High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC

Earlier this week, the European Commission outlined a three-pronged approach to increase public and private investment in AI, prepare for socio-economic changes, and ensure an appropriate ethical and legal framework. "Ai presents new challenges that Europe should meet together in order for AI to succeed and work for everyone. We need to invest at least €20 billion by the end of 2020. The Commission is playing its part: today, we are giving a boost to researchers so that they can develop the next generation of AI technologies and applications, and to companies, so that they can embrace and incorporate them."The post European Commission to Boost Investments in Ai appeared first on insideHPC.

Hyperion Research reports that worldwide factory revenue for the high-performance computing (HPC) technical server market jumped 27.6% to $3.7 billion in the second quarter of 2018 (2Q18), up from $2.9 billion in the same period of 2017, according to the newly released Hyperion Research Worldwide High-Performance Technical Server QView. Sequentially, second-quarter 2018 HPC server revenue grew 16.7% over the $3.2 billion figure in the first quarter of 2018.The post HPC Server Market Jumps 27.6% in 2Q 2018 appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Mike Bernhardt from ECP discusses the CANDLE project for Exascale with Rick Stevens from Argonne. "CANDLE is endeavoring to build the software environment for solving very large-scale distributed learning problems on the DOE Leadership Computing platforms."The post Video: Rick Stevens from Argonne on the CANDLE Project for Exascale appeared first on insideHPC.

In this sponsored post from Ian Colle, General Manager-AWS Batch and HPC, for Amazon Web Services, he explores how we are always looking for resources to "do everything we want to do." What if the number of cores were virtually unlimited?The post Innovation Unbound: What Would You do with a Million Cores? appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the HPC User Forum in Detroit, Muhsin Ameen from Argonne National Laboratory presents: Towards Exascale Engine Simulations with NEK5000. "High-order methods have the potential to overcome the current limitations of standard CFD solvers. For this reason, we have been developing and improving the spectral element code NEK5000 for more than 30 years now."The post Towards Exascale Engine Simulations with NEK5000 appeared first on insideHPC.

"Over two decades, Intel continued its efforts to refine libraries optimized to coax the greatest performance from Intel® processors. In this video, Noah Clemons, staff technical consulting engineer at Intel talks about the latest specialized libraries and their contributions for highly-optimized applications."The post Maximum Performance, Minimum Effort: Intel® Performance Libraries appeared first on insideHPC.

Just one year after launch, Microsoft is touting their progress towards building Quantum Computing as a Service. "The Microsoft Quantum Development Kit is the fastest path to quantum development. Available for Linux, MacOS, and Windows, you now are just a few steps away from accessing local quantum simulators or in Azure."The post Microsoft is Making Progress on Quantum Computing as a Service appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Intel introduced the Intel Programmable Acceleration Card (PAC) with Intel Stratix 10 SX FPGA. The card leverages the Acceleration Stack for Intel Xeon CPU with FPGAs, providing data center developers a robust platform to deploy FPGA-based accelerated workloads.The post Intel Beefs up FPGA Line appeared first on insideHPC.

A new supercomputer called “Noctua” was inaugurated recently at Paderborn University. The high-performance computing system is expected to be one of the ten most powerful university installations within Germany. "Integrating a high ratio of state-of-the-art FPGAs in an advanced supercomputer cluster system will provide a remarkable heterogeneous computing platform that enables researchers to perform a new dimension of experiments."The post Noctua Supercomputer Inaugurated at Paderborn University appeared first on insideHPC.

Last week, Rescale announced the launch of its Powered by Rescale program with IBM as its first partner. "With the Powered by Rescale program, partners can deliver their product and/or service to customers as part of an end-to-end solution under their brand. This allows partners in the simulation and HPC space to participate in net-new cloud business opportunities while maintaining focus on their core technology and competency."The post Rescale Partners Program to Deliver Big Compute to Enterprise Customers appeared first on insideHPC.

