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Video: Molecular Simulation at the Mesoscale
Dr. Rommie E. Amaro gave this talk at SC17. "We are developing new capabilities for multi-scale dynamic simulations that cross spatial scales from the molecular (angstrom) to cellular ultrastructure (near micron), and temporal scales from the picoseconds of macromolecular dynamics to the physiologically important time scales of organelles and cells (milliseconds to seconds)."The post Video: Molecular Simulation at the Mesoscale appeared first on insideHPC.
Dark Energy Survey Releases First Three Years of Data
Today scientists from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) released their first three years of data. This first major release of data from the Survey includes information on about 400 million astronomical objects, including distant galaxies billions of light-years away as well as stars in our own galaxy. "There are all kinds of discoveries waiting to be found in the data. While DES scientists are focused on using it to learn about dark energy, we wanted to enable astronomers to explore these images in new ways, to improve our understanding of the universe," said Dark Energy Survey Data Management Project Scientist Brian Yanny of the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.The post Dark Energy Survey Releases First Three Years of Data appeared first on insideHPC.
Using the Titan Supercomputer to Accelerate Deep Learning Networks
A team of researchers from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has married artificial intelligence and high-performance computing to achieve a peak speed of 20 petaflops in the generation and training of deep learning networks on the laboratory’s Titan supercomputer.The post Using the Titan Supercomputer to Accelerate Deep Learning Networks appeared first on insideHPC.
Using the Intel C++ Compiler’s Optimization Features to Improve MySQL Performance
IT operations and maintenance developers have found that just by compiling the MySQL source code with the Intel C++ Compiler and turning on its Interprocedural Optimization feature, you can improve database performance from 5 to 35% compared with other compilers. "While there may be many factors affecting MySQL performance, such as hardware and software configuration, having a thoroughly optimized MySQL package is a good place to start."The post Using the Intel C++ Compiler’s Optimization Features to Improve MySQL Performance appeared first on insideHPC.
Intel’s Al Gara Presents: Technology Opportunities Like Never Before
Al Gara from gave this talk at the Intel HPC Developer Conference in Denver. "Technology visionaries architecting the future of HPC and AI will share the key challenges as well as Intel’s direction. The talk will cover the adaptation of AI into HPC workflows, along their perspective architectural developments, upcoming transitions and range of solutions, technology opportunities, and the driving forces behind them."The post Intel’s Al Gara Presents: Technology Opportunities Like Never Before appeared first on insideHPC.
European Commission to invest EUR 1 Billion in Exascale
Today the European Commission unveiled today its plans to invest jointly with the Member States in building a world-class European supercomputers infrastructure. "While Europe already had a number of exascale initiatives under way, this is a major step forward in that it puts up the money. Under a new legal and funding structure, the Commission's contribution will be $486 million, or roughly half of the projected EUR 1 Billion total. Before the new structure was put in place, the Commission was effectively limited to contributing only 20 percent of HPC initiatives undertaken with member states.The post European Commission to invest EUR 1 Billion in Exascale appeared first on insideHPC.
ECP Launches “Let’s Talk Exascale” Podcast
The DOE's Exascale Computing Project has launched a new podcast channel. In this episode, Danny Perez from Los Alamos National Laboratory discusses The Exascale Atomistic Capability for Accuracy, Length, and Time (EXAALT) project. EXAALT specializes in molecular dynamics simulations of materials. "We hope you enjoy the podcast, and we welcome your ideas for future episodes."The post ECP Launches “Let’s Talk Exascale” Podcast appeared first on insideHPC.
NVIDIA races to patch GPU Drivers for Spectre and Meltdown
A new security bulletin from NVIDIA reveals that its GPU drivers are not immune to the Spectre and Meltdown exploits that affect nearly every modern CPU. This is bad news for HPC, where the company's Tesla GPUs are widely deployed to accelerate applications. "Most of the updates are available now, although Tesla and GRID users will have to wait until late January."The post NVIDIA races to patch GPU Drivers for Spectre and Meltdown appeared first on insideHPC.
Survey shows how AI Could Revolutionize Life Sciences
Some 44 per cent of life science professionals are using or experimenting with AI and deep learning, while 94 per cent expect an increase in use of machine learning within two years. These are findings from a survey carried out by the Pistoia Alliance, a global, not for profit alliance that works to lower barriers to innovation in life sciences R&D. "Our survey data shows that while life science professionals are already exploring how AI, ML and NLP can be used – there are clear gaps in the knowledge, data, and skills, which will enable more pharma and biotech companies to achieve tangible results from AI."The post Survey shows how AI Could Revolutionize Life Sciences appeared first on insideHPC.
