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Ubercloud Posts 2018 Compendium of HPC Cloud Case Studies
Our friends at the UberCloud have published their 2018 Compendium of HPC Cloud Case Studies. "The Annual UberCloud Compendium of Case Studies is out! This is the 5th edition of this set of case studies relating to the world of Technical Computing. This year's collection features case studies based on 13 select UberCloud Experiments, and the whole project is sponsored once again by Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Intel."The post Ubercloud Posts 2018 Compendium of HPC Cloud Case Studies appeared first on insideHPC.
Radio Free HPC Looks at China’s Exascale System Prototypes
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at China’s new ARM-based Exascale supercomputer prototype. "The Sunway exascale computer prototype is very much like a concept car that can run on road,” said Yang Meihong, director of the National Supercomputing Center in Jinan. “We expect to build the exascale computer in the second half of 2020 or the first half of 2021."The post Radio Free HPC Looks at China’s Exascale System Prototypes appeared first on insideHPC.
Supercomputing Cardiac Arrhythmias
A team of researchers led by Mark Potse from Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest research centre are using high performance computing to study heart arrhythmias. It is hoped that this research will lead to better treatment and diagnosis of this condition. "HPC offers enormous potential to advance healthcare through the advances in new therapies and treatments. From understanding the nature of diseases to discovering new drugs and even paradigm shifts in the way that healthcare is delivered such as the development of precision medicine."The post Supercomputing Cardiac Arrhythmias appeared first on insideHPC.
Video: Recent Results and Open Problems for Resilience at Scale
In this video from PASC18, Yves Robert from École normale supérieure de Lyon in France presents: Recent Results and Open Problems for Resilience at Scale. "The talk will address the following three questions: (i) fail-stop errors: checkpointing or replication or both? (ii) silent errors: application-specific detectors or plain old trustworthy replication? In terms of workflows: how to avoid checkpointing every task?"The post Video: Recent Results and Open Problems for Resilience at Scale appeared first on insideHPC.
Toronto Startup Launches HPCBOX – An Elastic HPC Cloud Platform
Today Toronto startup Drizti announced the availability of HPCBOX, a desktop-centric, intelligent workflow cloud HPC platform for automating and executing application pipelines. "HPCBOX introduces an innovative method of plugging in cloud infrastructure into application pipelines and provides a rich desktop experience, including hardware accelerated remote graphics technology for authoring workflows with its workflow editor. Users from multiple industry verticals, like Manufacturing, Packaging, Automotive, Renewable Energy, Aerospace etc., who use Simulation Engineering, AI, or Machine Learning technologies and require HPC can cut costs can immensely benefit from this turn-key HPC cloud platform."The post Toronto Startup Launches HPCBOX – An Elastic HPC Cloud Platform appeared first on insideHPC.
Job of the Week: HPC Architecture and Performance Engineer at LBNL
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab is seeking an HPC Architecture and Performance Engineer in our Job of the Week. "Berkeley Lab’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) has an opening for a Computer Systems Engineer 3. The incumbent will contribute to an on-going Advanced Technology Group (ATG) group effort to develop a complete understanding of the issues that lead to improved application and computer system performance on extreme-scale advanced architectures. As a team member, they will contribute to efforts for NERSC in evaluating existing and emerging High Performance Computing (HPC) systems by analyzing the performance characteristics of leading-edge DOE Office of Science application codes."The post Job of the Week: HPC Architecture and Performance Engineer at LBNL appeared first on insideHPC.
There’s still Time to register for HPC User Forum in Detroit – Agenda targets AI, Autonomous Cars, & Sensor Networks
There's still Time to register for HPC User Forum in Detroit. The meeting takes place September 4-6 in Dearborn, Michigan. Key topics include AI and other advanced analytics, automated driving systems a.k.a. self-driving vehicles, additive manufacturing and HPC in clouds (and outer space!). "If AI is in your crosshairs, you won't want to miss the next HPC User Forum in Dearborn, Michigan. Aside from tackling leadership computing initiatives in the U.S. and around the world, the meeting will zero in on artificial intelligence use cases on prem and in the cloud, especially self-driving vehicle development and urban sensor networks."The post There’s still Time to register for HPC User Forum in Detroit – Agenda targets AI, Autonomous Cars, & Sensor Networks appeared first on insideHPC.
