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In this video from the Altair Tiki Bar at SC17, Bill Nitzberg describes the company's open sources solutions for HPC system management. "PBS Professional automates job scheduling, management, monitoring and reporting, and is the trusted solution for complex Top500 systems as well as smaller cluster owners."The post Video: Altair Serves Up HPC with PBS Pro at SC17 appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, David Yip, HPC and Storage Business Development at OCF, provides his take on the place of GPU technology in HPC. "Using GPUs in the HPC datacenter in place of CPUs can dramatically increase the power requirements needed, but if your computational performance goes through the roof, then I’d argue it’s a trade-off worth making."The post For HPC and Deep Learning, GPUs are here to stay appeared first on insideHPC.

Green Revolution Cooling has announced plans to deliver a custom GPU-based cluster to the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). Our goal is to make HPC more affordable. Offering lower cost, energy dense servers that take full advantage of our highly efficient CarnotJet cooling system is a huge benefit to our customers,” said Larry Stone, VP of Engineering at GRC “we are seeing a growing number of people opt for servers designed for immersion, over traditional big brand OEM hardware.”The post GRC Builds GPU-Based Immersion Cluster for TACC appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Geoff Lyon from CoolIT Systems describes the company's innovative liquid-cooling solutions for HPC. "Liquid cooling in the data center continues to grow in adoption and delivers more compelling ROIs. 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,” said Geoff Lyon, CEO and CTO at CoolIT Systems.The post CoolIT Systems Showcases OEM & Enterprise Data Center Liquid Cooling Solutions at SC17 appeared first on insideHPC.

Last week at SC17, ThinkParQ announced immediate availability of the BeeGFS version 7.0 release candidate. While previous versions of BeeGFS are already running on systems of all kinds and sizes around the globe (including burst buffers, hyper-converged setups and of course dedicated high-performance enterprise storage), this new major release introduces several features that were desired by the BeeGFS community.The post New BeeGFS 7.0 Delivers All-Flash Performance at Spinning Disk Price appeared first on insideHPC.

"Traditional methods of moving data are expensive and very time-consuming. These processes often negate the value-add that the cloud offers. Moving all of your data to the cloud is not necessary in order to use cloud compute for an individual application’s workload. In fact, you don’t need to move large data sets at all. Cloud caching filers can often take on the data required to run each job, putting the data migration portion all onto this caching appliance."The post Moving HPC Workloads to the Cloud with Avere Systems at SC17 appeared first on insideHPC.

"InfiniBand being the preferred interconnect for new HPC systems shows the increasing demand for the performance it can deliver. Its place at #1 and #4 are excellent examples of that performance,” said Bill Lee, IBTA Marketing Working Group Co-Chair. “Besides of delivering world-leading performance and scalability, InfiniBand guarantees backward and forward compatibility, ensuring users highest return on investment and future proofing their data centers.”The post InfiniBand Accelerates 77 Percent of New HPC Systems on the TOP500 appeared first on insideHPC.

"Are you operating a small to medium sized HPC Center? Interested in how others are managing their resources with open source tools and low risk/low overhead hardware? Questions about academic service centers and cost recovery models? Or just want to talk shop with other admins and center managers? This the the session for you! Come visit with Steve and Gowtham, they’re in the trenches with you, always on the lookout for innovative and interest ways of managing resources and sharing their experiences along the way. We’re open to discussing anything HPC for the rest of us!"The post Video: Share your know-how with “HPC for the Rest of Us” appeared first on insideHPC.

Today DDN announced that the Oakforest-PACS system JCAHPC in Japan, which uses DDN’s Infinite Memory Engine (IME), has been named the first annual IO500 winner. "The goal of the IO500 is to create a suite of I/O benchmarks that allow comparison of storage systems and is similar in concept to the Top500 for computing systems. Storage systems are ranked according to the combination of a set of I/O benchmarks that are designed to represent a mix of applications and real-world workloads."The post JCAHPC in Japan Wins Inaugural IO500 Award with help from DDN appeared first on insideHPC.

