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- Symmetric Active/Active High Availability for High-Performance Computing System Services: Accomplishments and Limitations
- This paper summarizes the efforts over the last 3-4 years in providing symmetric active/active high availability for High-Performance Computing HPC system services. This work paves the way for high-level reliability, availability and serviceability in extreme-scale HPC systems by focusing on the most critical components, head and service nodes, and by...
- Tags: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, High Availability, High-performance Computing, High-performance, Cloud Computing
- White papers 2008-01-28
- Concepts for High Availability in Scientific High-End Computing
- Scientific High-End Computing HEC has become an important tool for scientists world-wide to understand problems, such as in nuclear fusion, human genomics and nanotechnology. Every year, new HEC systems emerge on the market with better performance and higher scale. With only very few exceptions, the overall availability of recently installed...
- Tags: Availability, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, High Availability, Computing
- White papers 2005-10-03
- Experimental Evaluation of Infiniband Transport Over Local-and Wide-Area Networks
- High-performance file systems that span across supercomputers and storage systems are becoming increasingly important, as these resources are being dispersed both within the enterprise and across the wide-area. Infiniband transport has been proposed as a candidate to provide high-performance access over interconnects primarily within an enterprise. This paper presents an...
- Tags: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Network, WAN, InfiniBand, Networking
- White papers 2007-03-29
- On Programming Models for Service-Level High Availability
- This paper provides an overview of existing programming models for service-level high availability and investigates their differences, similarities, advantages, and disadvantages. Its goal is to help to improve reuse of code and to allow adaptation to quality of service requirements. It further aims at encouraging a discussion about these programming...
- Tags: Programming Model, QoS, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Programming
- White papers 2006-11-30
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- Phishers attack top U.S. labs
- Two top military laboratories in the United States, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Lab, were the target of phishing attacks that resulted in access to personal information of visitors to the labs over a 14-year period. An excerpt from ComputerWorld: According to...
- Tags: Attack, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-12-10
- Peta-Scale I/O With the Lustre File System
- This paper describes low-level infrastructure in the Lustre file system that addresses scalability in very large clusters. The features described deal with I/O and networking, lock management, recovery after failure, and other scalability-related issues. The Lustre file system first went into production in Spring 2003 on the Multiprogrammatic Capability Resource...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Scalability, Linux, Operating Systems, Software
- White papers 2008-02-01
- Towards High Availability for High-Performance Computing System Services: Accomplishments and Limitations
- During the last several years, teams at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Louisiana Tech University, and Tennessee Technological University, focused on efficient redundancy strategies for head and service nodes of High-Performance Computing HPC systems in order to pave the way for High Availability HA in HPC. These nodes typically run critical...
- Tags: High Availability, High-performance Computing, High-performance, University Of Reading, HPC, Cloud Computing
- White papers 2006-10-10
- Photos: Supercomputing at Oak Ridge
- Just outside Knoxsville, Tenn., lies one of the world's great supercomputer labs. CNET News' Daniel Terdiman takes a tour. by CNET News.com
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Supercomputer, Photograph, CNET News, CNET News.com, news, supercomputing
- Image galleries 2008-07-09
- Oak Printing Selects Radius Solutions PECAS Vision for Aggressive ERP Implementation
- The Oak Printing Company is a nationally recognized leader in label production and inventory management. The Oak Printing Company has utilized three industry specific printing information systems over the years - all of which have presented them with many challenges and benefits. Having been exposed to PECAS Vision at a...
- Tags: RADIUS, Vision, ERP, Oak Printing, Network Security, Networking
- Case studies 2005-08-04
- Sun Case Study: Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL)
- In 2002, U.S. Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham designated the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory INEEL as the lead laboratory for nuclear energy research in this effort. As part of the Generation IV nuclear energy systems initiative, secure collaboration both nationally and internationally for INEEL researchers is crucial. INEEL...
- Tags: Nuclear Energy, Sun Microsystems Inc., INEEL
- Case studies
- Geek Trivia: Energetic pursuits
- What single field of technical research is the impetus behind five new U.S. Department of Energy laboratories? This month marks the 28th anniversary of the establishment of the U.S. Department of Energy. On Aug. 4, 1977, President Jimmy Carter signed into law the Department of Energy Organization...
