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DDN Acquires Lustre Business Unit from Intel
Today DDN announced that the company has acquired Intel’s Lustre File System business and related assets. "This important acquisition reinforces DDN’s presence as the global market leader for data at scale, while providing Lustre customers with enhanced field support and a well-funded technology roadmap. The acquisition also enables DDN to expand Lustre’s leading position from high performance computing (HPC) and Exascale into high growth markets such as analytics, AI and hybrid cloud."The post DDN Acquires Lustre Business Unit from Intel appeared first on insideHPC.
Radio Free HPC runs down the latest TOP500 Fastest Supercomputers
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team reviews the latest TOP500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers. "The TOP500 celebrates its 25th anniversary with a major shakeup at the top of the list. For the first time since November 2012, the US claims the most powerful supercomputer in the world, leading a significant turnover in which four of the five top systems were either new or substantially upgraded."The post Radio Free HPC runs down the latest TOP500 Fastest Supercomputers appeared first on insideHPC.
A Virtual Welcome Wagon for the HPC Community at ISC 2018
In this video from ISC 2018, Nages Sieslack and Kim McMahon discuss how the conference is working to make it easier for people of all walks of life to participate in the HPC Community. "With our first event dating back over 30 years, we’ve created a community spanning the globe. Over that period we have welcomed attendees from over 80 countries, which has made ISC a highly diverse event."The post A Virtual Welcome Wagon for the HPC Community at ISC 2018 appeared first on insideHPC.
Job of the Week: HPC Engineer at Dow Chemical
Dow Chemical in Midland, Michigan is seeking an HPC Engineer in our Job of the Week. "The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) has an immediate opening in Midland, MI for a High Performance Computing Engineer in the Research Infrastructure and Application Support group of Information Research, Core R&D. This role will be responsible for operating and managing the R&D High Performance Computing environments at maximum efficiency with minimal downtime. Knowledge of technologies such as HPC compute clusters, high performance storage devices and high-speed interconnects are critical. This role also requires user support, documentation and consulting to ensure effective use of HPC resources and infrequent after hours support."The post Job of the Week: HPC Engineer at Dow Chemical appeared first on insideHPC.
Dr Keren Bergman previews ISC Keynote on Optical Computing for HPC
In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Dr Keren Bergman, Professor of Electrical Engineering at the School of Engineering and Applied Science, Columbia University discusses her keynote on the development of silicon photonics for HPC ahead of her Tuesday keynote presentation at ISC 2018. "So today we are able to make all the components of photonic links and this includes 50 GHz data modulators, 50 GHz receivers, nanosecond scale switches all kinds of structures and we can do wave division multiplexing into these interconnect structures. The capabilities are just enormous."The post Dr Keren Bergman previews ISC Keynote on Optical Computing for HPC appeared first on insideHPC.
Fujitsu to Showcase Post-K Supercomputer CPU Prototype at ISC 2018
Today Fujitsu unveiled details about their ARM-powered Post K exascale supercomputer, which is planned for deployment at RIKEN in Japan sometime in 2021. Fujitsu has now completed the prototype CPU chip for the machine, which may be the fastest ever commencing functionality field trials. "The Post K processor will likely become the most powerful general-purpose CPU ever for HPC and AI," said Satoshi Matsuoka from RIKEN on his blog this week.The post Fujitsu to Showcase Post-K Supercomputer CPU Prototype at ISC 2018 appeared first on insideHPC.
Welcome to ISC High Performance 2018
In this special guest post, Martin Meuer and Thomas Meuer welcome attendees to ISC 2018, which takes place June 24-28 in Frankfurt, Germany. "Today ISC High Performance stands proudly as a globally recognized HPC event, driven by the extensive involvement of the high performance computing community. The contribution of new topics, speakers, stringent review processes, as well as diversity efforts, makes ISC distinctive."The post Welcome to ISC High Performance 2018 appeared first on insideHPC.
