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In this video from SC18, Karan Batta from Oracle describes how the company provides high performance computing in the Cloud with Bare Metal speed. "Oracle Bare Metal Cloud Services (BMCS) public cloud infrastructure. Oracle BMCS is a new generation of scalable, inexpensive and performant compute, network and storage infrastructure that combines internet cloud scale architecture with enterprise scale-up bare metal capabilities, providing the ideal platform for demanding High Performance Computing workloads."The post Oracle Offers Bare Metal Instances for HPC in the Cloud appeared first on insideHPC.

This week NVIDIA announced that the company has broken a total of six performance records on a broad set of AI benchmarks. As a full suite, the benchmarks cover a variety of workloads and infrastructure scale – ranging from 16 GPUs on one node to up to 640 GPUs across 80 nodes. "Backed by Google, Intel, Baidu, NVIDIA and dozens more technology leaders, the new MLPerf benchmark suite measures a wide range of deep learning workloads. Aiming to serve as the industry’s first objective AI benchmark suite, it covers such areas as computer vision, language translation, personalized recommendations and reinforcement learning tasks."The post NVIDIA Sets Six Records in AI Performance appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from SC18 in Dallas, Altair CTO Sam Mahalingam describes how the company's PBS works software helps manufacturers build better products with design innovation driven by HPC. Now, with advent of Machine Learning and analytics, the company is helping customers move forward to a new age of data-driven design. After that, Chief Scientist . Andrea Casotto from Altair describes how Altairs "obsessively efficient" approach drives EDA automation.The post Video: How Altair Powers HPC with PBS Works appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Dell EMC specialists and CoolIT technicians build the Ohio Supercomputing Center's newest, most efficient supercomputer system, the Pitzer Cluster. Named for Russell M. Pitzer, a co-founder of the center and emeritus professor of chemistry at The Ohio State University, the Pitzer Cluster is expected to be at full production status and available to clients in November. The new system will power a wide range of research from understanding the human genome to mapping the global spread of viruses.The post Time-Lapse Video: Building the Pitzer Cluster at the Ohio Supercomputing Center appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from SC18 in Dallas, Madhu Matta from Lenovo describes how the company is driving HPC & Ai technologies for Science, Research, and Enterprises across the globe. "Lenovo cares about solving real-world problems, and working with researchers is one of the best ways to gather insights from those whose daily work involves high-computing data and analytics to do just that."The post How Lenovo is Helping Build Ai Solutions to Solve the World’s Toughest Challenges appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from SC18 in Dallas, Scott Tease from Lenovo describes how the company is leading the TOP500 with innovative HPC cooling technologies. "At #8 on the TOP500, the Lenovo-built, hot-water cooled SuperMUC system at the LRZ in Germany is one of the most power efficient supercomputers on the planet. With more than 241,000 cores and a combined peak performance of the two installation phases of more than 6.8 Petaflops."The post Video: Lenovo Leads the TOP500 with Innovative HPC Cooling Technologies appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Mike Bernhardt from the Exascale Computing Project catches up with ORNL's David Bernholdt at SC18. They discuss supercomputing the conference, his career, the evolution and significance of message passing interface (MPI) in parallel computing, and how ECP has influenced his team’s efforts.The post Interview: The Importance of the Message Passing Interface to Supercomputing appeared first on insideHPC.

NOAA is out with their 2018 Arctic Report Card and the news is not good, folks. Issued annually since 2006, the Arctic Report Card is a timely and peer-reviewed source for clear, reliable and concise environmental information on the current state of different components of the Arctic environmental system relative to historical records. "The Report Card is intended for a wide audience, including scientists, teachers, students, decision-makers and the general public interested in the Arctic environment and science."The post NOAA Report: Effects of Persistent Arctic Warming Continue to Mount appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from SC18 in Dallas, Yan Fisher and Dan McGuan from Red Hat describe the company's powerful software solutions for HPC and Ai workloads. "All supercomputers on the coveted Top500 list run on Linux, a scalable operating system that has matured over the years to run some of the most critical workloads and in many cases has displaced proprietary operating systems in the process. For the past two decades, Red Hat Enterprise Linux has served as the foundation for building software stacks for many supercomputers. We are looking to continue this trend with the next generation of systems that seek to break the exascale threshold."The post Red Hat Steps Up with HPC Software Solutions at SC18 appeared first on insideHPC.

