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Today Micron Technology announced a breakthrough in nonvolatile memory technology with the introduction of the world’s fastest SSD, the Micron X100 SSD. "Micron’s innovative X100 product brings the disruptive potential of 3D XPoint technology to the data center, driving breakthrough performance improvements for applications and enabling entirely new use cases,” said Micron Executive Vice President and Chief Business Officer Sumit Sadana.The post Micron Unveils World’s Fastest Datacenter SSD appeared first on insideHPC.

Hyperion Research report that their business tracking the worldwide HPC market has grown rapidly since the company was spun out of IDC in 2017, and the company is actively seeking qualified candidates for four additional positions, CEO Earl Joseph said. "Thanks to the extraordinary talent and dedication of our current staff of seven full-time professionals and others who help us in Japan and China, our business has substantially expanded in all three global geographies—the Americas, EMEA and the Asia-Pacific region," Joseph said. "Existing staff can handle the business we have today, but we need additional talented people to support new opportunities."The post Hyperion Research Growth Spurs Search for New Hires appeared first on insideHPC.

In this KPBS video, firefighters in the field tap an SDSC supercomputer to battle wild fires. Fire officials started using the supercomputer's WIFIRE tool in September. WIFIRE is a sophisticated fire modeling software that uses real-time data to run rapid simulations of a fire's progress. It helps to see where the fire is likely going to go,” said Raymond De Callafon, a UCSD engineer who worked on the project. “So, a fire department can use this for planning purposes with their limited resources. It can also be used to plan, maybe their aircraft that will go over. Where to put the fire out.”The post Supercomputing the Future Path of Wlldfires appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Gina Tourassi from ORNL explains how data and computing is changing medicine. "Exascale computing infrastructure such as Frontier will be the paradigm shift because we can bring all of the data together and analyze it in a time efficient way,” said Tourassi.The post How Data and Computing Can Change Medicine in the Exascale Era appeared first on insideHPC.

Today ACM/IEEE named Geoffrey C. Fox of Indiana University Bloomington as the recipient of the 2019 ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award. "Fox was cited for foundational contributions to parallel computing methodology, algorithms and software, and data analysis, and their interfaces with broad classes of applications. The award will be presented at SC19 in Denver."The post Geoffrey C. Fox to receive Ken Kennedy Award at SC19 appeared first on insideHPC.

The PASC20 conference has issued its Call for Submissions. The event takes place June 29 - July 1, 2020 in Geneva, Switzerland. "PASC20 is an international and interdisciplinary platform for the exchange of competences in scientific computing and computational science, with a strong focus on methods, tools, algorithms, application challenges, and novel techniques and usage of high performance computing."The post Call for Submissions: PASC20 in Geneva appeared first on insideHPC.

Werner Scholz from XENON Systems gave this talk at the Perth HPC Conference. "Today, Intel’s highest performing CPUs (e.g. Intel Cascade Lake-AP 9282 processor) have a thermal design envelope of 400 watts. There really is no end in sight, and accommodating more power is critical to advancing performance. The ability to dissipate the resulting heat is the hard ceiling that systems face in terms of performance – giving greater importance to liquid cooling breakthroughs. With liquid cooling, less energy is expended to cool systems – a significant savings in HPC deployments with arrays of servers drawing energy and generating heat."The post Liquid Cooling: Unlock Greater Potential in HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Google officially announced that it has achieved a major computing milestone. In partnership with NASA and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the company has demonstrated the ability to compute in seconds what would take even the largest and most advanced supercomputers thousands of years, achieving a milestone known as quantum supremacy. "Achieving quantum supremacy means we’ve been able to do one thing faster, not everything faster,” said Eleanor Rieffel, co-author on the paper.The post Google and NASA Achieve Quantum Supremacy appeared first on insideHPC.