Last week at SC17, Nallatech showcased their FPGA solutions for high-performance computing, low latency network acceleration, and data analytics. "FPGAs are being deployed in volume across a range of on-premise platforms and cloud infrastructure to achieve a step-change in application performance and energy-efficiency above and beyond what can be achieved using conventional processor technologies” said Craig Petrie, VP Business Development of FPGA Solutions at Nallatech. “We’re excited to be showcasing our new OpenCL-programmable ‘520’ product range featuring Intel Stratix-10 FPGAs. These server-qualified accelerator products have been engineered to cost-effectively solve demanding co-processing and real-time data ingest and enrichment applications."The post Nallatech Showcases Next Generation FPGA Accelerators at SC17 appeared first on insideHPC.

Last week at SC17, SkyScale announced its partnership with Rescale, the foremost cloud simulation and HPC solution provider, and availability of NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPU accelerators on its GPU as a Service cloud platform. Enhancing SkyScale’s dedicated, cloud-based ultra-fast multi-GPU platforms for deep learning and HPC applications, the Tesla V100 offers the performance of 100 CPUs in a single GPU—enabling data scientists, researchers, and engineers to tackle the most difficult deep learning and HPC challenges.The post SkyScale HPC Cloud steps up with Volta GPUs appeared first on insideHPC.

At SC17 last week, Nyriad Limited demonstrated their company's first commercial product, Nsulate, a GPU-accelerated storage solution that enables increased storage resilience while reducing the storage power requirements by over 50 percent. "Using a GPU as a storage controller inserts an enormous amount of general purpose processing power directly into the storage pipeline, enabling modern HPC storage appliances to deliver unprecedented speed, scale, security, storage efficiency and intelligence in real-time."The post Video: Nyriad Unveils GPU-accelerated Storage Device for the Square Kilometer Array appeared first on insideHPC.

An new energy-efficient supercomputer called CoolMUC-3 has been deployed at LRZ in Germany. Developed by MEGWARE, the HPC cluster features Intel’s many-core architecture and warm-water cooled Omni-Path switches. "In the long run, we want to get rid of inefficient air-cooling completely."The post Energy-efficient CoolMUC-3 Cluster comes to LRZ in Germany appeared first on insideHPC.

NEC Deutschland GmbH has delivered an LX series supercomputer to Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), one of Germany’s leading research universities and part of the German Gauss Alliance consortium of excellence in high-performance computing. The new HPC cluster ranks 65th in the most current TOP500 list of the fastest supercomputers in the world from November 2017 and 51st in the Green500 list of the most energy-efficient supercomputers.The post NEC Supercomputer at JGU in Germany Ranks #65 on TOP500 appeared first on insideHPC.

Last week at SC17, Data Direct Networks announced that The University of Tennessee, Chattanooga (UTC) has selected DDN’s GS14KX parallel file system appliance with 1.1PB of storage to replace its aging big data storage system and to support a diversifying range of data-intensive research projects. The Center of Excellence in Applied Computational Science and Engineering (SimCenter) at UTC needed a big data storage solution that could scale easily to support growing research programs focused on computational fluid dynamics (CFD), machine learning, data analytics, smart cities and molecular biology.The post DDN Powers Big Data and Machine Learning at UTC in Tennessee appeared first on insideHPC.

Last week at SC17, Hyperion Research announced that the UberCloud and the Stanford Living Heart Project have won the Hyperion Award for Innovation Excellence. "The Stanford LHP project is simulating cardiac arrhythmia, which can be an undesirable and potentially lethal side effect of drugs. The electrical activity of the heart turns chaotic, decimating its pumping function, thus diminishing the circulation of blood through the body."The post Hyperion Innovation Excellence Award goes to UberCloud and Stanford Living Heart Project appeared first on insideHPC.