Asetek Provides Liquid Cooling QCT at NCHC in Taiwan
Today Asetek announced the deployment of the company's latest heat rejection technology at the National Center for High-Performance Computing (NCHC) in Hsinchu, Taiwan. "Announced in April, the new liquid cooled NCHC cluster to be implemented by QCT will focus on artificial intelligence. A major goal of the project is to achieve a significant PUE figure, requiring the use of liquid cooling to create a mix of liquid cooled NVIDIA V100 GPUs and Intel Xeon Scalable Processors in a high-density configuration. As one of Asetek’s newest OEM Partners, the NCHC installation by QCT represents both the first major HPC site resulting from the collaboration, and one of the first deployments of the latest InRackCDU."The post Asetek Provides Liquid Cooling QCT at NCHC in Taiwan appeared first on insideHPC.
Gidel Launches Lossless Compression IP that Reduces FPGA Power Consumption
Today Gidel announced a new compression IP and a renewed focus on compression and encryption algorithms for the HPC and Vision markets. The compression algorithm requires extremely low power, encoding more than 1 GB/sec utilizing just 1% of the FPGA, thus opening up new possibilities for data centers in particular. "Real-time compression capability provides a number of advantages in storage and efficiency,” notes Ofer Pravda, VP Marketing & Sales at Gidel. “Compressed data can be stored in real-time, as opposed to systems that store the raw data and then compress offline at a later date."The post Gidel Launches Lossless Compression IP that Reduces FPGA Power Consumption appeared first on insideHPC.
Sylabs Launches Global Partner Program for HPC Containers
Today HPC startup Sylabs announced the launch of a new program for partners. The Sylabs Partner Program offers IT providers a licensing platform that they can use to deliver the commercially supported container platform SingularityPRO through their own sales channels. This includes access to signed package repositories, backported bug and security fixes, and a portfolio of services designed for the container ecosystem. In addition, the Sylabs Partner Program will provide support, training, certifications, and architectural practices to fit the specific needs of the partner and their customers.The post Sylabs Launches Global Partner Program for HPC Containers appeared first on insideHPC.
Introducing HPE Performance Cluster Manager Software
Over at the HPE Blog, Bill Mannel writes that new HPE Performance Cluster Manager can help you reduce the time and resources spent administering HPC systems. "Managing HPC clusters can be challenging. Especially when you have to deal with the ever-growing large scale systems with thousands of nodes which means you need to monitor and manage more and more components. Your system administrators need a system management solution to allow them to manage even very complex HPC installations easily and quickly."The post Introducing HPE Performance Cluster Manager Software appeared first on insideHPC.
Atos and Dell EMC Centre of Excellence coming to Supercomputing Wales
Today Atos announced a new contract with Supercomputing Wales, the national supercomputing research facility for Wales that will result in a world-first Atos and Dell EMC supercomputing Centre of Excellence. This partnership will provide high performance computing facilities and big data research capabilities to a consortium of universities in Wales including Cardiff, Swansea, Aberystwyth and Bangor Universities. "We are thrilled to be part of such an important partnership to help continue the great work already being carried out by universities across Wales," said Richard Rawcliffe, Vice President, UK Public Sector, Dell EMC.The post Atos and Dell EMC Centre of Excellence coming to Supercomputing Wales appeared first on insideHPC.
Prof Michael Resch to present GCS Smart Scale Strategy at ISC 2018
GCS will host a special session on its Smart Scale strategy at ISC 2018. "Prof. Michael Resch will provide insight into the current status and development of Germany’s Smart Scale initiative and of Germany’s position in the field of HPC from an international prospective. The talk takes place Tuesday, June 26 at 12:30pm in room Panorama 2 at the Frankfurt Messe."The post Prof Michael Resch to present GCS Smart Scale Strategy at ISC 2018 appeared first on insideHPC.
Asetek Liquid Cooling comes to Latest Intel Compute Modules at ISC18
Today Asetek announced plans to showcase its latest liquid cooling technology integrated in Intel Compute Modules at ISC 2018 in Frankfurt. "Asetek is excited with this next step in the ongoing collaboration with Intel,” said John Hamill, Asetek Chief Operating Officer. “The integration of Asetek liquid cooling technology in Intel Compute Modules HNS2600BPBLC and HNS7200APRL serves as further validation of low pressure distributed liquid cooling for HPC and Data Center sites.”The post Asetek Liquid Cooling comes to Latest Intel Compute Modules at ISC18 appeared first on insideHPC.
