11.22.2014 - SC’14 in New Orleans: After-Action Report

Our first official presence at Supercomputing this week — SC’14 in New Orleans — was very gratifying. We had almost a dozen pre-scheduled meetings with customers and partners, and had what seemed like a steady stream of visitors at our demo station within the EMC booth on the exhibit floor. We also had a demo station in the Mellanox booth — more on that below. In addition to myself and Andy Nelson from the Office of the CTO, we were joined by several members of our field organization — Matt Herreras, Jeff Adams, and Mike Pileggi — as well as Ranjit Sawant from our Ecosystem and Solutions Engineering ( EASE ) team. We showed four things at the show. First, we highlighted a demo of our self-service, private-cloud based approach to delivering HPC cycles to scientists and researchers using vCloud Realize Automation, integrated with our Office of the CTO cluster provisioning prototype ( video ). Second, we showed a demo of another more comprehensive and complementary Research-as-a-Service approach being developed by our EASE team in collaboration with several of our customers. Third, we demonstrated the use of InfiniBand SR-IOV to enable access to a Lustre parallel file system from multiple VMs on a host. [...]]>... - View Press Release - Visit VMware, Inc.