In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team discusses Lustre and LUG 2013 with Brent Gorda. Now part of Intel in their High Performance Data Division, Gorda was CEO of Whamcloud when the company was acquired last summer. Gorda recently wrote a post about the rapid growth of the Lustre community, so we started our discussion there and learned a good deal more [...]
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Press Coverage: Brent Gorda on the State of the Lustre Community
Over at the still-kicking Whamcloud Blog, Brent Gorda from Intel writes that the Lustre community is united and growing rapidly. The quest to expand the vendor community has produced a vibrant Lustre vendor community with multiple product and service offerings that simply did not exist before. The Whamcloud.com website, for example, lists 23 Resellers. This is [...]
Press Coverage: Video: The Future of Network-based Storage
In this video from the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference, Brent Gorda from Intel presents: The Future of Network-based Storage. Gorda joined Intel in July 2012 as part of Intel’s acquisition of Whamcloud. Since then, Gorda’s team has continued to work on Lustre as well as conduct R&D on Darpa’s Fast Forward Storage & IO program. Lustre User Group conference will take place [...]
Press Coverage: Video: Brent Gorda on The Future of Network-Based Storage
In this video, Brent Gorda from Intel’s High Performance Data Division presents:The Future of Network-Based Storage. Gorda joined Intel in July 2012 as part of Intel’s acquisition of Whamcloud. Since then, Gorda’s team has continued to work on Lustre as well as conduct R&D on Darpa’s Fast Forward Storage & IO program. The presentation was recorded [...]
Press Coverage: Intel’s Brent Gorda on the Company’s Move to the Board Level of OpenSFS
In this video, Brent Gorda from Intel’s High Performance Data Division provides an update on the Lustre File System development. Gorda joined Intel in July 2012 as part of Intel’s acquisition of Whamcloud. Since then, Gorda’s team has continued to work on Lustre as well as conduct R&D on Darpa’s Fast Forward Storage & IO program. [...]
Press Coverage: Eric Barton Updates Progress on Fast Forward Storage & IO Program
In this slidecast, Eric Barton, Lead Architect for Intel’s High Performance Data Division presents a progress update on the Fast Forward I/O & Storage program.
Intel Corporation has acquired Whamcloud
From Brent Gorda: On July 13, 2012, Intel Corporation acquired Whamcloud. On behalf of Intel Corporation, I want to take this opportunity to assure you of Intel’s commitment to our current and future customers as well as a seamless transition.
Press Coverage: Federal Funds Plant Seeds for ‘Exascale’ Computers
From the Wall Street Journal Digits Blog: Some researchers have a seemingly unquenchable thirst for computing speed. But a time-tested way of building faster systems is hitting fundamental barriers, prompting some new government grants aimed at tackling the problems. The Department of Energy, under a program called FastForward, is disbursing cash awards to companies that include Intel, Advanced Micro Devices, Nvidia and IBM, which disclosed the grants this week.
Press Coverage: DOE doles out cash to AMD, Whamcloud for exascale research
From The Register: The US Department of Energy used its massive budget to push supercomputers to gigaflops, teraflops, and petaflops in the prior three decades and it is being tasked to put the pedal to the exaflops metal before the end of this decade. To get there, the DOE has to fund primary research at IT vendors who might otherwise not get around to it until it suited their own commercial needs. It has to also foster collaboration across vendors who might otherwise rather not share ideas, because no one vendor is going to be able to solve the exascale problem by itself.
Press Coverage: Interview: Whamcloud Wins FastForward Contract for Exascale R&D
From insideHPC: Today Whamcloud announced that the company has been awarded the Storage and I/O Research & Development subcontract for the Department of Energy’s FastForward program. FastForward is set up to initiate partnerships with multiple companies to accelerate the R&D of critical technologies needed for extreme scale computing. To learn more, I caught up with Eric Barton, Whamcloud’s CTO.