Quantum to Showcase End-to-End HPC Storage at ISC 2018
Today Quantum Corp. announced plans to showcase end-to-end storage capabilities for large-scale HPC environments at ISC 2018 in Frankfurt. "As storage requirements for sensor generated data, scientific research and advanced supercomputing resources evolve, Quantum continues to invest in a solution stack and technology ecosystem to manage the largest file counts and most demanding storage environments on the globe," said Molly Presley, vice president, product management and global marketing at Quantum.The post Quantum to Showcase End-to-End HPC Storage at ISC 2018 appeared first on insideHPC.
Oracle Cloud steps up to HPC Workloads at ISC 2018
Over at the Oracle Blog, Karan Batta writes that the company is working to make the Oracle Cloud one of the the best platforms for HPC workloads. "We designed our cloud with HPC as one of the core use-cases, and this influenced everything from our choice of server hardware to our data-center design with nonblocking network to ensure low-latency and high-bandwidth connectivity between compute nodes. Our new managed File Storage service is built with performance as one of its most important characteristics, enabling you to offload the management of a high-performance clustered file system."The post Oracle Cloud steps up to HPC Workloads at ISC 2018 appeared first on insideHPC.
Supermicro, Red Hat, and Solarflare Set World Record STAC Performance
Today Supermicro announced a new world record for lowest latency on the well-known STAC-N1 benchmark. "This benchmark was performed on a pair of Supermicro SYS-1029UX-LL1-S16 servers, each with dual 8-core Intel Xeon Scalable 6144 (Gold) processors overclocked at 4.18GHz. The servers were also loaded with Red Hat's Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 operating system and Solarflare X2522 Adapters. Compared to all prior publicly released STAC-N1 results, the bare metal system demonstrated the lowest mean latency of 2.3 microseconds at both the base rate (100k messages per second) and the highest rate tested (1 million mps)."The post Supermicro, Red Hat, and Solarflare Set World Record STAC Performance appeared first on insideHPC.
Implementing PCIe Gen 4 Expansion
After a long run for PCI Express (PCIe) Gen 3, Gen 4 is fast becoming the latest de facto standard for general purpose I/O of the modern computer system. "The ability to run PCIe over cable at full performance with complete software transparency has opened up a range of new application possibilities over the past decade for CPU to I/O system re-partitioning with expansion systems uniquely situated to take advantage of the new PCIe Gen 4 bandwidth soon available on servers."The post Implementing PCIe Gen 4 Expansion appeared first on insideHPC.
Seeking Nominations for the IEEE Awards at SC18
Nominations are solicited for the Seymour Cray, Sidney Fernbach & Ken Kennedy Awards presented at SC18 in Dallas. Nominations are due July 1, 2018.The post Seeking Nominations for the IEEE Awards at SC18 appeared first on insideHPC.
XTREME-D Debuts Revolutionary IaaS for Accessing HPC in the Cloud via Gateway Appliance
Today HPC cloud company XTREME-D announced a prototype version of 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. It also offers non- traditional billing systems that charge based on job rather than on time consumed, as is typical for SaaS or IaaS.The post XTREME-D Debuts Revolutionary IaaS for Accessing HPC in the Cloud via Gateway Appliance appeared first on insideHPC.
New HPE Pointnext Capabilities to Accelerate Memory-Driven Computing
Today HPE announced the launch of an incubation practice with specialized skills for solving big data problems through Memory-Driven Computing. " Our vision for Memory-Driven Computing is to enable customers to capture, keep and refine every last bit of their data, up to 10,000 times faster than yesterday’s solutions,” said Beena Ammanath, global vice president, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Innovation, HPE. “The introduction of HPE Pointnext capabilities for Memory-Driven Computing will accelerate our ability to bring Memory-Driven Computing technologies to our customers and help them solve some of their most complex problems and more quickly than ever before.”The post New HPE Pointnext Capabilities to Accelerate Memory-Driven Computing appeared first on insideHPC.
