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Powerful technologies today fuel tomorrow’s HPC and High-Performance Data Analytics innovations and help organizations accelerate toward discoveries. Get ahead of the curve at the Intel HPC Developer Conference 2017 in Denver, Colorado on November 11-12.The post Register Now For the Intel HPC Developer Conference 2017 appeared first on insideHPC.

The HPC system software stack tends to be complicated, assembled out of a diverse mix of somewhat compatible open source and commercial components. This is the second article in a four-part series that explores using Intel HPC Orchestrator to solve HPC software stack management challenges. Download the full insideHPC Special Report.The post Challenges to Managing an HPC Software Stack appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the Radio Free HPC podcast team announced announced plans to build what they hope will be the “fastest single-node supercomputer in the world" for the High Performance Conjugate Gradients Benchmark (HPCG). "Codenamed “Project Cyclops”, the single-node supercomputer demonstrates the computational power that individual scientists, engineers, artificial intelligence practitioners, and data scientists can deploy in their offices."The post Single Node “Cyclops” Supercomputer Looks to Set Records appeared first on insideHPC.

Pavel Shamis from ARM gave this talk at the MVAPICH User Group. "With the emerging availability HPC solutions based on ARM CPU architecture, it is important to understand how ARM integrates with the RDMA hardware and HPC network software stack. In this talk, we will overview ARM architecture and system software stack. We will discuss how ARM CPU interacts with network devices and accelerators. In addition, we will share our experience in enabling RDMA software stack and one-sided communication libraries (Open UCX, OpenSHMEM/SHMEM) on ARM and share preliminary evaluation results."The post HPC Network Stack on ARM appeared first on insideHPC.

The StartupHPC Community will host their annual meetup at SC17 in Denver next month. StartupHPC is a grass roots community for STEM- and HPC-inspired entrepreneurs, corporations, venture capital firms, academia, government agencies, and support organizations. "If you can provide informal help or formal services to the startup community, let us know and we will include you in a leaflet given out at the meetup. If you are interested in entrepreneurship or are trying to grow a startup, stop by and see who can help you accelerate your progress."The post StartupHPC Meetup Coming to Denver at SC17 appeared first on insideHPC.

Cleve Moler from MathWorks gave this talk at the 2017 Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing. "MATLAB is a high-performance language for technical computing. It integrates computation, visualization, and programming in an easy-to-use environment where problems and solutions are expressed in familiar mathematical notation. Typical uses include: Data analysis, exploration, and visualization."The post Video: Evolution of MATLAB appeared first on insideHPC.

D.E. Shaw Research in New York is seeking HPC System Administrators in our Job of the Week. "Our research effort is aimed at achieving major scientific advances in the field of biochemistry and fundamentally transforming the process of drug discovery. Exceptional sysadmins sought to manage systems, storage, and network infrastructure for a New York–based interdisciplinary research group. Positions are available at our New York City offices, and at our data centers in Durham, NC and Endicott, NY."The post Job of the Week: HPC System Administrators at D.E. Shaw Research in New York appeared first on insideHPC.

SC17 has announced the finalists for the Gordon Bell Prize in High Performance Computing. The $10,000 prize will be presented to the winner at the conference in Denver next month. "The Gordon Bell Prize recognizes the extraordinary progress made each year in the innovative application of parallel computing to challenges in science, engineering, and large-scale data analytics. Prizes may be awarded for peak performance or special achievements in scalability and time-to-solution on important science and engineering problems."The post Gordon Bell Prize Finalists to Present their work at SC17 appeared first on insideHPC.

There is still time to participate in our insideHPC Survey on the intersection HPC & AI. In return, we'll send you a free report with the results and enter your name in a drawing to win one of two Echo Show devices with Alexa technology. "The Smart Home is here today. With the Echo Show, you can use your own voice to control a wide array of smart connected devices."The post There is still time to participate in our HPC & AI Survey appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Jim Mellon from Sygenta describes how the company's partnership with NCSA is helping the company answer the agricultural challenges of the future. "Together, we’re solving some of the toughest issues in agriculture today, like how to feed our rapidly growing population knowing that the amount of land we have for growing crops is finite. NCSA Industry provides the HPC resources that Syngenta’s scientists need to solve these issues, as well as an industry focus on security, performance, and availability, with the consultancy to better understand how to maximize these resources."The post HPC in Agriculture: NCSA and Syngenta’s Dynamic Partnership appeared first on insideHPC.