The Rigetti 128-qubit chip — What it means for quantum
Chad Rigetti writes that his company is building a 128-qubit quantum computer over the next 12 months. The company has already built the 128-qubit processing chip. If successful, it could be the world’s most powerful quantum computer and it could have the chance to outpace traditional supercomputers. "To drive practical use of quantum computing today, we must be able to scale and improve the performance of the chips and connect them to the electronics on which they run — which has proven to be one of the most challenging aspects of quantum computing."The post The Rigetti 128-qubit chip — What it means for quantum appeared first on insideHPC.
Supercomputing HIV-1 Replication at TACC
Researchers are using TACC supercomputers in the fight against HIV. In a new study published in Nature, a team led by Cornell researcher found the naturally-occurring compound IP6 promotes both assembly and maturation of HIV-1. "We discovered, in collaboration with other researchers, that HIV uses this small molecule to complete its function," said Juan R. Perilla, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware. "This is a molecule that's extremely available in human cells and in other mammalian cells. HIV has evolved to make use of these small molecules present in our cells to essentially be infectious."The post Supercomputing HIV-1 Replication at TACC appeared first on insideHPC.
Julia 1.0 release Opens the Doors for a Connected World
Today Julia Computing announced the Julia 1.0 programming language release. As the first complete, reliable, stable and forward-compatible Julia release, version 1.0 is the fastest, simplest and most productive open-source programming language for scientific, numeric and mathematical computing. "During the last six and a half years, Julia has reached more than 2 million downloads and early adopters have already put Julia into production to power self-driving cars, robots, 3D printers and applications in precision medicine, augmented reality, genomics, energy trading, machine learning, financial risk management and space mission planning."The post Julia 1.0 release Opens the Doors for a Connected World appeared first on insideHPC.
Dr. Eng Lim Goh presents: Prediction – Use Science or History?
Dr. Eng Lim Goh from HPE gave this keynote talk at PASC18. "Traditionally, scientific laws have been applied deductively - from predicting the performance of a pacemaker before implant, downforce of a Formula 1 car, pricing of derivatives in finance or the motion of planets for a trip to Mars. With Artificial Intelligence, we are starting to also use the data-intensive inductive approach, enabled by the re-emergence of Machine Learning which has been fueled by decades of accumulated data."The post Dr. Eng Lim Goh presents: Prediction – Use Science or History? appeared first on insideHPC.
Video: New Cascade Lake Xeons to Speed Ai with Intel Deep Learning Boost
This week at the Data-Centric Innovation Summit, Intel laid out their near-term Xeon roadmap and plans to augment their AVX-512 instruction set to boost machine learning performance. "This dramatic performance improvement and efficiency - up to twice as fast as the current generation - is delivered by using a single instruction to handle INT8 convolutions for deep learning inference workloads which required three separate AVX-512 instructions in previous generation processors."The post Video: New Cascade Lake Xeons to Speed Ai with Intel Deep Learning Boost appeared first on insideHPC.
Video: Neutrino Telescope Data Management and Analysis
In this video from PASC18, Tessa Carver from the University of Geneva presents: Neutrino Telescope Data Management and Analysis. "We will describe the data flow structure of onsite DAQ to filtered steams for various physics scopes of IceCube and ANTARES and the plans for KM3NeT. The Data formats and data management software will also be described as well as plans for making data public."The post Video: Neutrino Telescope Data Management and Analysis appeared first on insideHPC.
DDN Building New Flash Enterprise Virtualization and Analytics Division
Today DDN announced it is rapidly hiring engineers, support and sales team members for its newly-created Server Virtualization, Analytics, VDI, Container and DevOps division. The new division will focus on helping enterprises get the most value out of their flash, virtualized and containerized hybrid cloud environments. The company is targeting to complete this round of hiring by the end of September. "We are well on our way to achieving a critical team size of 100 people for our development, support and delivery of leading flash-based enterprise virtualization, analytics, and containerized storage solutions," said Alex Bouzari, DDN CEO and co-founder.The post DDN Building New Flash Enterprise Virtualization and Analytics Division appeared first on insideHPC.