Norm Marks from NVIDIA gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "Fueled by advances in artificial intelligence, cars are getting smart enough to begin to drive themselves. But autonomous vehicles will do more than change how we get around. They have the potential to dramatically reduce the number of car crashes, shrink carbon emissions, and provide mobility to people who can’t drive."The post Video: End to End Needs for Autonomous Vehicles appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Mellanox announced that InfiniBand has been chosen to accelerate the new Eagle supercomputer at NREL. The pending 8 Petaflop system will consist of more than 2100 nodes and deliver 3 times the performance compared to NREL’s current supercomputing platform. Eagle will be put into production in January 2019. "The Eagle supercomputer will enable NREL’s researchers to run increasingly detailed models that simulate complex processes and phenomena, to gain new insights and innovations in energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies,” said Steve Hammond, NREL's Computational Science Director at NREL."The post Mellanox InfiniBand to Power Eagle Supercomputer coming to NREL appeared first on insideHPC.

Bryan Goodman from Ford gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Detroit. "The Ford GDI&A – situated in greater Detroit, Palo Alto, Chennai and Shanghai – is a growing team committed to enable Ford to see our business, know our customers, and act in a meaningful way. We enable evidence based decision making by providing timely, actionable, and forward-looking insights to our Ford business partners. Together our team works to understand our changing world, identify new opportunities, and take action to design and innovate for the future of mobility – Ford’s vehicles and surrounding experiences."The post Video: Use of HPC for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at Ford appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team catches up with Brent Gorda to discuss the future of ARM in HPC. "Brent Gorda leads the HPC business for Arm. Prior to this recent role, he spent a year consulting (HPC/Quantum/AI) and advising startup CEO’s in Silicon Valley. Earlier in his career, he founded Whamcloud, which he sold to Intel and served as the General Manager for Intel’s High Performance Data Division. Brent has also served on many advisory boards (SCxy, Cray Research, Westera) and founded the Student Cluster Competition."The post Radio Free HPC Talks to Brent Gorda on the Future of ARM HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

Over at the Microsoft Blog, Rebecca Thompson writes that Avere vFXT software for Azure delivers new possibilities for running HPC workloads in the cloud. "With this new software solution, you can now easily connect on-premises infrastructure to Azure compute or “lift and shift” file-based workloads in Azure to run between Azure blob in the same manner."The post Microsoft Previews Avere vFXT for Azure appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, researchers use NERSC supercomputers to discover new battery materials. "The DOE's InnovationXLab Energy Storage Summit took place September 18-19, 2018 at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Silicon Valley. Energy storage is one of the biggest challenges to unlocking the potential from the next generation of transportation and electricity grid technologies. The Summit will showcase the broad array of technical resources available from across DOE’s National Lab complex that can be leveraged by industry to address these challenges."The post Video: Tackling Energy Storage Challenges at America’s National Labs appeared first on insideHPC.

Steve Legensky from Intelligent Light gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Detroit. "CFD may be complex, but Intelligent Light’s goal is simple: our customers’ success. Intelligent Light solutions unlock the power and value of a highly productive CFD workflow for engineering and research organizations in variety of industries around the world."The post Data Science meets CFD: FieldView Analytics in Engineering appeared first on insideHPC.

Argo AI in Pittsburgh is seeking a Software Engineer for Perception Infrastructure in our Job of the Week. "With offices in Pittsburgh, the Bay Area of California, Southeastern Michigan and Central New Jersey, we are building a high-performance team that is excited by complex engineering challenges and is passionate about making transportation safer, more affordable and accessible for all."The post Job of the Week: Software Engineer for Perception Infrastructure at Argo AI appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, W. Richard Peltier and Daniel Gruner describes how SciNet in Canada is powering climate research. To support vital scientific research in fields as diverse as astrophysics, biomedicine and climate science, SciNet beefed up its high-performance computing resources with a Lenovo ThinkSystem supercomputer 10 times more powerful than its predecessor. "The 4.6 Petaflop supercomputer will help Canadian researchers achieve meaningful results in artificial intelligence, astrophysics, climate change, oceanic research and other disciplines using big data."The post SciNet pushes Scientific Boundaries on Climate Research appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the HPC User Forum in Detroit, John Turner, Oak Ridge National Laboratory presents: ExaAM - Transforming Additive Manufacturing through Exascale Simulation. "The goal of ExaAM is to develop an AM simulator that will give researchers a tool to determine the best method to print parts with complex geometries and site-specific properties, complemented by real-time, in situ process visualization, analyses and optimization. Coupled with a modern computer-aided design tool, the simulator will allow the routine use of AM to build unique, qualifiable metal alloy parts across many industries relevant to DOE."The post Video: ExaAM – Transforming Additive Manufacturing through Exascale Simulation appeared first on insideHPC.

