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In this talk from the 2018 HiPEAC event, Philippe Notton from Atos describes how the European Processor Initiative will help Europe achieve sovereignty in chips for advanced computing. "We expect to achieve unprecedented levels of performance at very low power, and EPI’s HPC and automotive industrial partners are already considering the EPI platform for their product roadmaps."The post Video: An Update on the European Processing Initiative appeared first on insideHPC.

Scientists’ effort to map a portion of the sky in unprecedented detail is coming to an end, but their work to learn more about the expansion of the universe has just begun. "Using the Dark Energy Camera, a 520-megapixel digital camera mounted on the Blanco 4-meter telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, scientists on DES took data for 758 nights over six years. Over those nights, the survey generated 50 terabytes (that’s 50 trillion bytes) of data over its six observation seasons. That data is stored and analyzed at NCSA. Compute power for the project comes from NCSA’s NSF-funded Blue Waters Supercomputer, the University of Illinois Campus Cluster, and Fermilab."The post Supercomputing Dark Energy Survey Data through 2021 appeared first on insideHPC.

Today R Systems announced the expansion of its data center and infrastructure capabilities HPC managed services into Switch’s Core Campus in Las Vegas. "Including Switch data centers as part of the offering for R Systems enables us to continue growing with our customers. Since 2005 R Systems has focused exclusively on HPC, which has enabled us to build expertise about the applications, computing, networking and storage technologies that are unique to HPC,” said R Systems Principal Brian Kucic.The post R Systems brings HPC Cloud to SUPERNAP in Las Vegas appeared first on insideHPC.

Today IBM unveiled IBM Q System One, the world's first integrated universal approximate quantum computing system designed for scientific and commercial use. "The IBM Q System One is a major step forward in the commercialization of quantum computing," said Arvind Krishna, senior vice president of Hybrid Cloud and director of IBM Research. "This new system is critical in expanding quantum computing beyond the walls of the research lab as we work to develop practical quantum applications for business and science."The post IBM rolls out Quantum Computer for Commercial Use appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the Jülich Supercomputing Centre in Germany announced 32.4 million euros in funding for continued research into such diverse areas as quantum computing and neuromorphic computing. "With the new JUWELS system, the research center has a supercomputer that is one of the fastest in the world. Already sought after by researchers from all over Europe, the supercomputer is even used for simulations in brain research, such as the European Human Brain Project."The post Jülich Supercomputing Centre moves forward with 36 million euros of funding appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Mellanox announced that its 200 Gigabit HDR InfiniBand solutions were selected to accelerate a world-leading supercomputer at HLRS in Germany. The 5000-node supercomputer named “Hawk” will be built in 2019 and provide 24 petaFLOPs of compute performance. By utilizing the InfiniBand fast data throughput and the smart In-Network Computing acceleration engines, HLRS users will be able to achieve the highest HPC and AI application performance, scalability and efficiency.The post Mellanox Powers New Hawk Supercomputer at HLRS with 200 Gigabit HDR InfiniBand appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest feature, Dr Rosemary Francis from Ellexus writes that Data Storage needs to be integral to your plans when moving HPC workloads to the Cloud. We can all admit to being pressured into investing in a new solution as soon as it becomes available. We want to be the fastest, the best-informed, […]The post Why you can save money by being left behind appeared first on insideHPC.

The 2nd High Performance Machine Learning Workshop (HPML2019) has issued their Call for Papers. The May 14 workshop will be collocated with CCGrid (19th IEEE/ACM International Symposium in Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing) in Cyprus. "This workshop is intended to bring together the Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and High Performance Computing (HPC) communities. In recent years, much progress has been made in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in general. This progress required heavy use of high performance computers and accelerators. Moreover, ML and AI have become a "killer application" for HPC and, consequently, driven much research in this area as well. These facts point to an important cross-fertilization that this workshop intends to nourish."The post Call for Papers: High Performance Machine Learning Workshop (HPML2019) in Cyprus appeared first on insideHPC.

