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DOE powers Aluminum and Steelmaking Research through HPC4Manufacturing Program
Today the HPC4Manufacturing Program announced four federal funding awards for solving key manufacturing challenges in steelmaking and aluminum production through supercomputing. "Primary metals industries are significant energy users, so opportunities to reduce energy consumption in this area is of great interest to our sponsors,” said HPC4Manufacturing Director Robin Miles of LLNL. “Additionally, this program is helping U.S. steel makers produce the higher strength steels vital to light weighting the next generation of automobiles.”The post DOE powers Aluminum and Steelmaking Research through HPC4Manufacturing Program appeared first on insideHPC.
Scalable Machine Learning: The Role of Stratified Data Sharding
Srinivasan Parthasarathy from Ohio State University gave this talk at the Stanford HPC Conference. "With the increasing popularity of structured data stores, social networks and Web 2.0 and 3.0 applications, complex data formats, such as trees and graphs, are becoming ubiquitous. I will discuss a critical element at the heart of this challenge relates to the sharding, placement, storage and access of such tera- and peta- scale data."The post Scalable Machine Learning: The Role of Stratified Data Sharding appeared first on insideHPC.
Announcing Google’s New TPU Dev Board for Machine Learning on the Edge
Google just launched Coral, a Beta platform for building intelligent devices with local AI. To enable this initiative, Google is making an edge version of its TensorFlow Processing Unit available for sale for the first time. "Our first hardware components feature the new Edge TPU, a small ASIC designed by Google that provides high-performance ML inferencing for low-power devices. For example, it can execute state-of-the-art mobile vision models such as MobileNet V2 at 100+ fps, in a power efficient manner."The post Announcing Google’s New TPU Dev Board for Machine Learning on the Edge appeared first on insideHPC.
LANL Upgrades to D-Wave 2000Q Quantum Computer
Today D-Wave Systems announced that Los Alamos National Laboratory has upgraded their D-Wave quantum computer to the D-Wave 2000Q system. Los Alamos is investing in D-Wave quantum technology to expand its foundational quantum computing research, enabling exploration of new and diverse quantum computing applications. "We are pleased that the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration Advanced Simulation and Computing program funded the upgrade of the D-Wave system, allowing us to continue to explore quantum simulation and algorithms at larger scales,” said Irene Qualters, associate laboratory director for Simulation and Computation at Los Alamos National Laboratory. “D-Wave has been a valued strategic partner in Los Alamos’ pursuit of a new technology that is part of the expanding heterogeneous landscape of computing. Such strong partnerships aid the Laboratory and DOE in the development of the nation’s workforce for the future.”The post LANL Upgrades to D-Wave 2000Q Quantum Computer appeared first on insideHPC.
Optalysys launches FT:X 2000 – The world’s first commercial optical processing system
Today Optalysys announced the FT:X 2000, the world’s first optical co-processor system for Ai computing. "It is a really exciting time in optical computing," said Dr. Nick New, Optalysys CEO and Founder. “As we approach the commercial launch of our main optical co-processor systems, we are seeing a surge in interest in optical methods, which are needed to provide the next level of processing capability across multiple industry sectors. We are on the verge of an optical computing revolution and it’s fantastic to be leading the way.”The post Optalysys launches FT:X 2000 – The world’s first commercial optical processing system appeared first on insideHPC.
Accelerating Machine Learning on VMware vSphere with NVIDIA GPUs
Mohan Potheri from VMware gave this talk at Stanford HPC Conference. "This session introduces machine learning on vSphere to the attendee and explains when and why GPUs are important for them. Basic machine learning with Apache Spark is demonstrated. GPUs can be effectively shared in vSphere environments and the various methods of sharing are addressed here."The post Accelerating Machine Learning on VMware vSphere with NVIDIA GPUs appeared first on insideHPC.
