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The Barcelona Supercomputing Center will host the RISC-V Workshop next week, a gathering the open source processor design community to share RISC-V updates, projects and implementations. Founded in 2015, the RISC-V Foundation comprises more than 100 members building the first open, collaborative community of software and hardware innovators powering innovation at the edge forward. BSC is promoting the adoption of RISC-V as a key partner of the European Processor Initiative, the consortium to design and develop Europe's low-power processors and related technologies for extreme-scale, high-performance computing, which will be funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 program.The post BSC to host the RISC-V Workshop on the Road to European Processor Initiative appeared first on insideHPC.

Over at the Fast.AI Blog, Jeremy Howard writes that his Startup has achieved an amazing deep learning benchmark milestone – the ability to do an ImageNet training in 3 hours for just $25. "His recent discovery of an extraordinary phenomenon he calls super convergence shows that it is possible to train deep neural networks 5-10x faster than previously known methods, which has the potential to revolutionize the field."The post Fast.ai Trains Neural Net in Record Time with Super Convergence appeared first on insideHPC.

The High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) and Supercomputing Center of Wuhan University have announced plans to cooperate on technology and training projects. "HLRS and the Supercomputing Center at Wuhan University plan to exchange scientists and to focus on key research topics in high-performance computing. Both sides will also share experience in installing large-scale computing systems, particularly because both Wuhan and Stuttgart aim to develop exascale systems."The post HLRS and Wuhan to Collaborate on Exascale Computing appeared first on insideHPC.

Steve Reinhardt from D-Wave Systems gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "Despite the incredible power of today’s supercomputers, there are many complex computing problems that can’t be addressed by conventional systems. While we are only at the beginning of this journey, quantum computing has the potential to help solve some of the most complex technical, scientific, national defense, and commercial problems that organizations face. We expect that quantum computing will lead to breakthroughs in science, engineering, modeling and simulation, healthcare, financial analysis, optimization, logistics, and national defense applications."The post Quantum Computing – Timing is Everything appeared first on insideHPC.

In this edition of Let's Talk Exascale, Thom Dunning from the University of Washington describes the software effort underway to for molecular modeling at exascale with NWCHEMEX. "To date, our work is focused on the redesign of Northwest Chem, but we’ve also explored a number of alternate strategies for implementing the overall redesign as well as the redesign of the algorithms, and this work required access to the ECP computing allocations."The post Let’s Talk Exascale: Thom Dunning on Molecular Modeling with NWCHEMEX appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Bright Computing announced a reseller and services partnership agreement with X-ISS. "

Amanda Randles from Duke University will receive the 2018 ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award, which recognizes young researchers for major technical or service contribution to computation. A Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF) alumna, Randles built supercomputing models to capture details of the human circulatory system.The post ACM Honors Amanda Randles from Duke University appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Rescale announced that XFdtd electromagnetic simulation software from Remcom is now available on Rescale’s ScaleX platform for HPC in the cloud. The combined solutions allows engineers to quickly and easily run complex, high-fidelity EM simulation models from any web browser. "We are very excited to be partnering with Remcom,” said Joris Poort, CEO at Rescale. “We believe that Remcom users will benefit from the fast, flexible, secure, and huge on-demand resources that Rescale can bring to computationally demanding tools, such as electromagnetic simulation.”The post Rescale Brings NVIDIA GPU-Accelerated Electromagnetic Simulation To The Cloud appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Robert Roe talks to Southampton University’s Oz Parchment about the decision-making behind installing the latest HPC system at the University. "Iridis 4 was based On Sandy Bridge and the current one we have got now is based on Sky Lake so you can see we have jumped four generations of development. Four years is a long time in HPC performance," stated Oz Parchment, director of i-solutions at the University of Southampton.The post Iridis 5 Supercomputer to Simplify Use of HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Scott McNealy, former CEO of Sun Microsystems, joins the Masons Leadership Summit to back, learn, and inform the future. "Scott talked about some of the projects he’s currently involved with (curriki.org, wayin.com, drivescale.com), offered his opinions on internet privacy (“there isn’t any, get over it”), provided advice on how Mark Zuckerberg should have approached the recent Senate hearings, and offered his views on the value (or lack thereof) of most college educations."The post Video: Scott McNealy on Why the Network is Still the Computer appeared first on insideHPC.

"The 14th Annual OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) Workshop, held in scenic Boulder, Colorado, recently concluded its week-long, community-wide collaboration and dialogue on OpenFabrics. As the premier means of fostering lively discussions among those who develop fabrics, deploy fabrics, and create applications that rely on fabrics, the Workshop is the ideal venue for the OpenFabrics community and networking industry at large to identify and address the wide variety of emerging industry requirements and challenges that remain."The post The OpenFabrics Alliance 2018 Annual Workshop Recap appeared first on insideHPC.

