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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.

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the semi-annual TOP500 BoF presentation by Jack Dongarra.The TOP500 list of supercomputers serves as a “Who’s Who” in the field of High Performance Computing. "This BoF will present detailed analyses of the TOP500 and discuss the changes in the HPC marketplace during the past years. The BoF is meant as an open forum for discussion and feedback between the TOP500 authors and the user community."The post Radio Free HPC Looks at TOP500 Trends on the Road to Exascale appeared first on insideHPC.

The action of driving an automobile is destined to take a very different route in the coming years as autonomous cars become commonplace on our roadways. The notion of autonomous driving is both scary and exciting, pushing the boundaries of what we know. IBM takes a look at one of the most vexing technology challenges posed by autonomous vehicles: how to manage all the data used in artificial intelligence development.The post Solving the Data Management Challenge of Autonomous Driving appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Univa announced the release of Navops Launch 1.0, the latest version of the most powerful hybrid HPC cloud management product and a significant advancement in the migration of HPC workloads to the cloud. Navops Launch meshes public cloud services and on-premise clusters to cost-effectively meet increasing workload demand. "A unique automation engine allows Navops Launch to integrate third-party data sources, including storage fabric, management systems, cluster and cloud environment attributes."The post Moving HPC Workloads to the Cloud with Univa’s Navops Launch 1.0 appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from SC18 in Dallas, Michele De Lorenzi from CSCS in Switzerland provides an update on Piz Daint, the fastest supercomputer in Europe. "Recently upgraded with two additional cabinets full of NVIDIA V100 GPUs, the Cray XC50 system comes in at #5 in the world with 21.23 Petaflops of performance on the LINPACK benchmark."The post An Update on Piz Daint – the Fastest Supercomputer in Europe appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the DDN User Group at SC18 in Dallas, Brock Palen from the University of Michigan presents: HPC at the University of Michigan: A Multi‐Tenant, Multi‐Science Campus Service Provider. "Advanced Research Computing — Technology Services provides access to and support for advanced computing resources. ARC-TS facilitates new and more powerful approaches to research challenges in fields ranging from physics to linguistics, and from engineering to medicine."The post HPC at the University of Michigan: A Multi‐Tenant, Multi‐Science Campus Service Provider appeared first on insideHPC.

Raytheon in Tucson is seeking an Operations Research Simulation Engineer in our Job of the Week. "Our Modeling, Simulation and Analysis Center (MSA) headquarters in sunny Tucson, AZ, needs strong Simulation Developer and Analysts, who are ready to support Raytheon’s ongoing mission to support our war fighters and allies. Within the Systems Design & Performance directorate, MSA has the responsibility to provide, develop, and maintain performance and Operations Research simulations for all Raytheon Missiles Systems products, support new business initiatives and development and execution of technology roadmaps."The post Job of the Week: Operations Research Simulation Engineer at Raytheon in Tucson appeared first on insideHPC.

Last week at SC18, Micron announced that the company has joined CERN openlab, a unique public-private partnership, by signing a three-year agreement. Under the agreement, Micron will provide CERN with advanced next-generation memory solutions to further machine learning capabilities for high-energy physics experiments at the laboratory. Micron’s memory solutions that combine neural network capabilities will be tested in the data-acquisition systems of experiments at CERN.The post Micron Joins CERN openlab appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from SC18, Dr. Eng Lim Goh from HPE describes the Convergence of HPC and Ai. "Data analytics and insights are fueling innovation across scientific research, product and service design, customer experience management, and process optimization. Real-time analytics with in-memory computing, big data analytics, insights from simulation and modeling fueled by HPC and predictive analytics with artificial intelligence (AI) are core capabilities required by data-driven organizations looking to gain competitive advantage with their digital transformation initiatives."The post Dr. Eng Lim Goh Fireside Chat on the Convergence of HPC & Ai appeared first on insideHPC.