Technology Predictions for ISC 2018
In this special guest post, Dr. Rosemary Francis looks forward to the ISC 2018 conference, which starts next week in Frankfurt, Germany. "We recently saw the launch of Summit, the first 200 petaflop system – who will unveil the next giant machine? The race for exascale will certainly to continue to be a topic at ISC and we will be asking the vendors how their plans are progressing."The post Technology Predictions for ISC 2018 appeared first on insideHPC.
CoolIT Systems to Showcase Liquid Cooling Technology at ISC 2018
Today CoolIT Systems announced plans to showcase the company's energy efficient liquid cooling solutions at ISC 2018. "As new advancements in HPC and AI continue to push computational boundaries, data center operators are realizing liquid cooling is, in many cases, the only answer,” said Geoff Lyon, CEO and CTO at CoolIT Systems. “Our collaboration with OEM partners such as Dell EMC, HPE, Intel and STULZ provides further evidence that the future of the data center is destined for liquid cooling.”The post CoolIT Systems to Showcase Liquid Cooling Technology at ISC 2018 appeared first on insideHPC.
BOXX Special Edition Workstation Breaks 5.0GHz Clock Speed Barrier
BOXX Technologies has announced "the world’s fastest workstation" featuring a professionally overclocked Intel Core i7-8086K Limited Edition processor capable of reaching 5.0GHz across all six of its cores. In commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the Intel 8086 (the processor that launched x86 architecture), Intel provided BOXX with a limited number of the exclusive, high performance CPUs ideal for CAD, 3D modeling, and animation workflows. "The APEXX SE workstation extends far beyond the celebration of the 8086 anniversary,” said Shoaib Mohammad, BOXX VP of Marketing and Business Development. “By integrating this special technology, we’re providing our customers with a unique opportunity to accelerate their workflows with historic Intel processing power they can’t get from the multinational, commodity PC manufacturers.”The post BOXX Special Edition Workstation Breaks 5.0GHz Clock Speed Barrier appeared first on insideHPC.
Optimized HPC-AI cloud with OpenStack acceleration service and composable hardware
Shuquan Huang from 99Cloud gave this talk at the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver. "In this session, we will introduce OpenStack Acceleration Service – Cyborg, which provides a management framework for accelerator devices (e.g. FPGA, GPU, NVMe SSD). We will also discuss Rack Scale Design (RSD) technology and explain how physical hardware resources can be dynamically aggregated to meet the AI/HPC requirements."The post Optimized HPC-AI cloud with OpenStack acceleration service and composable hardware appeared first on insideHPC.
Excelero and Mellanox Boost Ceph Performance in OpenStack Cloud
OpenStack cloud provider Teuto.net has reported exceptional performance with low-latency block storage using deployed Excelero's NVMesh Server SAN along with Mellanox SN2100 switches. As more customers need storage suitable for demanding databases that exceed Ceph's performance, teuto.net achieved a 2,000% performance gain and 10x lower IO latency with NVMesh compared to Ceph while avoiding costly, less scalable appliances and proprietary vendor solutions.The post Excelero and Mellanox Boost Ceph Performance in OpenStack Cloud appeared first on insideHPC.
Exploring Dell EMC Networking for vSan
This is the second entry in an insideHPC guide series that explores networking with Dell EMC ready nodes. Read on to learn more about Dell EMC networking for vSan.The post Exploring Dell EMC Networking for vSan appeared first on insideHPC.
Video: Speed Your Code with Intel Parallel Studio XE
"Modern processors perform their best with parallel code that's both vectorized and threaded, which can run more than 100 times faster more than serial code. So how can you accomplish this more easily through parallel programming? Enter Parallel Studio XE, a suite of tools that simplifies and speeds the design, building, tuning, and scaling of applications with the latest code modernization methods."The post Video: Speed Your Code with Intel Parallel Studio XE appeared first on insideHPC.