How AI is Reshaping HPC
Karl Freund from Moor Insights gave this talk at SC17. "Researchers have begun putting Machine Learning to work solving problems that do not lend themselves well to traditional numerical analysis, or that require unaffordable computational capacity. This talk with discuss three primary approaches being used today, and will share some case studies that show significant promise of lower latency, improved accuracy, and lower cost."The post How AI is Reshaping HPC appeared first on insideHPC.
AI Hardware to Support the Artificial Intelligence Software Ecosystem
Balance ratios are key to understanding the plethora of AI hardware solutions that are being developed or are soon to become available. This post from an insideHPC Special Report explores AI hardware options to support the growing artificial intelligence software ecosystem.The post AI Hardware to Support the Artificial Intelligence Software Ecosystem appeared first on insideHPC.
Berkeley Lab-led Collaborations win HPC Innovation Awards
Two Berkeley Lab-led projects—Celeste and Galactos—were honored with Hyperion Research’s 2017 HPC Innovation Excellence Awards for "the outstanding application of HPC for business and scientific achievements." The HPC Innovation Excellence awards are designed to showcase return on investment and success stories involving HPC; to help other users better understand the benefits of adopting HPC; and to help justify HPC investments, including for small and medium-size enterprises.The post Berkeley Lab-led Collaborations win HPC Innovation Awards appeared first on insideHPC.
PEARC18 Conference Announces lineup of Keynote Speakers
The PEARC18 Conference has announced its lineup of Keynote Speakers. The event takes place July 22-27 in Pittsburgh. "PEARC18 is for everyone who works to realize the promise of advanced computing as the enabler of seamless creativity. Scientists and engineers, scholars and planners, artists and makers, students and teachers all depend on the efficiency, security, reliability and sustainability of increasingly complex and powerful digital infrastructure systems. If your work addresses these challenges in any way, PEARC18 is the forum to share, learn and inspire progress."The post PEARC18 Conference Announces lineup of Keynote Speakers appeared first on insideHPC.
NOAA Looks to Dell for Massive Supercomputing Upgrade
Today NOAA announced to plans for a major upgrade to its supercomputing capabilities. The upgrade adds 2.8 petaflops of computational power, enabling NOAA’s National Weather Service to implement the next generation Global Forecast System, known as the “American Model,” next year. “Having more computing speed and capacity positions us to collect and process even more data from our newest satellites — GOES-East, NOAA-20 and GOES-S — to meet the growing information and decision-support needs of our emergency management partners, the weather industry and the public.”The post NOAA Looks to Dell for Massive Supercomputing Upgrade appeared first on insideHPC.
RAID Inc. Joins OpenSFS to Support the Lustre File System
RAID Incorporated has joined OpenSFS (Open Scalable File Systems, Inc.). OpenSFS is a non-profit organization that supports the vendor-neutral development of Lustre. Since 2010, OpenSFS has utilized working groups, events, and funding initiatives to encourage the growth and stability of the Lustre community, as well as facilitate collaborative benefits of its members, to ensure Lustre remains open, free, and flourishing. "RAID Incorporated undoubtedly brings great value to OpenSFS and will aid in boosting the continued innovation and advancements of the Lustre file system," said OpenSFS President Sarp Oral.The post RAID Inc. Joins OpenSFS to Support the Lustre File System appeared first on insideHPC.
Steve Oberlin from NVIDIA Presents: HPC Exascale & AI
Steve Oberlin from NVIDIA gave this talk at SC17 in Denver. "HPC is a fundamental pillar of modern science. From predicting weather to discovering drugs to finding new energy sources, researchers use large computing systems to simulate and predict our world. AI extends traditional HPC by letting researchers analyze massive amounts of data faster and more effectively. It’s a transformational new tool for gaining insights where simulation alone cannot fully predict the real world."The post Steve Oberlin from NVIDIA Presents: HPC Exascale & AI appeared first on insideHPC.
NVIDIA and Baidu Announce Autonomous Car project with 30 Deep earning TOPS (trillions of operations per second)
Today NVIDIA and Baidu today that they are creating a production-ready AI autonomous vehicle platform designed for China, the world’s largest automotive market. "NVIDIA and Baidu have pioneered significant advances in deep learning and AI together over the last several years,” said Huang. “Now, together with ZF, we have created the first AI autonomous vehicle computing platform for China.”The post NVIDIA and Baidu Announce Autonomous Car project with 30 Deep earning TOPS (trillions of operations per second) appeared first on insideHPC.
