by Rich Brueckner on (#47RRW)
In this video from Arm HPC Asia 2019, Fu Li from Quantum Cloud presents: Scale out AI Training on Massive Core System from HPC to Fabric based SOC. "The purpose of these workshops has been to bring together the leading Arm vendors, end users and open source development community to discuss the latest products, developments and open source software support in HPC on Arm."The post Video: Scale-out AI Training on Massive Core Systems from HPC to Fabric-based SOC appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#47RJX)
Queen Mary University of London is leading a major new research project, ‘Living with Machines,’ which is set to be one of the biggest and most ambitious humanities and science research initiatives ever to launch in the UK. ‘Living with Machines’ is a major five-year inter-disciplinary research project with The Alan Turing Institute and the British Library and has been awarded £9.2 million from the UK Research and Innovation’s Strategic Priorities Fund. It will use artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze historical sources.The post Queen Mary University to Drive AI Analysis of History appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#47REB)
In this video from the Intel User Forum at SC18, Dr. Sofia Vallecorsa from CERN openlab presents: Fast Simulation with Generative Adversarial Networks. "This talk presents an approach based on generative adversarial networks (GANs) to train them over multiple nodes using TensorFlow deep learning framework with Uber Engineering Horovod communication library. Preliminary results on scaling of training time demonstrate how HPC centers could be used to globally optimize AI-based models to meet a growing community need."The post Fast Simulation with Generative Adversarial Networks appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#47P75)
Ayar Labs is leveraging its recent Series A funding to bring optical interconnect silicon to the Cloud, HPC, and Telecommunication markets. "We’re seeing significant industry interest in optical chip-to-chip connectivity-- based on our assessments, the Total Addressable Market for inter-chip optical interconnect is 4x the optical transceiver market,†said Charlie Wuischpard, CEO of Ayar Labs."The post Ayar Labs Readies Optical Interconnect Silicon to Meet Industry Demand appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#47P76)
The Nikhef National Institutee for Subatomic Physics in Amsterdam has expanded its data center with a cluster of powerful Dell EMC PowerEdge R6415 servers powered by the AMD EPYC processor. "It is a continuous challenge to optimize the CPU and the system design of the servers in our datacenter. This is why we are always looking for the most efficient computing power with the best ratio of performance and budget. The innovative design of the Dell EMC PowerEdge R6415 servers with the AMD EPYC processor fits perfectly with our needs."The post Dell EMC Powers Powers Physics at Nikhef with AMD EPYC Servers appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#47P1K)
For the second year, Lenovo, the largest worldwide provider of supercomputers, and Intel, a leader in the semiconductor industry, co-sponsored the University Artificial Intelligence Challenge, which aims to recognize outstanding university-based AI researchers for their achievements in the field. The company started this program in 2017, with the goal of encouraging AI research in universities world-wide. "Eight researchers from universities in North America, Europe, and Asia were selected as award winners, seven of them made it to SC18 and presented their findings in the Lenovo booth."The post Video: Lenovo & Intel Give Platform to University AI Researchers appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Richard Friedman on (#47GTZ)
The Intel Distribution for Python takes advantage of the Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions (Intel® AVX) and multiple cores in the latest Intel architectures. By utilizing the highly optimized Intel MKL BLAS and LAPACK routines, key functions run up to 200 times faster on servers and 10 times faster on desktop systems. This means that existing Python applications will perform significantly better merely by switching to the Intel distribution.The post Accelerated Python for Data Science appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#47KM6)
The American University of Sharjah is seeking an HPC System Administrator position commencing in the Fall 2019 semester at the latest. "AUS is seeking a highly motivated individual with proven experience in managing software and hardware HPC installations for research applications, with emphasis on utilizing open source tools and platform. The qualified candidate is expected to coordinate with AUS IT for integrating the newly acquired HPC cluster with the existing infrastructure. They should ensure HPC environment stability and manage and support new technology at both hardware and software level."The post Job of the Week: HPC System Administrator at the American University of Sharjah appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#47KA3)
ORNL has issued its Call for Proposals for a set of global GPU Hackathons in 2019. "A GPU hackathon is a 5-day coding event in which teams of developers port their applications to run on GPUs, or optimize their applications that already run on GPUs. Each team consists of three or more developers who are intimately familiar with (some part of) their application, and they work alongside two mentors with GPU programming expertise. The mentors come from universities, national laboratories, supercomputing centers, government institutions, and vendors."The post Call For Proposals: Worldwide GPU Hackathons in 2019 appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#47KA4)