Last week at SC18 in Dallas, Univa announced a partnership with WekaIO, a high-performance scale-out file system storage company, to help enterprise customers accelerate the migration of their HPC workloads to the cloud. "Univa is working with WekaIO to integrate one of the industry’s fastest parallel file systems into its Navops Launch and offer customers a comprehensive, high-performance, hybrid cloud solution for HPC and machine learning workloads."The post Univa and WekaIO team to speed HPC Workloads in the Cloud appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the NVIDIA Showcase event at SC18, Jensen Huang hosts a demo of Singularity containers running a full galaxy simulation. "This has to be the best Container demo ever," said Huang. "As part of that effort, Huang announced new multi-node HPC and visualization containers for the NGC container registry, which allow supercomputing users to run GPU-accelerated applications on large-scale clusters. NVIDIA also announced a new NGC-Ready program, including workstations and servers from top vendors."The post Singularity Containers Power NVIDIA Full Galaxy Simulation appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from SC18, Philip Maher from Tyan describes how the company is packaging AMD EPYC processors with innovative server configurations for tackling data-intensive workloads. "AMD EPYC processors are based on the 14nm "Zen" x86 core architecture with 32 cores and 64 threads, featuring 8 memory channels and up to16 DIMMs per socket. The new powerful processor allows TYAN to offer the optimal balance of computing, memory and I/O for the customers. By adopting the latest AMD EPYC processor technology, TYAN brings high memory channel bandwidth and PCI Express high speed I/O connectivity features to enterprises and datacenters."The post AMD EPYC Powers Tyan Servers for Data-intensive Computing appeared first on insideHPC.

Last week at SC18, Atos announced support for AMD EPYC processors in its upcoming BullSequana X range of supercomputers. The next generation AMD EPYC processor (codenamed Rome) is expected to be available in Atos’ new BullSequana XH2000 liquid cooled supercomputer in 2019.The post Atos Adds AMD processors to BullSequana X Line of Supercomputers appeared first on insideHPC.

Last week at SC18 in Dallas, the Exascale Computing Project released a portion of the next version of collaboratively developed products that compose the ECP software stack, including libraries and embedded software compilers. "Mike Heroux, ECP Software Technology director, said in an interview at SC18 that the software pieces in this release represent new capabilities and, in most instances, are highly tested and quite robust, and point toward exascale computing architectures."The post Video: ECP Launches Extreme-Scale Scientific Software Stack 0.1 Beta appeared first on insideHPC.

Last week at SC18, Tyan showcased their Thunder SX GT62H-B7106 storage product line featuringIntel Xeon Scalable processors, large memory capacity and NVMe connectivity for high performance software defined storage applications. "New data-intensive applications, such as analytics and deep learning are changing data processing workflows. Data centers need powerful storage architectures that can extract economic value by managing massive amounts of data efficiently,” said Danny Hsu, Vice President of MiTAC Computing Technology Corporation’s TYAN Business Unit. ”The Thunder SX GT62H-B7106 is optimized for data center environment. The platform provides an outstanding foundation for all-flash storage by leveraging NVMe technology.”The post TYAN Storage Server Steps up with 10 NVMe Bays of High Performance Flash appeared first on insideHPC.

Last week at SC18, E8 Storage announced it is expanding its technology partnership with Mellanox with an integrated solution built on Mellanox BlueField SmartNICs. Customers will be able to maximize computing resources by pairing the E8 agent with the SmartNIC. The new integration will allow users to utilize the benefits of CPU offload to overcome any performance bottlenecks to application performance.The post Mellanox BlueField SmartNICs Accelerate E8 Storage appeared first on insideHPC.

The SC18 conference drew a record-breaking 13,071 attendees, making it the largest SC conference of all time. As the premier international conference showcasing high performance computing, networking, storage, and analysis, the conference and exhibition infused the local economy with more than $40 million in revenue, according to the local Dallas Convention Bureau.The post Record SC18 Attendance a Bellwether for Growth in HPC Market appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from SC18 in Dallas, Marc Hamilton from NVIDIA describe the all new overclocked DGX-2H supercomputer. Built by NVIDIA, a cluster of 36 DGX-2H devices with 3 Petaflops of LINPACK performance was just ranked #62 on the TOP500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers.The post Overclocked NVIDIA DGX-2H Cluster Lands at #61 on the TOP500 appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from SC18 in Dallas, Dr. Sofia Vallecorsa from CERN OpenLab describes how Ai is being used in design of experiments for the Large Hadron Collider. "An award-winning effort at CERN has demonstrated potential to significantly change how the physics based modeling and simulation communities view machine learning. The CERN team demonstrated that AI-based models have the potential to act as orders-of-magnitude-faster replacements for computationally expensive tasks in simulation, while maintaining a remarkable level of accuracy."The post Video: How Ai is helping Scientists with the Large Hadron Collider appeared first on insideHPC.