Last week at SC17, Russian HPC vendor RSC Group showcased the next generation of their liquid-cooled RSC Tornado supercomputers based on Intel Xeon Scalable Processors. "RSC is demonstrating a full set of components for modern HPC computing systems of different scale with 100% direct liquid cooling in ‘hot water’ mode, including high-performance RSC Tornado computing nodes based on the top-bin Intel Xeon Platinum and Intel Xeon Gold processors (part of the Intel Xeon Scalable platform), Intel Server Board S2600BP, high-speed NVMe solid state drives in high-dense М.2 format and the latest Intel Optane SSD DC P4800X Series. The RSC Tornado solution is built using 100% direct liquid cooled Intel Omni-Path Edge Switch 100 Series that ensures end-to-end efficiency of the cooling solution with ‘hot water’ and eventually the lowest possible total cost of ownership of the system."The post Russian RSC Group Joins the Intel Select Solutions for HPC Program appeared first on insideHPC.

Last week, the rhetorical one-two punch of the Intel HPC Developer Conference and Supercomputing 2017 offered global HPC aficionados new insights into the direction of advanced HPC technologies, and how those tools will empower the future of discovery and innovation. In case you missed it, here is a breakdown of all the action.The post Intel Xeon Processors and Intel Omni-Path Architecture Offer Breakthroughs for Top500 Systems appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from SC17, Bruce Tulloch from BitScope describes a low-cost Rasberry Pi cluster that LANL can use to simulate large-scale supercomputers. "The BitScope Pi Cluster Modules system creates an affordable, scalable, highly parallel testbed for high-performance-computing system-software developers. The system comprises five rack-mounted BitScope Pi Cluster Modules consisting of 3,000 cores using Raspberry Pi ARM processor boards, fully integrated with network switching infrastructure."The post Video: An Affordable Supercomputing Testbed based on Rasberry Pi appeared first on insideHPC.

The School of Mines in Colorado is seeking a Computational Scientist in our Job of the Week. "The Computational Scientist works as part of the High Performance Computing Group to help Mines researchers by collaborating with other researchers and computational scientists to develop, integrate, port and tune applications to take advantage of the high performance computing capabilities at Mines."The post Job of the Week: Computational Scientist at the School of Mines appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team describes the highlights of SC17 in Denver. Highlights includes the debut of ARM hardware for HPC, a Rasberry Pie Cluster, and pervasive liquid cooling.The post Radio Free HPC Recaps SC17 in Denver appeared first on insideHPC.

This week at SC17, Dell EMC announced new machine learning and deep learning solutions, continuing the company’s work to bring high performance computing and data analytics capabilities to mainstream enterprises worldwide. "When you think about what this means for industries like financial services or personalized medicine, the possibilities are endless and exciting.”The post Dell EMC Brings Machine Learning to Mainstream Enterprises appeared first on insideHPC.

Today BittWare announced the TeraBox 1432D high density 1U FPGA server at SC17. Based on a Dell PowerEdge C4130, the customized TeraBox 1432D provides an unprecedented thirty-two 100GbE ports directly connected to four large Xilinx or Intel FPGAs on BittWare accelerator cards. This server targets users requiring the highest density of large FPGAs with directly-connected I/O for clustering or networking.The post New TeraBox 1U FPGA Server Doubles Compute and I/O Density appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Hugo Falter from Par-Tec describes the new 12 Petaflop supercomputer coming to the Jülich Supercomputing Centre in Germany. "Modular supercomputing, an idea conceived by Dr. Lippert almost 20 years ago, was realised by JSC and ParTec in the EU-funded research projects DEEP and DEEP-ER together with many partners from research and industry. Since 2010, our experts have been developing the software, which will in future create the union of several modules into a single system."The post Video: Atos and ParTec to deploy 12 Petaflop Supercomputer at Jülich appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from SC17, Naoki Shibata from Xtreme Design describes the company's innovative solutions for deploying and managing HPC clouds. "XTREME-D is well-known in Japan for architecting technical computing in the cloud. The company develops and sells XTREME DNA, a cloud-based, virtual, supercomputing-on-demand service that provides unattended services ranging from the construction of a high-speed analysis system on the cloud to optimal operation monitoring, and eliminates the systems after use."The post Xtreme Design Showcases Innovative Solutions for Deploying and Managing HPC Clouds appeared first on insideHPC.