Today, Huawei announced "the industry's highest-performance ARM-based CPU." Called Kunpeng 920, the new CPU is designed to boost the development of computing in big data, distributed storage, and ARM-native application scenarios. "Kunpeng 920 integrates 64 cores at a frequency of 2.6 GHz. This chipset integrates 8-channel DDR4, and memory bandwidth exceeds incumbent offerings by 46%. System integration is also increased significantly through the two 100G RoCE ports. Kunpeng 920 supports PCIe 4.0 and CCIX interfaces, and provides 640 Gbps total bandwidth. In addition, the single-slot speed is twice that of the incumbent offering, effectively improving the performance of storage and various accelerators."The post Huawei Unveils “Industry’s Highest-Performance ARM-based CPU” appeared first on insideHPC.

Veteran HPC journalist Michael Feldman has departed TOP500.org to join The Next Platform as Senior Editor. Led by co-founders Nicole Hemsoth and Timothy Prickett Morgan, offers in-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. "My new role also reunites me with some old friends, who just happen to be some of the best writers in the business," says Feldman. "Not surprisingly, my focus will be on HPC and all things related. These days, that covers a lot of territory since in many ways HPC has provided a useful model for other subject matter that is under the purview of The Next Platform, namely hyperscale, cloud, and high-end enterprise computing."The post Michael Feldman Joins The Next Platform as Senior Editor appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from DDN booth at SC18, Larry Wikelius from Marvell presents: Deploying Marvell's ThunderX2 at Scale in HPC Market. "The ThunderX2 product family is the company's second-generation 64-bit ARMv8-A server processor SoCs for datacenter, cloud and high-performance computing (HPC) applications. The family integrates fully out-of-order, high-performance custom cores supporting single- and dual-socket configurations. ThunderX2 is optimized to drive high computational performance delivering outstanding memory bandwidth and memory capacity."The post Video: Deploying Marvell’s ThunderX2 at Scale in HPC Market appeared first on insideHPC.

The 4th International Workshop on Performance Portable Programming models for Manycore or Accelerators (P^3MA) has issued their Call for Papers. This workshop will provide a forum to bring together researchers and developers to discuss community’s proposals and solutions to performance portability.The post Call for Papers: International Workshop on Performance Portable Programming models for Manycore or Accelerators appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from DDN booth at SC18, Andrey Kudryavtsev from Intel presents: Reimagining the Data Centre Memory and Storage Hierarchy. "Intel Optane DC persistent memory represents a new class of memory and storage technology architected specifically for data center usage. One that we believe fundamentally breaks through some of the constricting methods for using data that have governed computing for more than 50 years."The post Video: Reimagining the Datacenter Memory and Storage Hierarchy appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from SC18, Mike Bernhardt from the Exascale Computing Project talked with Salman Habib of Argonne National Laboratory about cosmological computer modeling and simulation. Habib explained that the ExaSky project is focused on developing a caliber of simulation that will use the coming exascale systems at maximal power. Clearly, there will be different types of exascale machines,” he said, “and so they [DOE] want a simulation code that can use not just one type of computer, but multiple types, and with equal efficiency.”The post Video: Flying through the Universe with Supercomputing Power appeared first on insideHPC.

Oak Ridge National Lab in Tennessee is seeking a Performance Engineer in our Job of the Week. "We are seeking to build a team of Performance Engineers who will serve as liaisons between the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) and the users of the NCCS leadership computing resources, particularly Exascale Computing Project application development teams and will collaborate with the ECP application teams as they ready their software applications for the OLCF Exascale computer Frontier. These positions reside in the Scientific Computing Group in the National Center for Computational Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.The post Job of the Week: Performance Engineer at Oak Ridge National Lab appeared first on insideHPC.

Today One Stop Systems announced a $4 million purchase order with a $1 million customer extension option from a major OEM in the media and entertainment industry. "As our largest-ever follow-on purchase order, we believe it reflects our industry leadership in application specific, ruggedized servers featuring the latest innovations in GPU compute, flash storage and input/output available today,” said OSS president and CEO, Steve Cooper. “With these products, we have raised the bar for those in media and entertainment production who demand only the best, with ultra-fast processing, networking and storage in a super-ruggedized chassis that provides the best protection in the most demanding physical environments.”The post Major Media and Entertainment OEM orders $4 Million HPC Gear from One Stop Systems appeared first on insideHPC.

