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Open Edge and HPC Initiative to Provide Arm-based Systems to Researchers
Today E4 Computer Engineering and the Open Edge and HPC Initiative today announced that Arm-based HPC resources will be provided to researchers and scientists from academia and industry through the codes@OEHI program. To submit a request for access, have a look at the section “How to Apply” in the OEHI website. "The mission of the Open Edge and HPC Initiative is foster the development of an open and feature-rich ecosystem for Arm-based technologies to support the evolving needs of the various industries undergoing digitalization and of all their respective stakeholders."The post Open Edge and HPC Initiative to Provide Arm-based Systems to Researchers appeared first on insideHPC.
Interview: New Intel Innovations for the Convergence of HPC & AI
In this video from ISC 2019 in Frankfurt, Raj Hazra from Intel shares highlights from his keynote. "Intel’s disclosures at ISC’19 demonstrate how its data-centric portfolio addresses the unique challenges of HPC systems by bringing together HPC data analytics and AI acceleration into a single computing environment, while delivering a new memory and storage paradigm that feeds the compute engine."The post Interview: New Intel Innovations for the Convergence of HPC & AI appeared first on insideHPC.
Cray Boosts Deep Learning Performance for Geospatial AI
Today Cray announced enhanced capabilities to empower data scientists and engineers who are innovating in the field of Geospatial AI. “The new features include an augmented Deep Learning Plugin that provides best-in-class deep neural network performance training and broadened support for deep learning frameworks. In performance studies, the plugin showed training time reductions up to 23% over open source alternatives for a single node, dense GPU configuration."The post Cray Boosts Deep Learning Performance for Geospatial AI appeared first on insideHPC.
Experience The Exascale Era with AMD at ISC 2019
AMD is stepping up with renewed momentum in the HPC market at the ISC 2019 conference this week. "AMD invites you to explore future architecture and ecosystem technologies that are Powering the Exascale Era, and to hear how AMD will help unleash new realms of discovery for HPC with AMD EPYC processors, Radeon Instinct accelerators and the ROCm ecosystem."The post Experience The Exascale Era with AMD at ISC 2019 appeared first on insideHPC.
NEC receives 50 Million Euro order from Germany’s DWD
Today NEC announced that it received an order for an NEC SX-Aurora TSUBASA supercomputer with a value of 50 Million Euro from the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), the German weather forecasting service. "The new HPC system will enable the development of seamless prediction of severe weather events, including thunderstorms or heavy rain. The system combines forecasting based on observations with very demanding numerical weather prediction models in order for a more precise prediction of the development and the tracks of such small-scale weather events up to twelve hours into the future."The post NEC receives 50 Million Euro order from Germany’s DWD appeared first on insideHPC.
Video: Lenovo delivers HPC solutions “from Exascale to Everyscale”
Lenovo is far and away the leading computer system vendor on the latest TOP500 list, with of whopping 173 total systems. With 34.6 percent of TOP500 systems to date, Lenovo leads the list with both Rmax and Rpeak aggregate performance. "The top spot for Lenovo is their SuperMUC-NG machine at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, which came in at 19.5 petaflops on the Linpack benchmark."The post Video: Lenovo delivers HPC solutions “from Exascale to Everyscale” appeared first on insideHPC.
HPC Market Five-Year Forecast bumps up to $44 Billion Worldwide
At ISC 2019 in Frankfurt, Hyperion Research announced it has increased its five-year HPC Market forecast to reach $44 billion in 2023 thanks to Exascale Systems, AI and increasing adoption of HPC in the Cloud. "In 2018, the HPC server market grew more than 15% to reach a record $13.7 billion in revenue. The supercomputer segment (HPC systems sold for $500,000 or more) grew 23% to $5.4 billion in 2018, the highest growing competitive segment of the HPC market."The post HPC Market Five-Year Forecast bumps up to $44 Billion Worldwide appeared first on insideHPC.
Bright Computing Streamlines HPC Environment for NeSI and NIWA
Today Bright Computing announced that the company's cluster management software enables modernized HPC infrastructure for New Zealand eScience Infrastructure (NeSI) and the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd (NIWA). "Armed with deep infrastructure knowledge and systems integration experience, Bright was part of a co-design partnership with Cray, NIWA and NeSI working collaborative to design and build a hybrid HPC and private cloud infrastructure based on Bright Cluster Manager and Bright OpenStack."The post Bright Computing Streamlines HPC Environment for NeSI and NIWA appeared first on insideHPC.
