Abstract: One embodiment provides an information processing apparatus effective to execute a parallel job in coordination with other information processing apparatuses. In an example, the information processing apparatus includes: a memory configured to store computer readable instructions; and a processor configured to execute the computer readable instructions sored in the memory, the computer readable instructions including: providing an instruction to issue barrier communication of error information; and propagating the error information to each of the other information processing apparatuses based on the instruction for the barrier communication.

Abstract: One embodiment provides an information processing apparatus effective to execute a parallel job in coordination with other information processing apparatuses. In an example, the information processing apparatus includes: a memory configured to store computer readable instructions; and a processor configured to execute the computer readable instructions sored in the memory, the computer readable instructions including: providing an instruction to issue barrier communication of error information; and propagating the error information to each of the other information processing apparatuses based on the instruction for the barrier communication.

Abstract: A parallel processing apparatus including a plurality of compute nodes and a management node including a first processor configured to execute a process including collecting failure information regarding a plurality of ports of the plurality of compute nodes, and transmitting, to the plurality of compute nodes, failed port information including information on a failed port of the plurality of ports when an update in the failure information is detected in the collecting, wherein each of the plurality of compute nodes includes a second processor configured to execute a process including determining a retransmission route based on the failed port information when an inter-compute node communication in a low-level communication library has failed, and re-executing the inter-node communication by using the determined retransmission route.

Abstract: A processor of a parallel computing apparatus accumulates first release requests that are outputted, each of which requests releasing of a storage region that stores management information of a buffer storing data subjected to inter-process communication. Each of the first release requests includes one identifier of the storage region to be released. When the number of accumulated first release requests has reached a threshold, the processor selects first release requests, that request releasing of storage regions of management information that is not presently being used, out of the accumulated first release requests starting from a first release request with an oldest output time as first release requests to be executed. The processor then outputs a single second release request that collectively requests releasing of storage regions of management information indicated in the first release requests to be executed.

Abstract: A parallel processing apparatus including a plurality of compute nodes and a management node including a first processor configured to execute a process including collecting failure information regarding a plurality of ports of the plurality of compute nodes, and transmitting, to the plurality of compute nodes, failed port information including information on a failed port of the plurality of ports when an update in the failure information is detected in the collecting, wherein each of the plurality of compute nodes includes a second processor configured to execute a process including determining a retransmission route based on the failed port information when an inter-compute node communication in a low-level communication library has failed, and re-executing the inter-node communication by using the determined retransmission route.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a storage device configured to store a program; and a processor included in a parallel computer and configured to execute the program; wherein the processor: transmits data and a first identifier designated by a communication instruction received from a process of a communication library for parallel computation to another information processing apparatus included in the parallel computer; stores the first identifier into the storage device; receives a second identifier from the another information processing apparatus; decides based on the first identifier stored in the storage device and the received second identifier whether execution of the communication instruction is completed; and notifies, when the execution of the communication instruction is completed, the process of the communication library for parallel computation that the execution of the communication instruction is completed.

Abstract: A computing unit accumulates first release requests that are outputted, each of which requests releasing of a storage region that stores management information of a buffer storing data subjected to inter-process communication. When the number of accumulated first release requests has reached a threshold, the computing unit selects at least some of the accumulated first release requests as first release requests to be executed. The computing unit then outputs a second release request that collectively requests releasing of storage regions of management information indicated in the first release requests to be executed.

Abstract: A disclosed parallel computer includes plural nodes, and one node of the plural nodes collects information concerning a state of progress of barrier synchronization from each of the plural nodes, upon detecting that execution of a program for a job is stopped in each of the plural of nodes. And, the one node of the plural nodes in the parallel computer determines a restart position of the program for the job in the one node, based on a stop position of the program for the job in the one node and the information collected from each of the plural nodes.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus includes a magnetic head and a magnetic recording medium. The magnetic recording medium includes a recording layer formed of a hard magnetic layer and a soft magnetic layer. The hard magnetic layer has a bit width corresponding to a length of a bit island in a radial direction of the magnetic recording medium. The soft magnetic layer is arranged on the hard magnetic layer. The soft magnetic layer has a width smaller than the bit width and is arranged at a position displaced in a direction away from an off-track portion of the leading edge of the magnetic head skewed at an angle.

