ZFS Tuning for HPC

The ZFS filesystem and volume manager simplifies data storage management and offers advanced features that allow it to perform in mission-critical or high-performance environments.

Building and Running Containers

Best practices for building and running Docker and Singularity containers.

Initial Best Practices for Containers

Consider some best practices before diving into containers.

Building a Virtual NVMe Drive

An economical and high-performing hybrid NVMe SSD is exported to host servers that use it as a locally attached NVMe device.

Profiling Python Code

Profiling Python code – as a whole or by function – shows where you should spend time speeding up your programs.

Linux device mapper writecache

Kicking write I/O operations into overdrive with the Linux device mapper writecache.

Porting CUDA to HIP

Give your proprietary CUDA code new life with an open platform for HPC.

High-Performance Python – Distributed Python

Scale Python GPU code to distributed systems and your laptop.

High-Performance Python – GPUs

Python finally has interoperable tools for programming the GPU – with or without CUDA.

High-Performance Python – Compiled Code and Fortran Interface

Fortran functions called from Python bring complex computations to a scriptabllanguage.