In this special guest feature, Joe Landman from Scalability.org looks at technology trends that are driving High Performance Computing. "HPC has been moving relentlessly downmarket. Each wave of its motion has a destructive impact upon the old order, and opens up the market wider to more people. All the while growing the market."The post Reflections on HPC Past, Present, and Future appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#47HAG)
Researchers are looking to HPC to help engineer cost-effective carbon capture and storage technologies for tomorrow's power plants. "By combining new algorithmic approaches and a new software infrastructure, MFiX-Exa will leverage future exascale machines to optimize CLRs. Exascale will provide 50 times more computational science and data analytic application power than is possible with DOE high-performance computing systems such as Titan at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) and Sequoia at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory."The post Supercomputing Cleaner Power Plants appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#47H5K)
Over at the XSEDE blog, Kim Bruch from SDSC writes that an international team of researchers is using supercomputers to shed new light on how and why a particular type of sea fog forms. Through for simulation, they hope to provide more accurate fog predictions that help reduce the number of maritime mishaps. "The researchers have been using the Comet supercomputer based at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego. To-date, the team has used about 2 million core hours."The post Supercomputing Sea Fog Development to Prevent Maritime Disasters appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#47GZY)
HPE is building a new Ai supercomputer for GENCI in France. Called Jean Zay, the 14 Petaflop system is part of an artificial intelligence initiative called for by President Macron to bolster the nation's scientific and economic growth. "At Hewlett Packard Enterprise, we continue to fuel the next frontier and unlock discoveries with our end-to-end HPC and AI offerings that hold a strong presence in France and have been further strengthened just in the past couple of years."The post France to Double Supercomputing Capacity with Jean Zay Ai System from HPE appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#47ERH)
Last week, Canadian liquid cooling vendor CoolIT Systems announced that the company has partnered with Vistara Capital Partners as the company expands production capacity to service new and existing global data center customers. "With our order backlog expanding by 400% in the last year, access to additional capital is critical for continued success,†said CoolIT Systems CFO, Peter Calverley. “With the creative financing package provided by Vistara the financial foundation is in place for 2019 to be another year of significant growth in data center liquid cooling sales for CoolIT.â€The post As Liquid Cooling Gets Hot, CoolIT Systems Secures Round of Funding appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#47ERJ)
Students and Young Researchers are encouraged to apply for the ISC Travel Grant program. It's a great way for HPC folks to get to the ISC High Performance conference, which takes place June 16-20 in Frankfurt, Germany. "As an added bonus, Dr. Julian Kunkel, of University of Reading, will mentor the selected grant recipients helping them get the most out of the conference by suggesting relevant program sessions and introducing them to experts in their research field."The post Apply Now for the ISC 2019 Travel Grant appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#47ERM)
Oracle just announced the opening of a Toronto data center to support in regional customer demand for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. "Oracle’s next-generation cloud infrastructure offers the most flexibility in the public cloud, allowing companies to run traditional and cloud-native workloads on the same platform. With Oracle’s modern cloud regions, only Oracle can deliver the industry’s broadest, deepest, and fastest growing suite of cloud applications, Oracle Autonomous Database, and new services in security, Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence, all running on its enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure."The post Oracle Expands Cloud Business with Next-Gen Data Center in Canada appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#47EKF)
"Today, the possibilities of an interconnected, heterogeneous and intelligent world are only just beginning to make themselves known. This stunning advancement in digital technology was made possible by ever-increasing performance at ever lower costs. However, physical limits mean we won’t be able to keep shrinking computing components while increasing performance for much longer. So where do we go from here? What are the main challenges and conditions for future developments, and where? The HiPEAC Vision 2019 explores all these questions, and more."The post HiPEAC Vision 2019 Looks to the Future of Computing appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#47CMR)