NREL Chooses Qumulo’s File Storage for Eagle Supercomputer
Today ​Qumulo announced that the ​National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)​ has selected Qumulo’s file storage solution for its Computational Science Center. "With the impact of climate change, it's crucial for organizations such as NREL to adopt technologies that accelerate their research and outcomes. “With Qumulo’s incredibly scalable architecture and real-time file analytics, the NREL team can gain better insight into their data, and in turn focus more effectively on their mission to drive innovation in energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies.”The post NREL Chooses Qumulo’s File Storage for Eagle Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.
Video: Access the Future Today with Quantum Computing
Dr. Dario Gil gave this talk at the IBM Think conference. "For two years now, IBM has enabled more than 100,000 people around the globe to access quantum computers for learning, research, and tackling new problems. IBM’s Dario Gil will discuss this radically different approach to computing built on the laws of quantum mechanics and how the roadmap for mainstream adoption of this new technology is being forged today by IBM in collaboration with a global community across business, academia and research."The post Video: Access the Future Today with Quantum Computing appeared first on insideHPC.
ScaleMP teams with AMD for Scale-up EPYC Servers
Today ScaleMP announced that it has partnered with AMD to enable AMD server OEMs to create systems with 4, 8, and up to 128 processor sockets, up to 8,192 CPUs and 256 terabytes of shared memory. “Through this collaboration, ScaleMP enables AMD customers to create scale-up servers that will deliver breakthrough performance and help lower the TCO for organizations – enabling customers to use more of their budget for their applications and tackle the most demanding workloads while enjoying a broader choice of multi-socket servers.”The post ScaleMP teams with AMD for Scale-up EPYC Servers appeared first on insideHPC.
Mellanox Powers Massive HPC Cloud Service for DownUnder GeoSolutions
Today DownUnder GeoSolutions (DUG) announced that the company has chosen leading Ethernet supplier Mellanox Technologies to supercharge their massive exascale-focused HPC facility. "DUG’s ambitious cloud service, DUG McCloud, is tailored specifically to the geophysics community and is currently being built at Skybox Houston. Described as the world’s most powerful supercomputer, the facility will be 250 single-precision petaflops when fully installed. The vast, geophysically-configured machine, housed in a purpose-built exascale data centre, will have the power, room, and plans in hand to expand beyond an exaflop, as demand increases."The post Mellanox Powers Massive HPC Cloud Service for DownUnder GeoSolutions appeared first on insideHPC.
Interview: HPC User Forum in Santa Fe to look at Supercomputing Technology Trends
Hyperion Research will host the next HPC User Forum April 1-3 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Now in its 20th year, the HPC User Forum has grown to 150 members from government, industry, and academia. To learn more, insideHPC caught up with Steve Conway from Hyperion Research.The post Interview: HPC User Forum in Santa Fe to look at Supercomputing Technology Trends appeared first on insideHPC.
Agenda Posted for Dell EMC Community Event in Austin
The Dell EMC Community Meeting has published their preliminary speaker agenda. The event takes place March 25-27 in Austin, Texas. The Dell HPC Community is a worldwide technical forum that facilitates the exchange of ideas among researchers, computer scientists, executives, developers, and engineers and promotes the advancement of innovative, powerful HPC solutions. The vision of the […]The post Agenda Posted for Dell EMC Community Event in Austin appeared first on insideHPC.
Video: Why InfiniBand is the Way Forward for Ai and Exascale
In this video, Gilad Shainer from the InfiniBand Trade Association describes how InfiniBand offers the optimal interconnect technology for Ai, HPC, and Exascale. "Tthrough Ai, you need the biggest pipes in order to move those giant amount of data in order to create those Ai software algorithms. That's one thing. Latency is important because you need to drive things faster. RDMA is one of the key technology that enables to increase the efficiency of moving data, reducing CPU overhead. And by the way, now, there's all of the Ai frameworks that exist out there, supports RDMA as a default element within the framework itself."The post Video: Why InfiniBand is the Way Forward for Ai and Exascale appeared first on insideHPC.