An IaaS platform can help keep HPC cloud cluster users out of the cluster management business. A new white paper from XTREME-D, "Point and Click HPC: The XTREME-Stargate IaaS Platform", explores how the Stargate platform, that provides a web portal to cluster resources, can increase user efficiency, eliminate cluster administration costs and acts as a “pay-as-you-go” cloud model, simplifying HPC cloud clusters and making them more accessible.The post XTREME-D IaaS Platform Works to Simplify HPC Cloud Cluster Management appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Torsten Hoefler from ETH Zurich presents: Scientific Benchmarking of Parallel Computing Systems. "Measuring and reporting performance of parallel computers constitutes the basis for scientific advancement of high-performance computing. Most scientific reports show performance improvements of new techniques and are thus obliged to ensure reproducibility or at least interpretability. Our investigation of a stratified sample of 120 papers across three top conferences in the field shows that the state of the practice is not sufficient."The post Video: Scientific Benchmarking of Parallel Computing Systems appeared first on insideHPC.

With a new upgrade, the University of Birmingham is set to benefit from the largest IBM POWER9 machine learning cluster in the UK, delivering unprecedented performance for AI workloads. Working with OCF, the high-performance compute, the University will integrate a total of 11 IBM POWER9-based IBM Power Systems servers into its existing HPC infrastructure. "With our early deployment of the two IBM POWER9 servers we have seen what is possible. By scaling up, we can keep-pace with the escalating demand and offer the computational capacity and capability to attract leading researchers to the University.”The post OCF Deploys Largest IBM POWER9 Machine Learning Cluster in the UK appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from SC18 in Dallas, Ziv Kalminovich from VMware describes how the company's powerful virtualization capabilities bring flexibility and performance to HPC workloads. "With VMware, you can capture the benefits of virtualization for HPC workloads while delivering performance that is comparable to bare-metal. Our approach to virtualizing HPC adds a level of flexibility, operational efficiency, agility and security that cannot be achieved in bare-metal environments—enabling faster time to insights and discovery."The post VMware Powers Machine Learning & HPC Workloads appeared first on insideHPC.

Intel has a long history of making important announcements at the annual Supercomputer shows, and this year was no exception. This guest post from Intel covers what new technology was front and center from Intel at SC18, including its Cascade Lake advanced performance processors, Intel Optane Persistent Memory and more. Learn more about these new technologies designed to accelerate the convergence of high-performance computing and AI.The post Intel Pushes the Envelope at SC18 appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video SC18, Jack Wells from ORNL describes how OpenACC enables scientists to port their codes to GPUs and other HPC platforms. "OpenACC, a directive-based high-level parallel programming model, has gained rapid momentum among scientific application users - the key drivers of the specification. The user-friendly programming model has facilitated acceleration of over 130 applications including CAM, ANSYS Fluent, Gaussian, VASP, Synopsys on multiple platforms and is also seen as an entry-level programming model for the top supercomputers (Top500 list) such as Summit, Sunway Taihulight, and Piz Daint. As in previous years, this BoF invites scientists, programmers, and researchers to discuss their experiences in adopting OpenACC for scientific applications, learn about the roadmaps from implementers and the latest developments in the specification."The post Video: How OpenACC Enables Scientists to port their codes to GPUs and Beyond appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Equus Compute Solutions rolled out its new G2660 2U 2xGPU server, ideal for artificial intelligence and deep learning environments. This GPU platform offers higher performance, reduced rack space requirements, and lower power consumption compared with traditional CPU-centric server platforms. :Our customers have been asking for the flexibility to source GPUs in different ways on high performance servers,” said Lee Abrahamson, CTO of Equus Compute Solutions. “Our GPU servers, such as the G2660 server, are the ideal cost-optimized solutions for a wide range of applications and workloads. At the same time, these innovative platforms provide benefits of scale and volume, component standardization, ease of service logistics, and the means to avoid vendor lock-in.”The post Equus Rolls out G2660 2U 2xGPU Server for HPC & Ai appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from DDN booth at SC18, Brent Gorda from ARM presents: Arm + Lustre in HPC. At the show, DDN announced that its Whamcloud division is delivering professional support for Lustre clients on Arm architectures. With this support offering, organizations can confidently use Lustre in production environments, introduce new clients into existing Lustre infrastructures, and deploy Arm-based clusters of any size within test, development or production environments. As the use of Lustre continues to expand across HPC, artificial intelligence and data-intensive, performance-driven applications, the deployment of alternative architectures is on the rise.The post Video: Arm + Lustre in HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

The good folks at the Hierarchical Data Format (HDF) Group in Champaign, Illinois is seeking an HPC Software Developer in our Job of the Week. "The HDF Group provides a unique suite of technologies and supporting services that facilitate the management of large and complex data collections. Its mission is to develop, advance and support HD technologies and ensure long-term access to HDF data. HDF technologies are used in virtually every industry and scientific domain to meet mission critical data management needs."The post Job of the Week: HPC Software Developer at the HDF Group appeared first on insideHPC.