In this video from SC18 in Dallas, CJ Newburn from NVIDIA describes how developers can quickly containerize their applications and how users can benefit from running their workloads with containers from the NVIDIA GPU Cloud. "A container essentially creates a self contained environment. Your application lives in that container along with everything the application depends on, so the whole bundle is self contained.â€The post Video: HPC Containers – Democratizing HPC appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#47CMT)
Today, Bright Computing announced that Bechtle France has won a contract to be the sole distributor of Bright Computing's products and solutions to Groupe Logiciel’s academic and research institutions across France. "I'm excited that, together with our valued partner, Bechtle France, Bright Computing has signed an agreement to deliver our industry- leading HPC, Cloud and Data Science technologies to Groupe Logiciel," said Lee Carter, VP Alliances at Bright Computing. "Our goal at Bright Computing is to offer the best cluster management solutions on the planet. With a strong and loyal customer base that stretches across all geographies and industry sectors, our software empowers organizations to push the boundaries of HPC, Cloud, Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence.â€The post Bright Computing Powers HPC at Groupe Logiciel appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#47B3Q)
In this video from the European R Users Meeting, Henrik Bengtsson from the University of California San Francisco presents: A Future for R: Parallel and Distributed Processing in R for Everyone. "The future package is a powerful and elegant cross-platform framework for orchestrating asynchronous computations in R. It's ideal for working with computations that take a long time to complete; that would benefit from using distributed, parallel frameworks to make them complete faster; and that you'd rather not have locking up your interactive R session."The post A Future for R: Parallel and Distributed Processing in R for Everyone appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#47B0W)
D.E. Shaw Research is seeking an HPC System Administrator in our Job of the Week. "Exceptional sysadmins sought to manage systems, storage, and network infrastructure for a New York–based interdisciplinary research group. Successful hires will be responsible for our servers and cluster environments. Our research effort is aimed at achieving major scientific advances in the field of biochemistry and fundamentally transforming the process of drug discovery."The post Job of the Week: System Administrator at D.E. Shaw Research appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#479NX)
Today, the U.S. Department of Energy announced plans to provide $45 million for new research in chemical and materials sciences aimed at advancing the important emerging field of Quantum Information Science (QIS). "QIS will play a major role in shaping the future of computing and a range of other vitally important technologies,†said DOE Under Secretary of Science Paul Dabbar. This initiative ensures that America will remain on the cutting edge of the chemical and materials science breakthroughs that will form the basis for future QIS systems.â€The post DOE to Provide $45 Million for Materials Research in Quantum Information Science appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#4792V)
In this video from DDN booth at SC18, Thomas Anthony from the University of Alabama presents: Computing - Accelerating Science & Impacting the Real World. "As the cornerstone service of ASA's charter, we provide High Performance Computing services free of charge to faculty, staff, and enrolled students of public schools, colleges, and universities in Alabama. This allows universities to create a trained workforce with the skills needed for jobs in engineering, science, mathematics, aerospace, and medical research fields."The post Video: Accelerating Science & Impacting the Real World appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#478Y5)
Today the Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC) organization announced that Intel Corporation has become its first Corporate Champion. "Women represent less than 15% of the HPC sector; it is essential that we continue to work at the grassroots level and globally to grow the HPC talent pool and benefit from the diversity of talented women and other under-represented groups. With support from Intel, we can begin focusing on global programs and initiatives that can accelerate our goals and amplify our impact.â€The post Intel becomes First Corporate Champion for Women in HPC appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#478Y6)
In this special guest feature, SC19 General Chair Michela Taufer catches up with Sunita and Jack Dongarra to discuss the way forward for the November conference in Denver. "By augmenting our models and our ability to do simulation, HPC enables us to understand and do things so much faster than we could in the past – and it will only get better in the future."The post Interview: HPC Thought Leaders Looking Forward to SC19 in Denver appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#4767M)
At SC18 in Dallas, I had a chance to catch up with Gary Grider from LANL. "So we're forming a consortium to chase efficient computing. We see many of the HPC sites today seem to be headed down the path of buying machines that work really well with very dense linear algebra problems. The problem is: hardcore simulation can often not be a great fit on machines built for high Linpack numbers."The post Interview: Gary Grider from LANL on the new Efficient Mission-Centric Computing Consortium appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#4767N)