SkyScale: GPU Cloud Computing with a Difference
In this guest post, Tim Miller, president of SkyScale, covers how GPU cloud computing is on the fast track to crossing the chasm to widespread adoption for HPC applications. "Two good examples of very different markets adopting GPU computing and where cloud usage makes sense are artificial intelligence and high quality rendering."The post SkyScale: GPU Cloud Computing with a Difference appeared first on insideHPC.
Thierry Pellegrino on What’s New at the Dell HPC Community
In this video from the Dell EMC HPC Community Meeting, VP Thierry Pellegrino describes how AI and HPC are coming together to foster innovation. "The newly announced Dell EMC Ready Solutions for AI were built to simplify Machine Learning, deliver faster, deeper insights, and leverage Dell EMC’s proven AI expertise. Organizations no longer have to individually source and piece together their own solutions. Instead, they can rely on a Dell EMC-designed and validated set of best-of-breed technologies for software – including AI frameworks and libraries – with compute, networking and storage."The post Thierry Pellegrino on What’s New at the Dell HPC Community appeared first on insideHPC.
Podcast: Enabling Developers for the Persistent Memory Revolution
In this Chip Chat podcast, Jennifer Huffstetler speaks to the key benefits that Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory will deliver to end users and how Intel is working to support the development community to enable best use of this groundbreaking technology. Resources for Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory now have reached more than 100,000 developers and see more than 10,000 developer users each month. Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory will be available for first access by the end of 2018.The post Podcast: Enabling Developers for the Persistent Memory Revolution appeared first on insideHPC.
David Bader on Real World Challenges for Big Data Analytics
In this video from PASC18, David Bader from Georgia Tech summarizes his keynote talk on Big Data Analytics. "Emerging real-world graph problems include: detecting and preventing disease in human populations; revealing community structure in large social networks; and improving the resilience of the electric power grid. Unlike traditional applications in computational science and engineering, solving these social problems at scale often raises new challenges because of the sparsity and lack of locality in the data, the need for research on scalable algorithms, and development of frameworks for solving these real-world problems on high performance computers."The post David Bader on Real World Challenges for Big Data Analytics appeared first on insideHPC.
Dell EMC Powers High Performance Computing at HPC Wales
In this video from ISC 2018, Biagio Lucini from Swansea University describes how Dell EMC is working with Supercomputing Wales on advanced computing projects including the Bloodhound Supersonic car. "Bloodhound is a global Engineering Adventure, using a 1,000mph World Land Speed Record attempt to inspire the next generation to enjoy, explore and get involved in science, technology, engineering and mathematics."The post Dell EMC Powers High Performance Computing at HPC Wales appeared first on insideHPC.
NSF STAQ Project to devise First Practical Quantum Computer
To accelerate the development of a practical quantum computer that will one day answer currently unsolvable research questions, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $15 million over five years to the multi-institution Software-Tailored Architecture for Quantum co-design (STAQ) project. "Developing the first practical quantum computer would be a major milestone. By bringing together experts who have outlined a path to a practical quantum computer and supporting its development, NSF is working to take the quantum revolution from theory to reality."The post NSF STAQ Project to devise First Practical Quantum Computer appeared first on insideHPC.
Dell EMC Accelerates Artificial Intelligence Adoption for Digital Transformation
Today Dell EMC announced new Ready Solutions for AI. With specialized designs for Machine Learning with Hadoop and Deep Learning with NVIDIA, the Dell EMC Ready Solutions simplify AI environments, deliver faster, deeper insights than the competition1, and leverage Dell EMC’s proven expertise to help organizations realize the full potential of AI. "What we’re announcing today allows customers at any scale to start seeing better business outcomes and positions them for AI’s increasingly important role in the future.”The post Dell EMC Accelerates Artificial Intelligence Adoption for Digital Transformation appeared first on insideHPC.