Scientists at the University of Basel are using the Piz Daint supercomputer at CSCS to discover interrelationships in the human genome that might simplify the search for “memory molecules” and eventually lead to more effective medical treatment for people with diseases that are accompanied by memory disturbance. "Until now, searching for genes related to memory capacity has been comparable to seeking out the proverbial needle in a haystack.”The post Searching for Human Brain Memory Molecules with the Piz Daint Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.

Keren Bergman from Columbia University gave this talk at the 2017 Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing. "Exaflop machines would represent a thousand-fold improvement over the current standard, the petaflop machines that first came on line in 2008. But while exaflop computers already appear on funders' technology roadmaps, making the exaflop leap on the short timescales of those roadmaps constitutes a formidable challenge."The post Video: Silicon Photonics for Extreme Computing appeared first on insideHPC.

The Supercomputing Frontiers Europe 2018 conference has issued its Call for Papers. The conference takes place March 12 – 15, 2018 in Warsaw, Poland. "Supercomputing Frontiers is an annual international conference that provides a platform for thought leaders from both academia and industry to interact and discuss visionary ideas, important visionary trends and substantial innovations in supercomputing. Organized by ICM UW, Supercomputing Frontiers Europe 2018 will explore visionary trends and innovations in high performance computing."The post Call for Papers: Supercomputing Frontiers Europe 2018 appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the HPC User Forum in Milwaukee, Brian Kucic from R-Systems describes how the company enables companies of all sizes to move their technical computing workloads to the Cloud. "R Systems provides High Performance Computer Cluster resources and technical expertise to commercial and institutional research clients through the R Systems brand and the Dell HPC Cloud Services Partnership. In addition to our industry standard solutions, R Systems Engineers assist clients in selecting the components of their optimal cluster configuration."The post Video: How R-Systems Helps Customers Move HPC to the Cloud appeared first on insideHPC.

This week’s landmark discovery of gravitational and light waves generated by the collision of two neutron stars eons ago was made possible by a signal verification and analysis performed by Comet, an advanced supercomputer based at SDSC in San Diego. "LIGO researchers have so far consumed more than 2 million hours of computational time on Comet through OSG – including about 630,000 hours each to help verify LIGO’s findings in 2015 and the current neutron star collision – using Comet’s Virtual Clusters for rapid, user-friendly analysis of extreme volumes of data, according to Würthwein."The post Comet Supercomputer Assists in Latest LIGO Discovery appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the SC17 HPC Connects series, Dimitris Menemenlis from NASA JPL/Caltech describes how supercomputing enables scientists to accurately map global ocean currents. The ocean is vast and there are still a lot of unknowns. We still can’t represent all the conditions and are pushing the boundaries of current supercomputer power,” said Menemenlis. “This is an exciting time to be an oceanographer who can use satellite observations and numerical simulations to push our understanding of ocean circulation forward.”The post HPC Connects: Mapping Global Ocean Currents appeared first on insideHPC.

"Intel has been at the forefront of working with software partners to develop solutions for visualization of data that will scale in the future as many core systems such as the Intel Xeon Phi processor scale. The Intel Xeon Phi processor is extremely capable of producing visualizations that allow scientists and engineers to interactively view massive amounts of data."The post Visualization in Software using Intel Xeon Phi processors appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre announced plans to allocate 475 million core hours of its supercomputer MareNostrum to 17 research projects as part of the PRACE initiative. Of all the nations participating in PRACE's recent Call for Proposals, Spain is now the leading contributor of compute hours to European research.The post MareNostrum Supercomputer to contribute 475 million core hours to European Research appeared first on insideHPC.

Phil Carns from Argonne gave this talk at the 2017 Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing. "Darshan is a scalable HPC I/O characterization tool. It captures an accurate but concise picture of application I/O behavior with minimum overhead. Darshan was originally developed on the IBM Blue Gene series of computers deployed at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, but it is portable across a wide variety of platforms include the Cray XE6, Cray XC30, and Linux clusters. Darshan routinely instruments jobs using up to 786,432 compute cores on the Mira system at ALCF."The post HPC I/O for Computational Scientists appeared first on insideHPC.