In this edition of Let's Talk Exascale, Fred Streitz of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory describes his team's efforts to develop supercomputer applications that address forefront scientific problems by pushing the limits of leadership-class computing. "At SC18, Fred Streitz gave a talk in the US Department of Energy booth on the topic “Machine Learning and Predictive Simulation: HPC and the US Cancer Moonshot on Sierra.” As a guest on the ECP podcast, he provides an overview and some insights from his booth talk."The post Podcast Looks at Exascale Computing for Forefront Scientific Problems appeared first on insideHPC.

Monaco-based VENTURI Formula E Team recently announced that HPE is now the team’s Official Technology Partner. Through the partnership, HPE is dedicating a number of world-class technical specialists to the VENTURI Formula E Team and developing a technological innovation strategy for the Monaco-based team, incorporating next-generation platforms and world-first artificial intelligence (AI) solutions set to elevate both efficiency and performance. "I’m delighted to welcome Hewlett Packard Enterprise on board. There is no doubt that this partnership will allow VENTURI Formula E Team to grow. Due to their great expertise, I’m convinced that HPE will fast-track the development of the team and enhance the corporate structure. Given that Formula E is a very dynamic and fast-paced environment, I know that HPE will enjoy this unique and hopefully rewarding journey we are embarking on together."The post HPE Powers VENTURI Formula E Team appeared first on insideHPC.

Researchers from Intel and UC Berkeley are looking beyond current transistor technology and preparing the way for a new type of memory and logic circuit that could someday be in every computer on the planet. In a new paper published in the journal Nature, the researchers propose a way to turn relatively new types of materials, multiferroics and topological materials, into logic and memory devices that will be 10 to 100 times more energy-efficient than foreseeable improvements to current microprocessors, which are based on CMOS (complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor).The post Beyond Semiconductors: New Quantum Materials could Pave the Way appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from SC18 in Dallas, Larry Keller from HPE describes the company's innovative new Adaptive Rack Cooling System for HPC. "Efficient high-performance computing is a key to success in any business. But it can be daunting to design, deploy, and manage. Make sure that you get the best for your needs. Work with a partner with proven technology and a track record of delivering and supporting successful HPC deployments. HPE has decades of experience in HPC systems, and the proven products and expertise you need."The post A Look inside the new HPE Adaptive Rack Cooling System for HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from SC18 in Dallas, Osama Sarfaraz from HPE describes how the company is using Intel FPGA's to deliver Programmability, Flexibility, and Upgradability for HPC users. "The FPGA is designed to actually be configured by a customer or designer after manufacturing; hence it is “field-programmable.” An FPGA offers high I/O bandwidth plus a fine-grained, flexible and custom parallelism, allowing it to be programmed for many different types of workloads, including Big Data analytics, financial services and deep learning."The post How FPGAs Provide Versatile Acceleration for HPE Servers appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from SC18 in Dallas, Taylor Newill from Oracle describes the company's new Bare Metal for HPC Cloud Infrastructure. "Oracle Bare Metal Cloud Services (BMCS) public cloud infrastructure. Oracle BMCS is a new generation of scalable, inexpensive and performant compute, network and storage infrastructure that combines internet cloud scale architecture with enterprise scale-up bare metal capabilities, providing the ideal platform for demanding High Performance Computing workloads."The post Video: Oracle Steps Up with Bare Metal for HPC Cloud Infrastructure appeared first on insideHPC.