OSS Brings ATTO 32 Gb Fibre Channel to Ion Accelerator Flash Storage Array
Today One Stop Systems introduced an ATTO Technology 32 Gb (gigabit) Fibre Channel option for its Ion Accelerator 5.0 Flash Storage Array product line. "ATTO designs some of the best, most reliable and fastest Fibre Channel host bus adapters on the market today,” said Steve Cooper, CEO of OSS. “In partnership with ATTO, we’re excited to offer Ion Accelerator customers the most advanced interconnect technology for accelerating their HPC applications.”The post OSS Brings ATTO 32 Gb Fibre Channel to Ion Accelerator Flash Storage Array appeared first on insideHPC.
OSC Hosts MVAPICH Users Group this week
A broad array of HPC enthusiasts have gathered at the Ohio Supercomputer Center this week for the sixth meeting of the MVAPICH Users Group (MUG). "The Network-Based Computing Research Group is lead by DK Panda, a professor and university distinguished scholar of computer science at The Ohio State University, created and enhances the popular MVAPICH HPC system software package."The post OSC Hosts MVAPICH Users Group this week appeared first on insideHPC.
Machine Learning with Python: Distributed Training and Data Resources on Blue Waters
Aaron Saxton from NCSA gave this talk at the Blue Waters Symposium. "Blue Waters currently supports TensorFlow 1.3, PyTorch 0.3.0 and we hope to support CNTK and Horovod in the near future. This tutorial will go over the minimum ingredients needed to do distributed training on Blue Waters with these packages. What's more, we also maintain an ImageNet data set to help researchers get started training CNN models. I will review the process by which a user can get access to this data set."The post Machine Learning with Python: Distributed Training and Data Resources on Blue Waters appeared first on insideHPC.
Dr. Eng Lim Goh from HPE on the latest trends in Machine Learning, Simulation, and AI
In this fireside chat from ISC 2018, Dr. Eng Lim Goh from HPE describes the latest trends in Machine Learning, Simulation, and AI. "AI can amplify human capabilities and turn exponentially growing data into insight, action, and value — creating your competitive edge. Navigate this fast-changing field and realize the promise of AI, from IoT to cloud to data center, with a trusted global enterprise partner. Only HPE is delivering on a roadmap to create more powerful, flexible, secure, and efficient computing and data architectures, powering AI from edge to cloud to core."The post Dr. Eng Lim Goh from HPE on the latest trends in Machine Learning, Simulation, and AI appeared first on insideHPC.
Get into HPC with the Altair Global Startup Program
Today Altair announced the immediate availability of its simulation-driven innovation software to qualified startup companies through its newly formed Altair Startup Program. Tailored specifically to the unique needs of the startup community, the global program offers preferential pricing for its simulation-driven design, computer-aided engineering, cloud computing and Internet of Things software solutions. The program also provides no-cost expert consulting to quickly ramp-up startup organizations with the industry’s leading multi-physics optimization platform, Altair HyperWorks, used by thousands of manufacturers worldwide.The post Get into HPC with the Altair Global Startup Program appeared first on insideHPC.
Mellanox Rolls Out World’s Fastest Ethernet Storage Fabric Controller
Today Mellanox rolled out new BlueField-based storage controllers, offering "ultra-high performance" for Ethernet Storage Fabrics. “These BlueField storage controllers tightly-integrate flash connectivity, networking, and Arm processors to maximize performance and efficiency, while eliminating the need for a separate CPU in storage and hyperconverged appliances. This makes them perfect for connecting and virtualizing the fastest non-volatile storage.”The post Mellanox Rolls Out World’s Fastest Ethernet Storage Fabric Controller appeared first on insideHPC.
Radio Free HPC Discusses the IO500 Benchmark Suite with John Bent
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team talks to John Bent from the IO500 committee about why he and a team of I/O professionals created the IO500 benchmark suite. The second IO500 list was revealed at ISC 2018 in Frankfurt, Germany. "The current list includes results from BeeGFS, DataWarp, IME, Lustre, and Spectrum Scale. We hope that the next list has even more."The post Radio Free HPC Discusses the IO500 Benchmark Suite with John Bent appeared first on insideHPC.
