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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. "

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) has named Lori Diachin as its new Deputy Director effective August 7, 2018. Lori replaces Stephen Lee who has retired from Los Alamos National Laboratory. “Lori has deep technical expertise, years of experience, and a collegial leadership style that qualify her uniquely for the ECP Deputy Director role,” said Bill Goldstein, director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and chairman of the ECP board of directors.The post Lori Diachin Named Deputy Director of Exascale Computing Project appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from ISC 2018, Sam Mahalingam from Altair provides an update on the company's latest software innovations for managing HPC Workloads. "This year, with the announcement of the new PBS Works 2018, Altair is once again furthering its commitment to support the needs of the entire HPC community. This new release includes significant PBS Professional updates, a brand new intuitive user interface, and several advanced admin features. It also introduces a new HPC cloud management platform that allows seamless cloud bursting and puts cloud infrastructures under your control."The post Altair Orchestrates HPC Workloads with PBS Pro at ISC 2018 appeared first on insideHPC.

The ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge has awarded 20 projects for a total of 1.5 billion core-hours at Argonne to pursue challenging, high-risk, high-payoff simulations. "The Advanced Scientific Computing Program (ASCR), which manages some of the world’s most powerful supercomputing facilities, selects projects every year in areas directly related to the DOE mission for broadening the community of researchers capable of using leadership computing resources, and serving national interests for the advancement of scientific discovery, technological innovation, and economic competitiveness."The post DOE Awards 1.5 billion Hours of Computing Time at Argonne appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from ISC 2018 in Frankfurt, Naoki Shibata from Xtreme-D describes the company's the company’s innovative solutions for deploying and managing HPC clouds. "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."The post Xtreme-D Showcases Innovative Solutions for Managing HPC Clouds at ISC 2018 appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the Dell EMC HPC Community Meeting, Brian Kucic from R Systems describes how Dell EMC powers the company's HPC Cloud solutions. "R Systems NA, Inc. provides High Performance Computer Cluster resources and technical expertise to commercial and institutional research clients through the R Systems brand and the Dell HPC Cloud Services Partnership. In addition to our industry standard solutions, R Systems Engineers assist clients in selecting the components of their optimal cluster configuration."The post How Dell EMC Powers HPC in the Cloud with R Systems appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at a new whitepaper from Lincoln Labs focused on the performance hits Spectre/Meltdown mitigations. The news is not good. After that, Shahin point us to the story about how DARPA just allocated $75 Million in awards for thinking-outside-the-box computing innovation. They call it the Electronics Resurgence Initiative and the list of projects funded includes something called Software Defined Hardware.The post Radio Free HPC Reviews Lincoln Labs Paper on Spectre/Meltdown Performance Hits appeared first on insideHPC.

"NVIDIA researchers are gearing up to present 19 accepted papers and posters, seven of them during speaking sessions, at the annual Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference next week in Salt Lake City, Utah. Joining us to discuss some of what's being presented at CVPR, and to share his perspective on the world of deep learning and AI in general is one of the pillars of the computer science world, Bill Dally, chief scientist at NVIDIA."The post Podcast: Bill Daly from NVIDIA on What’s Next for AI appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from PASC18, Saumil Patel from Argonne describes his poster on engine combustion simulation. "This work marks a milestone achievement in using Nek5000, a highly-scalable computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solver, to capture turbulent flow and thermal fields inside realistic engine geometries. In the context of an arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) framework, several algorithms have been developed and integrated into Nek5000 in order overcome the computational challenges associated with moving boundaries (i.e. valves and pistons)."The post Low-Mach Simulation of Flow and Heat Transfer in an Internal Combustion Engine appeared first on insideHPC.

Dr. Peter Clapham from the Sanger Institute gave this talk at the DDN User Group at ISC 2018. "The DDN User Group at ISC is an annual conference that brings together the best and brightest scientists, researchers and technologists to share and learn how leading global HPC organizations are executing cutting-edge initiatives that are transforming the world. The goal of the event is to gather the community during ISC to discover how HPC organizations are assessing and leveraging technology to raise the bar on HPC innovations and best practices."The post Enabling a Secure Multi-Tenant Environment for HPC at the Sanger Institute appeared first on insideHPC.

