2020
HPC Pros 2020 Virtual Conference Information for Attendees
Structure of the Conference: Each Week will run Tuesday and Thursday from 8:00 AM Pacific to 12:00 PM Pacific. The last session on each Thursday will be a panel session where our speakers for the week have been invited …
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HPC Pros 2020 Conference Schedule
The Association of High Performance Computing Professionals is excited to present the HPC Pros 2020 Conference lineup! But first, we need to take a moment to thank our generous sponsors who have helped to make this confe…
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HPC Pros Virtual Conference 2020
The Design Automation Conference is going virtual this year, and so are we! While we look forward to being in person once again at DAC 2021, we definitely encourage HPC Pros members to be on the lookout for information o…
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Updating Your Email Sharing Preferences
As part of the 2020 Virtual Conference, we have added an additional field to your member account on the web site called "Contact Sharing". This field helps us balance the needs of members for privacy and the need for Con…
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HPC Pros Co-Located Conference at DAC 2020 Changes
Due to the unprecedented global impact of the novel corornavirus pandemic, the HPC Pros Board of Directors is announcing that this year's Co-Located Conference at DAC will not continue in person as originally planned. In…
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HPC Pros at DAC 2020: Innovate at Scale
DAC is the premier conference for learning about new technologies and advancements in practice for Engineering IT organizations. In 2020, we're planning even more content and ways to connect than ever before to help you …
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From DAC 2019: HPC Pros Workshop on Containerisation, Cloud Migration and System Telemetry
For the first time at DAC, HPC Pros held a workshop. We had three companies present, Ellexus , the IO Profiling Company, Sylabs , the creators of Singularity Containers for HPC and Rescale , a trusted Cloud platform to s…
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Design Infrastructure Alley, CELUG Conference at DAC 2019!
If you are planning on attending CELUG, simply register for CELUG and you will get floor / Design Infrastructure Alley access. If you are primarily interested in the Design Infrastructure Alley, be sure to sign up for t…
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Storage as just one COG in the Cloud - Part 2
Picking up from where we left with part one there has been a bit of change in the EDA for Cloud circle. And hopefully we continue this drive, and DAC-2019 brings us some more really good presentations. I might cross-post…
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Creating Highly Available License Services In AWS
For the January, 2019 HPC Pros meeting, I presented a re-cap of the Chalk Talk I gave at the 2018 AWS re:Invent conference on creating highly available license services for AWS. The concepts I cover in this presentation …
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Storage as just one COG in the Cloud
Part One Prelude We define a Cloud Oriented Grid (COG) to be a Compute Grid which is designed to operate independently, including a well-integrated data replication mechanism, and also has the ability to easily expan…
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Benchmarking EDA Storage – Not As Straightforward As You’d Like
Most Electronic Design Automation (EDA) apps are not considered traditional High Performance Computing (HPC) apps which run with Message Passing Interface (MPI), but it can be argued that EDA is indeed HPC, as it demands…
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HOWTO: Use the Discourse Server
For many years, the CELUG organization made use of a mailman list manager for communications. This was great, because everyone lived in their email clients and it was easy to send and receive messages to the group. Howe…
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How To Gracefully Drain License Checkouts From A Flex Server
We've all had times when we've needed to migrate from one license server to another. You've rehosted a license daemon to a newer, faster machine and you're excited to put the old one (fully amortized, as the accountants …
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Design Infrastructure Alley 2018 Speaking Schedule
Be sure to join us at DAC in San Francisco from June 24-28. You will be able to get access to the Design Infrastructure Alley simply by registering using the "I Love DAC" promotion which gives you FREE access to the show…
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A Tale of Two Architectures (History of Semiconductor Computing, Part IV)
Let's take a brief moment and take a look at one of the hottest topics in Information Technology today: The Cloud. The Cloud is many a splendored thing. It is a source of infinite resources. It is a cost saving panacea.…
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My Wish List for FlexNet Publisher
In my previous post, My Wish List for FlexNet Manager , I detailed what I would like to see from a license analytics perspective. However, there is another product from Flexera that I use which I pay for indirectly -- Fl…
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DAC 2018 Information
For the last several years, there has been a CELUG Co-Located Conference at DAC. That will be the case again this year as well, but in addition we will have the Design Infrastructure Alley. Here is some information about…
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DIA 2018 Attendance Survey
Letting us know you're attending helps us plan, particularly for the evening event! This ensures that we reserve a facility with enough space for everyone to mingle without overpaying. JTNDc2NyaXB0JTIwdHlwZSUzRCUyMnRleHQ…
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My Wish List for FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications
FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications Background FNMEA is all about getting insights into your license usage. Back in the GLOBETrotter days, companies used SAMSuite in order to get at the "encrypted" data in the …
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Chokepoints: Interest Payments on Technical Debt (History of Semiconductor Computing, Part III)
Now that we've reviewed "how we got here" in Part I and Part II , let's talk about the impact these forces have on the daily lives of IT Professionals and Engineers alike. Most of us are familiar, at least instinctually…
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Exhibitors at the Design Infrastructure Alley at DAC 2018
This year's DAC will have the Design Infrastructure Alley, a section of DAC devoted to the infrastructure required to design chips and systems. The premise for the DIA is pretty simple: Every year we get together at DAC…
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An Open Letter To Cloud Admins: Secure Your S3 Buckets
Another day, another headline about data security "In the Cloud". Here's a sampling of some past headlines of data loss in the Cloud: Thousands of FedEx customer records exposed by unsecured server Another Wide-Open Am…
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Why The Design Infrastructure Alley At DAC 2018 Is A Big Deal
I've been going to DAC for several years now, which is a bit of an oddity for an IT guy. The CELUG Co-Located Conference at DAC has been going on for several years (at least as far back as 2011), and that was the main re…
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A Brief History Of Semiconductor Computing (Part II)
Now that we have seen the technical and economic forces which shaped the modern EDA/HPC environment from Part I , let's take a closer look at the implication of the intersection of all of these forces. Grid Computing I…
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The Beginnings Of The Association
A Brief History of How We Came To Be It's important to start with the original organization from which this is modeled. The Centralized Enterprise License User's Group (CELUG) came into existence in the 2003 when a grou…
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Introducing The Association
The Semiconductor IT field has always been a bit of a misfit. It's not "traditional IT". If you look at the resume of anyone who's been in Engineering Support, you'll see a specialized set of skills. You won't see IT st…
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A Brief History Of Semiconductor Computing (Part I)
The current paradigm for Semiconductor computing dates back to the 1990's. It was a heady time for the industry -- the Internet was a nascent technology and PC's were becoming more commonplace in both businesses and home…
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