A cumulative effort over several years to scale the training of deep-learning neural networks has resulted in the first demonstration of petascale deep-learning training performance, and further to deliver this performance when solving real science problems. The result reflects the combined efforts of NERSC (National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center), Stanford and Intel to solve real world use cases rather than simply report on performance benchmarks.The post 1000x Faster Deep-Learning at Petascale Using Intel Xeon Phi Processors appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest feature, Jeremy Thomas from Lawrence Livermore National Lab writes that exascale computing will be a vital boost to the U.S. manufacturing industry. “This is much bigger than any one company or any one industry. If you consider any industry, exascale is truly going to have a sizeable impact, and if a country like ours is going to be a leader in industrial design, engineering and manufacturing, we need exascale to keep the innovation edge.”The post How Manufacturing will Leap Forward with Exascale Computing appeared first on insideHPC.

Intel's Naveen Rao writes that Intel will soon be shipping the world’s first family of processors designed from the ground up for artificial intelligence. As announced today, the new chip will be the company's first step towards it goal of achieving 100 times greater AI performance by 2020. "The goal of this new architecture is to provide the needed flexibility to support all deep learning primitives while making core hardware components as efficient as possible."The post Podcast: Intel to Ship Neural Network Processor by end of year appeared first on insideHPC.

The Science DMZ architecture developed for moving large data sets quick and securely could be adapted to meet the needs of the medical research community. "Like other sciences, medical research is generating increasingly large datasets as doctors track health trends, the spread of diseases, genetic causes of illness and the like. Effectively using this data for efforts ranging from stopping the spread of deadly viruses to creating precision medicine treatments for individuals will be greatly accelerated by the secure sharing of the data, while also protecting individual privacy."The post ESnet’s Science DMZ Could Help Transfer and Protect Medical Research Data appeared first on insideHPC.

The PEARC18 Conference has issued its Call for Contributions. The conference takes place June 22-27 in Pittsburgh. "The Practice & Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC) annual conference series fosters the creation of a dynamic and connected community of advanced research computing professionals who advance leading practices at the frontiers of research, scholarship and teaching, and industry application."The post Call for Contributions: PEARC18 in Pittsburgh appeared first on insideHPC.

Today ACM and IEEE Computer Society named Jesús Labarta of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center as the recipient of the 2017 ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award. Labarta is recognized for his seminal contributions to programming models and performance analysis tools for high performance computing. The award will be presented at SC17.The post Jesús Labarta from BSC to receive Ken Kennedy Award appeared first on insideHPC.

Michael Garris from NIST gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "AI must be developed in a trustworthy manner to ensure reliability and safety. NIST cultivates trust in AI technology by developing and deploying standards, tests and metrics that make technology more secure, usable, interoperable and reliable, and by strengthening measurement science. This work is critically relevant to building the public trust of rapidly evolving AI technologies."The post Video: The AI Initiative at NIST appeared first on insideHPC.

OpenSFS today announced the first Long Term Support (LTS) maintenance release of Lustre 2.10.1. "This latest advance, in effect, fulfills a commitment made by Intel last April to align its efforts and support around the community release, including efforts to design and release a maintenance version. This transition enables growth in the adoption and rate of innovation for Lustre."The post OpenSFS Announces Maintenance Release 2.10.1 for Lustre appeared first on insideHPC.

More than 200 researchers at the University of Pisa use high performance computing (HPC) systems in their quantum chemistry, nanophysics, genome sequencing, engineering simulations and areas such as big data analysis. The University's IT Center has moved to a pre-integrated HPC software stack designed to simplify software installation and maintenance. This sponsored post from Intel shows how a pre-integrated, validated and supported HPC software stack allows the University of Pisa to focus on research.The post HPC Software Stacks: Making High Performance Computing More Accessible appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast, Peter Nugent from Berkeley Lab explains how scientists confirmed the first-ever measurement of the merger of two neutron stars and its explosive aftermath. "Simulations succeeded in modeling what would happen in an incredibly complex phenomenon like a neutron star merger. Without the models, we all probably all would have been mystified by exactly what we were seeing in the sky.”The post Video: Supercomputing Models Enable Detection of a Cosmic Cataclysm appeared first on insideHPC.

Intel field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are now powering the Acceleration-as-a-Service of Alibaba Cloud. "Intel FPGAs offer us a more cost-effective way to accelerate cloud-based application performance for our customers who are running business applications and demanding data and scientific workloads,” said Jin Li, vice president of Alibaba Cloud. “Another key value of FPGAs is that they provide high performance at low power, and the flexibility for managing diverse computing workloads.”The post Intel FPGAs Power Acceleration-as-a-Service for Alibaba Cloud appeared first on insideHPC.