Over at Argonne, Jared Sagoff writes that automotive manufacturers are leveraging the power of DOE supercomputers to simulate the combustion engines of the future. "As part of a partnership between the Argonne, Convergent Science, and Parallel Works, engine modelers are beginning to use machine learning algorithms and artificial intelligence to optimize their simulations. Now, this alliance recently received a Technology Commercialization Fund award from the DOE to complete this important project."The post Machine Learning Award Powers Engine Design at Argonne appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, C.S. Chang from the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory describes how his team is using the GPU-powered Summit supercomputer to simulate and predict plasma behavior for the next fusion reactor. "By using Summit, Chang’s team expects its highly scalable XGC code, a first-principles code that models the reactor and its magnetically confined plasma, could be simulated 10 times faster than current supercomputers allow. Such a speedup would give researchers an opportunity to model more complicated plasma edge phenomena, such as plasma turbulence and particle interactions with the reactor wall, at finer scales, leading to insights that could help ITER plan operations more effectively."The post Video: Fusion Research on the Summit Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest feature, Wolfgang Gentzsch from the UberCloud writes that a new case study shows how Ai can aid CAE. "Solving computational fluid dynamics (CFD) problems is demanding both in terms of computing power and simulation time, and requires deep expertise in CFD. In this UberCloud project #211, an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) has been applied to predicting the fluid flow given only the shape of the object that is to be simulated."The post Case Study: Deep Learning For Fluid Flow Prediction In The Cloud appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Nicolas Charbonnier from ArmDevices.net interviews Fujitsu engineers working on the Post-K supercomputer in Japan. Based on the Arm-based A64FX from Fujitsu, the Post-K supercomputer will likely be the fastest system in the world when in debuts in 2021. 'Fujitsu A64FX is the new fastest Arm processor in the world, built on 7nm it has 2.7 TFLOPS performance per chip suitable for high-end HPC and AI, they aim to create with it the world’s fastest supercomputer with it by 2021."The post Video: Fujitsu Post-K Supercomputer to feature World’s Fastest Arm Processor appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from DDN booth at SC18, Jacques Bessoudo from NVIDIA presents: Accelerating Ai Outcomes with the NVIDIA DGX Reference Architecture. "DDN is focused on solutions that enable customers to radically accelerate their AI and Machine Learning initiatives to gain competitive advantage sooner and to scale flexibly,” said James Coomer, vice president of product management at DDN. “We have taken a holistic approach to this solution, ensuring that the DGX platform is maximally utilized and that customers can extract deeper insights more quickly.”The post Video: Accelerating Ai Outcomes with the NVIDIA DGX Reference Architecture appeared first on insideHPC.

A future warmer world will almost certainly feature a decline in fresh water from the Sierra Nevada mountain snowpack. Now a new study by Berkeley Lab shows how the headwater regions of California’s 10 major reservoirs, representing nearly half of the state’s surface storage, found they could see on average a 79 percent drop in peak snowpack water volume by 2100. "What’s more, the study found that peak timing, which has historically been April 1, could move up by as much as four weeks, meaning snow will melt earlier, thus increasing the time lag between when water is available and when it is most in demand."The post NERSC: Sierra Snowpack Could Drop Significantly By End of Century appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from DDN booth at SC18, Terrell Russell from the iRODS Consortium presents: Managing Data from the Edge to HPC. "The Integrated Rule-Oriented Data System (iRODS) is open source data management software used by research organizations and government agencies worldwide. iRODS is released as a production-level distribution aimed at deployment in mission critical environments. It virtualizes data storage resources, so users can take control of their data, regardless of where and on what device the data is stored."The post Video: Managing Data from the Edge to HPC with iRODS appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks back at the highlights of the 2018 CHPC Conference in South Africa. With over 500 attendees, the event featured a set of keynotes on high performance computing as well as a Student Cluster Challenge and a Cyber Security Competition.The post Radio Free HPC Reviews Highlights from the CHPC Conference in South Africa appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the DDN booth at SC18, Laura Carriere from NCCS in Singapore presents: Centralizing Storage without going off the Rails. "The National Climate Change Secretariat (NCCS) was established on 1 July 2010 under the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) to develop and implement Singapore's domestic and international policies and strategies to tackle climate change. NCCS is part of the Strategy Group which supports the Prime Minister and his Cabinet to establish priorities and strengthen strategic alignment across Government. The inclusion of NCCS enhances strategy-making and planning on vital issues that span multiple Government ministries and agencies."The post Video: Centralizing Storage without going off the Rails appeared first on insideHPC.