Video: Red Hat Showcases ARM Support for HPC at SC17
In this video from SC17, Jon Masters from Red Hat describes the company's Multi-Architecture HPC capabilities, including the new ARM-powered Apollo 70 server from HPE. "At SC17, you will also have an opportunity to see the power and flexibility of Red Hat Enterprise Linux across multiple architectures, including Arm v8-A, x86_64 and IBM POWER Little Endian."The post Video: Red Hat Showcases ARM Support for HPC at SC17 appeared first on insideHPC.
Micron and Intel to continue joint development of 3D NAND Memory through 2019
Today Micron and Intel announced an update to their successful NAND memory joint development partnership that has helped the companies develop and deliver industry-leading NAND technologies to market. "The companies have agreed to complete development of their third-generation of 3D NAND technology, which will be delivered toward the end of this year and extending into early 2019. Beyond that technology node, both companies will develop 3D NAND independently in order to better optimize the technology and products for their individual business needs."The post Micron and Intel to continue joint development of 3D NAND Memory through 2019 appeared first on insideHPC.
New Whitepaper on Meltdown and Spectre fixes for HPC
Can you afford to lose a third of your compute real estate? If not, you need to pre-empt the impact of Meltdown and Spectre. "Meltdown and Spectre are quickly becoming household names and not just in the HPC space. The severe design flaws in Intel microprocessors that could allow sensitive data to be stolen and the fixes are likely to be bad news for any I/O intensive applications such as those often used in HPC. Ellexus Ltd, the I/O profiling company, has released a white paper: How the Meltdown and Spectre bugs work and what you can do to prevent a performance plummet."The post New Whitepaper on Meltdown and Spectre fixes for HPC appeared first on insideHPC.
Radio Free HPC Looks at Spectre and Meltdown Exploits
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the performance ramifications of the Spectre and Meltdown exploits that affect processors from Intel, AMD, and many others. While patches are on the way, the performance hit from these patches could be as high as twenty or thirty percent in some cases.The post Radio Free HPC Looks at Spectre and Meltdown Exploits appeared first on insideHPC.
Pointwise ISV is Finalist for Small Business of the Year
The Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce has named Pointwise a finalist for 2018 Small Business of the Year award. Pointwise, Inc. is solving the top problem facing computational fluid dynamics (CFD) today – reliably generating high-fidelity meshes. The company's Pointwise software generates structured, unstructured, overset and hybrid meshes; interfaces with CFD solvers such as ANSYS FLUENT, STAR-CCM+, OpenFOAM, and SU2 as well as many neutral formats, such as CGNS; runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac, and has a scripting language, Glyph, that can automate CFD meshing.The post Pointwise ISV is Finalist for Small Business of the Year appeared first on insideHPC.
Adapting Deep Learning to New Data Using ORNL’s Titan Supercomputer
Travis Johnston from ORNL gave this talk at SC17. "Multi-node evolutionary neural networks for deep learning (MENNDL) is an evolutionary approach to performing this search. MENNDL is capable of evolving not only the numeric hyper-parameters, but is also capable of evolving the arrangement of layers within the network. The second approach is implemented using Apache Spark at scale on Titan. The technique we present is an improvement over hyper-parameter sweeps because we don't require assumptions about independence of parameters and is more computationally feasible than grid-search."The post Adapting Deep Learning to New Data Using ORNL’s Titan Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.
The AI Future is Closer than it Seems
Gadi Singer gave this talk at the Intel HPC Developer Conference in Denver. "Technology visionaries architecting the future of high-performance computing and artificial intelligence (AI) will share the key challenges as well as Intel’s direction. The talk will cover the adaptation of AI into HPC workflows, along their perspective architectural developments, upcoming transitions and range of solutions, technology opportunities, and the driving forces behind them."The post The AI Future is Closer than it Seems appeared first on insideHPC.
Job of the Week: Computer Systems Researcher at Baidu USA
Baidu USA in Silicon Valley is seeking a Computer Systems Researcher in our Job of the Week. "Baidu's research mission is to develop hard AI technologies that will reach and impact hundreds of millions of users. Our Silicon Valley Artificial Intelligence Lab (SVAIL) develops state-of-the-art AI technologies that require bleeding-edge systems to improve accuracy, scale, and performance. Our systems researchers address the many and new systems challenges that arise as we extend the AI state-of-the-art."The post Job of the Week: Computer Systems Researcher at Baidu USA appeared first on insideHPC.