This week at SC17, BOXX Technologies debuted the new GX8-M server, featuring dual AMD EPYC 7000-series processors, eight full-size AMD or NVIDIA graphics cards, and other innovative features designed to accelerate high performance computing applications. "BOXX is taking the lead with deep learning solutions like the GX8-M which enables users to boost high performance computing application performance and accelerate their workflows like never before.”The post BOXX rolls out AMD EPYC Deep Learning Server at SC17 appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from LAD'17 in Paris, Adreas Dilger from Intel presents: ZFS Improvements for Lustre. "Lustre is the Parallel file system of choice for High Performance Computing and large file applications. To meet the capacity and throughput requirements of HPC workloads, Lustre has traditionally required adoption of custom proprietary storage products leading to vendor lock-in and reduced innovation. The evolution of software defined high availability platforms like ZFS running on Linux now make it possible to meet the performance requirements of HPC on open industry standard x86 platforms."The post Video: ZFS Improvements for Lustre appeared first on insideHPC.

Today at SC17, Lenovo announced new initiatives designed to empower customers to embrace Artificial Intelligence and make it a true reality for their organizations to achieve augmented intelligence capabilities for increased productivity and transformative results. "Artificial intelligence is already having a profound impact on traditional business strategies and scientific research, and most senior leaders consider it a priority for the year ahead. To truly benefit from the vast amount of data available to organizations today, our customers must embrace AI as the vehicle to help them achieve success in today’s competitive business landscape,” said Kirk Skaugen, president, Lenovo Data Center Group. “With our newly opened, global AI innovation centers and a comprehensive product and service portfolio we are committed to helping bring their AI deployments to life.”The post Lenovo Accelerates AI to Solve Humanity’s Greatest Challenges appeared first on insideHPC.

Intel Select Solutions HPC provide a fast path for purchasing and deploying a cluster for simulation and modeling workloads with a pre-validated selection of components designed to meet the demands of HPC applications and workflows. These systems provide the capabilities and agility needed to support a range of different workloads and reduce or eliminate the need for multiple single-purpose systems. In addition, the performance of key system characteristics are verified for Intel Select Solutions for Simulation and Modeling at both the node and cluster level.The post Intel Select Solutions for HPC Debut at SC17 appeared first on insideHPC.

Technical Report 6 demonstrates the importance of user feedback to the OpenMP specification,” says Bronis R. de Supinski, the Chair of the OpenMP Language Committee. “Users have indicated that several features are vitally important to them, such as multilevel memory support, deep copy, easy access to unified shared memory and a descriptive loop construct. As a result of that feedback, OpenMP 5.0 will include all of these major additions.”The post New Report Offers insight on OpenMP appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Bright Computing announced Bright Cluster Manager for Data Science, an all-in-one product for data scientists. The new product brings together all of the tools needed to build, manage, and operate an enterprise-class data science cluster.The post Bright Computing Offers Fast Onramp to Deep Learning appeared first on insideHPC.

In computer graphics, ray tracing is a rendering technique for generating an image by tracing the path of light as pixels in an image plane and simulating the effects of its encounters with virtual objects. "Experienced computer graphics developers that understand how ray tracing works, in conjunction with a deep knowledge of the Intel Xeon Phi processor hardware have created a set of ray tracing kernels that take advantage of the underlying instruction sets and the available number of computing cores."The post Ray Tracing on Intel Xeon Phi with Embree appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from SC17, Rich Brueckner from insideHPC describes Project Cyclops, a benchmarking quest to build the world’s fastest single node. The single-node Cyclops supercomputer demonstrates the computational power that individual scientists, engineers, artificial intelligence practitioners, and data scientists can deploy in their offices. Cyclops looks to rank well on the HPCG benchmark.The post Video: Project Cyclops comes to SC17 in a Quest to Build the World’s Fastest Node appeared first on insideHPC.