HPE is now under contract to build and install a new AMD-powered supercomputer at HLRS in Germany. Called "Hawk, the new computing system will be 3.5 times faster than the existing HLRS supercomputer, Hazel Hen, and will be the world's fastest supercomputer for industrial production. Hawk will support academic research and industry — particularly in engineering-related fields — to advance applications for energy, climate, mobility, and health. "And if you are wondering about the name, well, Hawks eat Hazel Hens."The post HPE to Build 24 Petaflop Supercomputer with 64-Core AMD EPYC Processors for HLRS appeared first on insideHPC.

In this talk from Computing Systems Week in Heraklion, Bastian Koller from the University of Stuttgart / HLRS asks whether HPC has come to a dead-end in Europe. He argues that real-life uses for applications are more important than having computing power for the sake of it, and suggests directions to take. "HPC and HPC Ecosystems are quickly evolving. Whereas the HPC community has a long history and is partially seen as as “dinosaur”, we see a lot of developments around HPC, namely HPDA, Deep Learning, Machine Learning etc. This keynote will have a glance on where we are today, technological trends and show with examples, how the communities around applications need to be supported to get ready for the new Era of High Performance Star (HP*), which covers the next evolution step of supercomputing."The post Video: Quo vadis HPC – Facing the Future appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from DDN booth at SC18, Kurt Kuckein from DataDirect Networks presents an overview of DDN A3i: (Accelerated, Any-Scale AI). "Engineered from the ground up for the AI-enabled data center, DDN A³I solutions are fully-optimized to accelerate AI applications and streamline DL workflows for greatest productivity. DDN A³I solutions make AI-powered innovation easy, with faster performance, effortless scale, and simplified operations—all backed by the data at scale experts."The post Video: Overview of DDN’s Accelerated, Any-Scale AI appeared first on insideHPC.

NVIDIA is seeking a Systems Software Engineer for NvStreams in our Job of the Week. "This position will be part of a dynamic crew that develops and maintains systems software for complex heterogeneous computing systems that power disruptive products in various Automotive platforms. The Automotive System Software team plays a vital role in realizing the vision behind these products by building core technologies and platform solutions that are complex and industry leading."The post Job of the Week: Systems Software Engineer for NvStreams at NVIDIA appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast video, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the monumental IT challenges that Santa faces each Holiday Season. "With nearly 2 billion children to serve, Santa’s operations are an IT challenge on the grandest scale. If the world’s population keeps growing by 83 million people per year, Santa may need to build a hybrid cloud just to keep up. With billions of simultaneous queries, the Big Data analytics required will certainly require an 8-socket numa machines with 4 terabytes of central memory."The post Radio Free HPC Looks at Santa’s Big Data Challenges appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Jeroen Tromp from Princeton University describes how GPUs power 3D wave simulations that help researchers better understand the earth's interior. The Department of Geosciences at Princeton University is using Summit, powered by NVIDIA Volta GPUs, to observe and simulate seismic data, imaging the Earth's interior on a global scale.The post Video: Imaging the Earth’s Interior with the Summit Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest feature, Bill Lee from the InfiniBand Trade Association writes that the new TOP500 list has a lot to say about how interconnects matter for the world's most powerful supercomputers. "Once again, the List highlights that InfiniBand is the top choice for the most powerful and advanced supercomputers in the world, including the reigning #1 system – Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL) Summit. The TOP500 List results not only report that InfiniBand accelerates the top three supercomputers in the world but is also the most used high-speed interconnect for the TOP500 systems."The post Why InfiniBand rules the roost in the TOP500 appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Thomas Wilhelm shows software developers how they can optimize their application in order to identify if they can benefit from Persistent memory. "Persistent memory is adding a completely novel memory tier to the memory hierarchy that fits between DRAM and SSDs. In this video, we will show software developers how they can analyze their application in order to identify if they will benefit from persistent memory."The post Video: Will Persistent Memory solve your Performance Problems? appeared first on insideHPC.

