High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC

Over at the IBM Blog, IBM Fellow Hillary Hunter writes that the company anticipates that the world’s volume of digital data will exceed 44 zettabytes, an astounding number. "IBM has worked to build the industry’s most complete data science platform. Integrated with NVIDIA GPUs and software designed specifically for AI and the most data-intensive workloads, IBM has infused AI into offerings that clients can access regardless of their deployment model. Today, we take the next step in that journey in announcing the next evolution of our collaboration with NVIDIA. We plan to leverage their new data science toolkit, RAPIDS, across our portfolio so that our clients can enhance the performance of machine learning and data analytics."The post IBM’s Plan to bring Machine Learning Capabilities to Data Scientists Everywhere appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Violin Systems announced the appointment of a new CEO and the acquisition of X-IO Storage. "This has been a year of rebirth, of growth and of tremendous success for Violin,” said CEO Mark Lewis. “That success has been fueled by advancing the already robust feature set of our flagship product, the addition of a product line that complements our existing portfolio of solutions and a team of individuals committed to ensuring customers around the world have the opportunity to add our consistent extreme performance storage to their data centers. With the tremendous success we achieved this past year, Violin is well positioned to dominate the marketplace in 2019 and beyond.”The post Violin Systems Acquires X-IO Storage on Road to Recovery appeared first on insideHPC.

Atos has announced plans to build a BullSequana XH2000 for IT4Innovations in the Czech Republic. The new supercomputer will be located in the National Supercomputing Center IT4Innovations, which is part of the Technical University of Ostrava and will be 8 times more powerful than its predecessor Anselm, which was installed in 2013.The post Atos to build BullSquana Supercomputer in Czech Republic appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from SC18 in Dallas, James Coomer from DDN describes how the company powers HPC and Machine Learning applications. "Organizations around the world are leveraging DDN’s people, technology, performance and innovation to achieve their greatest visions and make revolutionary insights and discoveries! Designed, optimized and right-sized for Commercial HPC, Higher Education and Exascale Computing, our full range of DDN products and solutions are changing the landscape of HPC and delivering the most value with the greatest operational efficiency. Meet with our team of technologists to see how DDN is delivering the most optimized and efficient storage solutions for HPC, AI, and Hybrid Cloud."The post Video: How DDN Powers HPC & Ai Applications appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang showcases new weather prediction capabilities enabled by GPUs. The demo was initially shown on the big screen at SC18 in Dallas for a crowd of more than 700 conference attendees. "We’re looking at a future prediction of microclimates,” Huang said. "The map is the product of a GPU-accelerated COSMO weather prediction model. It offers resolution down to one square kilometer as well as 80 altitude layers — from the ground to as high as 20 kilometers. The model can predict two days of weather in just 20 minutes running on a single NVIDIA DGX-2 supercomputer. That’s computing muscle equivalent to 75 dual-socket CPU nodes."The post Video: Two Days of Weather Predicted in Just 20 Minutes appeared first on insideHPC.

The Swiss HPC Conference has issued its Call for Participation. Held in conjunction with the HPCXXL User Group, the four-day event takes place April 1-4, 2019 in Lugano, Switzerland. "Explore the domains and disciplines driving change and progress at an unprecedented pace, join the HPC-AI Advisory Council (HPCAIAC), the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) and HPCXXL Board for the 10th annual Swiss Conference and HPCXXL Winter meeting. Conference sessions are open to submissions exploring the vast domains of HPC & AI - architectures, applications and usage - from emerging trends and hot topics to big breakthroughs, best practices and much more."The post Call for Participation: Swiss HPC Conference & HPCXXL Meeting in Lugano appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from ICT2018, Mateo Valero from the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre presents: HPC and the Future of Computing. "Europe is going in the right direction with EuroHPC and this must be sustained in the long-term. BSC fully supports this initiative and will do everything we can to help make it a success,” said Professor Valero, noting that much had been done since his previous keynote at ICT 2015 in Lisbon, where he already stressed the importance of developing European HPC technology."The post Video: HPC and the Future of Computing appeared first on insideHPC.

AMD recently announced two new Radeon Instinct compute products including the AMD Radeon Instinct MI60 and Radeon Instinct MI50 accelerators, which are the first GPUs in the world based on the advanced 7nm FinFET process technology. The company has made numerous improvements on these new products, including optimized deep learning operations. This guest post from AMD outlines the key features of its new Radeon Instinct compute product line.The post World’s First 7nm GPU and Fastest Double Precision PCIe Card appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, the Microsoft Quantum Team describes how Quantum computers have the potential to solve the world’s hardest computational problems and alter the economic, industrial, academic, and societal landscape. In just hours or days, a quantum computer can solve complex problems that would otherwise take billions of years to solve. "To unlock these potential applications, the Microsoft Quantum Development Kit includes a new chemistry library that allows chemists to simulate molecular interactions and explore quantum algorithms for real-world applications in the chemistry domain."The post Simulating nature with the new Microsoft Quantum Development Kit chemistry library appeared first on insideHPC.

The OpenFabrics Alliance has issued their Call for Participation for the 2019 OFA Workshop. The event takes place March 20-21 in Austin, Texas. "The annual OFA Workshop is a premier means of fostering collaboration among those who develop fabrics, deploy fabrics, and create applications that rely on fabrics. It is the only event of its kind where fabric developers and users can discuss emerging fabric technologies, collaborate on future industry requirements, and address problems that exist today."The post Call for Participation: OFA Workshop in Austin appeared first on insideHPC.

Booz Allen is seeking a Data Scientist in our Job of the Week. "We have an opportunity for you to use your analytical skills to improve geospatial intelligence. You’ll work closely with your customer to understand their questions and needs, then dig into their data-rich environment to find the pieces of their information puzzle. You’ll explore data from various sources, discover patterns and previously hidden insights to address business problems, and use the right combination of tools and frameworks to turn that set of disparate data points into objective answers to help senior leadership make informed decisions. You’ll provide your customer with a deep understanding of their data, what it all means, and how they can use it. Join us as we use data science for good in geospatial intelligence."The post Job of the Week: Data Scientist at Booz Allen appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Atos announced a HPC announced plans to deploy a large-scale supercomputer at C-DAC in India. This contract is part of the NSM (National Supercomputing Mission), a 7-year plan of INR 4500 crores (~650M$) led by the Government of India which aims to create a network of over 70 high-performance supercomputing facilities for various academic and research institutions across India. "We’re delighted to officially become today the technology partner of C-DAC for HPC-related platforms and to participate in India’s prestigious NSM (National Supercomputing Mission) program. We are honored that our BullSequana supercomputers, will be empowering Indian academic and R&D institutions across the country to accelerate their research and at the same time support India’s ambition to be a leader in HPC.”The post Atos to Build Bull Supercomputer for C-DAC in India appeared first on insideHPC.

Today IBM Research released a 2018 retrospective and blog essay by Dr. Dario Gil, COO of IBM Research, that provides a sneak-peek into the future of AI. "We have curated a collection of one hundred IBM Research AI papers we have published this year, authored by talented researchers and scientists from our twelve global Labs. These scientific advancements are core to our mission to invent the next set of fundamental AI technologies that will take us from today’s “narrow” AI to a new era of “broad” AI, where the potential of the technology can be unlocked across AI developers, enterprise adopters and end-users."The post IBM Publishes Compendium of Ai Research Papers appeared first on insideHPC.

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.