With recent advances, high-performance thermoplastic now offers performance that rivals, and in some cases, surpasses their metal counterparts. Design engineers have to take several factors into consideration when trying to choose between metal or plastic quick disconnects. This guest article from CPC takes a look at the differences between metal and plastic liquid cooling connectors, and the benefits and challenges to each.The post Metal or Plastic Liquid Cooling Connectors? What You Should Consider appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#4745Z)
Penguin Computing has deployed a new HPC cluster at the University of Delaware. The Caviness cluster is named in honor of Jane Caviness, former director of Academic Computing Services at the University. "It is great to have our new cluster be named after Jane Caviness, who has played a very important role in establishing high performance computing at University of Delaware."The post Penguin Computing builds Caviness Cluster for Machine Learning at the University of Delaware appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#4740Q)
GlobusWorld 2019 has issued its Call for Presentations. The event takes place May 1-2 in Chicago. The event centers around Globus, a secure, reliable research data management service that enables researchers to move, share, publish & discover data via a single interface. "We're seeking Globus users, managers and providers to present "lightning talks" at GlobusWorld 2019. Presenters will include research computing leaders, system administrators, and others who use Globus at universities, national supercomputing centers, and other research facilities."The post Call for Presentations: GlobusWorld 2019 in Chicago appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#4740S)
The battle against cancer is now being fought at the data level. A new Ai Startup called PAIGE hopes to revolutionize clinical diagnosis and treatment in pathology and oncology through the use of artificial intelligence. "Through its partnership with Igneous, PAIGE will be able to securely and efficiently manage 8 petabytes of unstructured data, including anonymized tumor scan images and clinical notes, as part of an integrated machine learning-based healthcare AI workflow anchored by an industry-leading Pure Storage FlashBlade and NVIDIA GPU compute cluster."The post NVIDIA and Pure Storage Power Ai for Oncology with PAIGE appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#473W0)
Today the Google Cloud announced Public Beta availability of NVIDIA T4 GPUs for Machine Learning workloads. Starting today, NVIDIA T4 GPU instances are available in the U.S. and Europe as well as several other regions across the globe, including Brazil, India, Japan and Singapore. “The T4 is the best GPU in our product portfolio for running inference workloads. Its high-performance characteristics for FP16, INT8, and INT4 allow you to run high-scale inference with flexible accuracy/performance tradeoffs that are not available on any other accelerator.â€The post NVIDIA T4 GPUs Come to Google Cloud for High Speed Machine Learning appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#473QF)
In this video from SC18, Dr. Daniel Reed moderates a panel discussion entitled: “If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it†-- Software Improvements from Power/Energy Measurement Capabilities." "We have made major gains in improving the energy efficiency of the facility as well as computing hardware, but there are still large gains to be had with software- particularly application software. Just tuning code for performance isn’t enough; the same time to solution can have very different power profiles."The post Dan Reed Panel on Energy Efficient Computing at SC18 appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#471GN)
The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe has published a new report: PRACE in the EuroHPC Era. PRACE is an international non-profit association with its seat in Brussels. "The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking will advance the European supercomputer landscape by completing the infrastructure pyramid at the top level with European leadership-class supercomputers. In a context of a strong international competition with USA, China and Japan, this development is highly expected by all stakeholders of HPC in Europe. For the European HPC users from science and industry, i.e. industrials and SMEs, the seamless integration of these new top-level systems and services into the existing European HPC-ecosystem is an issue of paramount importance."The post New Report: PRACE in the EuroHPC Era appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#471GQ)
Today Quobyte announced a partnership with EUROstor to expand the reach of its next-generation file system throughout the German, Austrian and Swiss marketplace to customers seeking scale-out NAS solutions for enterprise application workloads. "With scale-out NAS solutions becoming increasingly important within our market, Quobyte is an exciting expansion of our storage product portfolio,†said Wolfgang Bauer, technical director of EUROstor. “With Quobyte’s flexibility, scalability and high performance, we can easily deliver storage solutions that are purpose-built to satisfy our customers’ needs. We trust there are a lot more interesting projects to come.â€The post Quobyte Partners with EUROstor to Deliver Scale-Out NAS Solutions appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#471BT)