ISC 2018 has issued their Call for Tutorials and Workshops. The conference takes place June 24-28 in Frankfurt, Germany. "If you possess knowledge and skills in a particular field in high performance computing, and enjoy sharing them, the ISC 2018 Tutorials Committee looks forward to hearing from you. Along the same lines, the ISC 2018 Workshops Committee also calls on the HPC community members to send in their proposals for workshops."The post ISC 2018 Issues Call For Tutorials and Workshops appeared first on insideHPC.

Tomorrow's exascale supercomputers will enable researchers to accurately simulate the ground motions of regional earthquakes quickly and in unprecedented detail. "Simulations of high frequency earthquakes are more computationally demanding and will require exascale computers," said David McCallen, who leads the ECP-supported effort. "Ultimately, we’d like to get to a much larger domain, higher frequency resolution and speed up our simulation time."The post Supercomputing Earthquakes in the Age of Exascale appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at Henry Newman’s recent proposal to use Blockchain as a way to combat Fake News. Henry shares that this rant result from what he saw as an egregious story that was going around that could have been easily quashed.The post Radio Free HPC Looks at how How Blockchain Could Prevent Fake News appeared first on insideHPC.

While most of the fundamental HPC system software building blocks are now open source, dealing with the sheer number of components and their inherently complex interdependencies has created a barrier to adoption of HPC for many organizations. This is the first article in a four-part series that explores using Intel HPC Orchestrator to solve HPC software stack management challenges.The post Simplifying HPC Software Stack Management appeared first on insideHPC.

Rupak Biswas from NASA gave this talk at the Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing. "High performance computing is now integral to NASA’s portfolio of missions to pioneer the future of space exploration, accelerate scientific discovery, and enable aeronautics research. Anchored by the Pleiades supercomputer at NASA Ames Research Center, the High End Computing Capability (HECC) Project provides a fully integrated environment to satisfy NASA’s diverse modeling, simulation, and analysis needs."The post Video: NASA Advanced Computing Environment for Science & Engineering appeared first on insideHPC.

NREL in Golden, Colorado is seeking a Scientific Computing Senior Engineer in our Job of the Week. "We have an immediate opening for a Systems Engineer (Job Req #R2314). This senior position is responsible for implementing and operating CSC systems and infrastructure in support of Science and Technical computing in support of NREL’s mission."The post Job of the Week: Scientific Computing Senior Engineer at NREL in Colorado appeared first on insideHPC.

As nuclear physicists delve ever deeper into the heart of matter, they require the tools to reveal the next layer of nature's secrets. Nowhere is that more true than in computational nuclear physics. A new research effort led by theorists at DOE's Jefferson Lab is now preparing for the next big leap forward in their studies thanks to funding under the 2017 SciDAC Awards for Computational Nuclear Physics.The post SciDAC funding to Move Quantum Chromodynamics forward at Jefferson Lab appeared first on insideHPC.

John Gustafson from A*STAR will host a BoF on Posit arithmetic at SC17. Entitled, "Improving Numerical Computation with Practical Tools and Novel Computer Arithmetic," this BOF will be co-hosted by Mike Lam with discussions on tools for measuring floating point accuracy. "This approach obtains more accurate answers than floating-point arithmetic yet uses fewer bits in many cases, saving memory, bandwidth, energy, and power."The post John Gustafson to host BoF on Posit Arithmetic at SC17 appeared first on insideHPC.

A team at Berkeley Lab are using innovative computational methods to enable new X-ray science. "The creation of XFEL facilities, including the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) and the European X-FEL, have created opportunities for conducting new experiments which can overcome the limitations of traditional crystallography."The post Supercomputing Virus Structures at Nanoscale with XFEL appeared first on insideHPC.