Exploring Today’s AI Resources — A Portal to a Growing Sector
When Accenture Federal Services researched how current AI technologies could be used by the U.S. federal government, Accenture documented nearly 100 use cases for AI adoption. Artificial intelligence is making a difference to government right now. For more information on how to get involved in this important and growing sector, take advantage of the resources outlined in this excerpt from an insideHPC Guide.The post Exploring Today’s AI Resources — A Portal to a Growing Sector appeared first on insideHPC.
Call for Submissions: HPC Innovation Excellence Awards
Today Hyperion Research today invited members of the worldwide high performance computing community to submit entries for the next round of HPC Innovation Excellence Awards. "The program's main goals are to showcase scientific success stories and return on investment (ROI) successes involving HPC; to help other users better understand the benefits of adopting HPC and justify HPC investments; to demonstrate the value of HPC to funding bodies and politicians; and to expand public support for increased HPC investments."The post Call for Submissions: HPC Innovation Excellence Awards appeared first on insideHPC.
Podcast: The sinking of the Itanic, a respectful farewell
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC says goodbye to Intel’s Itanium processor. "After years of futility, Intel has finally put a stake in the heart of their Itanium processor. The final shipment will take place in 2021. The boys discuss some Itanium history and reasons behind the end of the processor."The post Podcast: The sinking of the Itanic, a respectful farewell appeared first on insideHPC.
XSEDE teams with Aristotle Cloud Federation to implement clouds on U.S. campuses
Two NSF-funded projects have joined forces to help university systems administrators implement cloud computing systems on their campuses. "Combining the consulting strengths of the XSEDE Cyberinfrastructure Resource Integration (CRI) group with Aristotle Cloud Federation project expertise in OpenStack cloud implementation is a win-win for U.S. campus cyberinfrastructure administrators interested in adding clouds to their campus research resources,” said John Towns, principal investigator and project director for XSEDE."The post XSEDE teams with Aristotle Cloud Federation to implement clouds on U.S. campuses appeared first on insideHPC.
A Look Ahead at Disruptive Technologies for HPC
In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Robert Roe looks at technology that could disrupt the HPC ecosystem. "As the HPC industry reaches the end of technology scaling based on Moore’s Law, system designers and hardware manufacturers must look towards more complex technologies that can replace the gains in performance provided by transistor scaling."The post A Look Ahead at Disruptive Technologies for HPC appeared first on insideHPC.
Alan D. George Named Interim Director of Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
Dr. Alan D. George has been named the interim director of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC). "Dr. George succeeds Nick Nystrom, PhD, who has served as interim director of the PSC since 2017. Dr. Nystrom will return full time to his position as senior director of research, where he will be able to focus his strengths on completing critical research proposals and ensuring the center’s continued collaboration with its partners, and on his research projects including the NSF-funded Bridges and NIH-funded HuBMAP projects."The post Alan D. George Named Interim Director of Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center appeared first on insideHPC.
How to Design Scalable HPC, Deep Learning and Cloud Middleware for Exascale Systems
DK Panda from Ohio State University gave this talk at the Stanford HPC Conference. "This talk will focus on challenges in designing HPC, Deep Learning, 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 taking into account support for multi-core systems (Xeon, OpenPower, and ARM), high-performance networks, GPGPUs (including GPUDirect RDMA), and energy-awareness."The post How to Design Scalable HPC, Deep Learning and Cloud Middleware for Exascale Systems appeared first on insideHPC.
Big Compute Podcast Looks at HPC in the Cloud for Academia
In this Big Compute podcast, host Gabriel Broner from Rescale interviews Marek Michalewicz about the challenges of HPC in the Cloud for Academia. "ICM UW is a leading data science facility in Central Europe. High performance computers used for processing, analysis, visualization and advanced computing tasks are our speciality. "At ICM UW, we are a highly qualified team of experts, equipped with modern high-performance data infrastructure. We provide optimized, comprehensive solutions for research, business and the public sector. Our goal is to understand data and provide innovative solutions to organizations and institutions, taking advantage of our data science expertise."The post Big Compute Podcast Looks at HPC in the Cloud for Academia appeared first on insideHPC.