NVMe Flash: A New Level of High-Performance Data Consistency for the World’s Most Demanding Workloads
The pace of today’s data growth is staggering, and it's keeping IT specialists on their toes. This guest post from Kingston Technology explores how innovation in storage like NVMe are working to keep up with today's most demanding data work loads.The post NVMe Flash: A New Level of High-Performance Data Consistency for the World’s Most Demanding Workloads appeared first on insideHPC.
DARPA Selects Research Projects for Next-Gen Processing Technology
DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has announced the academic and industry research groups selected to develop new computing technologies to drive computing performance post Moore’s Law. "These projects hope to overcome one of the fundamental performance bottlenecks facing HPC users the ‘memory bottleneck’. By setting researchers the task of investigating vertical, rather than flat or planar integration of microsystem components—as well as new materials, components, and algorithms capable of closing the gap between memory and logic functions—the program managers leading the 3DSoC and FRANC programs hope to create new means of computing vast amounts of information."The post DARPA Selects Research Projects for Next-Gen Processing Technology appeared first on insideHPC.
Characterizing Faults, Errors and Failures in Extreme-Scale Computing Systems
Christian Engelmann from ORNL gave this talk at PASC18. "Building a reliable supercomputer that achieves the expected performance within a given cost budget and providing efficiency and correctness during operation in the presence of faults, errors, and failures requires a full understanding of the resilience problem. The Catalog project develops a fault taxonomy, catalog and models that capture the observed and inferred conditions in current supercomputers and extrapolates this knowledge to future-generation systems. To date, the Catalog project has analyzed billions of node hours of system logs from supercomputers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory. This talk provides an overview of our findings and lessons learned."The post Characterizing Faults, Errors and Failures in Extreme-Scale Computing Systems appeared first on insideHPC.
The Search for Gravitational Waves
In this video from PASC18, Alexander Nitz from the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Germany presents: The Search for Gravitational Waves. "The LIGO and Virgo detectors have completed a prolific observation run. We are now observing gravitational waves from both the mergers of binary black holes and neutron stars. We’ll discuss how these discoveries were made and look into what the near future of searching for gravitational waves from compact binary mergers will look like."The post The Search for Gravitational Waves appeared first on insideHPC.
Job of the Week: HPC Software Developer at the Hierarchical Data Format (HDF) Group
The Hierarchical Data Format (HDF) Group in Champaign, Illinois is seeking an HPC Software Developer our Job of the Week. "The HPC Software Developer will develop software for the Hierarchical Data Format v5 (HDF5) library and tool suite. Responsibilities will include enhancing the HDF5 library with additional features such as: sophisticated caching techniques, asynchronous file I/O, self-tuning storage optimizations, advanced multi-thread/multi-process/multi-client file access techniques, cluster and parallel file system interaction optimizations to deliver the highest performance possible to users of HDF5. Parallel and distributed I/O in high performance computing environments using MPI and MPI-IO will be the primary focus of this position. Interest and experience with project management is preferred. Some travel to client sites and to workshops and conferences may be required."The post Job of the Week: HPC Software Developer at the Hierarchical Data Format (HDF) Group appeared first on insideHPC.
Use Intel Media SDK to Build Cross-Platform High-Quality Video Workflows
The latest release of Intel® Media SDK offers a single, cross-platform, GPU-enabled API for building optimized media and video applications from PC’s to workstations and into the cloud.The post Use Intel Media SDK to Build Cross-Platform High-Quality Video Workflows appeared first on insideHPC.
Optimizing Performance with the Dell EMC AI & HPC Innovation Lab
In this video from the Dell EMC HPC Community meeting, Onur Celebioglu describes his work at the Dell EMC AI & HPC Innovation Lab. "Bringing together HPC operational excellence and expertise, it is staffed by a dedicated group of computer scientists, engineers and Ph.D. subject matter experts who actively partner and collaborate with customers and other members of the HPC community. The team gets early access to new technologies, integrates and tunes high‐performance compute clusters, benchmarks applications, develops best practices, and publishes white papers."The post Optimizing Performance with the Dell EMC AI & HPC Innovation Lab appeared first on insideHPC.