In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Robert Roe reports on new technology and 30 years of the US supercomputing conference at SC18 in Dallas. "From our volunteers to our exhibitors to our students and attendees – SC18 was inspirational," said SC18 general chair Ralph McEldowney. "Whether it was in technical sessions or on the exhibit floor, SC18 inspired people with the best in research, technology, and information sharing."The post Looking Back at SC18 and the Road Ahead to Exascale appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#46Z4H)
The upcoming Rice University Oil and Gas HPC Conference will focus on the computational challenges and needs in the Energy industry. The event takes place March 4-6, 2019 in Houston. "High-end computing and information technology continues to stand out across the industry as a critical business enabler and differentiator with a relatively well understood return on investment. However, challenges such as constantly changing technology landscape, increasing focus on software and software innovation, and escalating concerns around workforce development still remain. The agenda for the conference includes invited keynote and plenary speakers, parallel sessions made up of at least four presentations each and a student poster session."The post Industry Leaders prepare for Rice University Oil and Gas Conference in March appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#46YYS)
In this video, Jay Kruemcke from SUSE talks presents: Five Things to Know About SLE HPC. "SUSE Linux Enterprise for High Performance Computing provides a parallel computing platform for high performance data analytics workloads such as artificial intelligence and machine learning. Fueled by the need for more compute power and scale, businesses around the world today are recognizing that a high performance computing infrastructure is vital to supporting the analytics applications of tomorrow."The post Video: Five Things to Know About SUSE Linux Enterprise for HPC appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#46YYV)
Scientists and Engineers at Berkeley Lab are busy preparing for Exascale supercomputing this week at the ECP Annual Meeting in Houston. With a full agenda running five days, LBL researchers will contribute Two Plenaries, Five Tutorials, 15 Breakouts and 20 Posters. "Sponsored by the Exascale Computing Project, the ECP Annual Meeting centers around the many technical accomplishments of our talented research teams, while providing a collaborative working forum that includes featured speakers, workshops, tutorials, and numerous planning and co-design meetings in support of integrated project understanding, team building and continued progress."The post Researchers Gear Up for Exascale at ECP Meeting in Houston appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#46YYX)
In this video, Bill Jenkins from Intel presents and introduction to High Performance Computing. "This online training will provide a high-level introduction to high performance computing, the problem it solves and the vertical markets it solves it in. Rather than focusing on the step by step, this training will educate into the concepts and resources available to perform the data analytics process and even also discuss where accelerators can be used."The post An Introduction to High Performance Computing appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#46X5E)
On January 7, the U.S. Department of Energy announced plans to award 189 grants totaling $33 million to 149 small businesses in 32 states. Funded through DOE’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs, today’s selections are for Phase I research and development. "Small businesses play a major role in spurring innovation and creating jobs in the U.S. economy. The SBIR and STTR programs were created by Congress to leverage small businesses to advance innovation at federal agencies."The post Want Room-temperature Quantum Memories? DOE Awards Small Business Research and Development Grants appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#46X5F)
Computational scientists are invited to apply for the upcoming Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC) this Summer. "This program provides intensive hands-on training on the key skills, approaches, and tools to design, implement, and execute computational science and engineering applications on current supercomputers and the HPC systems of the future. As a bridge to that future, this two-week program fills many gaps that exist in the training computational scientists typically receive through formal education or other shorter courses."The post Apply Now for 2019 Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#46VF9)
In this video from DDN booth at SC18, John Bent from DDN presents: IME - Unlocking the Potential of NVMe. "DDN’s Infinite Memory Engine (IME) is a scale-out, software-defined, flash storage platform that streamlines the data path for application I/O. IME interfaces directly to applications and secures I/O via a data path that eliminates file system bottlenecks. With IME, architects can realize true flash-cache economics with a storage architecture that separates capacity from performance."The post The Infinite Memory Engine – Unlocking the Potential of NVMe appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#46VCP)