"If you’re doing any kind of parallel simulation, and you have a bit of imbalance, all the other cores have to wait for the slowest one,” Junghans says, a problem that compounds as the computing system’s size grows. “The bigger you go on scale, the more these tiny imbalances matter.” On a system like LANL’s Trinity supercomputer up to 999,999 cores could idle, waiting on a single one to complete a task.The post Balancing the Load – A Million Cores in Concert appeared first on insideHPC.

Today ACM announced the recipients of four prestigious technical awards. These leaders were selected by their peers for making significant contributions that have had far-reaching impact on the ascendance of computing as an integral part of how we live and work today, opening promising new avenues for research exploration and commercial application in the coming years. "The ACM - AAAI Allen Newell Award is presented to an individual selected for career contributions that have breadth within computer science, or that bridge computer science and other disciplines. The Newell award is accompanied by a prize of $10,000, provided by ACM and the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), and by individual contributions."The post ACM Recognizes Innovators in Open Source Software, Biotechnology, Networks, and Artificial Intelligence appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the HPC User Forum in Tucson, Earl Joseph from Hyperion Research presents an HPC Market Update. "Hyperion Research is the new name for the former IDC high performance computing analyst team. As Hyperion Research, we continue all the worldwide activities that spawned the world’s most respected HPC industry analyst group."The post HPC Market Update from Hyperion Research appeared first on insideHPC.

Frameworks, applications, libraries and toolkits—journeying through the world of deep learning can be daunting. If you’re trying to decide whether or not to begin a machine or deep learning project, there are several points that should first be considered. This is the final article in a five-part series that covers the steps to take before launching a machine learning startup. This article provides a variety of resources to employ when first exploring machine learning.The post What Next? Entering the World of Machine Learning appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, CJ Newburn from NVIDIA describes how users can benefit from running their workloads in the NVIDIA GPU Cloud. "A container essentially creates a self contained environment. Your application lives in that container along with everything the application depends on, so the whole bundle is self contained. NVIDIA is now offering a script as part of an open source project called HPC Container Maker, or HPCCM that makes it easy for developers to select the ingredients they want to go into a container, to provide those ingredients in an optimized way using best-known recipes."The post NVIDIA Simplifies Building Containers for HPC Applications appeared first on insideHPC.

Housing registration is now open for SC18 in Dallas. Unlike previous years, you should register now because the conference hotels expected to run out of rooms sometime soon. "SC18 has room blocks reserved at 21 hotels in the vicinity of the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center Dallas. A range of prices and hotel types are available."The post Register Now for SC18 Housing in Dallas – Rooms will run out appeared first on insideHPC.

Branch predictor (BP) is an essential component in modern processors since high BP accuracy can improve performance and reduce energy. However, reducing latency and storage overhead of BP while maintaining high accuracy presents significant challenges. Especially in light of Spectre attack, which arises due to speculative execution such as branch prediction, a relook on branch predictors is very important. In this paper, we present a survey of dynamic branch prediction techniques. We review two-level BPs, neural-BPs, hybrid BPs and techniques for improving BP accuracy and reducing implementation overheads.The post New Paper: A Survey of Techniques for Dynamic Branch Prediction appeared first on insideHPC.

"In this TACC Podcast, Ross Maguire and Jeroen Ritsema of the University of Michigan describe how supercomputer simulations of volcanos show how mantle plumes form and how they rise from Earth's mantle. What's more, the researchers say their work could guide future experiments with seismic imaging and help get to the bottom of mysteries like the origin of Hawaii's volcanos."The post Podcast: TACC Powers Deep Earth Imaging appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Nlyte Software announced the company has partnered with the IBM Watson IoT group to offer its first cognitive DCIM solution – Nlyte Machine Learning. The company is tapping into the analytical and machine-learning power of IBM Watson IoT to unlock hidden patterns from millions of environmental, power, systems, thermal and other operational data-points, to improve the process of placing and managing workloads in the data center.The post Nlyte Sofware Taps IBM Watson for Optimization of Workload Infrastructure appeared first on insideHPC.

John Martinis from Google presents: Quantum Computing and Quantum Supremacy. "The goal of the Google Quantum AI lab is to build a quantum computer that can be used to solve real-world problems. Our strategy is to explore near-term applications using systems that are forward compatible to a large-scale universal error-corrected quantum computer. In order for a quantum processor to be able to run algorithms beyond the scope of classical simulations, it requires not only a large number of qubits."The post Video: Quantum Computing and Quantum Supremacy at Google appeared first on insideHPC.