Video: Qumulo Steps Up with High Performance Distributed File System
In this slidecast, Molly Presley from Qumulo describes how the company's distributed file system delivers real time performance for a host of HPC and AI applications. "Qumulo’s solutions are available on its own branded storage servers, on third-party hardware from companies like HPE and Dell and natively on AWS in the public cloud. Its solutions are designed from the ground up to meet today’s requirements for scale, offering the highest-performance file storage system for data centers and the public cloud."The post Video: Qumulo Steps Up with High Performance Distributed File System appeared first on insideHPC.
Podcast: Radio Free HPC Runs Down the TOP500
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team reviews the new TOP500 list of most powerful supercomputers. "Not much changed in the TOP10 but a lot is changing further down the list. The overwhelming majority of the systems, 478 of them, are based on Intel CPUs. 13 are IBM, and there is 1 system based on Arm provided by Cavium, now part of Marvell."The post Podcast: Radio Free HPC Runs Down the TOP500 appeared first on insideHPC.
NVIDIA Brings CUDA to Arm for HPC
Today NVIDIA announced its support for Arm CPUs, providing the high performance computing industry a new path to build extremely energy-efficient, AI-enabled exascale supercomputers. "NVIDIA is making available to the Arm ecosystem its full stack of AI and HPC software — which accelerates more than 600 HPC applications and all AI frameworks — by year’s end. The stack includes all NVIDIA CUDA-X AI and HPC libraries, GPU-accelerated AI frameworks and software development tools such as PGI compilers with OpenACC support and profilers."The post NVIDIA Brings CUDA to Arm for HPC appeared first on insideHPC.
For the first time, all TOP500 Systems are Petaflop Machines
The latest TOP500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers is out today, marking a major milestone in the 26-year history of the list. For the first time, all 500 systems deliver a petaflop or more on the Linpack benchmark. "Frontera at TACC is the only new supercomputer in the top 10, which attained its number five ranking by delivering 23.5 petaflops on HPL. The Dell C6420 system, powered by Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 processors."The post For the first time, all TOP500 Systems are Petaflop Machines appeared first on insideHPC.
ISC 2019 Opens Today with Keynote and Release of TOP500 List
ISC 2019 opens today in Frankfurt. A total of over 3,500 attendees are expected at this year’s show, now in its 34th year. "Running through Thursday this week, the conference kicks off at 9:00 am on Monday, June 17 with a keynote and the announcement of the 53rd TOP500. Project co-founder Erich Strohmaier will present the highlights of the new rankings and discuss the latest trends."The post ISC 2019 Opens Today with Keynote and Release of TOP500 List appeared first on insideHPC.
Video: Jack Wells from ORNL on his new role as VP of OpenACC.org
Today OpenACC.org announced a newly elected vice president reflecting increased user influence within the organization. Additionally, the organization announced its 2019 Annual Meeting will be hosted by RIKEN Center for Computational Science (RIKEN R-CCS) in Japan, as well as the schedule of upcoming hackathons and bootcamps around the world.The post Video: Jack Wells from ORNL on his new role as VP of OpenACC.org appeared first on insideHPC.
Top 10 Things to Look Forward to at ISC 2019
In this special guest feature, Kim McMahon from Cloud Native Computing Foundation lists her favorite things coming up this week at ISC 2019 in Frankfurt. "For the third year, I am the chair of the Inclusivity Committee for the conference. This year we are expanding the message and focus. Inclusivity is more than numbers. It’s about everyone feeling welcome, without regard to gender, nationality, or sexual orientation."The post Top 10 Things to Look Forward to at ISC 2019 appeared first on insideHPC.
Six Nines to Showcase AWS-Powered HPC at ISC 2019
AWS HPC partner Six Nines is showcasing its HPC solutions for AWS this week at ISC 2019 in Frankfurt. Based in Oakland, Six Nines offers a full range of expert-level cloud consulting services and solutions to accelerate cloud adoption and reduce risk, including a cloud adoption framework, migration assessments, cost & billing optimization and HPC solutions.The post Six Nines to Showcase AWS-Powered HPC at ISC 2019 appeared first on insideHPC.