NeSI / NIWA are seeking an HPC Senior Science Advisor and Platforms Architect to work nationally with scientific communities gathering their High Performance Computing & Data Science (HPC&DS) needs, and to provide strategic advice and expertise to help drive positive change to NIWA and NeSI's shared infrastructure and services platform. "Applicants should have a PhD in a relevant science domain, combined with a considerable scientific research sector experience in a similar organization or specialized facility of at least comparable size and scale as NIWA's HPC systems."The post Job of the Week: HPC Senior Science Advisor and Platforms Architect at NeSI in New Zealand appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest feature, Carol Wells reviews the new book by Scott E. Page entitled The Model Thinker. "A hands-on reference for the working data scientist, 'The Model Thinker' challenges us to consider that the historical methods we have used for data analysis are no longer adequate given the complexity of today’s world. The book opens by making the case for a new way of using mathematical models to solve problems, offers a close look at a number of the models, then closes with a pair of demonstrations of the method."The post Book Review: The Model Thinker – A new way to look at Data Analysis appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the DDN User Group at SC18, Sven Oehme from DDN presents: A Glimpse into the Future of I/O. "IME is DDN’s scale-out flash cache that is designed to accelerate applications beyond the capabilities of today’s file systems. IME manages I/O in an innovate way to avoid the bottlenecks and latencies of traditional I/O management and delivers the complete potential of flash all the way to connected applications. IME also features advanced data protection, flexible erasure coding and adaptive I/O routing, which together provide new levels of resilience and performance consistency."The post Video: A Glimpse into the Future of I/O appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from DDN booth at SC18, Addison Snell from Intersect360 Research presents an HPCMarket Update. "Intersect360 Research's deep knowledge of HPC, coupled with strong marketing and consulting expertise, results in accurate intelligence for the HPC industry - insights and advice that allow customers to make decisions that are measurably positive to their business. The company's end-user-focused research is inclusive from both a technology perspective and a usage standpoint, allowing Intersect360 Research to provide its clients with total market models that include both traditional and emerging HPC applications."The post Video: HPC Market Update appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest feature, SC19 Chair Michela Taufer writes that the conference theme of HPC Now is already resonating in a market sparked by Big Data & Ai. "HPC is exciting, and not just because of the problems it will solve in the future. It’s exciting because of how it is being used right now to save and enhance lives. My own research spans many HPC areas, such as determining how HPC cyberinfrastructures can make it possible to determine how new drugs could turn protein functions on or off, or how food production could be improved by predicting when and where farmers should water their fields."The post For SC19 Next Year, HPC is Now appeared first on insideHPC.

The ISC High Performance Travel Grant Program is now open for applications. Introduced in 2017, the Grant enables university students and young researchers to be a part of the ISC High Performance conference series. For recipients traveling from Europe or North Africa, the maximum funding is 1500 euros per person, and for the rest of the world, it is 2500 euros per person. ISC Group will also provide the grant recipients free registration for the entire conference, which takes place from June 16 – 20, in Frankfurt, Germany.The post Apply Now for the ISC High Performance Travel Grant Program appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the DDN User Group at SC18, Glenn Lockwood from NERSC presents: Making Sense of Performance in the Era of Burst Buffers. "It really is important to divide burst buffers into their hardware architectures and software usage modes; different burst buffer architectures can provide the same usage modalities to users, and different modalities can be supported by the same architecture."The post Making Sense of Performance in the Era of Burst Buffers appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, the "Illustris" scientific simulation begins just 12 million years after the Big Bang and illustrates the formation of stars, heavy elements, galaxies, exploding super novae and dark matter over 14 billion years. "We hope that the Illustris simulation will be of interest to scientists of all disciplines as well as to the broader non-scientific community."The post Video: Illustris Simulation Depicts the Birth of the Universe appeared first on insideHPC.