"Given the remarkable performance improvements over many generations of classical microprocessors [7] and the impressive algorithmic improvements in mixed-integer programming tools like Gurobi [29] over the past several decades, it is surprising that D-Wave’s third generation hardware and our straightforward algorithm can be competitive at all. In the series of four chips that D-Wave has released, the number of qubits has approximately doubled from one generation to the next while the number of couplers per qubit has remained essentially unchanged. D-Wave’s fifth generation chip is expected to at least double the number of couplers per qubit [30, 3]. If this comes to fruition, it would likely have a significant, positive impact on the performance of the DWave for the problems we consider here."The post New Paper: A First Step towards Quantum-Powered Machine Learning appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from SC18, Leslie Tung describes the advantages of HPE Performance Cluster Manager. HPE Performance Cluster Manager is HPE’s first fully integrated system management software for all Linux-based HPE HPC systems offering all functionalities customers need to manage their clusters on everyday basis.The post Video: Speeding HPC Administration with HPE Performance Cluster Manager appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Tachyum announced that it has achieved a significant engineering milestone in its Prodigy product development, by proving that all critical components of its Prodigy core meet or exceed its stated design goals of unprecedented compute performance, power efficiency and cost advantages. "Achieving engineering-proof of our Prodigy design is an important step to show that our chips will perform to the theoretical limits for which they were designed,” said Dr. Radoslav Danilak, Co-founder and CEO of Tachyum. “While this is not a full prototype, we have built the most difficult parts of the chip. This achievement shows that what we have developed is doable. Since we have exceeded design goal targets for the critical components, we fully expect to hit all targets for the non-critical components as well.”The post Tachyum Moves Forward with Prodigy Chip for Extreme Power Efficiency appeared first on insideHPC.

Today NVIDIA introduced the TITAN RTX as what the company calls "the world’s most powerful desktop GPU" for AI research, data science and creative applications. "Driven by the new NVIDIA Turing architecture, TITAN RTX — dubbed T-Rex — delivers 130 teraflops of deep learning performance and 11 GigaRays of ray-tracing performance. Turing is NVIDIA’s biggest advance in a decade – fusing shaders, ray tracing, and deep learning to reinvent the GPU,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “The introduction of T-Rex puts Turing within reach of millions of the most demanding PC users — developers, scientists and content creators.”The post NVIDIA Unveils TITAN RTX GPU for Accelerated Ai appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from SC18 in Dallas, Per Nyberg from Cray describes the company's new Shasta supercomputing architecture for exascale. "Shasta is an entirely new design and is set to be the technology that underpins the next era of supercomputing, characterized by exascale performance capability, new data-centric workloads, and an explosion of processor architectures. With sweeping hardware and software innovations, Shasta incorporates next-generation Cray system software to enable modularity and extensibility, a new Cray-designed system interconnect, unparalleled flexibility in processing choice within a system, and a software environment that provides for seamless scalability."The post Video: Cray Steps up with Shasta Platform for Exascale Supercomputing appeared first on insideHPC.

We are please to announce that our friends at the UberCloud won a number of prestigious awards for HPC in the Cloud. "At Hyperion Research’s HPC Market Update Breakfast Briefing, UberCloud and partners received the Innovation Excellence Award for its UberCloud Experiment and case study #200 based on “Computer simulations of non-invasive transcranial electro-stimulation of the human brain in schizophrenia.”The post UberCloud Wins Three Prestigious Awards for HPC in the Cloud appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from SC18, Kristin Anderson from CPC describes the company's innovative connector couplings for liquid cooling. "PLQ Series QDs are among the highest-performing engineered polymer connectors for liquid cooling applications available. They vastly reduce concerns around plastic QD durability and performance," said Elizabeth Langer, Senior Design Engineer, Thermal Management. "HPC and data center specifiers and operators can use these plastic QDs with confidence."The post New CPC QD Solution Optimizes HPC Liquid Cooling appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from SC18, Jaan Mannik from One Stop Systems describes how the company's high performance GPU system power HPC and Ai applications. At the show, the company also introduced HIB616-x16, the world's first PCIe Gen 4 cable adapter. "The OSS booth will also feature a partner pavilion where several OSS partners will be represented, including NVIDIA, SkyScale, Western Digital, Liqid, One Convergence, Intel and Lenovo. OSS and its partners will showcase new products, services and solutions for high-performance computing, including GPU and flash storage expansion, composable infrastructure solutions, the latest EOS server, cloud computing, and the company's recently introduced Thunderbolt eGPU product."The post One Stop Systems Steps up GPU Servers for Ai and World’s First PCIe Gen 4 Cable Adapter appeared first on insideHPC.