Video: Portable Programming Models Highlighted at PASC19
In this video from PASC19 in Zurich, Technical Papers co-chair Sunita Chandrasekaran provides some highlights from the conference. After that, Sunita previews the upcoming Workshop on Performance Portable Programming Models for Accelerators (P3MA) at ISC 2019. "This workshop will provide a forum to bring together researchers and developers to discuss community’s proposals and solutions to performance."The post Video: Portable Programming Models Highlighted at PASC19 appeared first on insideHPC.
Job of the Week: Virtualization Infrastructure Engineer at PSC
The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center is seeking a Virtualization Infrastructure Engineer in our Job of the Week. "In this role, you will primarily be responsible for developing and maintaining the infrastructure to deploy and maintain fleets of hosts (physical and virtual), containers and services for the variety of project-based resources PSC operates and have a hand in planning new directions."The post Job of the Week: Virtualization Infrastructure Engineer at PSC appeared first on insideHPC.
Harris and Riesselman Share 2019 Howes Scholar in Computational Science Award
Two scientists who use HPC for divergent purposes – astronomy and biology – are recipients of the 2019 Frederick A. Howes Scholar in Computational Science Award. The honorees are Chelsea Harris, a postdoctoral researcher in astronomy and astrophysics at Michigan State University, and Adam Riesselman, a machine-learning engineer at Insitro, a Bay Area drug-discovery company.The post Harris and Riesselman Share 2019 Howes Scholar in Computational Science Award appeared first on insideHPC.
Why Hardware Acceleration Is The Next Battleground In Processor Design
In this special guest feature, Theodore Omtzigt from Stillwater Supercomputing writes that as workloads specialize due to scale, hardware accelerated solutions will continue to be cheaper than approaches that utilize general purpose components. "If you’re a CIO who manages integrations of third-party hardware and software, be aware of new hardware acceleration technologies that can reduce the cost of service delivery by orders of magnitude."The post Why Hardware Acceleration Is The Next Battleground In Processor Design appeared first on insideHPC.
European Leadership in HPC, Big Data, and AI in Weather and Climate Prediction
Dr. Peter Bauer from ECMWF gave this talk at the HiPEAC's Computing Systems Week in Edinburgh. "Meeting the future requirements for forecast reliability and timeliness needs 100-1000 times bigger high-performance computing and data management resources than today – towards what’s generally called ‘exascale’. To meet these needs, the weather and climate prediction community is undergoing one of its biggest revolutions since its foundation in the early 20th century."The post European Leadership in HPC, Big Data, and AI in Weather and Climate Prediction appeared first on insideHPC.
Fujitsu to Showcase Fugaku Supercomputer and Human Centric AI at ISC 2019
Fujitsu will showcase their pending Fugaku Supercomputer and "the future of Artificial Intelligence" at ISC 2019 in Frankfurt next week. "Fugaku is the successor to the K supercomputer, jointly developed by RIKEN and Fujitsu. Named after Mount Fuji, Fugaku is designed to achieve top-level or peak application performance to solve a wide variety of social and scientific challenges."The post Fujitsu to Showcase Fugaku Supercomputer and Human Centric AI at ISC 2019 appeared first on insideHPC.
Video: Simulating Planet-Wide Bioenergy and Human Health on the Summit Supercomputer
In this video from PASC19 in Zurich, Dan Jacobson from ORNL describes how researchers are using the #1 Summit supercomputer to tackle the challenges facing an ever-growing human population. These planet-wide simulations could not even have been attempted before the advent of pre-exascale systems like Summit."We are using CoMet to investigate the genetic architectures underlying complex traits in applications from bioenergy to human clinical genomics."The post Video: Simulating Planet-Wide Bioenergy and Human Health on the Summit Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.
Decoupling EDA Toolchains from the OS with Singularity Containers
Singularity containers introduce a compelling means for unlocking the implied dependency between application toolchains and operating system. By encapsulating everything but the kernel in a single file, Singularity containers decouple the runtime and allow it to be highly portable in a trusted way.The post Decoupling EDA Toolchains from the OS with Singularity Containers appeared first on insideHPC.
Developing Next Generation Autonomous Vehicles using ‘AI on the Fly’
The quest to remove humans from behind the wheel with truly autonomous vehicles will drive billions of dollars in investment by car manufacturers and transportation service providers to develop and acquire the required technology. In this sponsored post from One Stop Systems, Tim Miller, Vice President of Strategic Development, explores how autonomous vehicles will change the transportation landscape, and the role AI has in this shift.The post Developing Next Generation Autonomous Vehicles using ‘AI on the Fly’ appeared first on insideHPC.