Today TYAN announced support for the new NVIDIA EGX platform on TYAN’s NGC-Ready Thunder SX TN76-B7102 server, providing AI computing for the edge networks. "AI has transformed every industry by enabling more accurate decisions to be made based on the massive amounts of streaming data being processed. Now we see the next opportunity for AI is erupting at the edge, “said Danny Hsu, Vice President of MiTAC Computing Technology Corporation's TYAN Business Unit. “TYAN’s NVIDIA GPU server platforms are now NGC-Ready for Edge validated and with NVIDIA’s EGX stack and hybrid cloud partners, enables enterprises to securely and rapidly deploy and manage AI workloads from the edge to the cloud.”The post TYAN GPU Servers with NVIDIA EGX Bring AI to the Edge appeared first on insideHPC.

In this new whitepaper from our friends over at Exxact Corporation we take a look at the important topic of deep learning for Natural Language Processing (NLP) and choosing the right GPU for the job. Focus is given to the latest developments in neural networks and deep learning systems, in particular a neural network architecture called transformers. Researchers have shown that transformer networks are particularly well suited for parallelization on GPU-based systems.The post Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing – Choosing the Right GPU for the Job appeared first on insideHPC.

Advanced Clustering Technologies will unveil ClusterVisor, the company's new HPC cluster management tool, at SC19. ClusterVisor enables you to easily deploy your HPC cluster and manage everything from the hardware and operating system to software and networking using a single GUI. "ClusterVisor is highly customizable to ensure you can manage your cluster and organize your data in a way that makes the most sense for you. This powerful cluster management tool enables you to provision hardware, configure the nodes, update the operating system and analyze all of the statistics."The post Check out the ClusterVisor HPC Management Tool at SC19 appeared first on insideHPC.

In a sport that hangs in the complex balance of speed, aerodynamics and the ever-present data, SportPesa Racing Point deserves the best from its computation, which is capped at 25 teraflops. For SportPesa Racing Point, the best is Univa Grid Engine, which manages its CFD cluster up into the 97 percent range at a sustained level. “Univa help us with bringing developments and CFD developments to reality faster. So they help with efficiency with our compute power.”The post Podcast: Univa Speeds CFD with SportPesa Racing Point F1 Team appeared first on insideHPC.

SC19 will feature a new SC Theater on the exhibit floor this year. The SC Theater will showcase live presentations that advance modern data-driven scientific applications. "The SC Theater, with seating for 20 and standing room as well, is located next to SCinet on the exhibit floor. It will showcase presentations by students and technologists from the HPC community who are focused on data-driven scientific applications."The post New SC Theater at SC19 to Showcase Data-Driven Scientific Applications appeared first on insideHPC.

Rich Graham from Mellanox gave this talk at the UK HPC Conference. "In-Network Computing transforms the data center interconnect to become a "distributed CPU", and "distributed memory", enables to overcome performance barriers and to enable faster and more scalable data analysis. HDR 200G InfiniBand In-Network Computing technology includes several elements - Scalable Hierarchical Aggregation and Reduction Protocol (SHARP), smart Tag Matching and rendezvoused protocol, and more. This session will discuss the InfiniBand In-Network Computing technology and performance results, as well as view to future roadmap."The post Video: InfiniBand In-Network Computing Technology and Roadmap appeared first on insideHPC.

"The NVIDIA Jarvis SDK offers a complete workflow to build, train and deploy GPU-accelerated AI systems that can use visual cues such as gestures and gaze along with speech in context. For example lip movement can be fused with speech input to identify the active speaker. Gaze can be used to understand if the speaker is engaging the AI agent or other people in the scene. Such multi-modal fusion enables simultaneous multi-user, multi-context conversations with the AI agent that need deeper understanding of the context."The post NVIDIA Jarvis AI SDK Fuses Vision, Speech, and other Sensors into One System appeared first on insideHPC.

Today NVIDIA announced the NVIDIA EGX Edge Supercomputing Platform – a high-performance, cloud-native platform that lets organizations harness rapidly streaming data from factory floors, manufacturing inspection lines and city streets to securely deliver next-generation AI, IoT and 5G-based services at scale, with low latency. “We’ve created the NVIDIA EGX Edge Supercomputing Platform for this world, where computing moves beyond personal and beyond the cloud to operate at planetary scale.”The post Video: NVIDIA EGX Edge Supercomputing Platform Accelerates AI appeared first on insideHPC.