A connected car can generate up to a gigabyte of data per day, and perhaps even more. Impressively, it is estimated that there are approximately 2 million connected cars on our roadways at this very moment. This means the storage demands can be up to 200 exabytes per day. IBM walks readers through the complexities of the data pipeline for connected cars, and how to address these challenges and storage questions.The post Deconstructing the Complexities of the Data Pipeline for Connected Cars appeared first on insideHPC.

Washington State University is seeking an HPC Systems Administrator in our Job of the Week. "This position will play a vital role in the administration of HPC clusters used by the research community at Washington State University. WSU faculty are leaders in scientific research computing in diverse areas including computational physics and chemistry, genomics, materials science, atmospheric and environment sciences, and agriculture and natural resources."The post Job of the Week: HPC Systems Administrator at Washington State University appeared first on insideHPC.

The OpenMP Architecture Review Board (ARB) announced Version 5.0 of the OpenMP API Specification, a major upgrade of the OpenMP language. OpenMP 5.0 adds many new features that will be useful for highly parallel and complex applications and now covers the entire hardware spectrum from embedded and accelerator devices to multicore systems with shared-memory. Vendors have made reference implementations of parts of the standard, and user courses will soon be given at OpenMP workshops and major conferences.The post OpenMP API Specification 5.0 is Major Upgrade of OpenMP Language appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from SC18, Derek Bouius from AMD describes how the company's new EPYC processors and Radeon GPUs can speed HPC and Ai applications. "It’s been a fantastic year in the supercomputing space as we further expanded the ecosystem for AMD EPYC processors while securing multiple wins that leverage the benefits AMD EPYC processors have on HPC workloads,' said Mark Papermaster, senior vice president and chief technology officer, AMD. 'As the HPC industry approaches exascale systems, we’re at the beginning of a new era of heterogeneous compute that requires a combination of CPU, GPU and software that only AMD can deliver. We’re excited to have fantastic customers leading the charge with our Radeon Instinct accelerators, AMD EPYC processors and the ROCm open software platform."The post AMD Speeds HPC and Ai with EPYC Processors and Radeon GPUs appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from DDN User Group at SC18, Robert Triendl describes how the company is building tomorrow's Lustre file system technology for Exascale. "Long recognized as a staple technology for those with the most demanding data requirements, Lustre is deployed in thousands of data centers in healthcare, energy, manufacturing, financial services, academia, research and HPC labs, and consistently is selected by top 100 HPC sites as the file system of choice for the world’s fastest computers."The post Video: Whamcloud – Lustre for HPC and Ai appeared first on insideHPC.

The University of Southern Denmark is seeking Software and Hardware Architects in our Jobs of the Week. "The eScience Center at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU), develops and operates large-scale e-Infrastructures dedicated to research in all fields, such as the Danish National Supercomputing Facility (DeIC National HPC centre, SDU). Our mission is to support research by the development and provision of advanced ICT infrastructure, services and expertise."The post Jobs of the Week: Software and Hardware Architects at the University of Southern Denmark appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Sanjiv Shah, Vice President of the Core Visual Computing Group, and General Manager of Technical, Enterprise, and Cloud Computing Software Tools at Intel offers his perspective on the evolving nature of the developer’s role, and the latest resources to address persistent issues in application coding.The post Development Tools are More Important Now Than Ever appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from SC18, Naoki Shibata from XTREME-D describes the company’s new HPC-as-a-Service offering. "Customers can use our easy-to-deploy turnkey HPC cluster system on public cloud, including setup of HPC middleware (OpenHPC-based packages), configuration of SLURM, OpenMPI, and OSS HPC applications such as OpenFOAM. The user can start the HPC cluster (submitting jobs) within 10 minutes on the public cloud. Our team is a technical startup for focusing HPC cloud technology. Our team has the optimal skill set for HPC architecture, public cloud architecture, rapid development of web applications for HPC, and Data Analytics for developing automated HPC architectural services."The post XTREME-D Launches HPC as a Service at SC18 appeared first on insideHPC.

