Kuldip Oberoi's Blog

CommunityOne is a conference sponsored by Sun Microsystems focused on open source innovation and implementation. It brings together developers, technologists and students for technical education and exchange. Check out the conference web site at:

http://developers.sun.com/events/communityone

There will be two conferences in 2009:

CommunityOne East – March 18-19, 2009 (NY)
CommunityOne West – June 1-2, 2009 (SF)

See the conference web site for more complete details, but there is a “Native Development” track for content on C/C++/Fortran development, OpenMP/MPI, etc. and it will be great to see OUR community participate. The deadline to submit a proposal for a technical session (50 minutes), panel (50 minutes), or a 5-minute lightening talk is coming up quick- Monday, December 15.

http://www.eventreg.com/sun/communityone09/cfp

Participate in one or both conferences!  If you are short on time- submit a proposal for a 5-minute lightening talk and let us know about what you’re working on.

Hope to see you there!

The growing popularity of High Performance Computing (HPC) environments, which are based on supercomputers and computer clusters, is being driven not only by (P)erformance, but also by the (P)roductivity in using these environments. In addition to the expansion in traditional scientific and engineering market segments, HPC is being adopted in Enterprise IT segments, such as Finance and Business Intelligence.

With its AMD x86, Intel x86, and Sun UltraSPARC-based servers, Sun continues to be a leader on the hardware side. However, as a systems company, we are also investing into software and now offer complete HPC software stacks on both Solaris and Linux OSs. For developers, the freely available Sun Studio compilers and tools offers up record-setting C, C++, and Fortran compilers, support for MPI and OpenMP development, performance analysis tools, and optimized math routines (e.g. LAPACK, BLAS, etc.). Central to this HPC stack is a high-performance, scalable, MPI (Message Passing Interface) runtime. MPI is the dominant communication paradigm for parallel applications written for clusters.

Today we are announcing the availability of Sun HPC ClusterTools 8.0, which now supports Linux distributions as well as Solaris and OpenSolaris OSs, and has the following highlights:

• Based on the open source Open MPI project, version 1.3
• For the first time, available and supported on Linux (RHEL 4&5, SLES 9&10) as well as Solaris 10 OS
• Available with the next OpenSolaris OS release
• Supported with Sun Studio compilers and tools and GNU/gcc toolchains on both Solaris and Linux OSs
• MPI profiling support with Sun Studio Analyzer, plus support for VampirTrace and MPI PERUSE
• Infiniband multi-rail support
• Mellanox ConnectX Inifiniband support
• DTrace provider support on Solaris
• Enhanced performance and scalability, including processor affinity support
• Support for InifiBand, GbE, 10GbE, and Myrinet interconnect

With available Sun support options, download a free, and unrestricted, copy of Sun HPC ClusterTools 8.0 today!