High performance computing manufacturers are increasingly deploying liquid cooling. To avoid damage to electronic equipment due to leaks, secure drip-free connections are essential. Quick disconnects for HPC applications simplify connector selection. And with expensive electronics at stake, understanding the components in liquid cooling systems is critical. This article details what to look for when seeking the optimal termination for connectors—a way to help ensure leak-free performance.The post The Right Terminations for Reliable Liquid Cooling in HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest post, Axel Huebl looks at the TOP500 and HPCG with an eye on power efficiency trends to watch on the road to Exascale. "This post will focus one efficiency, in terms of performance per Watt, simply because system power envelope is a major constrain for upcoming Exascale systems. With the great numbers from TOP500, we try to extend theoretical estimates from theoretical Flop/Ws of individual compute hardware to system scale."The post The Green HPCG List and the Road to Exascale appeared first on insideHPC.

Earlier this week CSC in Finland announced that Atos will build it's next-generation supercomputer for academic research. "The initial delivery will consist of the first partition of the supercomputer and its tightly integrated fast storage. The solution is based on next-generation Intel Xeon processors, code named Cascade Lake, and HDR InfiniBand interconnect from Mellanox."The post Atos to Build Finland’s Newest Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from CGTN, China's Tsinghua University takes the Student Cluster Competition at the SC18 conference in Dallas. The win was the final step in a Triple Crown for the team, as they won similar competitions in Asia and Germany earlier this year. "With sponsorship from hardware and software vendor partners, student teams design and build small clusters, learn designated scientific applications, apply optimization techniques for their chosen architectures, and compete in a non-stop, 48-hour challenge at the SC conference to complete a real-world scientific workload, showing off their HPC knowledge for conference attendees and judges."The post Video: China’s Tsinhua University Takes the Student Cluster Competition appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks back on the highlights of SC18 and the newest TOP500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers.Buddy Bland shows off Summit, the world’s fastest supercomputer at ORNL. "The latest TOP500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers is out, a remarkable ranking that shows five Department of Energy supercomputers in the top 10, with the first two captured by Summit at Oak Ridge and Sierra at Livermore. With the number one and number two systems on the planet, the “Rebel Alliance” vendors of IBM, Mellanox, and NVIDIA stand far and tall above the others."The post Radio Free HPC Runs Down the TOP500 Fastest Supercomputers appeared first on insideHPC.

The Institute of Defense Analyses (IDA) in La Jolla is seeking a Lead Systems Engineer in our Job of the Week. "We are seeking a Lead Systems Engineer, who with minimal supervision, envisions, designs, administers, and maintains multiple IT systems, servers and software. Applies advanced subject matter expertise to develop solutions to solve a full range of complex problems."The post Job of the Week: Lead Systems Engineer at Defense Analyses (IDA) in San Diego appeared first on insideHPC.

Two months after its introduction, the NVIDIA T4 GPU is featured in 57 separate server designs from the world’s leading computer makers. It is also available in the cloud, with the first availability of the T4 for Google Cloud Platform customers. "Just 60 days after the T4’s launch, it’s now available in the cloud and is supported by a worldwide network of server makers. The T4 gives today’s public and private clouds the performance and efficiency needed for compute-intensive workloads at scale.”The post NVIDIA’s New Turing T4 GPU is going gangbusters in the Cloud Space appeared first on insideHPC.

"With Bitfusion along with Mellanox and VMWare, IT can now offer an ability to mix bare metal and virtual machine environments, such that GPUs in any configuration can be attached to any virtual machine in the organization, enabling easy access of GPUs to everyone in the organization,” said Subbu Rama, co-founder and chief product officer, Bitfusion. “IT can now pool together resources and offer an elastic GPU as a service to their organizations.”The post Bitfusion Enables InfiniBand-Attached GPUs on Any VM appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from SC18 in Dallas, Thor Sewell from Intel describes the company's pending Cascade Lake Advanced Performance chip. "This next-gen platform doubles the cores per socket from an Intel system by joining a number of Cascade Lake Xeon dies together on a single package with the blue team's Ultra Path Interconnect, or UPI. Intel will allow Cascade Lake-AP servers to employ up to two-socket (2S) topologies, for as many as 96 cores per server."The post Intel Offers Sneak Peek at Cascade Lake Advanced Performance edition for HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from SC18, Raj Hazra describes how Intel is driving the convergence of HPC and Ai. "To meet the new computational challenges presented by this AI and HPC convergence, HPC is expanding beyond its traditional role of modeling and simulation to encompass visualization, analytics, and machine learning. Intel scientists and engineers will be available to discuss how to implement AI capabilities into your current HPC environments and demo how new, more powerful HPC platforms can be applied to meet your computational needs now and in the future."The post Video: Intel Driving HPC on the Road to Exascale appeared first on insideHPC.