Cutting edge AI and HPC clusters require the highest performance versions of the latest CPUs and GPUs. Coming along with the throughput, these components bring high heat loads. Often, liquid cooling becomes a requirement in these circumstances. This sponsored post from Asetek explores how increasing AI and HPC workloads, as well as accompanying components like CPUs and GPUs, are heating up computing and bringing liquid cooling to the forefront.The post Plug and Play Liquid Cooling for AI and HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

The San Jose-based startup company nCorium has joined Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Efficient Mission Centric Computing Consortium (EMC3) in the quest for efficient, ultra-scale computing. "We are excited to be working with nCorium to explore moving data multiple times faster than current approaches while adding value to the data as it moves," said Gary Grider, HPC Division Leader at Los Alamos. “The prospect of using far less data movement/storage nodes in our environment while providing more in-flight data manipulation is an important step towards the higher efficiencies that the EMC3 seeks."The post nCorium Startup joins LANL’s Efficient Mission Centric Computing Consortium for Ultra-scale Efficiency appeared first on insideHPC.

Today NCSA Director and Chief Scientist William Gropp and NCSA Faculty Affiliate Narayana Aluru were both named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). "The AAAS is the premier society representing all of science and it is a leader in communicating science to the public. I'm proud to be a member and I am honored by this recognition," said Gropp.The post NCSA Director Bill Gropp Named AAAS Fellow appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from SC18 in Dallas, Steve Branton describes how Asetek advanced liquid cooling solutions deliver Flexible, Reliable, and Proven Liquid Cooling for HPC. “Now enterprises and hyperscalers have a choice of exploiting the plug & play convenience of our high-performance liquid assisted air cooling solution – InRackLAAC – or the extreme performance, quality and reliability of our full-blown liquid cooling solution – InRackCDU.”The post How Asetek provides Flexible, Reliable, and Proven Liquid Cooling for HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from SC18 in Dallas, Jason Coari from Quantum Corp. describes how the company wrangles Big Data for HPC, Ai, and Autonomous Cars. "Scientists and analysts today need intelligent data management throughout the entire research workflow, from ingest to HPC processing to archive. With multi-tier storage from Quantum, teams can better harness their data and transform the world."The post How Quantum Corp. Wrangles Big Data for HPC, Ai, and Autonomous Cars appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the AWS cloud rolled Amazon EC2 A1 Instances powered by new Arm-based AWS Graviton Processors. That's right, that clever fellow Jeff Bezos is making his own ARM chips. "ç processors are a new line of processors that are custom designed by AWS utilizing Amazon’s extensive expertise in building platform solutions for cloud applications running at scale. These processors deliver targeted power, performance, and cost optimizations."The post Amazon AWS develops their own ARM Chip – Are they Smarter than they Look? appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Wei Li, Vice President and General Manager for Machine Learning and Translation at Intel, discusses the increasing importance of AI, the vision for AI’s future benefits to humanity, and Intel’s efforts in providing an advanced platform to facilitate AI deployment from the Cloud to the edge.The post Artificial Intelligence and Cloud-to-edge Acceleration appeared first on insideHPC.

The Accenture Engineering Compute (AEC) digital platform is a first mover in the industry with a highly differentiated AIML/analytics based Job-resource prediction and orchestration engine to ensure the most efficient placement of HPC workloads on-prem or in the cloud. The solution delivers dramatic gains in capital equipment utilization (~2x) , job throughput (~30%) and business agility with automated cloud bursting for HPC/Grid computing environments.The post Video: Accenture Engineering Compute takes HPC to the Enterprise appeared first on insideHPC.

At SC18 in Dallas, DDN announced that its Whamcloud division is delivering professional support for Lustre clients on Arm architectures. With this support offering, organizations can confidently use Lustre in production environments, introduce new clients into existing Lustre infrastructures, and deploy Arm-based clusters of any size within test, development or production environments. As the use of Lustre continues to expand across HPC, artificial intelligence and data-intensive, performance-driven applications, the deployment of alternative architectures is on the rise.The post DDN steps up with Professional Support for Lustre Clients on Arm Platforms appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Gilad Shainer from Mellanox describes how the company's newly available HDR 200 Gigabit/sec InfiniBand solutions can speed up HPC and Ai applications. "We are proud to see the first Mellanox HDR InfiniBand ConnectX-6 adapters and Quantum switches based supercomputer in the world,” said Gilad Shainer, vice president of marketing at Mellanox Technologies. “The smart In-Network Computing acceleration engines that InfiniBand enables will deliver the highest performance, efficiency and scalability for the University of Michigan users, for both HPC and AI applications.”The post Video: Mellanox HDR InfiniBand Speeds HPC and Ai Applications with SHARP Technologies appeared first on insideHPC.