The UK’s fastest academic supercomputer, based at the University of Cambridge, will be made available to artificial intelligence (AI) technology companies from across the UK, in support of the government’s industrial strategy. “Artificial Intelligence is at the centre of our plans to make the UK the best place in the world to start and grow a digital business."The post Unversity of Cambridge Receives £10 million in funding for new AI supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Seagate announced that it has achieved Common Criteria (CC) certification across a broad portfolio of its Hard Disc Drives and SSDs, expanding on its existing Seagate Secure Certified Service Level. "Seagate remains committed to certified hardware security solutions and is proud to have worked with the international community for several years to develop the FDE Protection Profiles. We’re excited to now bring Common Criteria certified products to the market to meet our customer’s data security and data privacy requirements, as well as regional and international regulations,” said Monty Forehand, Product Security Officer at Seagate.The post Seagate Storage Devices Achieve Common Criteria Certification for GDPR Security appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Intel released the Intel Saffron AI Quality and Maintenance Decision Support Suite – a suite of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered software applications using associative memory learning and reasoning to facilitate faster issue resolution. "Intel Saffron AI simulates a human’s natural ability to learn, remember and reason in real time. It uses associative memory learning and reasoning to analyze structured and unstructured text data sets to find hidden patterns, trends and similarities. It surfaces insights in a transparent way through an easy-to-use interface so human operators can make better-informed decisions."The post Intel Saffron AI Speeds Issue Resolution for Manufacturing appeared first on insideHPC.

"In the last six years UberCloud has performed 200 cloud experiments with engineers and scientists and their complex applications. In a series of challenging high performance computing applications in the Life Sciences, UberCloud’s HPC Containers have been packaged recently with several scientific workflows and application data to simulate complex phenomena in human’s heart and brain. As the core software for these HPC Cloud experiments we are using the (containerized) Abaqus solver running in a fully automated multi-node HPE environment in the Advania HPC Cloud."The post Video: Moving Towards Personalized Medicine at The UberCloud appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the Dell EMC HPC Community meeting, Shreya Shar and Onur Celebioglu from Dell describe the new Dell EMC AI Challenge. "Dell EMC invites you to participate in an AI Challenge! Abstracts and proposals will be accepted through May 31, 2018, and will be reviewed according to the following three criteria: Most innovative use of AI technology, Biggest economic or social impact, and Highest potential for commercialization."The post Announcing the Dell EMC AI Challenge appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the new interactive USA Supercomputing Map from Hyperion Research. "As part of the discussion, Rich recaps Hyperion’s recent HPC User Forum in Tucson. The event featured an extended session on Quantum Computing with presentations by D-Wave Systems, Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NIST, and Rigetti Computing."The post Radio Free HPC Looks at New USA Supercomputing Map appeared first on insideHPC.

This is the second post in a five-part series from a report that explores the potential of unified deep learning with CPU, GPU and FGPA technologies. This post explores the possibilities and functions of software for deep learning.The post Exploring the Possibilities of Deep Learning Software appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the HPC User Forum in Tucson, Miyoshi Takemasa from RIKEN presents: Big Data Assimilation Revolutionizing Weather Prediction. "A new project harnessing data from a Japanese satellite called Himawari-8 could improve weather forecasting and allow officials to issue life-saving warnings before natural disasters. The breakthrough is the result of pairing data collected by Japan’s Himawari-8 weather satellite with a program run on a supercomputer at the RIKEN science institute."The post Video: Big Data Assimilation Revolutionizing Weather Prediction appeared first on insideHPC.

Argonne is now accepting proposals for the ALCF Data Science Program (ADSP). "The program, which currently supports eight projects, allocates computing time and supporting resources to research teams focused on using the ALCF’s leadership-class systems and infrastructure to explore, demonstrate, and improve a wide range of data and learning techniques. These techniques include uncertainty quantification, statistics, machine learning, deep learning, databases, pattern recognition, image processing, graph analytics, data mining, real-time data analysis, and complex and interactive workflows."The post Call for Proposals: ALCF Data Science Program at Argonne appeared first on insideHPC.

