The Reg HPC: Intel bakes super-snooper to stop industrial espionage [ Thu Aug 22 2013]

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Intel bakes super-snooper to stop industrial espionage
Hadoop-based tool sniffs 4bn network events a day, may end up as McAfee
product
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/21/intel_bakes_supersnooper_to_stop_industrial_espionage/

Intel has created a Hadoop-based rig that analyses just about every
network event in the company – four to six billion of them on business
days - in close to real time so it can spot threats including
industrial espionage.

Intel officials declined to name the tool, saying it would not be
"productive" to disclose its name, but said it was created by an
80-strong team of big data specialists working from its Israel offices
and makes extensive use of Apache Hadoop. Ron Kasabian, Chipzilla's
general manager of Big Data, said the tool was developed because
conventional malware detection tools – even those from Intel's
security-focussed subsidiary McAfee – can't find the especially novel
or subtle attacks Intel fears.

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Intel adds Lustre support to Hadoop
Chipzilla hopes HPC owners get busy with map reduce in their spare time
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/21/intel_adds_lustre_support_to_hadoop/

World+dog agrees that Hadoop is a very fine tool with which to tackle
map reduce chores, but the software has a couple of constraints,
especially its reliance on the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS).

There's nothing wrong with HDFS, but its integration with Hadoop means
the software needs a dedicated cluster of computers on which to run.

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VLSCI fires up 20 teraflop Barcoo
New super is also a Xeon test bed
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/20/vlsci_fires_up_20_teraflop_barcoo/

The Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative – VLSCI – has gone
live with its latest big iron, Barcoo, an x86 architecture machine with
double the capacity of the facility's Merri x86 system.

The 70-node Barcoo runs 1,120 Sandy Bridge cores (16 cores per node),
with 20 Xeon Phi 5110P cards distributed across ten nodes. There are 67
nodes with 256 GB RAM, and three with 512 GB RAM. There's also the
usual InfiniBand connection, and Barcoo shares the same 350 TB storage
as is used by Merri and the facility's BlueGene/Q machine named Avoca.

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