ANSYS is seeking an HPC Software Developer in our Job of the Week. "The Software Developer II is responsible for assisting in the design, development and maintenance of the next generation, multi-physics coupling engine. This developer can expect to be engaged in all stages of code and capability planning, creation and evolution, and to work closely with other groups as they adopt the coupling infrastructure. Emphasis is on planning and executing work at the iteration (approximately monthly) time scale."The post Job of the Week: HPC Software Developer at ANSYS appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Hewlett Packard Enterprise and PLDA announced a joint collaboration to meet the challenges of next-generation connectivity for advanced workloads. Gen-Z is a new open interconnect protocol and connector developed by the Gen-Z Consortium to solve the challenges associated with processing and analyzing huge amounts of data in real time. HPE and PLDA are working together to develop Gen-Z semiconductor IP designed to the Gen-Z Core Specification 1.0. "PLDA is proud to collaborate with HPE to provide comprehensive design IP to silicon providers to enable volume production of Gen-Z compatible components and to enable system vendors to utilize the Gen-Z silicon components to build network, storage and compute systems and solutions,” said Arnaud Schleich, CEO, at PLDA. “This will enable an open ecosystem of Gen-Z building blocks for a variety of solutions from the intelligent edge to the cloud.”The post PLDA and HPE to Develop Gen-Z semiconductor IP appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from ISC 2018, Cray CTO Steve Scott describes how the company is moving towards providing Exascale computing capabilities for scientists and engineers worldwide. "It takes many years and many generations of technology developments to be a successful supercomputing provider. With every Cray system, you get the benefit of decades of supercomputing experience. We offer a comprehensive portfolio of supercomputer, storage, data analytics and AI solutions for a range of budgets. All hardware and software is integrated, and every solution comes with the assurance of Cray support.”The post Cray Sets the Stage for Exascale at ISC 2018 appeared first on insideHPC.

Today SIGHPC announced the third annual recipients of the ACM SIGHPC/Intel Computational and Data Science Fellowship. Funded by Intel, the Fellowship was established to increase the diversity of students pursuing graduate degrees in data science and computational science.The post SIGHPC Announces Computational and Data Science Fellowships appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from ISC 2018, Marc Hamilton from NVIDIA describes how the company is working with Dell EMC to accelerate AI and HPC workloads. "Dell EMC Deep Learning Ready Bundle customers include the new Dell EMC PowerEdge C4140 server, supporting latest generation NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPU accelerators with PCIe and NVLink high-speed interconnect technology."The post How NVIDIA Powers Dell EMC Systems for HPC & AI appeared first on insideHPC.

According to a new Ovum white paper, sponsored by NVIDIA, there is a huge opportunity to help physicians with AI-based systems that can cut down on the workload across protocoling, imaging analysis, and automated reporting of the results.The post How AI & Machine Intelligence is Assisting Clinicians appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from ISC 2018 in Frankfurt, Naoki Shibata from Xtreme-D demonstrates XTREME-Stargate, a solution that combines Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and an HPC gateway appliance to deliver a new way to access and manage high performance cloud. The appliance will deliver an entirely new HPC cloud experience via a robust UI/UX.The post Video: Xtreme Stargate Launches at ISC 2018 appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Cray announced that it has delivered and installed a Cray XC50 supercomputer at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ). The supercomputer, nicknamed NS-05 “ATERUI II,” provides more than 3 peak petaflops making it the world’s most powerful supercomputer dedicated to astrophysical calculations. "NAOJ will use the system as a new “telescope” for theoretical astronomy to perform full-scale, high-resolution simulations of the formation and evolution of the Milky Way galaxy as well as three-dimensional simulations of a supernova explosion with realistic microphysics, among other models."The post Cray XC50 Supercomputer Powers National Astronomical Observatory of Japan appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Silicon Valley startup Tachyum Inc. announced that Professor Steve Furber, the highly regarded original designer of the world’s leading embedded processor, the ARM microprocessor, has joined its Board of Advisors. In this capacity, Prof. Furber will help position the company’s Prodigy processor to achieve disruptive performance in Spiking Model neural simulations, as well as standard data center workloads. "Steve Furber is a true giant in processor architecture development, as well as one of the world’s leading experts on human brain simulation research,” said Dr. Radoslav Danilak, Tachyum Co-founder and CEO. “We are extremely gratified to be able to collaborate with Professor Furber on our Prodigy processor.”The post Professor Steve Furber Joins Tachyum Board of Advisors appeared first on insideHPC.