CoolIT Systems to Showcase Liquid Cooling Solutions at ISC 2019
CoolIT Systems is returning to Frankfurt for ISC 2019 next week with its latest Rack DLC solutions for HPC, Cloud and AI data centers and servers. "As the leading liquid cooling integration partner for OEM server manufacturers, CoolIT will showcase liquid-enabled servers from Intel, Dell EMC, Cray, Gigabyte and HPE. Combined with the broadest range of Coolant Distribution Units, CoolIT and their OEM partners are delivering the most complete and robust liquid cooling solutions to the HPC market."The post CoolIT Systems to Showcase Liquid Cooling Solutions at ISC 2019 appeared first on insideHPC.
European HPC Datacenters step up with Asperitas Immersive Cooling at ISC 2019
Immersed Computing solution provider Asperitas is partnering with HPC datacenters in Europe to provide liquid-cooled, high-density compute solutions. "The Immersed Computing technology developed by Asperitas offers benefits throughout the full datacenter value chain, from massive floorspace reduction, construction simplicity, practical no overhead energy up to high heat reuse potential. Asperitas is aiming to make use of the full potential of the technology with the HPC datacenter provider partnerships."The post European HPC Datacenters step up with Asperitas Immersive Cooling at ISC 2019 appeared first on insideHPC.
Boston Limited Joins Panasas Channel Partner Program
Today Panasas announced that Boston Limited has signed up to be a key distributor and integrator for the Panasas ActiveStor Ultra product line, providing installation, configuration and support services globally. “Boston has expansive lab facilities and experienced technical personnel across the globe, who will provide support and HPC expertise for our mutual value-add resellers in international markets.”The post Boston Limited Joins Panasas Channel Partner Program appeared first on insideHPC.
Agenda Posted: September HPC User Forum at Argonne
Hyperion Research has posted the Speaker Agenda for the HPC User Forum at Argonne. Registration is now open for the event, which takes place September 9-11 in Greater Chicago. "The HPC User Forum was established in 1999 to promote the health of the global HPC industry and address issues of common concern to users. The organization has grown to 150 members. It is directed by a volunteer Steering Committee of users from government, industry and academia, and operated for the users. We hold two full-membership meetings a year in the United States, and also hold two meetings annually in international locations."The post Agenda Posted: September HPC User Forum at Argonne appeared first on insideHPC.
Video: Readying Quantum Chromodynamics for Exascale
In this video, Fermilab scientist Andreas Kronfeld discusses the LatticeQCD project for Quantum Chromodynamics. As part of the Exascale Computing Project, LatticeQCD is increasing the precision of QCD calculations to understand the properties of quarks and gluons in the Standard Model of particle physics, a theory that clarifies the basic building blocks (or fundamental particles) of the universe and how they are related.The post Video: Readying Quantum Chromodynamics for Exascale appeared first on insideHPC.
Teams from Across the Globe to face off in the SC19 Student Cluster Competition
SC19 has published the roster for their upcoming Student Cluster Competition. In this non-stop, 48-hour showdown, student teams race to complete real scientific application workloads on small clusters they have designed and built. "This year’s competitors for the Student Cluster Competition showcase a mix of new and returning talent. From of a pool of 30 applicants, 13 teams were selected to compete."The post Teams from Across the Globe to face off in the SC19 Student Cluster Competition appeared first on insideHPC.
IBM Celebrates Women Leaders In AI
Today IBM announced a global listing of Women Leaders in AI. The list recognizes and celebrates women across a variety of industries and geographies for pioneering the use of AI to advance their companies in areas such as innovation, growth, and transformation. Artificial Intelligence is poised to drive dramatic advances in every industry,” said Michelle […]The post IBM Celebrates Women Leaders In AI appeared first on insideHPC.
New Paper: Practical Annealing-Based Quantum Computing
Researchers at D-Wave Systems have published a new paper on Practical Annealing-Based Quantum Computing. "According to the paper, quantum annealing is the viable way forward to connect quantum hardware to real-world applications. Providing annealing-based QPUs as part of a complete computing platform within a declarative paradigm has made this nascent technology accessible for many users who, in turn, are helping to drive this approach forward."The post New Paper: Practical Annealing-Based Quantum Computing appeared first on insideHPC.