The PASC18 Organizing Team has posted their Call for Submissions. Proposals are now being accepted for minisymposium, papers, and posters. The conference takes place July 2-4 in Basel, Switzerland (the week after ISC 2018 in Frankfurt). We look forward to receiving your submissions through the online submission portal. Please note that the November 26th deadline for […]The post Call for Submissions: PASC18 in Basel appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Jesús Labarta from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center describes the POP (Performance Optimization and Productivity) Centre of Excellence led by BSC. According to Labarta, POP’s performance analysis results in performance improvements ranging from 10-15% to more than 10 times. Best of all, the POP services are free of charge to organizations / SMEs / ISVs / companies in the EU!The post How the POP Performance Optimization Centre at BSC is Speeding up HPC in Europe appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from SC17, Katrin Amunts from Jülich highlights how the massive European-based Human Brain Project (HBP), comprising a veritable orchestra of scientists, collaborates to deliver the most exquisitely detailed human brain models ever created. "We have to create an ‘atlas’ (of the brain) that has a very large size in terms and bits and bytes,” Amunts said.The post HPC Connects: How Supercomputers Are Unraveling the Mystery of the Human Brain appeared first on insideHPC.

The Intel HPC Developer conference at SC17 has posted its Session Agenda. The conference takes place Nov. 11-12 in Denver. "The Intel HPC Developer Conference is the premier technical training event to meet and hear from Intel architecture experts and connect with HPC industry leaders. Join in to learn what's next in HPC, attend technical sessions, hands-on tutorials, and poster chats that cover parallel programming, high productivity languages, artificial intelligence, systems, enterprise, visualization development and much more."The post Agenda Posted for Intel HPC Developer Conference at SC17 appeared first on insideHPC.

The recent Tapia Conference on Diversity in Computing in Atlanta brought together some 1,200 undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, researchers and professionals in computing from diverse backgrounds and ethnicities to learn from leading thinkers, present innovative ideas and network with peers.The post NERSC lends a hand to 2017 Tapia Conference on Diversity in Computing appeared first on insideHPC.

A new peer-reviewed paper is reportedly causing a stir in the climatology community. "The best hope for reducing long-standing global climate model biases, is through increasing the resolution to the kilometer scale. Here we present results from an ultra-high resolution non-hydrostatic climate model for a near-global setup running on the full Piz Daint supercomputer on 4888 GPUs."The post GPUs Power Near-global Climate Simulation at 1 km Resolution appeared first on insideHPC.

"The European Extreme Data & Computing Initiative (EXDCI) objective is to support the development and implementation of a common strategy for the European HPC Ecosystem. One of the main goals of the meeting in Bologna was to set up a roadmap for future developments, and for other parties who would like to participate in HPC research."The post Introducing the European EXDCI initiative for HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

Intel® Cluster Checker, distributed as part of Intel® Parallel Studio XE 2018 Cluster Edition, provides a set of system diagnostics and analysis methods in a single tool to assist managing clusters of any size. "Think of Intel Cluster Checker as a clinical system that detects signs that issues affecting the health of the cluster exist, diagnoses those issues, and suggests remedies. Using common diagnostic tools signs that may indicate symptoms leading to a diagnosis and a possible solution."The post Diagnose Cluster Health with Intel® Cluster Checker appeared first on insideHPC.

"LTO-8 tape technology doubles the capacity of LTO-7 to an astonishing 30 TB compressed (12TB native) per cartridge, and improves performance by 20 percent, up to 360Mbps. The additional capacity equates to fewer tape cartridges required to store the same amount of data while the performance boost translates into the need for fewer tape drives to do the same amount of work. In addition, the new LTO-8 drives are backward compatible with LTO-7 tape media, allowing users to read/write any LTO-7 media."The post Spectra Logic Launches LTO-8 Pre-Purchase Program appeared first on insideHPC.

Jason Knight from Intel writes that the company has joined Microsoft, Facebook, and others to participate in the Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX) project. "By joining the project, we plan to further expand the choices developers have on top of frameworks powered by the Intel Nervana Graph library and deployment through our Deep Learning Deployment Toolkit. Developers should have the freedom to choose the best software and hardware to build their artificial intelligence model and not be locked into one solution based on a framework. Deep learning is better when developers can move models from framework to framework and use the best hardware platform for the job."The post Intel Joins Open Neural Network Exchange appeared first on insideHPC.

Today, Intel announced the delivery of a 17-qubit superconducting test chip for quantum computing to QuTech, Intel’s quantum research partner in the Netherlands. The new chip was fabricated by Intel and features a unique design to achieve improved yield and performance. "Our quantum research has progressed to the point where our partner QuTech is simulating quantum algorithm workloads, and Intel is fabricating new qubit test chips on a regular basis in our leading-edge manufacturing facilities."The post Intel Delivers 17-Qubit Superconducting Chip with Advanced Packaging to QuTech appeared first on insideHPC.