When you have a massively distributed computing job that can take months to run across thousands to hundreds of thousands of compute elements, one software hardware or software crash can mean losing ...

In this video from PASC18, Leonardo Bautista from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center presents: Easy and Efficient Multilevel Checkpointing for Extreme Scale Systems. “Extreme scale supercomputers ...

Vast Data will boost write performance in its storage by 50% in an operating system upgrade in April, followed by a 100% boost expected later in 2024 in a further OS upgrade. Both moves are aimed at ...

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Pretraining a modern large language model (LLM), often with ~100B parameters or more, typically involves thousands of ...

A team of researchers led by Jiajun Cao, a PhD candidate in the College of Computer and Information Science (CCIS) at Northeastern University, recently completed what appears to be the largest known ...

In this video from the MVAPICH User Group, Gene Cooperman from Northeastern University presents: Checkpointing the Un-checkpointable: MANA and the Split-Process Approach. Checkpointing is the ability ...

Earlier today, IOHK presented its checkpointing proposal to the Ethereum Classic (ETC) community. This is meant as a short-term solution for preventing future 51% attacks. In the past several weeks, ...