Spack – A Package Manager for HPC
Todd Gamblin from LLNL gave this talk at the Stanford HPC Conference. "Spack is a package manager for cluster users, developers and administrators. Rapidly gaining popularity in the HPC community, like other HPC package managers, Spack was designed to build packages from source. This talk will introduce some of the open infrastructure for distributing packages, challenges to providing binaries for a large package ecosystem and what we're doing to address problems."The post Spack – A Package Manager for HPC appeared first on insideHPC.
NREL Report Looks at Aquila’s Cold Plate Cooling System for HPC
Liquid cooling has long been an enabling technology for high performance computing, but cost, complexity, and facility requirements continue to be concerns. Enter the Aquila Group, whose cold-plate technology looks to offer the advantages of liquid cooling with less risk. Based on a 10-month trial, a new paper gives an overview of the Aquarius fixed cold plate cooling technology and provides results from early energy performance evaluation testing.The post NREL Report Looks at Aquila’s Cold Plate Cooling System for HPC appeared first on insideHPC.
Job of the Week: Assistant Computational Scientist at Argonne
Argonne National Laboratory is seeking an Assistant Computational Scientist in our Job of the Week. "The Computational Scientist assists in the development and implementation of machine learning strategies for the development of new materials. Principal effort includes the identification of appropriate data science techniques for accelerating the development of materials, developing and validating software to perform these methods, and working with materials engineers to put the tools in to practice."The post Job of the Week: Assistant Computational Scientist at Argonne appeared first on insideHPC.
Call for Submissions: OpenMPCon and IWOMP 2019 in New Zealand
The OpenMP community has issued its Call for Submissions for OpenMPCon 2019 and IWOMP 2019. The events take place September 9-13 in Auckland, New Zealand. "OpenMPCon is the annual conference for OpenMP developers to discuss of all aspects of parallel programming with OpenMP. The International Workshop on OpenMP (IWOMP) is an annual workshop dedicated to the promotion and advancement of all aspects of parallel programming with OpenMP."The post Call for Submissions: OpenMPCon and IWOMP 2019 in New Zealand appeared first on insideHPC.
Simulation Driven Design at the Altair Technology Conference
In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Robert Roe reports on developments in multiphysics simulation at the Global Altair Technology Conference. "This year’s event focused on sharing applications of simulation-driven innovation from technology leaders and industry executives from all over the world, including keynotes from Ferrari, Jaguar Land Rover and Zaha Hadid Architects."The post Simulation Driven Design at the Altair Technology Conference appeared first on insideHPC.
Pioneering and Democratizing Scalable HPC+AI at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
Nick Nystrom from the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center gave this talk at the Stanford HPC Conference. "To address the demand for scalable AI, PSC recently introduced Bridges-AI, which adds transformative new AI capability. In this presentation, we share our vision in designing HPC+AI systems at PSC and highlight some of the exciting research breakthroughs they are enabling."The post Pioneering and Democratizing Scalable HPC+AI at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center appeared first on insideHPC.
Univa steps up with Support Services for Open Source Grid Engine Users
Today Univa announced that it will now provide support services to users in their open source community to assist them with installation, configuration and troubleshooting. Supported products include Open Source Grid Engine 6.2U5 and variants of Open Grid Scheduler and Son of Grid Engine (SGE) 8.1.9. "The Open Source Grid Engine community is comprised of an active and diverse group of people committed to helping each other succeed and is integral to Univa’s success as a company,” said Gary Tyreman, president and CEO of Univa. “Grid Engine has been deployed thousands of times in business critical clusters. We want to ensure this community of active users has access to the support services they need to give them the peace-of-mind to continue using open source software without the need to upgrade critical systems.”The post Univa steps up with Support Services for Open Source Grid Engine Users appeared first on insideHPC.