- Tags: DOE, Jay Garmon, Department of Energy, Geek Trivia Newsletter, TechRepublic Inc., Nuclear Energy, U.S. Department Of Energy, Impetus, Center For Nanophase Materials Science, Center For Integrated Nanotechnology, Center For Functional Nanomaterial, Center For Nanoscale Material, National Nanotechnology Initiative, Nanotechnology, Semiconductors, Emerging Technologies, Hardware
- Technical articles 2005-08-02
- Los Alamos National Laboratory MySQL Scales With 7 Terrabytes of Data
- Los Alamos National Laboratory is one of 28 Department of Energy DOE laboratories across the country, and is the largest institution and largest employer in Northern New Mexico. Los Alamos needed a system that would enable scientists and researchers to search for articles and authors more efficiently, without having to...
- Tags: MySQL, High-performance, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Databases, Open Source, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware
- Case studies
- The Dutch National Aerospace Laboratory Enhances Systems for More Accurate, Accessible Information
- The Dutch National Aerospace Laboratory NLR, an independent technological institute, carries out applied research on behalf of the aviation and space sectors. NLR wanted to update systems to meet new technical and functional requirements. The challenge was to implement business processes that are ready to use and easily integrated -...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Financial, Aerospace, Aerospace Laboratory, Aerospace & Defense, Financial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Manufacturing, Finance, Software
- Case studies
- Renowned Research Center Standardizes on Sun Servers, the Solaris OS, and the Sun Java Enterprise System to Unify Strategic Applications
- Chartered in 1946 as the country's first national laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory Argonne is one of the U.S. Department of Energy's largest research centers. With the need to maximize taxpayer investment in research, the lab's management needed to find a more cost effective and efficient way to deliver IT services....
- Tags: Operating System, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Server, Sun Java, Sun Java Enterprise System, Argonne National Laboratory, Sun Solaris, Servers, Operating Systems, Processors, Software, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components
- Case studies
- I-CODE Brings the Benefits of RFID to Blood Sample Tracking
- Proxximity Systems Ltd. has developed an I·CODE-based system to accurately track blood samples. Currently undergoing UK trials at the Pathology Laboratory of the Portsmouth NHS National Health Service Trust, Proxximity's BioTag Positive ID System has already shown major reductions in administration time, both during sampling and laboratory processing. And with...
- Tags: U.K., RFID, Benefits, Workforce Management, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Wireless, Security, Biometrics, Human Resources, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies
- Innovative School Enhances Student Learning, Teacher Productivity With Digital Notes
- Laptops have been part of the classroom experience at Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart since 1996. Nevertheless, teachers were still using traditional, time-consuming methods for creating lesson plans, organizing paperwork, giving quizzes, and grading homework. Students spent the majority of their class time taking notes rather than engaging...
- Tags: IBM Lotus Notes, Student, Teacher, Notebooks, Groupware, E-mail Servers, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2007-12-12
- Sun Software Products Help Los Alamos National Laboratory Link to the Internet
- Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico played a key role in the Human Genome Program HGP. Database administrator for the Center for Human Genome Studies, Los Alamos has relied on Sun technology for it's main computing power for over a decade. The main file server and Sybase...
- Tags: Internet, Software Product, Sun Microsystems Inc., Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sun Solaris, File Servers, Workstations, Storage, UNIX, Databases, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Data Management
- Case studies
- Doctris Deluxe (exe)
- Doctor Smith's laboratory got contaminated by malicious viruses. They are hiding from him in laboratory glassware. Please, help the doctor to disinfect the laboratory and get rid of the viruses, so that he can come back to making his medications to cure the sick. The doctor drops pills inside the...
- Tags: Laboratory, Virus, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security
- Software downloads 2006-08-10
- VPN Error on a Sonic Wall Pro 2040 to a Pix 525
- Error:we have been trying several times to bring up a site to site between these two. Both sides are configured ident.Here is the logs from the Sonic:08/15/2007 16:20:44.128 SENDING>>>> ISAKMP OAK INFO (InitCookie 0x7c5fb672db4bef5d, MsgID: 0x2843631B) (NOTIFY:INVALID_COOKIE) x.x.x.x x.x.x.x, 500 2 08/15/2007 16:20:44.128 RECEIVED>> ISAKMP OAK...
- Tags: jmacd5@..., VPN, X.X.X.X, InitCookie, MsgId, vID
- Discussion threads 2007-08-17
- Implementation of a GMPLS-Based Network With End Host Initiated Signaling
- This paper describes the authors' experiences in implementing an experimental wide-area GMPLS network called CHEETAH (Circuit-Switched End-to-End Transport Architecture). The key concept is to add a complementary end-to-end circuit based service with dynamic call-by-call bandwidth sharing to the connectionless service already available to end hosts via the Internet. The current...
- Tags: Concept, University Of Virginia, Network, Networking, Ethernet
- White papers 2005-09-25
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