Abstract: A magnetic recording medium including: a substrate; plural information recording members that are formed of a hard magnetic material on the substrate, in each of which magnetization in a direction crossing the substrate is generated and, when the information recording members pass in a predetermined traveling direction in a magnetic field for information recording, the magnetization is directed to a direction corresponding to a direction of the magnetic field and information is recorded; and a high-permeability film that is placed on an edge on a front side of the information recording members in the traveling direction and has a magnetic permeability higher than a magnetic permeability of the information recording members.

Abstract: There is provided a magnetic recording medium which contains a substrate in the shape of a disk, and a plural of recording bit formed on the substrate, wherein a bottom face of the recording bit is disposed so as to face the substrate, a top face of the recording bit is disposed so as to correspond to the bottom face of the recording bit, and Twb is larger than Twt, where Twb indicates a width of the bottom face with respect to a radius direction of the magnetic recording medium, and Twt indicates a width of the top face with respect to the radius direction.

Abstract: A method of producing alloy nanoparticles includes the steps of: adding a metallic salt, a reducing agent, a stabilizing ligand, and an organic iron complex to an organic solvent selected from the group consisting of 2-20C hydrocarbon, alcohol, ether, and ester in an inert gas atmosphere to obtain a reaction liquid; and stirring the reaction liquid while heating the reaction liquid to a predetermined temperature. The grain diameter of the alloy nanoparticle is controlled by regulating the amount of the stabilizing ligand.

Abstract: A perpendicular magnetic memory medium capable of high-density recording and reproducing consists of a soft magnetic lining layer (12), a non-magnetic middle layer (13), a recording layer (14) that is formed by arranging hard magnetic nanoparticles (17), an overcoat layer (15), and a lubricous layer (16), all of which are arranged on a substrate (11) in this sequence, wherein an average diameter of the nanoparticles ranges between 2 nm and 10 nm, a standard deviation of diameters of the nanoparticles is 10% or less of the average diameter of the nanoparticles, and an average interval of the nanoparticles is between 0.2 nm and 5 nm, and an magnetic easy axis of the recording layer 14 is perpendicular to a face of the substrate (11), such that high-density recording and reproducing is realized by the perpendicular magnetic medium.

Abstract: A magnetic recording medium has a recording layer, disposed above a surface of a substrate and made of hard magnetic nano-particles. The hard magnetic nano-particles are made of an alloy having as a main component an element selected from a group consisting of FePt, FePd and CoPt, and the hard magnetic nano-particles have axes of easy magnetization oriented in a direction approximately perpendicular to the surface of the substrate.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a magnetic recording medium improved in recording density, with maintaining various performances thereof, an efficient process for manufacturing the magnetic recording medium, and a nanoparticle for a magnetic recording medium sufficiently utilized therefor. The nanoparticle for a magnetic recording medium of the present invention has an organic compound capable of generating carbon adhering to the surface thereof, or 7 nm or less of a number average particle diameter thereof, or 0.1 or less of a particle distribution (distribution width (?)/particle diameter (D)) thereof. The magnetic recording medium of the present invention has a recording layer containing the nanoparticle for a magnetic recording medium. The process for manufacturing a magnetic recording medium of the present invention includes a step of applying, onto a substrate and in a magnetic field, a nanoparticle dispersed liquid in which the nanoparticle for a magnetic recording medium is dispersed.

Abstract: A substrate defines minute holes or nanoholes over its surface in a composite material. Particles or nanoparticles are filled within the minute holes. The composite material enables a reliable disposition of the particles within the minute holes. The position of the minute holes can reliably be controlled. This serves to establish regularly ordered particles based on the regularly ordered minute holes. This composite material is applicable to a magnetic recording medium.

Abstract: A magnetic recording medium and a magnetic recording device using the same. The magnetic recording medium has a nonmagnetic substrate having applied thereon, through a crystal orientation-improving layer and a seed layer, a magnetic recording layer. The seed layer consists of a material having a higher surface energy than that of the crystal orientation-improving layer.

Abstract: A magnetic recording medium has a recording layer, disposed above a surface of a substrate and made of hard magnetic nano-particles. The hard magnetic nano-particles are made of an alloy having as a main component an element selected from a group consisting of FePt, FePd and CoPt, and the hard magnetic nano-particles have axes of easy magnetization oriented in a direction approximately perpendicular to the surface of the substrate.

Abstract: A magnetic sensor senses an external magnetic field using a spin-filtered sensor current flowing through a non-magnetic layer.

Abstract: A magnetic sensor for reproducing information recorded on a magnetic recording medium senses an external magnetic field using a spin-filtered sensor current flowing through a non-magnetic layer.