Hyperion Research’s Steve Conway Adds COO Title
Today Hyperion Research announced that Steve Conway, Hyperion Research senior vice president of research, will now also serve as the company's chief operating officer, according to Hyperion CEO Earl Joseph. "The promotion recognizes key responsibilities Steve has already taken on, in addition to leading our research activities, such as heavily influencing our view of the fast-evolving HPC market, playing a major role in setting the direction for our business, creating and launching new programs, and managing important areas of the business," Joseph said.The post Hyperion Research’s Steve Conway Adds COO Title appeared first on insideHPC.
Lenovo Moves Liquid Cooling Forward with Neptune
Today Lenovo released details its pending Neptune liquid-cooling systems, which will enable data centers to run "up to 50 percent more efficiently, with uncompromising performance while maintaining a dense footprint." "In Roman mythology, Neptune used his three-pronged trident to tame the sea. This inspired Lenovo’s liquid cooling “trident” of cooling technologies: Direct to Node (DTN) warm water cooling, rear door heat exchanger, and hybrid solutions that combine both air and liquid cooling."The post Lenovo Moves Liquid Cooling Forward with Neptune appeared first on insideHPC.
NVIDIA Releases Code for Accelerated Machine Learning
Today NVIDIA made a number of announcements centered around Machine Learning software at the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference in Salt Lake City. "NVIDIA is kicking off the conference by demonstrating an early release of Apex, an open-source PyTorch extension that helps users maximize deep learning training performance on NVIDIA Volta GPUs. Inspired by state of the art mixed precision training in translational networks, sentiment analysis, and image classification, NVIDIA PyTorch developers have created tools bringing these methods to all levels of PyTorch users."The post NVIDIA Releases Code for Accelerated Machine Learning appeared first on insideHPC.
Cray Rolls Out Scalable Flash Storage Solution for Lustre Workloads
Today Cray announced the ClusterStor L300F Lustre-based scalable flash storage solution, designed for applications that need high-performance scratch storage to quickly store and retrieve intermediate results. "Flash is poised to become an essential technology in every HPC storage solution,” said Jeff Janukowicz, IDC’s research vice president, Solid State Drives and Enabling Technologies. “With the ClusterStor L300F, Cray has positioned itself to be at the leading edge of next generation of HPC storage solutions.”The post Cray Rolls Out Scalable Flash Storage Solution for Lustre Workloads appeared first on insideHPC.
Edge Computing Proves Critical for Drilling Rigs, Pipeline Integrity
This is the third entry in a five-part insideHPC series that takes an in-depth look at how machine learning, deep learning and AI are being used in the energy industry. Read on to learn how edge computing is playing a role in operating drilling rigs, ensuring pipeline integrity and more.The post Edge Computing Proves Critical for Drilling Rigs, Pipeline Integrity appeared first on insideHPC.
Virtualizing AI & HPC Workloads with vSphere
In this video from the Dell EMC HPC Community Meeting, Josh Simons from VMware describes why more customers are moving their HPC & AI workloads to virtualized environments using vSphere. "With VMware, you can capture the benefits of virtualization for HPC workloads while delivering performance that is comparable to bare-metal. Our approach to virtualizing HPC adds a level of flexibility, operational efficiency, agility and security that cannot be achieved in bare-metal environments—enabling faster time to insights and discovery."The post Virtualizing AI & HPC Workloads with vSphere appeared first on insideHPC.
FlyElephant and Squadex team up for expansion in AI and HPC services
FlyElephant has announced its partnership with Squadex, a Cloud Transformation Consultancy, to extend AI & Big Data consulting services and reinforce teams. "Our cooperation will enable FlyElephant customers to get top-notch consulting services and support in deployment and customization of our platform, HPC or Big Data cluster in an AWS Cloud, development and optimization of machine learning models.”, said Dmitry Spodarets, Founder at FlyElephant and AI/ML & HPC Lead at Squadex. “FlyElephant will augment Squadex’ capabilities in HPC and AI areas, enabling synergies to create new types of services in these areas.”The post FlyElephant and Squadex team up for expansion in AI and HPC services appeared first on insideHPC.