The Convergence of HPC and AI Workloads Requires Flexibility and Performance
Finding the best solution to meet the requirements for intertwined HPC and AI workloads requires us tolook at the overall platform benefits versus the benefits of individual technologies. With exascale on the horizon, the blending of HPC and AI algorithms, and ever-increasing data sets, having an overall robust platform is more important than ever. Intel makes the case for HPC and AI to share a common platform.The post The Convergence of HPC and AI Workloads Requires Flexibility and Performance appeared first on insideHPC.
Univa Powers Intel Select Solutions for HPC & AI Converged Clusters
Today Univa announced that the company is participating in the Intel Select Solution for HPC and AI Converged Clusters. "By giving our customers a path to take this next step, Intel has likewise put a lot of work into developing a set of solutions that support pooling of individual workload-optimized clusters to create a uniform computing environment that can run cloud and HPC, AI and HPDA workloads 24/7."The post Univa Powers Intel Select Solutions for HPC & AI Converged Clusters appeared first on insideHPC.
High Performance Computing in the World of Artificial Intelligence
In this special guest feature, Thierry Pellegrino from Dell EMC writes that data analytics powered by HPC & AI solutions are delivering new insights for research and the enterprise. "HPC is clearly no longer reserved for large companies or research organizations. It is meant for those who want to achieve more innovation, discoveries, and the elusive competitive edge."The post High Performance Computing in the World of Artificial Intelligence appeared first on insideHPC.
Radio Free HPC Looks at the coming wave of 40+ Different AI Chips
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC Team asks, “What are we going to do with 40+ AI chips?” One such chip, Graphcore, is touted as “the most complex processor” ever at some 20 billion transistors. The VC-backed company out of Bristol, UK is also valued on paper at $1.7b, gaining it the coveted “unicorn” status, apparently the “only western semi-conductor unicorn.”The post Radio Free HPC Looks at the coming wave of 40+ Different AI Chips appeared first on insideHPC.
Supermicro steps up with NVIDIA EGX for AI on the Edge
Today Supermicro announced support for the NVIDIA EGX platform, allowing customers to rapidly develop AI applications in their Edge networks. "Enhancing our GPU servers and advanced platforms optimized for AI at the Edge technology with NVIDIA EGX and NGC provides a wide selection of optimized and efficient solutions for the intelligent Edge and for seamless integration from the Edge to the cloud.”The post Supermicro steps up with NVIDIA EGX for AI on the Edge appeared first on insideHPC.
Penguin Computing Breaks STAC-M3 Performance Records with WekaIO
Today Penguin Computing and WekaIO announced record performance on the STAC-M3 Benchmark. The STAC-M3 Antuco and Kanaga Benchmark Suites are the industry standard for testing solutions that enable high-speed analytics on time series data, such as tick-by-tick market data. "By combining Penguin Computing Relion servers and FrostByte Storage with the WekaIO File System, the companies have affirmed that this integrated solution is ideal for algorithmic trading and quantitative analysis workloads, common in financial services."The post Penguin Computing Breaks STAC-M3 Performance Records with WekaIO appeared first on insideHPC.
Nominations Open for Woman Leader in Technical Computing Award
Nominations are now open for the second biennial Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing Award. The award, which is presented in odd-numbered years at the annual SC conference, was launched to address the relative lack of awards for mid-career professionals in high performance and technical computing.The post Nominations Open for Woman Leader in Technical Computing Award appeared first on insideHPC.
Future MareNostrum 5 Supercomputer at BSC to host Made-in-Europe Technologies
Today the Barcelona Supercomputing Center announced plans to host EuroHPC processor technologies within its future Mare Norstrom 5 supercomputer. "Offering an heterogenous architecture, probably based on two big clusters with different characteristics, is BSC’s proposal to optimize both response times and energy use of the different works that the future supercomputer will have to compute. The details of this heterogenous architecture will be defined as the works of definition and the infrastructure tender progress."The post Future MareNostrum 5 Supercomputer at BSC to host Made-in-Europe Technologies appeared first on insideHPC.
Altair HyperWorks 2019 product development platform Speeds Time-to-Market
Today Altair released HyperWorks 2019, the latest version of its simulation- and AI-driven product development platform. "Our development focus for HyperWorks 2019 was to increase solve speed and functionality across our solutions for every stage of product development with optimization and multi-physics workflows for all manufacturing methods.”The post Altair HyperWorks 2019 product development platform Speeds Time-to-Market appeared first on insideHPC.