"The new ARCHER2 supercomputer will be the first Shasta system announced in EMEA and the second system worldwide used for academic research. ARCHER2 will be the UK’s most powerful supercomputer and will be equipped with the revolutionary Slingshot interconnect, Cray ClusterStor high-performance storage, the Cray Shasta Software platform, and 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors."The post ARCHER2 to be first Cray Shasta System in Europe appeared first on insideHPC.

The Beowulf Bash is returning to Denver for SC19. With a theme based on the Stranger Things TV show, the annual party takes place 9:00 pm to midnight on Monday Nov. 18 at the Pinnacle Club. "There will be 80s-style entertainment, games, the best 80s tribute band, and as always, a quiet place to sit and reflect on why you keep coming to these vapid affairs. Food, beverages, entertainment, and Eggo Waffles provided thanks to our wonderful sponsors."The post Beowulf Bash returns to Denver Nov. 18 for SC19 appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Ian Foster from Argonne accepts his award naming him as one of the DOE Office of Science Distinguished Scientists Fellows. "Foster was honored “for trailblazing work in distributed and high performance computing with fundamental and long-lasting impacts on both computer science as a discipline and the practice of computing across the Office of Science.”The post Ian Foster named DOE Distinguished Scientist Fellow appeared first on insideHPC.

Dr. Brett Bode from NCSA gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "Blue Waters is one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world and is one of the fastest supercomputers on a university campus. Scientists and engineers across the country use the computing and data power of Blue Waters to tackle a wide range of challenging problems, from predicting the behavior of complex biological systems to simulating the evolution of the cosmos."The post Video: Research on Blue Waters appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Fujitsu launched of the Digital Platform Experimentation Project in Singapore. In cooperation with A*STAR and SMU, the Project marks the world’s 1st on-premises installation of the Fujitsu Quantum-Inspired Computing Digital Annealer. "The Digital Annealer will play an important role in this initiative by allowing the partners to explore novel problem-solving approaches and methodologies for a wide variety of potential real-world applications. Use cases to date include portfolio optimization, drug discovery, factory optimization, inventory management, and digital marketing."The post Fujitsu installs Quantum-Inspired Computing Digital Annealer in Singapore appeared first on insideHPC.

This timely article from our friends over at HPE provides the following key takeaways: HPE Hybrid HPC provides you choice to meet demanding workload needs; HPE is committed to your success by offering their Early Access Program (EAP); Take advantage of HPE’s strategically assembled partner ecosystem to maximize success.The post HPE Hybrid HPC Early Access Program for your Hybrid HPC Journey appeared first on insideHPC.

Satoshi Matsuoka from Riken gave this talk at Linaro Connect 2019. "Fugaku is the flagship next generation national supercomputer being developed by Riken R-CCS and Fujitsu in collaboration. Fugaku will have hyperscale datacenter class resource in a single exascale machine, with more than 150,000 nodes of sever-class Fujitsu A64fx many-core Arm CPUs with the new SVE (Scalable Vector Extension) with low precision math for the first time in the world, accelerating both HPC and AI workloads, augmented with HBM2 memory paired with each CPU, exhibiting nearly a Terabyte/s memory bandwidth for both HPC and AI rapid data movements."The post A64fx: A Game Changing, HPC / AI Optimized Arm CPU for Exascale appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast, Katrina Feliciano-Stoddard joins Intel's Conversations in the Cloud. "Katrina talks about simulation and visualization, its role in innovation, and how the technology is being used across industries such as manufacturing, oil & gas, aerospace and defense, media and entertainment, and health and life sciences. Scientists search for new discoveries, engineers are looking at new ways to do things, to design and develop new products – but everyone is looking to do achieve innovations in less time and at reduced costs."The post Podcast: Simulation & Visualization Drive New Discoveries and Insights appeared first on insideHPC.