Debugging can prove a substantial challenge, even for experienced engineers. In this video, Soflen Shih, a technical consulting engineer at Intel, discusses the benefits of Intel System Studio and how its built-in functionality can make the debugging process much easier. "Intel System Studio contains libraries, performance analyzers, and compilers as well as profiling and debugging tools. The combination of these elements provides a complete developer solution to assist with platform bring-up, power optimization, thermal tuning, and system performance profiling."The post Debugging for Success and Accelerated Platform Bring-Up appeared first on insideHPC.

Supermicro's new SuperServer 6049GP-TRT provides the superior performance required to accelerate the diverse applications of modern AI. "We see the combination of NVIDIA TensorRT and the new Turing architecture based T4 GPU Accelerator as the ideal combination for these new demanding and latency-sensitive workloads and are aggressively leveraging them in our GPU system product line."The post Supermicro Ai Supercomputer Sports 20 NVIDIA Tesla T4 Accelerators in 4U appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Cray announced that the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) has awarded the Company a contract valued at $9 million for a Cray XC50 supercomputer and Cray ClusterStor L300F storage system. The new supercomputer, paired with the scale-out Lustre storage solution, will provide high-performance capabilities for IBS to expand research in climate physics and work toward its goal of improving decadal earth system forecasts and long-term future climate projections.The post Cray XC50 Supercomputer coming to Institute for Basic Science in South Korea appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest feature, Ellexus CEO Rosemary Francis writes that the convergence of HPC and Ai is already changing the landscape in the world of supercomputing. "It is only as machines get faster that they are able to get cleverer. This means that more and more industries are becoming interested in making supercomputers even more powerful and investment in the exascale goal will increase."The post Can we use Machine Learning to Learn about Machines? appeared first on insideHPC.

Ronald Grover from GM gave this talk at the HPC User Conference. "Ronald Grover his colleagues at GM are using the Titan supercomputer at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), a US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility at DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), to improve combustion models for diesel passenger car engines with an ultimate goal of accelerating innovative engine designs while meeting strict emissions standards."The post Supercomputing More Fuel-Efficient Engines at GM appeared first on insideHPC.

Running HPC in the cloud enables organizations to select and deploy an optimal set of services for their unique applications, and to pay only for what they use. This sponsored post from AWS explores how the cloud HPC market is growing at a significant rate and accelerating HPC innovation. "With HPC in the cloud, computational scientists and commercial HPC users can gain rapid access to resources they need without a burdensome procurement process."The post Imagine HPC with the Power of the Cloud appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, the Fortissimo Project describes their success with Cloud-based-HPC optimization of manufacturing processes. "Fortissimo is a collaborative project that enables European SMEs to be more competitive globally through the use of simulation services running on a High Performance Computing cloud infrastructure."The post Video: Cloud-based-HPC Optimization of Manufacturing Processes appeared first on insideHPC.

Prof. Aviral Shrivastava from Arizona State University gave this talk at the ARM Research Summit. "Prof. Aviral Shrivastava is Associate Professor in the School of Computing Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering at the Arizona State University, where he has established and heads the Compiler and Microarchitecture Labs (CML)."The post Video: Energy Efficient Acceleration of RNNs using CGRA appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Cray announced that it has delivered and installed a Cray XC50 supercomputer and a ClusterStor L300 storage system at Railway Technical Research Institute (RTRI), the research and development arm for Japan Railways Group. The supercomputer will be used to perform railway research in the areas of applying new technologies and materials, enhancing simulation techniques, analyzing railway-specific phenomena and improving evaluation methods.The post Cray Supercomputer Powers Japan’s Railway Technical Research Institute appeared first on insideHPC.

