Virtualizing Big Data
Analysis of large-scale, often unstructured data is becoming increasingly important within both the Enterprise and the HPC community. This is perhaps one of the most apparent areas where the...
View ArticlevSphere 5: vNUMA paper now available
I promised in the blog post vNUMA: What it is and why it matters to share the full research paper with you when it became available. It can now be downloaded here. If you find the paper useful, please...
View ArticleUltra-low latency on vSphere at VMworld 2012: Voice your Interest!
Low-latency communication is one area we’ve been exploring within the Office of the CTO as part of our efforts to enable new workloads to run well on the platform, including High Performance Computing...
View ArticleThe Case for IT Convergence
I gave a talk recently at the HPC Advisory Council Workshop at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC ’12) in Hamburg. The main purpose of the presentation, which was titled Ultra-low...
View ArticleVirtualization, Italian Style
I’m in Fiuggi, Italy this week teaching a four-lecture course on Virtualization and High Peformance Computing as part of the Eighth International Summer School on Advanced Computer Architecture for...
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High Performance Computing with vSphere 5.1
We just announced a pile of new vSphere features at VMworld 2012 in San Francisco this week so I thought I’d take a few moments to describe several of those capabilities that will be of particular...
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HPC Performance in the Cloud: Status and Future Prospects
I spoke last week at ISC Cloud 2012 in Mannheim, Germany about the performance of HPC applications in the cloud, citing results from several studies. I have summarized the talk below and my PDF slide...
View ArticleCentralizing HPC Compute Resources using Private Cloud
I met recently with a group of academic CIOs and IT Directors in Denver to talk about how virtualization and private cloud technologies can help lower the barriers to adopting a centralized approach to...
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2013 Predictions: When Worlds Collide
It’s time again to dust off the crystal ball, cast the yarrow sticks, read the tea leaves, and share some thoughts about where the IT world is heading over the next twelve months and beyond. Because my...
View ArticleParavirtual RDMA for Low Latency and Flexibility
The Office of the CTO has been exploring how to best enable application access to RDMA for those applications requiring the ultimate in high bandwidth, low-latency communication, which includes many...
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Hadoop Performance on vSphere 5.1
We’ve just published a third Hadoop performance paper, written by VMware performance expert Jeff Buell, which looks in detail at the relative performance of a bare-metal 32-node Hadoop cluster compared...
View ArticleVirtualized High Performance Computing (HPC) at VMworld 2013
It’s been a busy few months on the HPC front here at VMware. I’ve been spending increasing amounts of time answering questions from our field people and talking with customers about the benefits of...
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Virtualized High Performance Computing in 2014
As we complete another circuit around the sun, it’s time again to make some predictions about what we’ll see over the course of our next orbit. Since my work in the Office of the CTO focuses on High...
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High Performance Computing (HPC) Update
Our HPC effort at VMware has been very active in recent months, and we have lots of information to share– including new performance results. Rather than cramming all of that content into a single mega...
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Running HPC Applications on vSphere using InfiniBand RDMA
Looking back on 2014, this was the year in which we made significant strides in assessing and addressing High Performance Computing (HPC) performance on vSphere. We’ve shown that throughput or...
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Using the Intel Xeon Phi Compute Accelerator with ESX 6.0
Compute accelerators — whether they be GPUs, Intel Xeon Phi, or FPGAs — are increasingly common in HPC and so it is important that we assess the use of such technologies from within VMware vSphere® as...
View ArticleResearch and High Performance Computing at VMworld US
There will be a High Performance Computing in Research and Data Analytics Roundtable session held on Monday evening in conjunction with VMworld US in San Francisco. This session is a part of the...
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Using nVidia GPGPU Compute Acceleration with ESX 6.0
As was mentioned in a previous blog post, accelerator cards are becoming increasingly common in HPC environments and so it is important that we assess the performance of such cards with ESX. Thank you...
View ArticleGPGPU Computing with the nVidia K80 on VMware vSphere 6
As customer interest in running HPC workloads on vSphere continues to increase, I’ve been receiving more questions about whether compute accelerators like the nVidia K80 or Intel Xeon Phi can be used...
View ArticleVirtualized HPC at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHUAPL) has deployed a virtualized HPC solution on vSphere to run Monte Carlo simulations for the US Air Force. The idea was conceived and...
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