Paul Calleja from the University of Cambridge gave this talk at the UK HPC Conference. "With unprecedented access to increasing volumes of data, our research ranges from the underlying fundamentals in mathematics and computer science, to data science applications across all six University Schools of Arts and Humanities, Biological Sciences, Clinical Medicine, Humanities and Social Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Technology."The post Video: The Cambridge Research Computing Service appeared first on insideHPC.

Quantlab in Houston is seeking an HPC Engineer in our Job of the Week. "We seek to fill the role of an HPC Engineer within our research group in Houston, TX. The highly skilled and experienced individual will be responsible for maintaining the daily throughput of Research jobs in the HPC cluster. This includes all processes related to building the software, executing it and monitoring HPC jobs."The post Job of the Week: HPC Engineer at Quantlab in Houston appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Codeplay announced the world's first fully-conformant SYCL 1.2.1 Solution. "As a non-proprietary alternative to the incumbent CUDA, SYCL is an open standard developed by the Khronos Group that enables developers to write code for heterogeneous systems using standard C++. Developers are looking at how they can accelerate their applications without having to write optimized processor specific code. SYCL is the industry standard for C++ acceleration, giving developers a platform to write high-performance code in standard C++, unlocking the performance of accelerators and specialized processors from companies such as AMD, Intel, Renesas and Arm."The post Codeplay SYCL 1.2.1 Solution offers an Open Alternative to CUDA appeared first on insideHPC.

"The goal of this BoF is to discuss the landscape for advanced scientific computing after the United States achieves the exascale milestone. What are possible future breakthroughs? What are promising computing and mathematics research directions? How do we organize people and resources to move forward? How do we sustain and broaden the impact of exascale technology? These questions will be introduced by members of a task force that is studying beyond the Exascale Computing Project."The post SC19 Session Preview: Whither Advanced Scientific Computing After Exascale Is Achieved? appeared first on insideHPC.

DK Panda from Ohio State University gave this talk at the UK HPC Conference. "This talk will focus on challenges in designing HPC, Deep Learning, Big Data and HPC Cloud middleware for Exascale systems with millions of processors and accelerators. For the HPC domain, we will discuss about the challenges in designing runtime environments for MPI+X (PGAS - OpenSHMEM/UPC/CAF/UPC++, OpenMP, and CUDA) programming models by taking into account support for multi-core systems (Xeon, ARM and OpenPower), high-performance networks, and GPGPUs (including GPUDirect RDMA)."The post Designing Scalable HPC, Deep Learning, Big Data, and Cloud Middleware for Exascale Systems appeared first on insideHPC.

As one of the Grand Challenges of our time, climate modeling typically requires long run times and huge computational resources. Sandia National Laboratories has awarded Kelsey DiPietro a Jill Hruby Fellowship to tackle this issue. As an applied mathematician, DiPietro has proposed a way to make computer models more efficient — improving accuracy without increasing time or resources to run them.The post Energy Exascale Earth System Model to Accelerate Climate Research appeared first on insideHPC.

Nominations are now open for the James Corones Award, honoring a scientist or engineer who demonstrates integrity and engagement in their field. "The James Corones Award in Leadership, Community Building and Communication recognizes mid-career science professionals who influence their fields and research in general. The recipient will be someone who encourages and mentors young people to participate in the science community, to communicate their work effectively and to make a difference in their discipline."The post Nominations Open for James Corones Award Recognizing Science Leadership appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Christian Marcazzo, VP and general manager at IDBS highlights trends in life sciences research and development. "As can be seen across most industries, organizations are increasingly moving systems and services to the cloud. For R&D firms, cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms that integrate all systems are the most effective way of overcoming legacy."The post Advancing Progress in Life Sciences appeared first on insideHPC.