The new Intel Select Solutions for HPC leverage the proven Intel Scalable System Framework delivers balanced HPC through tighter integration of compute, memory/storage, fabric, and software. The Intel SSF specification provides an architectural foundation that enables development and deployment of a wide variety of high-performance, compute- and data-intensive workloads. Its standards-based programmability allows engineers to run diverse workloads on a broadly available, common infrastructure. Intel SSF enables organizations to achieve high performance with flexibility, scalability, balance, and portability."The post Lenovo Steps up with Intel Select Solutions for HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

Are you at SC17 in Denver? Please join a special session for the IEEE Computer Society Technical Consortium on High Performance Computing (TCHPC). The meeting takes place (Wednesday Nov 15, 2017) in room 201-203 at the Denver Convention Center. "The annual TCHPC Birds of a Feather session at SC provides a forum to discuss the consortium and its mission, activities and initiatives with members of the community, as well as to get inputs from the community. It give members of the community a chance to interact with the TCHPC volunteers and representatives from its member technical committees and to explore opportunities to get involved."The post SC17 Preview: BoF Session on IEEE Consortium on HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

At SC17 in Denver, AMD and its ecosystem partners announced at SC17 immediate availability of a suite of new, high performance systems powered by AMD EPYC CPUs and AMD Radeon Instinct GPUs to accelerate innovation in supercomputing. "Target workloads for AMD solutions include machine learning, weather modeling, computational fluid dynamics, simulation and crash analysis in aviation and automotive manufacturing, oil and gas exploration, and more."The post AMD Delivers ‘Supercomputing for All’ at SC17 appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Cray announced that Samsung has purchased a Cray CS-Storm accelerated cluster supercomputer. The Samsung Strategy & Innovation Center (SSIC) procured the system for use in its research into Artificial Intelligence and deep learning workloads, including systems for connected cars and autonomous technologies.The post Cray to Power AI Innovation at Samsung appeared first on insideHPC.

Today at SC17, Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced new high-density compute and storage solutions that enable enterprises to harness the power of high performance computing and artificial intelligence applications. “Today, HPE is augmenting its proven supercomputing and large commercial HPC and AI capabilities with new high-density compute and storage solutions to accelerate market adoption by enabling organizations of all sizes to address challenges in HPC, big data, object storage and AI with more choice and flexibility.”The post HPE Steps Up with AI Innovation at SC17 appeared first on insideHPC.

"The Bright Computing and SUSE partnership was first announced in 2009, enabling customers to deploy, manage, and monitor SUSE Linux Enterprise Server clusters using the Bright interface. Since then, the companies have collaborated many times to provide cutting edge infrastructure management solutions to significant strategic companies around the world, including Boeing in North America and CSIRO in Australia."The post Bright Computing and SUSE Collaborate at SC17 appeared first on insideHPC.

This week at SC17, One Stop Systems is showcasing all-new "HPC composable infrastructure solutions" designed for data scientists requiring flexible high performance infrastructure across multiple nodes. "By adding NVIDIA GPU and NVMe expansion, customers can add unlimited flexibility to their HPC architecture by decoupling the latest innovations in CPU capabilities, NVIDIA GPU performance, and NVMe storage into a system called “composable HPC infrastructure.”The post One Stop Systems Rolls Out Composable Infrastructure Solutions at SC17 appeared first on insideHPC.

