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Graham Anthony from BioVista gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "We apply our systematic discovery platform to develop our pipeline of repositioned drug candidates in neurodegenerative diseases, epilepsy, oncology and orphan diseases. We use this insight to find new uses for existing drugs or drug combinations, assess their risk profile and advance them to PoC and Clinical Phase IIa/b sooner, cheaper and with a higher probability of success than has been possible to date."The post Pursuit of Sustainable Healthcare through Personalized Medicine with HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

For the AI revolution to move into the mainstream, cost and complexity must be reduced, so smaller organizations can afford to develop, train and deploy powerful deep learning applications. It's a tough challenge. The following guest article from Intel explores how businesses can optimize AI applications and integrate them with their traditional workloads.The post The AI Revolution: Unleashing Broad and Deep Innovation appeared first on insideHPC.

SC17 continues their series of Session Previews with discussion with Dr. Catherine Graves from HP Labs about her upcoming Invited Talk. "I will present our work implementing a prototype hardware accelerator dot product engine (DPE) for vector-matrix multiplication (VMM). VMM is a bottleneck for many applications, particularly in neural networks, and can be performed in the analog domain using Ohm’s law for multiplication and Kirchoff’s current law for summation."The post SC17 Invited Talk to Look at Computing with Physics appeared first on insideHPC.

Ashrut Ambastha from Mellanox gave this talk at the HPC Advisory Council Australia conference. "Ashrut will review Co-Design collaborations with leaders in industry, academia, and manufacturing – and how they’re taking a holistic system-level approach to fundamental performance improvements expanding the capabilities of network as a new “co-processor” for handling and accelerating application workloads, dramatically improving application performance."The post Video: The Future of High Performance Interconnects appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the ARM Research Summit, industry thought leaders discuss the challenges, opportunities, and technical hurdles for the ARM architecture to thrive in the HPC market. "The panel will focus on Arm in HPC, Software & Hardware differentiation and direction for exascale and beyond, thoughts on accelerators, and more!"The post Panel Looks at ARM’s Advance towards HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Australia is seeking a Visualization Specialist in our Job of the Week. "As a member of the Data and Visualization team at the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, the Visualization Specialist will support services related to visualization including providing guidance, expert advice and helping users in designing and implementing analysis and visualization workflows."The post Job of the Week: Visualization Specialist at Pawsey Centre in Australia appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast, Berkeley Lab’s Eva Nogales describes how her team is using a new imaging technology that is yielding remarkably detailed 3-D models of complex biomolecules critical to DNA function. Using cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), Nogales and her colleagues have resolved the structure at near-atomic resolutions of a human transcription factor used in gene expression and DNA repair.The post Podcast: Mapping DNA at Near-Atomic Resolution with Cryo-EM appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the Krell Institute announced that new class of 20 future HPC leaders enrolled at U.S. universities this fall with support from the Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF). "Established in 1991, the Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship provides outstanding benefits and opportunities to students pursuing doctoral degrees in fields that use high-performance computing to solve complex science and engineering problems."The post 20 Future HPC Leaders Receive DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship appeared first on insideHPC.

SC17 continues their series of session previews with a look at an invited talk entitled “The TOP500 List – Past, Present and Future.” Published twice a year, the TOP500 list is a compilation of the world’s 500 largest installations and some of their main characteristics. Systems are ranked according to their performance on the Linpack […]The post SC17 Invited Talk to Explore the History of the TOP500 appeared first on insideHPC.

Arno Kolster from Providentia Worldwide gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Milwaukee. "Providentia Worldwide is a new venture in technology and solutions consulting which bridges the gap between High Performance Computing and Enterprise Hyperscale computing. We take the best practices from the most demanding compute environments in the world and apply those techniques and design patterns to your business."The post Machine & Deep Learning: Practical Deployments and Best Practices for the Next Two Years appeared first on insideHPC.

Researchers are using the Theta supercomputer at Argonne to map the intricate layout of brain neurons. "The basic goal is simple — would like to be able to image all of the neurons in the brain — but the datasets from X-rays and electron microscopes are extremely large," said Doga Gursoy, assistant computational scientist in the X-Ray Science Division of Argonne’s Advanced Photon Source. They are at the tera- and petabyte scales. So we would like to use Theta to build the software and codebase infrastructure in order to analyze that data.”The post Mapping the Brain with the Theta Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.