Let’s Talk Exascale: Optimizing I/O at the ADIOS Project
In this episode of Let's Talk Exascale, researchers from the ADIOS project describe how they are optimizing I/O on exascale architectures and making the code easily maintainable, sustainable, and extensible, while ensuring its performance and scalability. "The Adaptable I/O System (ADIOS) project in the ECP supports exascale applications by addressing their data management and in situ analysis needs."The post Let’s Talk Exascale: Optimizing I/O at the ADIOS Project appeared first on insideHPC.
ARM goes Big: HPE Builds Petaflop Supercomputer for Sandia
Today HPE announced plans to deliver the world’s largest Arm supercomputer. As part of the Vanguard program, Astra, the new Arm-based system, will be used by the NNSA to run advanced modeling and simulation workloads for addressing areas such as national security, energy and science. "By introducing Arm processors with the HPE Apollo 70, a purpose-built HPC architecture, we are bringing powerful elements, like optimal memory performance and greater density, to supercomputers that existing technologies in the market cannot match,” said Mike Vildibill, vice president, Advanced Technologies Group, HPE.The post ARM goes Big: HPE Builds Petaflop Supercomputer for Sandia appeared first on insideHPC.
Radio Free HPC Previews ISC Student Cluster Competition & Ancillary Events
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team previews the ISC 2018 Student Cluster Competition. “Now in its seventh year, the Student Cluster Competition enables international STEM teams to take part in a real-time contest focused on advancing STEM disciplines and HPC skills development at ISC 2018 from June 25-27.”The post Radio Free HPC Previews ISC Student Cluster Competition & Ancillary Events appeared first on insideHPC.
Advanced Computing: HPC and RDS at University of Bristol
Simon Burbidge from the University of Bristol gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "Our research focuses on the application of heterogeneous and many-core computing to solve large-scale scientific problems. Related research problems we are addressing include: performance portability across many-core devices; automatic optimization of many-core codes; communication-avoiding algorithms for massive scale systems; and fault tolerance software techniques for resiliency at scale."The post Advanced Computing: HPC and RDS at University of Bristol appeared first on insideHPC.
Wave Computing Acquires MIPS for AI on the Edge
AI startup Wave Computing announced this week that it has acquired MIPS. "The acquisition of MIPS allows us to combine technologies to create products that will deliver a single ‘Datacenter-to-Edge’ platform ideal for AI and deep learning. We’ve already received very strong and enthusiastic support from leading suppliers and strategic partners, as they affirm the value of data scientists being able to experiment, develop, test and deploy their neural networks on a common platform spanning to the Edge of Cloud.”The post Wave Computing Acquires MIPS for AI on the Edge appeared first on insideHPC.
Intel to Showcase AI and HPC Demos at ISC 2018
Today Intel released a sneak peek at their plans for ISC 2018 in Frankfurt. The company will showcase how it's helping AI developers, data scientists and HPC programmers transform industries by tapping into HPC to power the AI solutions. "ISC brings together academic and commercial disciplines to share knowledge in the field of high performance computing. Intel's presence at the event will include keynotes, sessions, and booth demos that will be focused on the future of HPC technology, including Artificial Intelligence (AI) and visualization."The post Intel to Showcase AI and HPC Demos at ISC 2018 appeared first on insideHPC.
Job of the Week: Software Solutions Engineer at Mathworks
Mathworks in Massachusetts is seeking a Software Solutions Engineer in our Job of the Week. "We are a team of product proficient engineers with application and software industry experience. Alongside MATLAB Application Deployment developers, we work directly with our customers to resolve their software integration issues and challenges in multiple language interoperability. We are looking for a multi-faceted software engineer with strong foundation in programming, and in-depth troubleshooting knowledge of various software integration methods. You will have a chance to develop your skills and work in multiple disciplines – C++, Java, C#, and Python; multi-threading, and multi-processing across Windows, Linux and OS X."The post Job of the Week: Software Solutions Engineer at Mathworks appeared first on insideHPC.
Atos Quantum Learning Machine Comes to SURFsara in the Netherlands
Dutch researchers have a new opportunity to experiment with Quantum Computing with the new Atos Quantum Learning Machine at SURFsara. The Atos Quantum Learning Machine is a complete on-premise quantum simulation environment designed for quantum software developers to generate quantum algorithms. It is dedicated to the development of quantum software, training and experimentation. The Atos Quantum Learning Machine allows researchers, engineers and students to develop and experiment with quantum software.The post Atos Quantum Learning Machine Comes to SURFsara in the Netherlands appeared first on insideHPC.