NEC Delivers HPC Cluster to RWTH Aachen University in Germany
Today NEC announced that RWTH Aachen University in Germany has started operations of a new HPC cluster. Called CLAIX-2018 the system augments the university's existing CLAIX-2016 installation. "RWTH Aachen is one of the most renowned universities in Germany, and this project is a lighthouse project not only for the HPC datacentre, but also for NEC," said Yuichi Kojima, Vice President HPC EMEA at NEC Deutschland.The post NEC Delivers HPC Cluster to RWTH Aachen University in Germany appeared first on insideHPC.
Simplifying NVIDIA GPU Driver Deployment on Red Hat Linux
Over at the NVIDIA blog, Pramod Ramarao writes that NVIDIA and Red Hat have worked closely to improve the user experience when installing and updating NVIDIA software on RHEL, including GPU drivers and CUDA. "The NVIDIA / Red Hat partnership continues to grow and there are many integration efforts across Red Hat’s and NVIDIA’s product portfolios on projects as diverse as video drivers, heterogeneous memory management (HMM), KVM support for virtual GPUs, and Kubernetes."The post Simplifying NVIDIA GPU Driver Deployment on Red Hat Linux appeared first on insideHPC.
RDMA, Scalable MPI-3 RMA, and Next-Generation Post-RDMA Interconnects
Torsten Hoefler from ETH Zurich gave this talk at the Swiss HPC Conference. "Network cards contain rather powerful processors optimized for data movement and limiting the functionality to remote direct memory access seems unnecessarily constraining. We develop sPIN, a portable programming model to offload simple packet processing functions to the network card."The post RDMA, Scalable MPI-3 RMA, and Next-Generation Post-RDMA Interconnects appeared first on insideHPC.
Report: Machine Learning Workloads Bolstering HPC Market
Intersect360 Research has completed its market sizing and new five-year forecast for the High Performance Computing industry. “AI workloads are sweeping through all types of enterprises and research, which is affecting both the HPC and Hyperscale markets. In HPC, we’re seeing not only a measurable affect on top-line budget expectations, but also different technology choices being made to accommodate machine learning workloads.”The post Report: Machine Learning Workloads Bolstering HPC Market appeared first on insideHPC.
Job of the Week: Systems Automation Engineer at PSC
The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center is seeking a Systems Automation Engineer in our Job of the Week. "In this role, you will primarily be responsible for developing and maintaining software tooling to enable scalable administration of a fleets of hosts (physical and virtual) for the variety of project-based resources PSC operates, with an eye toward migrating appropriate functionality to newer technologies including containers."The post Job of the Week: Systems Automation Engineer at PSC appeared first on insideHPC.
Video: LUMI Supercomputer at CSC to run on Sustainable Energy
Today CSC in Finland announced that its datacenter in Kajaani will host a pan-European high-performance supercomputer. The machine will be about ten times more powerful than the most powerful supercomputer currently in Europe. "The investment will make CSC's datacenter one of the world's largest players in the field of high-performance computing," said Kimmo Koski, Managing Director, CSC.The post Video: LUMI Supercomputer at CSC to run on Sustainable Energy appeared first on insideHPC.
NEXTGenIO Project Delivers Prototype to EPCC
The EPCC supercomputing centre at the University of Edinburgh has installed a prototype system developed by the NEXTGenIO project. Funded by the European Commission, NEXTGenIO is an R&D project tasked with developing solutions to high performance computing’s I/O and data challenges. "Our ongoing collaboration with NEXTGenIO allows us to develop solutions to speed up time-consuming I/O operations in HPC applications and workflows, leading to faster execution, less use of resources, and improved scalability,” said Trish Damkroger from Intel.The post NEXTGenIO Project Delivers Prototype to EPCC appeared first on insideHPC.
Cray to build Big Red 200 Supercomputer for Indiana University
Today Cray announced that Indiana University has selected a Cray Shasta supercomputing system to advance the use of AI across diverse research fields at the university. " We’ve entered an age where AI is poised to transform the future of many industries–from healthcare to cybersecurity–and we’re confident the latest technology from Cray will meet our needs for a computing infrastructure that will build on the promise of AI in Indiana.”The post Cray to build Big Red 200 Supercomputer for Indiana University appeared first on insideHPC.
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