SC18 Preview: Bryan Catanzaro on “Applying Deep Learning”
SC18 is starting their series of Invited Talk Previews this week with AI luminary Bryan Catanzaro. Now at NVIDIA, Catanzaro is one of the most respected (and entertaining) speakers in the field of Machine Learning. "I will discuss how we go about applying deep learning to our work at NVIDIA, solving problems in a variety of domains from graphics and vision to text and speech. I’ll discuss the properties of successful machine learning applications, the criteria that we use to choose projects, and things to watch out for while creating new deep learning applications. I’ll discuss the role of HPC in helping us conduct our research, and I’ll show some examples of projects that benefit from scale."The post SC18 Preview: Bryan Catanzaro on “Applying Deep Learning” appeared first on insideHPC.
How Red Hat Powers the #1 Summit Supercomputer
In this video from ISC 2018, Yan Fisher from Red Hat and Buddy Bland from ORNL discuss Summit, the world's fastest supercomputer. Red Hat teamed with IBM, Mellanox, and NVIDIA to provide users with a new level of performance for HPC and AI workloads. "
Video: ECP Project for Linear Algebra Targeting Exascale
In this video, Jakub Kurzak, Research Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee’s Innovative Computing Laboratory, discusses the Software for Linear Algebra Targeting Exascale (SLATE) project. "The objective of SLATE is to provide basic dense matrix operations such as matrix multiplication, rank-k update, triangular solve, as well as linear systems solvers, least square solvers, singular value and eigenvalue solvers, in support of the ECP efforts to build a capable exascale computing ecosystem."The post Video: ECP Project for Linear Algebra Targeting Exascale appeared first on insideHPC.
Video: Large Scale Training for Model Optimization
Jakub Tomczak from the University of Amsterdam gave this talk at PASC18. "Deep generative models allow us to learn hidden representations of data and generate new examples. There are two major families of models that are exploited in current applications: Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), and Variational Auto-Encoders (VAE). We will point out advantages and disadvantages of GANs and VAE. Some of most promising applications of deep generative models will be shown."The post Video: Large Scale Training for Model Optimization appeared first on insideHPC.
HPC AI Advisory Council Conference Returns to Perth Aug. 28-29
The HPC Advisory Council has posted the Agenda for their upcoming meeting in Perth, Australia. Hosted by the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, the event takes place August 28-29. "The Conference highlights Western Australia’s relevance and key role in delivering scientific breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity through leading centres like Pawsey.”The post HPC AI Advisory Council Conference Returns to Perth Aug. 28-29 appeared first on insideHPC.
Red Hat’s Relentless Focus on Open Source Software Challenges Status Quo in Supercomputing
In this guest article, Red Hat Chief Technology Officer Chris Wright explores how his company's focus on open source software is challenging the status quo in HPC and supercomputing. "In collaboration with our partners, Red Hat is enabling new hardware architectures, supporting various acceleration technologies and cache-coherent interconnects, and driving open innovation and standardization in high-performance computing."The post Red Hat’s Relentless Focus on Open Source Software Challenges Status Quo in Supercomputing appeared first on insideHPC.
Spurring Diversity and Innovation at OSCON 2018
In this video from OSCON 2018, Program Chair Rachel Roumeliotis describes how the conference strives to encourage diversity among participants and how Open Source spurs innovation. "At O'Reilly, we believe that true innovation depends on hearing from, and listening to, people with a variety of perspectives. We want our conferences, and the technology communities and companies who participate in them, to include, encourage, and recognize people of all races, ethnicities, genders, ages, abilities, religions, sexual orientation, and military service."The post Spurring Diversity and Innovation at OSCON 2018 appeared first on insideHPC.
vScaler unlocks the benefits of Virtualization for GPU Power Users
vScaler has rolled-out native Virtual GPU (vGPU), empowering customers with the ability to split a single physical GPU up in to a number of smaller virtual GPUs. This approach offers greater cost-efficiency for those that don’t require the full power of a dedicated GPU. "With support for containerized environments such as Docker and Kubernetes, and the recent addition of vGPU support, vScaler speeds-up and simplifies the large scale deployments of GPU-accelerated applications."The post vScaler unlocks the benefits of Virtualization for GPU Power Users appeared first on insideHPC.