Today ColdQuanta announced it has been awarded $1M from NASA’s Civilian Commercialization Readiness Pilot Program. The program will enable ColdQuanta to develop significantly smaller cold atom systems with a high level of ruggedness. This award expands on the success of ColdQuanta’s Quantum Core technology which was developed with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and is currently operating aboard the International Space Station.The post ColdQuanta to Accelerate Commercial Deployment of Quantum Atomic Systems appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Cortical.io CEO Francisco Webber demonstrates how the company's software running on Xilinx FPGAs breaks new ground in the field of natural language understanding (NLU). "Cortical.io delivers AI-based Natural Language Understanding solutions which are quicker and easier to implement and more capable than current approaches. The company’s patented approach enables enterprises to more effectively search, extract, annotate and analyze key information from any kind of unstructured text."The post Cortical.io Demonstrates Natural Language Understanding Inspired by Neuroscience appeared first on insideHPC.

This timely article from our friends over at Univa examines how the cloud is attractive for organizations that need fast access to specialized resources, and that want to avoid the cost and complexity of on-premise infrastructure. The article then offer five important ways that Cloud Automation can reduce cost.The post Cloud Automation: Five Ways to Contain HPC Cloud Spending appeared first on insideHPC.

Intel has posted the preliminary agenda for the Intel HPC Developer Conference. The event takes place Nov. 17-18 in conjunction with SC19 in Denver. "The keynote for this year's event will be given by Raja Koduri, SVP, Chief Architect and GM of Architecture, Graphics, and Software. Raja will share Intel's vision, strategy, and upcoming technology roadmap across hardware and software to further accelerate the convergence of HPC and AI and push the boundaries of HPC as we know it today."The post Agenda Posted for Intel HPC Developer Conference at SC19 appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the Internet2 advanced technology community founded by the nation’s leading higher education institutions, has selected the latest photonic and coherent optical innovations from Ciena to transform its network to a more scalable, programmable and adaptive architecture. "Together with superior coherent modems and a proven support system, the openness, flexibility and greener profile of this network will play a key role in our ability to accelerate discoveries in the research and education community. We are delighted to have Ciena as a partner in tackling the great research and education challenges of the next decade.”The post Ciena 800G Technology to Power Research at Internet2 appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT) and Excelero announced QxStor Excelero NVMesh, a High-Performance Cloud Storage joint solution that delivers the high IOPs performance capabilities of NVMe Flash at scale without the traditional storage bottlenecks. Targeted at HPC users, cloud service providers and web-scale organizations, QxStor Excelero NVMesh combines the QCT next-generation NVMe storage servers with Excelero’s NVMesh®software-defined block storage for shared NVMe at local performance.The post Excelero And Quanta Cloud Technology Streamline High-Performance Cloud Storage appeared first on insideHPC.

Dan Olds from OrionX.net gave this talk at the UK HPC Conference. "Novel Therm's enhanced Stirling Engine can turn warm water geothermal into megawatts of electricity. This 100% green solution provides a very low PUE (1.03-1.05) and significantly lower costs than alternative co-location, IaaS solutions. This session will look at the technical side of warm-water geothermal energy and how this innovative company will be using it to power data centers."The post Powering Datacenters with Earth’s Molten Core: A Practical Guide appeared first on insideHPC.

Meet the three GCS centres, the High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS), Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), and Leibniz Supercomputing Centre Garching (LRZ) at SC19 in Denver, Colorado (USA). The international conference for high-performance computing, networking, storage, and analysis is the annually recurring premier event for the global high-performance computing (HPC) community.The post GCS Centres HLRS, JSC, and LRZ to Exhibit SC19 appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Mellanox announced acceleration of NVMe/TCP at speeds up to 200Gb/s. The entire portfolio of shipping ConnectX adapters supports NVMe-oF over both TCP and RoCE, and the newly-introduced ConnectX-6 Dx and BlueField-2 products also secure NVMe-oF connections over IPsec and TLS using hardware-accelerated encryption and decryption. These Mellanox solutions empower cloud, telco and enterprise data […]The post Mellanox Accelerates NVMe/TCP and RoCE Fabrics to 200Gb/s appeared first on insideHPC.