Siemens Simcenter comes to Rescale ScaleX Platform for HPC in the Cloud
Today Rescale announced a strategic collaboration with Siemens PLM Software. Siemens PLM Software has partnered with Rescale to enable SaaS delivery of Siemens’ Simcenter portfolio on Rescale’s ScaleX platform. "Leveraging cloud infrastructure and flexible licensing models allows customers to explore their digital twin like never before, and Siemens’ cloud strategy is a key enabler for their customers to get faster time to results and iterate more quickly on designs,” says Joris Poort, Founder and CEO of Rescale.The post Siemens Simcenter comes to Rescale ScaleX Platform for HPC in the Cloud appeared first on insideHPC.
ClimateNet Looks to Machine Learning for Global Climate Science
Pattern recognition tasks such as classification, localization, object detection and segmentation have remained challenging problems in the weather and climate sciences. Now, a team at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is developing ClimateNet, a project that will bring the power of deep learning methods to identify important weather and climate patterns via expert-labeled, community-sourced open datasets and architectures.The post ClimateNet Looks to Machine Learning for Global Climate Science appeared first on insideHPC.
Making Computer Vision Real Today – For Any Application
With the demand for intelligent vision solutions increasing everywhere from edge to cloud, enterprises of every type are demanding visually-enabled – and intelligent – applications. Up till now, most intelligent computer vision applications have required a wealth of machine learning, deep learning, and data science knowledge to enable simple object recognition, much less facial recognition or collision avoidance. That’s changed with the introduction of Intel’s Distribution of OpenVINO toolkit.The post Making Computer Vision Real Today – For Any Application appeared first on insideHPC.
John Shalf and Thomas Sterling to Keynote ISC 2019 in Frankfurt
Today ISC 2019 announced that its lineup of keynote speakers will include John Shalf from LBNL and Thomas Sterling from Indiana University. The event takes place June 16-20 in Frankfurt, Germany. "On June 18, John Shalf, from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will offer his thoughts on how the slowdown and eventual demise of Moore’s Law will affect the prospects for high performance computing in the next decade. On June 19, Thomas Sterling will present his annual retrospective of the most important developments in HPC over the last 12 months."The post John Shalf and Thomas Sterling to Keynote ISC 2019 in Frankfurt appeared first on insideHPC.
Singularity 3.1.0 brings in Full OCI Compliance
Today Sylabs announced that Singularity 3.1.0 is now generally available. With this release, Singularity is fully compliant with standards established by the Open Containers Initiative (OCI), and benefits from enhanced management of cached images. Open source based Singularity continues to systematically incorporate code-level changes specific to the Darwin operating environment, as it progresses towards support for macOS platforms. These, and […]The post Singularity 3.1.0 brings in Full OCI Compliance appeared first on insideHPC.
NSF funds second round for OSC’s Open OnDemand
The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded funding to a team led by the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) for further development of Open OnDemand, an open-source software platform supporting web-based access to high performance computing services. "The Open OnDemand 2.0 project will deliver an improved open-source platform for HPC, cloud and remote computing access,” said David Hudak, Ph.D., executive director of OSC. “Additionally, interaction with a growing user base has generated requests for new technical capabilities and more engagements with the science community to extend this platform and deepen its science impact.”The post NSF funds second round for OSC’s Open OnDemand appeared first on insideHPC.
IonQ Performs First Quantum Simulation of a Water Molecule
Today IonQ announced that its quantum computer has achieved a critical milestone: simulating the water molecule with accuracy approaching what is needed for practical applications in the promising field of computational chemistry. "A manuscript released today describes how IonQ scientists calculated the energy of the water molecule in its lowest or natural state. The results from IonQ’s machine approached the precision a computer model would need to make an accurate chemical prediction, known as chemical accuracy."The post IonQ Performs First Quantum Simulation of a Water Molecule appeared first on insideHPC.
Video: Sierra – Science Unleashed
Rob Neely from LLNL gave this talk at the Stanford HPC Conference. "This talk will give an overview of the Sierra supercomputer and some of the early science results it has enabled. Sierra is an IBM system harnessing the power of over 17,000 NVIDIA Volta GPUs recently deployed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and is currently ranked as the #2 system on the Top500. Before being turned over for use in the classified mission, Sierra spent months in an “open science campaign” where we got an early glimpse at some of the truly game-changing science this system will unleash – selected results of which will be presented."The post Video: Sierra – Science Unleashed appeared first on insideHPC.