Indiana University staff and faculty will build the world’s first single-channel 400-gigabit-per-second-capable network for research and education at SC18. The connection will be capable of transmitting 50 gigabytes of data every second—or, enough to stream 16,000 ultra-high-definition movie. The demonstration, “Wide area workflows at 400 Gbps,” is IU’s submission to the conference’s annual Network Research Exhibition, which spotlights innovation in emerging network hardware, protocols, and advanced network-intensive scientific applications.The post Indiana University Demonstrates World’s First Single-Channel 400G Network appeared first on insideHPC.

"Cloud computing offers a potential solution by allowing people to create and access computing resources on demand. Yet meeting the complex software demands of an HPC application can be quite challenging in a cloud environment. In addition, running HPC workloads on virtualized infrastructure may result in unacceptable performance penalties for some workloads. Because of these issues, relatively few organizations have run production HPC work- loads in either private or public clouds."The post How Intel is Fostering HPC in the Cloud appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from SC18 in Dallas, Trish Damkroger describes how Intel is pushing the limits of HPC and Machine Learning with a full suite of Hardware, Software, and Cloud technologies. "

Today HLRS in Germany announced plans to deploy next-generation supercomputer for HLRS, 3.5 times faster than its current system. The upcoming system, which HLRS has named Hawk, will be the world’s fastest supercomputer for industrial production, powering computational engineering and research across science and industrial fields to advance applications in energy, climate, mobility, and health.The post HPE to build Hawk Supercomputer for HLRS in Germany appeared first on insideHPC.

"The emerging AI community on HPC infrastructure is critical to achieving the vision of AI," said Pradeep Dubey, Intel Fellow. "Machines that don’t just crunch numbers, but help us make better and more informed complex decisions. Scalability is the key to AI-HPC so scientists can address the big compute, big data challenges facing them and to make sense from the wealth of measured and modeled or simulated data that is now available to them."The post How Intel is Driving the Convergence of HPC & Ai appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from SC18 in Dallas, Dieter Kranzlmueller from LRZ in Germany describes how Intel powers the SuperMUC-NG supercomputer. "The 19.4 Petaflop machine ranks number 8 among the fastest supercomputers in the world. SuperMUC-NG is in its start-up phase, and will be ready for full production runs in 2019. The machine, build in partnership with Lenovo and Intel, has a theoretical peak of 26.9 petaflops, and is comprised of 6,400 compute nodes based on Intel Xeon Scalable processors."The post Intel Powers SuperMUC-NG Supercomputer at LRZ in Germany appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Hyperion Research announced that the winner of the 2018 Hyperion Award for Innovation Excellence goes to UberCloud and its project partners. "This work represents a breakthrough in demonstrating the high value of computational modeling and simulation in improving the clinical application of non-invasive electro-stimulation of the human brain in schizophrenia and the potential to apply this technology to the treatment of other neuropsychiatric disorders such as depression and Parkinson’s disease."The post UberCloud Wins Hyperion HPC Innovation Excellence Award with Neuromodulation Project appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Ayar Labs announced that Charlie Wuischpard, former vice president and general manager at Intel, has joined Ayar Labs as CEO and a member of the board of directors. “With his track record of driving growth in both small and large companies, forming deep trusted relationships with high performance computing industry participants, and delivering value to stakeholders, we know he will lead Ayar Labs to growth in the advanced computing and data center markets.”The post HPC Veteran Charlie Wuischpard Joins Optical Startup Ayar Labs appeared first on insideHPC.

Today OrionX Research today announced that Bitcoin and BTC.com top the first release of the CryptoSuper500 list. The list recognizes cryptocurrency mining as a new form of supercomputing and tracks the top mining pools. “The growth of the cryptocurrency market has put the spotlight on emerging decentralized applications, the new ways in which they are funded, and the software stack on which they are built.” Cryptocurrency technologies include blockchain, consensus algorithms, digital wallets, and utility and security tokens.The post Podcast: Announcing the New CryptoSuper500 List appeared first on insideHPC.