Next generation workloads in High Performance Computing involve more unstructured data than ever before. In this edition of Industry Perspectives, HPE explores the next generation of data management requirements as the growing volume of data places even more demand on data management capabilities.The post Next Generation Data Management Requirements appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from ISC 2018, Derek Bouius from AMD describes how HPC users can take advantage of new AMD EPYC processors and Radeon GPUs to accelerate their applications. "With the introduction of new EPYC processor based servers with Radeon Instinct GPU accelerators, combined with our ROCm open software platform, AMD is ushering in a new era of heterogeneous compute for HPC and Deep Learning."The post AMD steps up to HPC Workloads at ISC 2018 appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Markus Eisenbach and Dmitry Liakh from ORNL present: Intro to OpenMP, Part 1. "This video was recorded as part of the "Introduction to HPC" workshop that took place at ORNL from June 26-28. This is video 1 of 2, which gives a brief overview of parallel computing with OpenMP."The post Video: Intro to OpenMP appeared first on insideHPC.

In this episode of Let's Talk Exascale, Computational scientist Ben Bergen of Los Alamos National Laboratory describes the Advanced Technology Development and Mitigation (ATDM) subprogram‘s Flexible Computational Science Infrastructure (FleCSI) project.The post Podcast: Supporting Multiphysics Application Development appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the Dell EMC HPC Community Meeting, Kevin Shinpaugh from Virginia Tech describes how Dell EMC works with the Biocomplexity Institute. "The Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia Tech's IT group provides the infrastructure, applications, and services that power our research. With high-performance computing technologies, our researchers are fighting multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, modeling the spread of beliefs through social media, and simulating complex systems to inform policy-making."The post Biocomplexity Institute moves forward with HPC and Dell EMC appeared first on insideHPC.

Many modern applications are being developed with so called run-time languages, which are compiled at execution time. The performance of these applications in cloud data centers is important for anyone considering moving their applications and workloads to the cloud. Download Intel Distribution for Python for free today to supercharge your applications.The post Performance in the Datacenter appeared first on insideHPC.

"XSEDE has awarded 145 deserving research teams at 109 universities and other institutions access to nearly two dozen NSF-funded computational and storage resources, as well as other services unique to XSEDE, such as the Extended Collaborative Support Services (ECSS). Total allocations this cycle, running July 1, 2018, through June 30, 2019, represent an estimated $7.3 million of time on multi-core, many-core, GPU-accelerated, and large-memory computing resources (which does not include additional consulting resources) – all at no cost to the researchers. Since its founding in 2011, XSEDE and XSEDE 2.0 have allocated an estimated $270M of computing time."The post XSEDE allocates $7.3M worth of computing time to U.S. Researchers appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest feature, Gemma Church from Scientific Computing World discusses advances to FEA software as it is now used to simulate a wide range of physical phenomena. "With 40 years” experience in developing FEA technologies, the most significant challenges are not in the internal technical work. In fact, the major challenge might be termed institutional inertia. Many companies are hardwired with the thought that product design requires extensive physical prototyping."The post Bringing Big Compute to FEA appeared first on insideHPC.

Leonardo Bautista from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center gave this talk at PASC18. "Extreme scale supercomputers offer thousands of computing nodes to their users to satisfy their computing needs. As the need for massively parallel computing increases in industry, computing centers are being forced to increase in size and to transition to new computing technologies. In this talk, we will discuss how to guarantee high reliability to high performance applications running in extreme scale supercomputers. In particular, we cover the tools necessary to implement scalable multilevel checkpointing for tightly coupled applications."The post Easy and Efficient Multilevel Checkpointing for Extreme Scale Systems appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Altair announced the finalists for the 2018 Altair Enlighten Award, which recognizes technology-focused organizations throughout the automotive industry driving innovation in vehicle lightweighting. “Every year brings more submissions and increasingly clever ways of removing weight from our vehicles. Observing the submissions grow in quantity and quality over the years is very encouraging because it demonstrates the commitment by the automotive companies and their suppliers to decrease the mass of our vehicles leading to a cleaner future for all of us.”The post Finalists Vie for Coveted 2018 Altair Enlighten Award appeared first on insideHPC.