Mellanox Ships BlueField SoCs and SmartNICs
Today Mellanox announced the first shipments of its BlueField system-on-chip (SoC) platforms and SmartNIC adapters to major data center, hyperscale and OEM customers. Mellanox BlueField dual-port 100Gb/s SoC is ideal for cloud, Web 2.0, Big Data, storage, enterprise, high-performance computing, and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) applications. "We are excited to ship BlueField systems and SmartNIC adapters to our major customers and partners, enabling them to build the next generation of storage, cloud, security and other platforms and to gain a competitive advantage,” said Yael Shenhav, vice president of products at Mellanox Technologies. “BlueField products achieve new performance records, delivering industry-leading NVMe over Fabrics and networking throughput. We are proud of our world-class team for delivering these innovative products, designed to meet the ever growing needs of current and future data centers.”The post Mellanox Ships BlueField SoCs and SmartNICs appeared first on insideHPC.
Visualization on GPU Accelerated Supercomputers
Peter Messmer from NVIDIA gave this talk at SC17. "This talk is a summary about the ongoing HPC visualization activities, as well as a description of the technologies behind the developer-zone shown in the booth." Messmer is a principal software engineer in NVIDIA's Developer Technology organization, working with clients to accelerate their scientific discovery process with GPUs.The post Visualization on GPU Accelerated Supercomputers appeared first on insideHPC.
Radio Free HPC does their List of Things Not Invited Back in 2018
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team reviews their list of things Not Invited Back in 2018. Along the way, they share some of their New Year Resolutions.The post Radio Free HPC does their List of Things Not Invited Back in 2018 appeared first on insideHPC.
Video: Deep Learning for Science
Prabhat from NERSC and Michael F. Wehner from LBNL gave this talk at the Intel HPC Developer Conference in Denver. "Deep Learning has revolutionized the fields of computer vision, speech recognition and control systems. Can Deep Learning (DL) work for scientific problems? This talk will explore a variety of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s applications that are currently benefiting from DL."The post Video: Deep Learning for Science appeared first on insideHPC.
Intel Deploying Updates for Spectre and Meltdown Exploits
Intel reports that company has developed and is rapidly issuing updates for all types of Intel-based computer systems — including personal computers and servers — that render those systems immune from both exploits (referred to as “Spectre” and “Meltdown”) reported by Google Project Zero. "By the end of next week, Intel expects to have issued updates for more than 90 percent of processor products introduced within the past five years."The post Intel Deploying Updates for Spectre and Meltdown Exploits appeared first on insideHPC.
Video: A Closer Look at the Atos Dibona Prototype for ARM-based HPC
In this video from SC17 in Denver, Pascale Bruner from Atos describes the company's innovative ARM-HPC technologies developed as part of the Mont-Blanc Project. "Atos will showcase our Dibona prototype for ARM-based HPC. Named after the Dibona peak in the French Alps, the new prototype is part of the Phase 3 of Mont-Blanc and is based on 64 bit ThunderX2 processors from Cavium, relying on the ARM v8 instruction set."The post Video: A Closer Look at the Atos Dibona Prototype for ARM-based HPC appeared first on insideHPC.
ESI Releases SimulationX 3.9 for Manufacturing
ESI Group has announced the release of SimulationX 3.9, a software platform for multiphysics system simulation. Designed for many industries – from automotive, energy, and mining to industrial machinery, railways, aerospace and aeronautics – SimulationX has proven to be one of the most reliable and customer-friendly solutions on the market.The post ESI Releases SimulationX 3.9 for Manufacturing appeared first on insideHPC.
Call for Sessions: UK OpenMP User Conference
The UK OpenMP User Conference has issued its Call for Sessions. The event takes place May 21-22 at St Catherine's College in Oxford. "This inaugural event is intended to become the annual meeting of the growing UK-based community of developers who use OpenMP."The post Call for Sessions: UK OpenMP User Conference appeared first on insideHPC.
Converging HPC, Big Data, and AI at the Tokyo Institute of Technology
Satoshi Matsuoka from the Tokyo Institute of Technology gave this talk at the NVIDIA booth at SC17. "TSUBAME3 embodies various BYTES-oriented features to allow for HPC to BD/AI convergence at scale, including significant scalable horizontal bandwidth as well as support for deep memory hierarchy and capacity, along with high flops in low precision arithmetic for deep learning."The post Converging HPC, Big Data, and AI at the Tokyo Institute of Technology appeared first on insideHPC.