The Ohio State University is seeking an Scientific Applications Engineer in our Job of the Week. "The OSC Scientific Applications (SA) Group is responsible for provisioning, optimizing, and maintaining the library and application level software environment on OSC’s HPC systems. "The individual in this position will perform software installations, license server administration, adhere to and make improvements to OSC’s software deployment processes and infrastructure, and create user-facing documentation."The post Job of the Week: Scientific Applications Engineer at Ohio State University appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre announced it has received $70 million in funding for a new supercomputing infrastructure. "This is a reflection of the government’s understanding of the value that the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre delivers to the Australian scientific landscape by accelerating innovation and increasing opportunities for engagement between Australian researchers and their peers internationally."The post Pawsey Centre receives $70 Million for Supercomputing Down Under appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the RStor startup launched a "hyper-distributed multicloud platform" that enables organizations to compute, connect, and operate above the cloud. "

Solarflare has announced the general availability of X2, its second generation of XtremeScale NICs. "For modern data centers, X2 lays a new foundation for NIC-based network virtualization needed for their highly distributed applications with thousands of inter-connected cloud services, machine learning, and big data workloads. X2 is the first and only NIC platform that can establish ultra-scale connectivity to thousands of virtual networks, while at the same time providing real-time packet and flow information. The combination of ultra-high bandwidth, ultra-low latency, ultra-scale connectivity and packet telemetry allows X2 NICs to serve as the Industry’s first commercial platform for micro-segmented NIC fabric services that scale with each server, VM or container."The post Solarflare X2 NICs Deliver Super Low Latency appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the 2018 Internet2 Global Summit announced that Daniel Reed from the University of Iowa will keynote the conference with a talk on the convergence of academic and research collaboration. Registration is now open for the event, which takes place May 6-9 in San Diego. "Dr. Reed’s presentation will explore the intersections of balancing the needs of supporting the academic enterprise and the research community from a technology, application, and cyberinfrastructure perspective. He will provide an in-depth viewpoint on both the challenges and opportunities by addressing how cloud and edge computing, along with new technologies, will continue to play a significant role across both domains."The post Daniel Reed to Keynote Internet2 Global Summit in San Diego appeared first on insideHPC.

The PASC18 conference has posted their conference speaker agenda. Registration is now open for this HPC event, which takes place July 2-4 in Basel, Switzerland. "PASC18 offers three days of stimulating technical sessions with more than 200 talks in total. The program includes keynote presentations, minisymposia, peer-reviewed papers, posters, an interdisciplinary dialogue, and a panel discussion."The post Speakers Announced for PASC18 in Basel appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the HPC User Forum in Tucson, David McCallen from LBNL describes how exascale computing capabilities will enhance earthquake simulation for improved structural safety. "With the major advances occurring in high performance computing, the ability to accurately simulate the complex processes associated with major earthquakes is becoming a reality. High performance simulations offer a transformational approach to earthquake hazard and risk assessments that can dramatically increase our understanding of earthquake processes and provide improved estimates of the ground motions that can be expected in future earthquakes."The post How Exascale will Move Earthquake Simulation Forward appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Hyperion Research launched an information-rich, interactive map of 765 HPC sites in the United States. "The mapped sites include government, academic and industrial HPC data centers, along with HPC vendors. This powerful tool can be used to identify the economic impact of HPC in a user-defined area (state, Congressional district, et al.) or for the United States as a whole, or to understand where HPC jobs are located, as well as who the Congressional district representatives are."The post Hyperion Research Posts Interactive Map of 765 U.S. HPC Sites appeared first on insideHPC.

Today ISC 2018 announced that the conference will host whopping 23 HPC & AI workshops this year. Registration is now open for the conference, which takes place June 24-28 in Frankfurt, Germany. "Chaired by John Shalf from LBNL, the goal of workshops is to provide attendees with a focused and in-depth platform for presentations, discussion and interaction in a particular subject area."The post 23 HPC & AI Workshops coming to ISC 2018 in Frankfurt appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Altair released PBS Works 2018. Built around the company's PBS Professional core HPC workload manager and scheduler, the new PBS Works user environment streamlines enterprise access and management of on-premise and cloud HPC resources. "PBS Works has become a key technology to increase productivity and reduce expenses for organizations around the world and across verticals,” said Bill Nitzberg, Chief Technical Officer for PBS Works. “Altair has carefully designed the new PBS Works 2018 suite to invite HPC users to an environment that is both user-friendly and powerful.”The post Altair Releases PBS Works 2018 for Cloud Friendly Secure Workload Management appeared first on insideHPC.

"Containers just make life easy. So one of the things that people have issues with running bare metal is from time to time their libraries change, maybe they want to try the new version of CUDA, the new version of cuDNN, and they forget to simlink it back to the original path. If you have packaged your app into a container, it's the same every time."The post Why Use Containers for HPC on the NVIDIA GPU Cloud? appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the Dell EMC HPC Community meeting, Alisdair King from Cambridge University describes the new Cambridge Data Accelerator. "The Cambridge Data Accelerator is an open source software package for building Burst Buffers from high speed flash storage. With available support from Cambridge University, the Cambridge Data Accelerator offers flexibility and high performance for high performance workloads."The post Introducing the Cambridge Data Accelerator appeared first on insideHPC.