In this guest article, our friends at Intel discuss how the company is investing in heterogeneous computing. Intel recently spoke about supporting heterogeneous computing with the catch phrase “One Size Does Not Fit All” in talking about software and Intel’s commitment to help programmers with oneAPI.The post Heterogeneous Computing: Long Live the CPU appeared first on insideHPC.

Registration is now open for the CHPC National Conference. The event takes place Dec. 1-5 in Johannesburg, South Africa. "The National Integrated Cyber Infrastructure System (NICIS) promotes scientific and industrial development through the provision of high-performance computing capability, high-speed network capacity and a national research data infrastructure integrated hierarchically into globally connected systems and into local system systems, providing seamless access for the research and education communities of South Africa."The post Registration Opens for CHPC National Conference in South Africa appeared first on insideHPC.

Researchers at Sandia National Labs are leading a project to deliver actionable information from streaming data to decision makers. While social media, cameras, sensors and more generate huge amounts of data that can overwhelm analysts, the project looks to provide crucial insight in real time. “Actionable intelligence is the next level of data analysis where analysis is put into use for near-real-time decision-making. Success on this research will have a strong impact to many time-critical national security applications.”The post Sandia Research Project turns Big Data into real-time, actionable intelligence appeared first on insideHPC.

The @RadioFreeHPC team is joined by the folks at MemComputing, a San Diego startup that’s built a new parallel foundation for computing. It calls it the universal memcomputing machine, and a realization of self-organizing circuits. "We analytically prove that the memory properties of UMMs endow them with universal computing power—they are Turing-complete."The post Podcast: The Turing Machine is Sequential, so how about a Parallel Machine? appeared first on insideHPC.

Venkatesh Kannan from ICHEC gave this talk at the UK HPC Conference. "The presentation will highlight the need to address the symbiotic relationship between HPC and AI at different levels – technology development, education & training, and policy making – in order to enable the adoption and accelerating the development of AI solutions by the research and enterprise communities. A number of efforts and projects that are undertaken at the Irish Centre for High-End Computing towards enabling and achieving this in the Irish and European context will be presented."The post Accelerating Research and Enterprise Solutions by Bridging HPC and AI appeared first on insideHPC.

Today General Micro Systems (GMS) launched TITAN, the industry’s first sealed, fanless, conduction-cooled rackmount servers with artificial intelligence (AI) and mil-circular (38999) connectors for superior ruggedness in the most demanding defense and aerospace applications. The American-designed, sourced, and manufactured TITAN, a fully configurable server, also uses up to four of Intel’s latest 2nd gen Scalable […]The post GMS Launches Ruggedized TITAN AI-Equipped Rackmount Servers appeared first on insideHPC.

Following a procurement exercise, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) are pleased to announce that Cray, an HPE company, has been awarded the contract to supply the hardware for the next national supercomputer, ARCHER2. Powered by AMD EPYC processors, ARCHER2 will be deployed at the University of Edinburgh. "Needless to say, ARCHER2 represents a significant step forwards in capability for the UK science community, with the system expected to sit among the fastest fully general purpose (CPU only) systems when it comes into service in May 2020."The post AMD to Power Cray’s ARCHER2 Supercomputer in the UK appeared first on insideHPC.

Thomas Schulthess from CSCS gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "CSCS has a strong track record in supporting the processing, analysis and storage of scientific data, and is investing heavily in new tools and computing systems to support data science applications. For more than a decade, CSCS has been involved in the analysis of the many petabytes of data produced by scientific instruments such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Supporting scientists in extracting knowledge from structured and unstructured data is a key priority for CSCS."The post Video: An Update on HPC at CSCS appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, HPE’s Jean-Luc Assor talk about their involvement in the Living Heart Project – and how HPC is explains how high performance computing is saving lives. The Stanford Living Heart Project is uniting industry-leading researchers, doctors, educators, and technology manufacturers to develop a new standard for drug testing with Hybrid HPC.The post Video: HPC and the Living Heart Project appeared first on insideHPC.