Interview: Constantia Alexandrou on the Challenges of Quantum Chromodynamics
In this video from PASC18, Constantia Alexandrou from the University of Cyprus discusses her domain of expertise – quantum chromodynamics. "Many – if not most – fields in physics employ high performance computing, yet quantum chromodynamics (QCD) might be the premiere example of an area very difficult to understand outside of the field."The post Interview: Constantia Alexandrou on the Challenges of Quantum Chromodynamics appeared first on insideHPC.
Fayetteville State University Moves to Bright Cluster Manager 8.1
Today Bright Computing announced that its Bright partner Data In Science Technologies has successfully implemented Bright Cluster Manager 8.1 for Fayetteville State University. "Bright Cluster Manager is the obvious choice for our clustered infrastructure needs," said Dr. Sambit Bhattacharya, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Fayetteville State University. "So, upgrading to the latest version made perfect sense. We are delighted with the close relationship we have built with Data In Science in order to carry out the upgrade quickly, and cause minimal impact to daily business.”The post Fayetteville State University Moves to Bright Cluster Manager 8.1 appeared first on insideHPC.
ISC Keynote: Tackling Tomorrow’s Computing Challenges Today at CERN
In this keynote video from ISC 2018, Physicist and CTO of CERN openlab discusses the demands of capturing, storing, and processing the large volumes of data generated by the LHC experiments. "CERN openlab is a unique public-private partnership between The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and some of the world`s leading ICT companies. It plays a leading role in helping CERN address the computing and storage challenges related to the Large Hadron Collider’s (LHC) upgrade program."The post ISC Keynote: Tackling Tomorrow’s Computing Challenges Today at CERN appeared first on insideHPC.
Univa Announces Collaboration with Sylabs for HPC Containers
Today Univa announced a partnership with Sylabs to offer enhanced support and integration for Sylabs’ Singularity container platform in Univa Grid Engine and other Univa products. "Customers are rapidly embracing containers for high-performance workloads and Singularity offers clear advantages,” said Gary Tyreman, CEO of Univa. “We’re delighted to be collaborating with Sylabs to make container technology easier to use and deploy. By improving interoperability between Univa products and Singularity, we can make it easier for customers to reap the benefits associated with container technology.”The post Univa Announces Collaboration with Sylabs for HPC Containers appeared first on insideHPC.
Dell EMC Gains Momentum on HPC & AI at ISC 2018
In this video from ISC 2018, Thierry Pelligrino from Dell EMC describes how the company is moving forward with HPC and AI solutions for customers in science, engineering, and the Enterprise. "HPC is great practice. AI is the buzzword. But the two need to come together. You can't really get value out of your data if you don't know how to use the highest performing computing cycles. You also need to think about how you use the data in storage and how you make it move around with a lot of networking gear."The post Dell EMC Gains Momentum on HPC & AI at ISC 2018 appeared first on insideHPC.
Women in HPC Opens New Chapter in Texas
Faith Singer-Villalobos writes that Texas Women in HPC (TX-WHPC) has been recognized as one of the first Chapters in the new Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC) Pilot Program. "The WHPC Chapter Pilot will enable us to reach an ever increasing community of women, providing these women with the networks that we recognize are essential for them excelling in their career, and retaining them in the workforce," says Sharon Broude Geva, WHPC's Director of Chapters and Director of Advanced Research Computing at the University of Michigan. "At the same time, we envisage that the new Chapters will be able to tailor their activities to the needs of their local community, as we know that there is no ‘one size fits all' solution to diversity."The post Women in HPC Opens New Chapter in Texas appeared first on insideHPC.
Evolving Scientific Computing at Argonne
Over at Argonne, John Spizzirri writes that the Lab has helped advance the boundaries of high-performance computing technologies through the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF). "Realizing the promise of exascale computing, the ALCF is developing the framework by which to harness this immense computing power to an advanced combination of simulation, data analysis, and machine learning. This effort will undoubtedly reframe the way science is conducted, and do so on a global scale."The post Evolving Scientific Computing at Argonne appeared first on insideHPC.
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