Python is now the most popular programming language, according to IEEE Spectrum’s fifth annual interactive ranking of programming languages, ahead of C++ and C. Recent Intel Distributions for Python show that real HPC performance can be achieved with compilers and library packages optimized for the latest Intel architectures. Moreover, the library packages targeted for big data analysis and numerical computation included in this distribution now support scaling for multi-core and many-core processors as well as distributed cluster and cloud infrastructures.The post Intel Performance Libraries Accelerate Python Performance for HPC and Data Science appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Versity Software announced that it has open sourced ScoutFS, a new scale out archiving filesystem. "ScoutFS is the first GPL archiving file system ever released, creating an inherently safer and more user-friendly option for storing archival data where accessibility over very large time scales and the removal of vendor-specific risk is a key consideration."The post Versity Open Sources Next Generation Archiving Filesystem appeared first on insideHPC.

Over at the Univa Blog, Gary Tyreman writes that the company sponsored an industry-wide survey to better understand what key challenges our HPC users are currently facing that are preventing them from moving their machine learning (ML) projects into production. "Our goal is to use this data to help guide our customers and recommend the right set of tools and migration options needed to accelerate value in machine learning."The post Survey Foretells Explosive Growth in Machine Learning Projects Over Next Two Years appeared first on insideHPC.

Andy Warner from HPE gave this talk at the ARM Research Summit. "The Arm HPC user Group hosted by going Arm workshop, will enable attendees to take in technical presentations by fellow applications programmers and tool authors who are currently using the Arm platform. This workshop is all about sharing experiences and knowledge. Attendees will gain from the first-hand knowledge of experienced scientific application programmers writing for the Arm platform, including topics such as: optimizing for 64-bit Arm, memory systems, scalability and vectorization."The post Video: Leading the charge for ARM in HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

Over at the NVIDIA Blog, Geetika Gupta writes that the company's powerful GPUs are being used by five of the six Gordon Bell Prize finalists. Just announced by ACM, these world-leading researchers did their work on the new NVIDIA GPU-accelerated Summit system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Sierra system at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.The post 5 of 6 Gordon Bell Finalists use NVIDIA Volta Tensor Core GPUs appeared first on insideHPC.

Hyperion Research has posted the speaker agenda for their upcoming HPC User Forum in Stuttgart. The two-day event takes place October 1-2, 2018 (midday to midday) at the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS). "The agenda will focus on HPC developments in Europe, including updates on quantum technologies, the European Processor Initiative and the Fortissimo Project for SMEs, along with perspectives from the Gauss Center for Supercomputing and the directors of Germany's national supercomputing centers."The post Agenda Posted: HPC User Forum in Stuttgart appeared first on insideHPC.

David Kepczynski from GE gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Detroit. "David Kepczynski from GE Global Research was recently apponted as the new chair of the ECP Industry Council, an external advisory group of executives from some of the nation’s most prominent companies with a collaborative interest in bringing the potential of exascale computing to a wide range of industry segments."The post Industry HPC Trends & Advocacy appeared first on insideHPC.

Liquid cooling for HPCs is increasingly common. 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.

This insideHPC guide series explores how artificial intelligence is revolutionizing and evolving the media and entertainment industries. To get things started, this post offers up an overview of how AI is impacting the entertainment industry and the future of these sectors.The post How AI is Changing the Media & Entertainment Industry appeared first on insideHPC.

Today One Stop Systems introduced the world’s first PCIe Gen 4 cable adapter, the HIB68-x16. "OSS has consistently been the first-to-market with each generation of PCIe cable adapters and Gen 4 is no exception,” said Steve Cooper, CEO of OSS. “OSS cable adapters form the core of our high-performance computing products, and this new Gen 4 adapter offers double the IO performance for our customers in the HPC, military, media and entertainment markets. They can now take advantage of the additional bandwidth available in Gen 4-equipped servers and be ready when Gen 4 IO cards hit the market.”The post One Stop Systems Introduces World’s First Gen 4 PCIe Cable Adapter appeared first on insideHPC.

In this episode of Ai News, David Shaw examines the question: is Ai tangible or realistic? "Naveen believes that we have to start at the beginning, in elementary schools, and try to model curriculum with AI in mind. Just as kids learn skills like typing in school, they might also gain some guided computational skills. When it comes to STEM, more schools can try to incentivize students to excel in these fields by providing more grants and scholarships."The post Video: How Governments Can Get Involved in Artificial Intelligence appeared first on insideHPC.