"While the notion of packaging a workload into a Docker container, publishing it to a registry, and submitting a YAML description of the workload is second nature to users of Kubernetes, this is foreign to most HPC users. An analyst running models in R, MATLAB or Stata simply wants to submit their simulation quickly, monitor their execution, and get a result as quickly as possible."The post Kubernetes Meets HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

Nick Nystrom and Paola Buitrago from PSC gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Milwaukee. "The Bridges supercomputer at PSC offers the possibility for experts in fields that never before used supercomputers to tackle problems in Big Data and answer questions based on information that no human would live long enough to study by reading it directly."The post AI Breakthroughs and Initiatives at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center appeared first on insideHPC.

Today NVIDIA released Version 17.7 of PGI 2017 Compilers and Tools, delivering improved performance and programming simplicity to HPC developers who target multicore CPUs and heterogeneous GPU-accelerated systems.The post New PGI 17.7 Release Supports NVIDIA Volta GPUs appeared first on insideHPC.

Intel has announced the release of Intel® Parallel Studio XE 2018, with updated compilers and developer tools. It is now available for downloading on a 30-day trial basis. " This week’s formal release of the fully supported product is notable with new features that further enhance the toolset for accelerating HPC applications."The post Intel® Parallel Studio XE 2018 Released appeared first on insideHPC.

IBM scientists have developed a new approach to simulate molecules on a quantum computer that may one day help revolutionize chemistry and materials science. “Over the next few years, we anticipate IBM Q systems’ capabilities to surpass what today’s conventional computers can do, and start becoming a tool for experts in areas such as chemistry, biology, healthcare and materials science.”The post IBM Simulates Chemistry with Quantum Computing appeared first on insideHPC.

As liquid cooling becomes more and more pervasive in HPC datacenters, the mitigation of leaks and spills is a growing concern. Enter CPC, a maker of quick disconnects (QDs) designed specifically for liquid cooling use. Today CPC announced its LQ Series of connectors with more robust non-spill connectors for high-performance computing and data center applications.The post CPC Enhances Non-spill Quick Disconnects for Liquid Cooled HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

Craig Tierney from NVIDIA gave this talk at the MVAPICH User Group meeting. "As high performance computing moves toward GPU-accelerated architectures, single node application performance can be between 3x and 75x faster than the CPUs alone. Performance increases of this size will require increases in network bandwidth and message rate to prevent the network from becoming the bottleneck in scalability. In this talk, we will present results from NVLink enabled systems connected via quad-rail EDR Infiniband."The post Benefits of Multi-rail Cluster Architectures for GPU-based Nodes appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest feature, Robert Roe from Scientific Computing World reports from the European Altair Technology Conference and finds that simulation-driven design is taking center stage for the CAE industry. "Jim Scapa from Altair noted that Scapa noted that big data and the cloud will continue to play a significant role in the development and consumption of software and that manufacturing methods and materials science would continue to drive innovations – particularly in areas such as additive manufacturing and the design of composites."The post Entering the Era of Simulation Driven Design appeared first on insideHPC.

Bill Kramer from NCSA gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Milwaukee. "NCSA and Hyperion Research released a new study that examines HPC and Industry partnerships. Aimed at identifying and understanding best practices in partnerships between public high performance computing centers and private industry, the study aims to promote the vital transfer of scientific knowledge to industry and the important transfer of industrial experience to the scientific community."The post Video: Best Practices between HPC centers and Industrial Users appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the OpenMP ARB organization announced that Cavium has joined as a new member. "Cavium’s membership in the OpenMP ARB further highlights our strong belief in industry’s demand for parallel computing and the significance of the ARM Architecture,” said Avinash Sodani, Distinguished Engineer at Cavium. “Cavium’s strong product portfolio includes ThunderX2, a compelling server-class, multi-core ARMv8 CPU suited for the most demanding compute workloads. We look forward to working with other OpenMP members in furthering OpenMP standards to meet the challenges of the Exascale era.”The post Cavium Joins the OpenMP Effort for ThunderX2 Processor appeared first on insideHPC.

