2005 bops, 46558 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM for the best score for all ...

Darryl Gove - Crossfile inlining and inline templates

May 15, 12:03 PM

Found an interesting 'feature' of using crossfile ( -xipo ) optimisation together with inline templates . Suppose you have a 'library' routine which is defined in one file and uses an inline ...

redbeetle - From LOST to FOUND: Finding The Island Using Satellite Images and Supercomputers

May 15, 11:38 AM

As the hit ABC television show Lost begins to wrap up its 4th season, a few of us here at Sun started thinking about the ways HPC could be used to crack one of the show's biggest mysteries -- finding ...

Darryl Gove - Sun Studio technical articles

May 15, 11:04 AM

Another list of Sun Studio technical articles .

Darryl Gove - Redistributable libraries

May 15, 10:25 AM

Steve Clamage and I just put together a short article on using the redistributable libraries that are shipped as part of the compiler. The particular one we focus on is stlport4 since this library is ...

bm_seer - Sun World Record for Largest Data Warehouse - One Petabyte!

May 15, 7:01 AM

Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server , Sybase IQ, and BMMsoft Server managed one Petabyte of raw data. That was over 6 trillion rows of transactional data and more than 185 million content-searchable ...

redbeetle - Andy Bechtolsheim on Open Storage Townhall

May 15, 5:00 AM

In this video , Sun's Andy Bechtolsheim, Matt Baier, and Jeff Bonwick join John Fowler to discuss advancements in Open Storage.

Josh Simons - Growing Flowers with Datacenter Heat

May 14, 5:18 PM

The Open Source Grid and Cluster Conference is being held this week in Oakland, California. I attended the first day of the conference before flying home to meet a personal commitment. My favorite ...