The ARM Research Summit has posted their Speaker List and Meeting Agenda. Livestreaming from event in U.K. will start on Sept. 17, 2018. "At the Arm Research Summit, academics, researchers and industry experts meet to discuss the latest developments in computing research and practical computing challenges. This year, we invite you to explore issues around creating a truly connected world, including the social, cultural and economic impact of a reality where over one trillion devices are seamlessly linked."The post Agenda Posted: ARM Research Summit Sept. 17-19 appeared first on insideHPC.

Mark Fernandez from HPE gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Detroit. "It’s been almost 12 months since HPE and NASA sent the first ever commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) computer system — the Spaceborne Computer — to the International Space Station (ISS). As part of an experiment to operate seamlessly in the harsh conditions of space for one year – about the amount of time it will take to travel to Mars — Spaceborne is literally going faster and further than any other COTS supercomputer has been before."The post Video: 1 Year Later, the HPE Spaceborne Supercomputer Keeps on Trucking appeared first on insideHPC.

"Mentor’s LightSuite Photonic Compiler represents a quantum leap in automating what has up to now been a highly manual, full-custom process that required deep knowledge of photonics as well as electronics,” said Joe Sawicki, vice president and general manager of the Design-to-Silicon Division at Mentor, a Siemens business. “With the new LightSuite Photonic Compiler, Mentor is enabling more companies to push the envelope in creating integrated photonic designs.”The post Video: Hewlett Packard Labs teams with Mentor for LightSuite Photonic Compiler appeared first on insideHPC.

R-Systems is seeking an HPC Systems Engineer in our Job of the Week. "R Systems is a service provider of high performance computing resources. The company empowers research by providing leading edge technology with an accessible and knowledgeable tech team, delivering the best performing result in a user friendly environment. Offerings include lease-time for bursting as well as for short-term and long-term projects, available at industry-leading prices."The post Job of the Week: HPC Systems Engineer at R-Systems appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the HPC User Forum in Detroit, Earl Joseph from Hyperion Research presents an HPC Market Update. The company helps IT professionals, business executives, and the investment community make fact-based decisions on technology purchases and business strategy. "Our industry experts are the former IDC high performance computing (HPC) analyst team, which remains intact and continues all of its global activities. The group is comprised of the world’s most respected HPC industry analysts who have worked together for more than 25 years."The post Video: HPC Market Update from Hyperion Research appeared first on insideHPC.

Parallelism helps applications make the best use of processors on single or multiple devices. However, parallelism implementation itself can prove a challenging task. In this video, Mike Voss, principal engineer with the Core and Visual Computing Group at Intel discusses the benefits of Intel® Threading Building Blocks (Intel® TBB), a C++ library, and how it can simplify the work of adding parallelism without the need to probe into threading details.The post Expressing Parallelism in C++ with Threading Building Blocks appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the SC18 conference announced that Erik Brynjolfsson from MIT will deliver the keynote address on Tuesday, Nov. 13 in Dallas. "We set out to inspire our attendees with the most compelling thought leaders,” said SC18 General Chair Ralph McEldowney. “Erik’s insights and perspectives will make a weighty centerpiece for the SC18 experience. We are thrilled to welcome such an agile thinker and astute articulator of complex landscapes to our keynote stage,” McEldowney said.The post Erik Brynjolfsson from MIT to Keynote SC18 appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Appentra Solutions released their newest HPC training assistance tool, Parallelware Trainer 1.0, an interactive learning environment where users can learn how to parallelize while interacting with real code. For educators, the tool provides the ability to enhance traditional lecture-based training by allowing learners to apply their knowledge in real-time. "Appentra’s goal has always been to minimize and eventually remove the parallel software development barrier, democratizing access to HPC and making parallel computing easier for everyone. With the release of Parallelware Trainer 1.0 we bring this one step closer."The post Learn to Code for Parallel HPC with Appentra Parallelware Trainer 1.0 appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the NSF announced that a University of Oklahoma team led by Henry Neeman is the recipient of a National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation grant. The $967,755 award will be used for a new academic research data storage instrument—a massive tape archive known as the OU and Regional Research Store, which will serve as a national model for affordable, large-scale, multi-institutional storage.The post NSF Awards Instrumentation Grant for Research Data Archiving at University of Oklahoma appeared first on insideHPC.