Intel Omni-Path Architecture: The Real Numbers
In this slidecast, Joe Yaworski from Intel describes the Intel Omni-Path architecture and how it scales performance for a wide range of HPC applications. He also shows why recently published benchmarks have not reflected the real performance story.The post Intel Omni-Path Architecture: The Real Numbers appeared first on insideHPC.
Preliminary Agenda Posted for March HPC User Forum in France
The HPC User Forum has posted their Preliminary Agenda for their upcoming meeting in France. Free to attend, the event takes place March 6-7 near Paris at the Teratec campus in Bruyères-le-Châtel. "We have developed an exciting agenda with prominent speakers who will discuss the HPC strategies for Europe, Japan and the USA," said Earl Joseph, CEO of Hyperion Research. "We will also have talks on new HPC technologies, applications and markets; and the proliferation of HPC in industrial and commercial environments."The post Preliminary Agenda Posted for March HPC User Forum in France appeared first on insideHPC.
Microsoft to acquire Avere Systems
Over at the Microsoft Blog, Jason Zander writes that the company is acquiring Avere Systems. "By bringing together Avere’s storage expertise with the power of Microsoft’s cloud, customers will benefit from industry-leading innovations that enable the largest, most complex high-performance workloads to run in Microsoft Azure. We are excited to welcome Avere to Microsoft, and look forward to the impact their technology and the team will have on Azure and the customer experience."The post Microsoft to acquire Avere Systems appeared first on insideHPC.
Top 10 HPC White Papers for 2017: Machine Learning, AI, the Cloud & More
Many of the top 10 2017 HPC white papers deal with the next steps in the HPC journey, including moving to the cloud, and discovering the potential of machine learning and AI. The most downloaded reports of the year were written with industry partners such as Red Hat, Dell EMC, Intel, HPE and more.The post Top 10 HPC White Papers for 2017: Machine Learning, AI, the Cloud & More appeared first on insideHPC.
Intel tackles FPGA HPC Memory Bottleneck
Intel recently announced the availability of the Intel Stratix 10 MX FPGA, the industry’s first field programmable gate array (FPGA) with integrated HBM2. By integrating the FPGA and the HBM2, Intel Stratix 10 MX FPGAs offer up to 10 times the memory bandwidth when compared when compared to standard DDR 2400 DIMM.The post Intel tackles FPGA HPC Memory Bottleneck appeared first on insideHPC.
Red Hat steps up with Multi-Architecture Solutions for HPC
In this video from SC17, Dan McGuan and Jon Masters from Red Hat describe the company's Multi-Architecture HPC capabilities. "At SC17, you will have an opportunity to see the power and flexibility of Red Hat Enterprise Linux across multiple architectures, including Arm v8-A, x86_64 and IBM POWER Little Endian."The post Red Hat steps up with Multi-Architecture Solutions for HPC appeared first on insideHPC.
ASC18 Student Cluster Competition to include 230 Teams
The 2018 ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge (ASC18) will begin on January 16, 2018. First launched in 2012, the competition will feature a whopping 230 student teams looking to build the fastest possible cluster with a power cap of 3 Kilowatts. "The USA Student Cluster Competition is like a marathon, testing participants’ hard work and perseverance," said OrionX partner Dan Olds, who has covered all three major supercomputing challenges. "Germany’s ISC is a sprint, testing innovation and adaptability. China’s ASC is a combination of both.”The post ASC18 Student Cluster Competition to include 230 Teams appeared first on insideHPC.
Dr. Pradeep Dubey on AI & The Virtuous Cycle of Compute
"Deep Learning was recently scaled to obtain 15PF performance on the Cori supercomputer at NERSC. Cori Phase II features over 9600 KNL processors. It can significantly impact how we do computing and what computing can do for us. In this podcast, I will discuss some of the application-level opportunities and system-level challenges that lie at the heart of this intersection of traditional high performance computing with emerging data-intensive computing."The post Dr. Pradeep Dubey on AI & The Virtuous Cycle of Compute appeared first on insideHPC.