Spectral Sciences in Massachusetts is seeking a Research Engineer in our Job of the Week. "The successful candidate will work within a small team of SSI scientists and engineers on a variety of projects in physical modeling and simulation, data analysis, and algorithm development. Typical projects include leveraging high-performance computing capabilities to simulate real events and comparison with available measured data or development and integration of key physical models within parallel software."The post Job of the Week: Research Engineer at Spectral Sciences appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#46SYB)
In this video from DDN booth at SC18, Peter Jones from DDN presents: Lustre Roadmap & Community Update. With their new Whamcloud Business Unit, DDN has already brought key Lustre developers on board to accelerate their high performance computing solutions. "This important acquisition reinforces DDN’s presence as the global market leader for data at scale, while providing Lustre customers with enhanced field support and a well-funded technology roadmap. The acquisition also enables DDN to expand Lustre’s leading position from high performance computing (HPC) and Exascale into high growth markets such as analytics, AI and hybrid cloud."The post Video: Lustre Roadmap & Community Update appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#46SSF)
In this video from the Exascale Computing Project, Dave Montoya from LANL describes the continuous software integration effort at DOE facilities where exascale computers will be located sometime in the next 3-4 years. "A key aspect of the Exascale Computing Project’s continuous integration activities is ensuring that the software in development for exascale can efficiently be deployed at the facilities and that it properly blends with the facilities’ many software components. As is commonly understood in the realm of high-performance computing, integration is very challenging: both the hardware and software are complex, with a huge amount of dependencies, and creating the associated essential healthy software ecosystem requires abundant testing."The post Video: Ramping up for Exascale at the National Labs appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#46QHM)
In this video from CES 2019, AMD President and CEO Dr. Lisa Su describes how the new AMD EPYC processors are changing the game for High Performance Computing. "This is an incredible time to be in technology as the industry pushes the envelope on high-performance computing to solve the biggest challenges we face together,†said Su. “At AMD, we made big bets several years ago to accelerate the pace of innovation for high-performance computing, and 2019 will be an inflection point for the industry as we bring these new products to market."The post Video: AMD Steps up with renewed focus on High Performance Computing appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#46PYG)
In this video from DDN User Group at SC18, Steve Hindmarsh from the Crick Institute presents: Research Computing Storage at the Francis Crick Institute. "The Francis Crick Institute is dedicated to understanding the fundamental biology underlying health and disease. Our work is helping to understand why disease develops and to translate discoveries into new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, stroke, infections and neurodegenerative diseases."The post Video: Research Computing Storage at the Francis Crick Institute appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#46PYJ)
The DHPCC++19 conference has issued its Call for Papers. Held in conjunction with the IWOCL event, the Distributed & Heterogeneous Programming in C/C++ event takes place May 13, 2019 in Boston. "This will be the 3rd DHPCC++ event in partnership with IWOCL, the international OpenCL workshop with a focus on heterogeneous programming models for C and C++, covering all the programming models that have been designed to support heterogeneous programming in C and C++."The post Call for Papers: Distributed & Heterogeneous Programming in C/C++ Event in Boston appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#46PS8)
In the podcast, Mike Bernhardt from ECP catches up with Sameer Shende to learn how the Performance Research Lab at the University of Oregon is helping to pave the way to Exascale. "Developers of parallel computing applications can well appreciate the Tuning and Analysis Utilities (TAU) performance evaluation tool—it helps them optimize their efforts. Sameer has worked with the TAU software for nearly two and a half decades and has released more than 200 versions of it. Whatever your application looks like, there’s a good chance that TAU can support it and help you improve your performance."The post Podcast: Improving Parallel Applications with the TAU tool appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#46MMP)
Earlier this week, IBM unveiled a powerful new global weather forecasting system that will provide the most accurate local weather forecasts ever seen worldwide. The new IBM Global High-Resolution Atmospheric Forecasting System (GRAF) will be the first hourly-updating commercial weather system that is able to predict something as small as thunderstorms globally. Compared to existing models, it will provide a nearly 200% improvement in forecasting resolution for much of the globe (from 12 to 3 sq km). It will be available later this year.The post IBM Weather System to Improve Forecasting Around the World appeared first on insideHPC.
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