ANSYS in Canonsburg, PA is seeking a Software Developer in our Job of the Week. "The Software Development Engineer involves developing, implementing, and maintaining functionality related to the ANSYS MAPDL application and Mechanical product line."The post Job of the Week: Software Developer at ANSYS appeared first on insideHPC.

The world's fastest supercomputer is now up and running production workloads at ORNL. "A year-long acceptance process for the 200-petaflop Summit supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Lab is now complete. Acceptance testing ensures that the supercomputer and its file system meet the functionality, performance, and stability requirements agreed upon by the facility and the vendor."The post World’s Fastest Supercomputer Now Running Production Workloads at ORNL appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the PASC19 conference team announced that Gordon Bell Prize-winner Deborah Weighill will keynote the show with a talk entitled: Investigating Epistatic and Pleiotropic Genetic Architectures in Bioenergy and Human. The event takes place June 12-14, 2019 in Zurich, Switzerland.The post PASC19 Conference Keynote to Feature Gordon-Bell-Prize-Winner on Ai-Powered Genomics appeared first on insideHPC.

Code modernization means ensuring that an application makes full use of the performance potential of the underlying processors. And that means implementing vectorization, threading, memory caching, and fast algorithms wherever possible. But where do you begin? How do you take your complex, industrial-strength application code to the next performance level?The post Latest Intel Tools Make Code Modernization Possible appeared first on insideHPC.

The complete ISC 2019 contributed program is now open for submissions. The event takes place June 16–20, 2019, in Frankfurt, Germany. "We encourage engineers, scientists, young researchers, students and active members of the global HPC community to participate in next year’s conference. Submissions are welcome in the following sessions: Research Papers, Research Posters, Project Posters, BoFs, PhD Forum, Tutorials and Workshops."The post Call for Participation: ISC 2019 in Frankfurt appeared first on insideHPC.

Today’s competitive cyclist benefits from more lightweight, aerodynamic and rigid bike models – and, in a similar way, the prototyping process for manufacturers has become less of a heavy load – in terms of both time and cost – thanks to technological advances in simulation software. "Wind tunnel analyses are very important, but they can be expensive, time consuming and you need to have the athlete available. So, although they are extremely important for the validation of the model, a combination of wind analysis and CFD simulation might be extremely useful."The post Supercomputing the Future of Cycling appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the 2018 CHPC Conference in South Africa, Trish Damkroger from Intel describes how the company is advancing the use of high performance computing on the African Continent. "In her Keynote talk at CHPC, Trish described the changing landscape of HPC, key trends, and the convergence of HPC-AI-HPDA that is transforming our industry and will fuel HPC to fulfill its potential as a scientific tool for insight and innovation."The post Video: How Intel is Advancing High Performance Computing at CHPC in South Africa appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Gísli Kr. from Advania describes how the company enables customer to migrate HPC workloads to the company's sustainable datacenters in Iceland. "When leveraging Advania´s HPCaaS you have the flexibility to address any workload increase as needed and only pay for the added resources used. By committing resources to our HPC-as-a-Service, Advania offers extremely competitive prices for CPU resources, a price that is unprecedented in the HPC on demand or cloud (IaaS) industry. Additionally Advania is able to reserve resources to accommodate both temporary and permanent requirements for added resources.The post Video: Advania Simplifies Moving HPC to the Cloud appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Scott Gibson discusses the ExaWind project for windmill simulation with Michael Sprague from NREL. ExaWind is part of the ECP, which is building applications that will scale to tomorrow's Exascale machines. "Sprague also explains why the simulation is important because it demonstrates that the physics models of the ExaWind team will perform well on large computers and paves the way for the team to improve the models and direct simulation capability toward the exascale platform when it’s ready. He added that, ultimately, the team plans to simulate tens of large turbines within a large wind farm."The post Video: Optimizing Wind Power with the ExaWind Project at NREL appeared first on insideHPC.