UberCloud Publishes Compendium of Cloud HPC Case Studies
Our friends at the UberCloud have published the 2018 edition of their Compendium of Cloud HPC Case Studies. "The goal of the UberCloud Experiment is to perform engineering simulation experiments in the HPC cloud with real engineering applications in order to understand the roadblocks to success and how to overcome them. The Compendium is a way of sharing these results with the broader HPC community."The post UberCloud Publishes Compendium of Cloud HPC Case Studies appeared first on insideHPC.
Agenda Posted: Dell EMC HPC Community Meeting at ISC 2018
The Dell EMC HPC Community has published their Speaker Agenda for meeting at ISC 2018. The half-day event takes place June 24 in Frankfurt, Germany. "The Dell EMC HPC Community event will feature keynote presentations by HPC experts and a networking event to discuss best practices in the use of Dell EMC HPC Systems. Attendees will have the unique opportunity to receive updates on HPC strategy, product and solution plans from Dell executives and technical staff and technology partners."The post Agenda Posted: Dell EMC HPC Community Meeting at ISC 2018 appeared first on insideHPC.
Video: Calligo Technologies Demonstrates Posit Computing Implementation
Anantha Kinnal from Calligo Technologies gave this talk at the ConGA conference for Next Generation Arithmetic. "CalligoTech, based in Bangalore - India, built and demonstrated World’s First Posit-enabled System at the CoNGA track at Supercomputing Asia’18, Singapore. Our primary objective was to build a System capable of performing basic arithmetic operations using Posit Number System and capable of running existing C programs."The post Video: Calligo Technologies Demonstrates Posit Computing Implementation appeared first on insideHPC.
Video: AMD HPC Update
Jay Owen from AMD gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Tucson. "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. Truly accelerating the pace of deep learning and addressing the broad needs of the datacenter requires a combination of high performance compute and GPU acceleration optimized for handling massive amounts of data with lots of floating point computation that can be spread across many cores."The post Video: AMD HPC Update appeared first on insideHPC.
NEC starts HPC sales operations in the UK
Today NEC announced that NEC Deutschland GmbH is starting High Performance Computing sales operations in the United Kingdom. This business expansion in the UK, one of Europe’s most important high-tech regions, is in addition to NEC’s existing sales operations throughout Europe, including Germany, France, Belgium, Italy and others. "NEC Deutschland has named Matthew Prew as Senior Sales Manager of HPC in the UK, where he will be responsible for driving the expansion of new business. Mr. Prew brings more than 25 years of experience in the IT Industry. Starting in the early 1990s, he joined a European IT manufacturer focusing predominantly on the UNIX platform."The post NEC starts HPC sales operations in the UK appeared first on insideHPC.
NVIDIA Opens AI Research Lab in Toronto
Over at the NVIDIA Blog, Gavriel State writes that the company has opened a new AI Research Lab in Toronto. The AI Research Lab will be led by computer scientist and University of Toronto professor Sanja Fidler. "With the new lab, our goal is to triple the number of AI and deep learning researchers working there by year’s end. It will be a state-of-art facility for AI talent to work in and will expand the footprint of our office by about half to accommodate the influx of talent."The post NVIDIA Opens AI Research Lab in Toronto appeared first on insideHPC.
Intel Stratix FPGAs Power Innovation for the Dell HPC Community
In this video from the Dell EMC HPC Community Meeting, Chris Branch from Intel describes how FPGAs deliver speed and efficiency for technical computing. The two companies are working together to bring new FPGA solutions to market. "With ​ever-changing ​​workloads​ ​and​ ​evolving​ ​standards,​ ​how ​do​ ​you​ ​maximize performance ​while ​​minimizing​ ​power​ ​consumption in your data center? Intel platforms are qualified, validated, and deployed through Dell EMC."The post Intel Stratix FPGAs Power Innovation for the Dell HPC Community appeared first on insideHPC.
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