Video: Dell EMC AI Vision & Strategy
Jay Boisseau from Dell EMC gave this talk at SC17 in Denver. "Across every industry, organizations are moving aggressively to adopt AI | ML | DL tools and frameworks to help them become more effective in leveraging data and analytics to power their key business and operational use cases. To help our clients exploit the business and operational benefits of AI | ML | DL, Dell EMC has created “Ready Bundles” that are designed to simplify the configuration, deployment and management of AI | ML | DL solutions."The post Video: Dell EMC AI Vision & Strategy appeared first on insideHPC.
Why Rescale is one of the Fastest Growing Enterprise Software Companies of 2017
Over at the Rescale Blog, Joris Poort writes that the company has been named one of the fastest growing enterprise software companies of 2017. "It’s been a busy year as we’ve landed over 100 new enterprise customers, fueling our rapid growth in multiple key industry verticals including aerospace, automotive, life sciences, universities and with broad geographic coverage throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia."The post Why Rescale is one of the Fastest Growing Enterprise Software Companies of 2017 appeared first on insideHPC.
Harp-DAAL: A Next Generation Platform for High Performance Machine Learning on HPC-Cloud
Judy Qiu from Indiana University gave this Invited Talk at SC17. "Our research has concentrated on runtime and data management to support HPC-ABDS. This is illustrated by our open source software Harp, a plug-in for native Apache Hadoop, which has a convenient science interface, high performance communication, and can invoke Intel’s Data Analytics Acceleration Library (DAAL). We are building a scalable parallel Machine Learning library that includes routines in Apache Mahout, MLlib, and others built in an NSF funded collaboration."The post Harp-DAAL: A Next Generation Platform for High Performance Machine Learning on HPC-Cloud appeared first on insideHPC.
Pointwise Announces Geode Geometry Kernel
Today Pointwise announced Project Geode, the company's response to the NASA CFD Vision 2030 Study's identification of the lack of CFD software access to geometry. As part of the announcement, Pointwise has opened beta testing of a geometry modeling kernel for computer-aided engineering (CAE) simulation software. "The kernel's core geometry evaluation functions can provide all the functionality a CFD solver would need for tasks like mesh adaption and elevation of elements to higher-order. We are now seeking additional beta testers to validate this idea.”The post Pointwise Announces Geode Geometry Kernel appeared first on insideHPC.
Video: Deep Learning at 15 Petaflops
Narayanan Sundaram gave this talk at the Intel HPC Developer Conference. "We present the first 15-PetaFLOP Deep Learning system for solving supervised and semi-supervised scientific pattern classification problems, optimized for Intel Xeon Phi. We use a hybrid of synchronous and asynchronous training to scale to ~9600 nodes of Cori on CNN and autoencoder networks."The post Video: Deep Learning at 15 Petaflops appeared first on insideHPC.
Job of the Week: Senior Memory Systems Architect at NVIDIA
NVIDIA in Silicon Valley is seeking a Senior Memory Systems Architect in our Job of the Week. "NVIDIA is building the world's fastest highly-parallel processing systems, period. Our high-bandwidth multi-client memory subsystems are blazing new territory with every generation. As we increase levels of parallelism, bandwidth and capacity, we are presented with design challenges exacerbated by clients with varying but simultaneous needs such as real-time, low latency, and high-bandwidth. In addition, we are adding improved virtualization and programming model capabilities."The post Job of the Week: Senior Memory Systems Architect at NVIDIA appeared first on insideHPC.
Jack Dongarra Presents: Overview of HPC and Energy Savings on NVIDIA’s V100
Jack Dongarra from the University of Tennessee gave this talk at SC17. "In this talk we will look at the current state of high performance computing and look to the future toward exascale. In addition, we will examine some issues that can help in reducing the power consumption for linear algebra computations."The post Jack Dongarra Presents: Overview of HPC and Energy Savings on NVIDIA’s V100 appeared first on insideHPC.
Mont-Blanc to Sponsor UPC Team at ISC 2018 Student Cluster Competition
The Mont-Blanc Project will once again sponsor a team at the upcoming ISC 2018 Student Cluster Competition. The sponsored team from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya / Barcelona Tech (UPC) will compete for the fourth time at ISC 2018, which takes place June 24– 28 in Frankfurt, Germany. "I am always impressed by the technical prowess exhibited by these young teams: the way they are turning our lessons into applied knowledge, through live benchmarking and on the fly troubleshooting is a great process and it triggers a positive loop in all of us."The post Mont-Blanc to Sponsor UPC Team at ISC 2018 Student Cluster Competition appeared first on insideHPC.
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