At SC17, Intel is reinforcing its ongoing commitment to HPC and AI technologies. If you want to learn more about Intel’s investment in Artificial Intelligence, and the convergence with HPC, then be sure to catch the future-focused presentation on "Artificial Intelligence and The Virtuous Cycle of Compute" by Pradeep Dubey, Intel Fellow, and Director of Parallel Computing Lab.The post Catch Today’s ‘Artificial Intelligence and The Virtuous Cycle of Compute’ Presentation by Intel appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Pradeep Dubey from Intel Labs describes his upcoming SC17 Invited Talk on Artificial Intelligence. "Dubey will discuss how the convergence of AI, Big Data, HPC systems, and algorithmic advances are transforming the relationship between computers and humans, disrupting past notions of a partnership where humans made all the “intelligent” decisions."The post SC17 Preview: Artificial Intelligence and The Virtuous Cycle of Compute appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest feature, Kim McMahon offers up her annual Top 10 list of things she's looking forward to as SC17 this week. "It’s that time of year we all look forward to! We have been waiting for it all year, preparing, and holding our excitement until it starts! It’s not vacation, it’s not the holidays, it's Supercomputing!"The post Top 10 Things to Look Forward to at SC17 appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Ellexus released versions of its flagship I/O profiling products Breeze, Healthcheck and Mistral, all based on the Arm v8-A architecture. The move comes as part of the company’s strategy to provide cross-platform support that gives engineers a uniform tooling experience across different hardware platforms. "As the high-performance computing industry targets new compute architectures and cloud infrastructures, it’s never been more important to optimise the way programs access large data sets," said Dr Rosemary Francis, CEO of Ellexus, on the decision to release versions based on Arm. "Bad I/O patterns can harm shared storage and will limit application performance, wasting millions in lost engineering time. We are extremely excited to announce the integration of our tools with the Arm tool suite. Together we will be able to help more organizations to get the most out of their compute clusters.”The post Ellexus Releases I/O Profiling Tool Suites Based for Arm Architecture appeared first on insideHPC.

The JURECA supercomputer in Germany just got a major upgrade with help from Dell EMC. "Thanks to the additional 5 petaflops, the Jülich supercomputer now appears as one of the fastest computers in Europe on the TOP500 list of the fastest computers in the world. This is the first time that a supercomputer with an innovative modular architecture has gone into productive operation worldwide."The post Jülich Supercomputer Adds 5 Petaflop Booster Upgrade from Dell EMC appeared first on insideHPC.

We are very excited to present this live keynote presentation on the SKA Telescope Project live from SC17. It all starts here Tuesday, Nov 14 at 8:30am Mountain Time. "Professor Diamond, accompanied by Dr. Rosie Bolton, SKA Regional Centre Project Scientist, will take SC17 attendees around the globe and out into the deepest reaches of the observable universe as they describe the SKA’s international partnership that will map and study the entire sky in greater detail than ever before."The post Video Replay: SC17 Keynote Presentation on the SKA Telescope Project appeared first on insideHPC.

The demand for performant and scalable AI solutions has stimulated a convergence of science, algorithm development, and affordable technologies to create a software ecosystem designed to support the data scientist. "It is very important to understand that time-to-model and the accuracy of the resulting model are really the only performance metrics that matter when training because the goal is to quickly develop a model that represents the training data with high accuracy."The post An Overview of AI in the HPC Landscape appeared first on insideHPC.

We are very pleased to bring you this livestream of the SC17 Plenary session on Smart Cities. It starts right here Nov 13 at 5:30pm Mountain Time. "The Smart Cities initiative looks to improve the quality of life for residents using urban informatics and other technologies to improve the efficiency of services."The post Video: SC17 Plenary on Smart Cities appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the Intel HPC Developer Conference, Gadi Singer from Intel describes how the company is moving forward with Artificial Intelligence. "We are deeply committed to unlocking the promise of AI: conducting research on neuromorphic computing, exploring new architectures and learning paradigms."The post Intel and the Coming AI Revolution appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the Intel HPC Developer Conference, Prabhat from NERSC describes how AI applies to science. "Looking ahead, Prabhat sees broad applications for deep learning in scientific research beyond climate science—especially in astronomy, cosmology, neuroscience, material science, and physics."The post Video: Applying AI to Science appeared first on insideHPC.