D-Wave previews Next-Gen Quantum Computing Platform
Today D-Wave Systems released a preview of its next-generation quantum computing platform incorporating hardware, software and tools to accelerate and ease the delivery of quantum computing applications. "Quantum computing is only as valuable as the applications customers can run,” said Alan Baratz, chief product officer, D-Wave. “With the next-generation platform, we are making investments in things like connectivity and hybrid software and tools to allow customers to solve even more complex problems at greater scale, bringing new emerging quantum applications to life."The post D-Wave previews Next-Gen Quantum Computing Platform appeared first on insideHPC.
Intel High-Performance Python Extends to Machine Learning and Data Analytics
One of the big surprises of the past few years has been the spectacular rise in the use of Python* in high-performance computing applications. With the latest releases of Intel® Distribution for Python, included in Intel® Parallel Studio XE 2019, the numerical and scientific computing capabilities of high-performance Python now extends to machine learning and data analytics.The post Intel High-Performance Python Extends to Machine Learning and Data Analytics appeared first on insideHPC.
Tachyum Joins Open Euro HPC Project
Today Tachyum announced its participation and support for the Open Euro High Performance Computing Project (OEUHPC). "Tachyum is supporting the OEUHPC Project due to its ability to satisfy the need for both scalable and converged computing, which, in part, will ultimately enable users to cost effectively simulate, in real-time, human brain-sized Neural Networks. Tachyum has been working to develop its ultra-low power Prodigy Universal Processor Chip to allow system integrators to build a 32 Tensor ExaFLOPS AI supercomputer in 2020, well ahead of the scheduled EU goal to achieve 1 ExaFLOPS in 2028."The post Tachyum Joins Open Euro HPC Project appeared first on insideHPC.
Nominations Open for 2019 PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC
Nominations are now open for the PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC. The award honors excellence in computational science by early-career women in Europe. "The winner of the Award will be invited to speak at PRACEdays19 and will receive a cash prize of €1,000 as well as a certificate and an engraved crystal trophy."The post Nominations Open for 2019 PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC appeared first on insideHPC.
Big Compute Podcast Looks at New Architectures for HPC
In this Big Compute podcast, host Gabriel Broner from Rescale interviews Mike Woodacre, HPE Fellow, to discuss the shift from CPUs to an emerging diversity of architectures. They discuss the evolution of CPUs, the advent of GPUs with increasing data parallelism, memory driven computing, and the potential benefits of a cloud environment with access to multiple architectures.The post Big Compute Podcast Looks at New Architectures for HPC appeared first on insideHPC.
Augmenting & Automating Operations in Government
The Air Force’s top training official said it is moving toward a new “paradigm” for how it teaches airmen to fly airplanes. A new special report from insideHPC, courtesy of Dell EMC and NIVIDA, explores current machine learning applications in government. This excerpt covers recent research on the potential of AI technology in the U.S. Federal government, as well as how government AI is being used in U.S.Air Force pilot training strategies.The post Augmenting & Automating Operations in Government appeared first on insideHPC.
NERSC Hosts GPU Hackathon in Preparation for Perlmutter Supercomputer
NERSC recently hosted a successful GPU Hackathon event in preparation for their next-generation Perlmutter supercomputer. Perlmutter, a pre-exascale Cray Shasta system slated to be delivered in 2020, will feature a number of new hardware and software innovations and is the first supercomputing system designed with both data analysis and simulations in mind. Unlike previous NERSC systems, Perlmutter will use a combination of nodes with only CPUs, as well as nodes featuring both CPUs and GPUs.The post NERSC Hosts GPU Hackathon in Preparation for Perlmutter Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.