"Understanding a cluster can be complex if tools are not available such as Intel Cluster Checker. Think of how many times users complain that their applications are not runing with the expected performance and how long it takes system administrators to diagnose the issue. With Intel Cluster Checker, diagnosing and debugging of these issues is easier and less complex. By usingthis tool, customers will be more statisfied and a higher return on the investment will be realized."The post Streamline Your HPC Setup with Intel Cluster Checker appeared first on insideHPC.

ISV vendor Atomicus is approaching the release of an advanced software component AtomicusChart developed for scientists researching physical, chemical, biological phenomena and for those who need a convenient tool to present the results in scientific formats. "The ATOMICUS CHART is a product from Atomicus, which can be re-used and integrated in any software requiring high-speed graphics for large volumes of data (including big data) and dedicated to the needs of analytical applications."The post Atomicus Chart Software Brings Easy Analytics to Scientists appeared first on insideHPC.

"Dell EMC Ready Solutions for AI are validated, hardware and software stacks optimized to accelerate AI initiatives, shortening deployment time from weeks to days. They increase data scientist productivity by offering self‐service workspaces, allowing each data scientist to configure their environment from a library of AI models and frameworks in just five clicks. Customers report that Dell EMC Hadoop solutions can help boost data scientist productivity by as much as 30 percent. IT operations are also simplified through a single console for monitoring the health and configuration of the cluster."The post How Dell EMC is Moving Forward as Thought Leader in AI appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team goes through a fascinating presentation that provides details on China’s Three-Pronged Plan for Exascale. "China may not be the first to Exascale, but they are building three divergent architectural prototypes that pave the way forward. We’ve got the details in this not-to-miss podcast."The post Radio Free HPC Looks at China’s Three-Pronged Plan for Exascale appeared first on insideHPC.

The global manufacturing industry is moving down the path to a fourth industrial revolution — Industry 4.0 — empowered by the opportunity to collect and analyze massive amounts of data. This guest post from Intel explores how the global manufacturing industry is moving toward HPC adoption, and how it is approaching an inflection point which Intel refers to as “HPC for Everyone.”The post Growing HPC Adoption Among Manufacturers appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Robert Roe speaks with Dr Maria Girone, Chief Technology Officer at CERN openlab ahead of her keynote presentation at ISC High Performance. "The challenge of creating the largest particle accelerator is now complete but there is another challenge – harnessing all of the data produced through experimentation. This will become even greater when the ‘high-luminosity’ LHC experiments begin in 2026."The post Addressing Computing Challenges at CERN openlab appeared first on insideHPC.

Robert Searles from the University of Delaware gave this talk at PASC18. "Architectures are rapidly evolving, and exascale machines are expected to offer billion-way concurrency. We need to rethink algorithms, languages and programming models among other components in order to migrate large scale applications and explore parallelism on these machines. Although directive-based programming models allow programmers to worry less about programming and more about science, expressing complex parallel patterns in these models can be a daunting task especially when the goal is to match the performance that the hardware platforms can offer."The post Abstractions and Directives for Adapting Wavefront Algorithms to Future Architectures appeared first on insideHPC.

Intel in Silicon Valley is seeking a Research Scientist for HPC. "Intel Labs is seeking motivated researchers in the area of parallel and distributed computing research applied towards high performance computing and machine learning. This is a full-time position with the Parallel Computing Lab. The Parallel Computing Lab researches new algorithms, architectures, and approaches to address the most challenging compute- and data-intensive applications. We are focused on delivering new Intel software and hardware technologies that will transform the enterprise and technical computing experience. We work in close collaboration with leading academic and industry partners to accomplish our mission."The post Job of the Week: Research Scientist for HPC at Intel Labs appeared first on insideHPC.