ScaleMP announced that the government of Canada has extended the contract for its large shared memory systems acquired from Dell. These SMP systems use vSMP Foundation to aggregate more than 64 Intel Xeon processors each, totaling more than 1500 CPUs per system. The systems are used for a variety of HPC workloads, including computer-aided engineering (CAE) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD). "Together with our hardware partners, we have been providing technology to the government of Canada since 2012, and are proud of repeatedly earning their business,” said Shai Fultheim, founder and CEO of ScaleMP. “repeat customers are a big part of the vSMP Foundation user community, and we continue to see expansion of our footprint with existing customers along with strong growth in deployments of vSMP Foundation with new ones.”The post ScaleMP Powers Largest Shared-Memory Systems in Canada appeared first on insideHPC.

Registration is now open for ISC 2018 at Early Bird discounted rates. The event takes place June 24-28 in Frankfurt. "Various topical and interest-specific Birds-of-a-Feather sessions, the fast-paced Vendor Showdown, and the Exhibitor Forums will again take place this year. Plus, the three-day ISC exhibition will feature about 150 exhibits from leading HPC companies and research organizations."The post ISC 2018 is Now Open for Registration appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the GPU Technology Conference, James Coomer from DDN describes how the company delivers high performance data solutions for machine learning and AI applications. "DDN customers are leveraging machine learning techniques to speed results and improve competitiveness, profitability, customer service, business intelligence, and research effectiveness. The performance and flexible sizing of DDN solutions are well-suited for large-scale machine learning programs. They have the power to feed massive training sets to high core count systems as well as the mixed I/O capabilities necessary to handle data efficiently for CPU, GPU, and mixed multi-algorithm environments from simple linear regressions to deep neural nets."The post DDN Powers Data Solutions for AI at the GPU Technology Conference appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the World Medical Innovation Forum, Jensen Huang from NVIDIA discusses the revolution of AI and Medicine with Keith Dreyer, Chief Data Science Officer at PHS. "Medical imaging researchers have discovered the power of deep learning. Half of the papers presented at last year’s MICCAI, the leading medical imaging conference, applied deep learning. We’re working with over 300 healthcare startups tackling challenges now possible with deep learning."The post Fireside Chat: Jensen Huang from NVIDIA on how AI will revolutionize Medicine appeared first on insideHPC.

Ansys is hoping to transform how industries such as aerospace and defense, biotech and automotive can manufacture metal parts thanks to its new solutions for metal additive manufacturing. "Our technology spurs the efficient creation of parts for some of the world's most demanding applications, including military machines on foreign soil, spacecraft on other planets and even custom-printed human body parts at hospitals."The post ANSYS Software Powers Additive Manufacturing of Metal Components appeared first on insideHPC.

Today HPE announced a new supercomputer installation at KU Leuven, a Flemish research university consistently ranked as one of the five most innovative universities in the world. HPE collaborated with KU Leuven to develop and deploy Genius, a new supercomputer built to run artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. The system will be available to both academia and the industry to build applications that drive scientific breakthroughs, economic growth and innovation in Flanders, the northern region of Belgium.The post HPE Deploys “Genius” Supercomputer at KU Leuven appeared first on insideHPC.

Researchers are using computational models powered by HPC to develop better strategies for protecting us from bioterrorism. "Recent advances in data analytics and artificial intelligence systems are fundamentally transforming our ability to personalize treatments to the specific needs of a patient under treat-to-target paradigms,” said Josep Bassaganya-Riera, co-director of the Biocomplexity Institute’s Nutritional Immunology and Molecular Medicine Laboratory. “Our goal in this project will be to leverage the power of modeling and advanced machine learning methods, so a group of people exposed to a harmful pathogen or its toxins can receive faster, safer, more effective and personalized treatments.”The post Researchers using HPC to help fight Bioterrorism appeared first on insideHPC.

In this RCE podcast, Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres discuss MEEP, a free finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) software for electromagnetic simulations. Their guests are Dr. Steven G. Johnson and Dr. Ardavan Oskooi. "Meep is a free and open-source software package for simulating electromagnetic systems via the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. Meep is an acronym for MIT Electromagnetic Equation Propagation."The post RCE Podcast Looks at MEEP Software for Simulating Electromagnetic Systems appeared first on insideHPC.