Univa Powers Million-core Cluster on AWS for Western Digital
Today Univa announced that Western Digital is using the company's Navops Launch and Univa Grid Engine cloud software for large-scale deployments on AWS. "This successful collaboration with Univa and AWS shows the extreme scale, power and agility of cloud-based HPC to help us run complex simulations for future storage architecture analysis and materials science explorations. Using AWS to easily shrink simulation time from 20 days to 8 hours allows Western Digital R&D teams to explore new designs and innovations at a pace un-imaginable just a short time ago."The post Univa Powers Million-core Cluster on AWS for Western Digital appeared first on insideHPC.
Innovative Use of HPC in the Cloud for AI, CFD, & LifeScience
Ebru Taylak from the UberCloud gave this talk at the Stanford HPC Conference. "A scalable platform such as the cloud, provides more accurate results, while reducing solution times. In this presentation, we will demonstrate recent examples of innovative use cases of HPC in the Cloud, such as, “Personalized Non-invasive Clinical Treatment of Schizophrenia and Parkinson’s” and “Deep Learning for Steady State Fluid Flow Prediction”. We will explore the challenges for the specific problems, demonstrate how HPC in the Cloud helped overcome these challenges, look at the benefits, and share the learnings."The post Innovative Use of HPC in the Cloud for AI, CFD, & LifeScience appeared first on insideHPC.
Now Shipping: Mellanox HDR 200G InfiniBand Solutions for Accelerating HPC & Ai
Today Mellanox announced that its 200 Gigabit HDR InfiniBand solutions are now shipping worldwide to deliver leading efficiency and scalability to HPC, Ai, cloud, storage and other data intensive applications. "The world-wide strategic race to Exascale supercomputing, the exponential growth in data we collect and need to analyze, and the new performance levels needed to support new scientific investigations and innovative product designs, all require the fastest and most advanced HDR InfiniBand interconnect technology. HDR InfiniBand solutions enable breakthrough performance levels and deliver the highest return on investment, enabling the next generation of the world’s leading supercomputers, hyperscale, Artificial Intelligence, cloud and enterprise datacenters.”The post Now Shipping: Mellanox HDR 200G InfiniBand Solutions for Accelerating HPC & Ai appeared first on insideHPC.
The Best Software-Defined Network for the Best Network Efficiency (or Getting Ready for Exascale)
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is a concept that has emerged in recent years to decouple network control and forwarding functions. The one network type that does not require special effort to adjust it to the computational needs of high-performance computing, deep learning or any other data intensive application is InfiniBand. In this guest article, Mellanox Technologies' Gilad Shainer and Eitan Zahavi explore Infiniband networks and the benefits and potential of software-defined networking.The post The Best Software-Defined Network for the Best Network Efficiency (or Getting Ready for Exascale) appeared first on insideHPC.
Video: The State of Quantum Computing in 2019
In this video from the IBM Think conference, Anthony J. Annunziata leads a panel discussion on the State of Quantum Computing in 2019. "Since launching the world's first quantum cloud service in 2016, IBM has been at the forefront of advancing the quantum industry and making this exciting technology accessible to organizations worldwide. Get a firsthand update from two of IBM's quantum executives on how this area is rapidly moving forward and what's next on the horizon."The post Video: The State of Quantum Computing in 2019 appeared first on insideHPC.
Podcast: How Intel powers Dell EMC Ready Solutions for Ai
In this Intel podcast, Adnan Khaleel describes how Dell EMC is making enterprise AI implementation fast and easy with its Dell EMC Ready Solutions for AI. Adnan also illustrates how Dell EMC Ready Solutions are well suited for many different industries including financial services, insurance, pharmaceuticals and many more.The post Podcast: How Intel powers Dell EMC Ready Solutions for Ai appeared first on insideHPC.
Architecting the Right System for Your AI Application—without the Vendor Fluff
Brett Newman from Microway gave this talk at the Stanford HPC Conference. "Figuring out how to map your dataset or algorithm to the optimal hardware design is one of the hardest tasks in HPC. We’ll review what helps steer the selection of one system architecture from another for AI applications. Plus the right questions to ask of your collaborators—and a hardware vendor. Honest technical advice, no fluff."The post Architecting the Right System for Your AI Application—without the Vendor Fluff appeared first on insideHPC.
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