Today ARM, Xilinx, Cadence, and Taiwan Semiconductor announced plans to produce the first test chip for the Cache Coherent Interconnect for Accelerators (CCIX) project. CCIX (pronounced "C6") aims to prove that many-core ARM processors linked to FPGAs have a home in HPC. "The test chip will not only demonstrate how the latest Arm technology with coherent multichip accelerators can scale across the data center, but reinforces our commitment to solving the challenge of accessing data quickly and easily."The post CCIX Project to link ARM Processors and FPGAs for HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

The HPC Advisory Council has officially kicked off the ISC-HPCAC Student Cluster Competition (SCC) with an open call for team entries in the 2018 competition. "The Student Cluster Competition provides a real-world hands-on education that directly benefits students and their individual studies,” noted Gilad Shainer, chairman of the HPC Advisory Council. “Team members gain access to a wealth of industry expertise, training and tools and hands-on exposure to a range of technologies and techniques they’ll use for competition and throughout their careers. By helping advance their knowledge and capabilities, the entire HPC community benefits.”The post Seeking Teams for the 2018 Student Cluster Competition at ISC in Frankfurt appeared first on insideHPC.

Natalia Vassilieva from HP Labs gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Milwaukee. "Our Deep Learning Cookbook is based on a massive collection of performance results for various deep learning workloads on different hardware/software stacks, and analytical performance models. This combination enables us to estimate the performance of a given workload and to recommend an optimal hardware/software stack for that workload. Additionally, we use the Cookbook to detect bottlenecks in existing hardware and to guide the design of future systems for artificial intelligence and deep learning."The post Video: Characterization and Benchmarking of Deep Learning appeared first on insideHPC.

For many deep learning startups out there, buying AI hardware and a large quantity of powerful GPUs is not feasible. So many of these startup companies are turning to cloud GPU computing to crunch their data and run their algorithms. Katie Rivera, of One Stop Systems, explores some of the AI hardware challenges that can arise, as well as the new tools designed to tackle these issues.The post Solving AI Hardware Challenges appeared first on insideHPC.

The inaugural Supercomputing Asia conference has issued its Call for Technical Papers. The event takes place March 26-29, 2018 in Singapore.The post Call for Submissions: Supercomputing Asia 2018 in Singapore appeared first on insideHPC.

MIT researchers have developed a new general-purpose technique sheds light on inner workings of neural nets trained to process language. "During training, a neural net continually readjusts thousands of internal parameters until it can reliably perform some task, such as identifying objects in digital images or translating text from one language to another. But on their own, the final values of those parameters say very little about how the neural net does what it does."The post MIT Paper Sheds Light on How Neural Networks Think appeared first on insideHPC.

Doug Koethe from ORNL gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Milwaukee. “The Exascale Computing Project (ECP) was established with the goals of maximizing the benefits of high-performance computing (HPC) for the United States and accelerating the development of a capable exascale computing ecosystem."The post Video: The DOE Exascale Computing Project appeared first on insideHPC.

In this Radio Free HPC podcast, Dan Olds and Shahin Khan from OrionX describe their new AI Survey. "OrionX Research has completed one the most comprehensive surveys to date of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning. With over 300 respondents in North America, representing 13 industries, our model indicates a confidence level of 95% and a margin of error of 6%. Covering 144 questions/data points, it provides a comprehensive view of what customers are doing and planning to do with AI/ML/DL."The post New OrionX Survey: Insights in Artificial Intelligence appeared first on insideHPC.

"What makes this work significant is the use of supercomputing resources to produce simulations of supercells where data is saved with extremely high spatial and temporal resolution, and the use of visualization techniques (such as volume rendering and trajectory clouds) to produce video that exposes the highly variable flow features that occur throughout the life of the simulated storms. Some of these simulations contain long lived tornadoes producing near-surface winds exceeding 300 mph."The post HPC Challenges in Simulating the World’s Most Powerful Tornados appeared first on insideHPC.

The GPU Technology Conference (GTC 2018) has issued their Call for Participation. The event takes place March 26-29 in San Jose, California. "Don’t miss this unique opportunity to participate in the world’s most important GPU event, NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC 2018). Sign up to present a talk, poster, or lab on how GPUs power the most dynamic areas in computing today—including AI and deep learning, big data analytics, healthcare, smart cities, IoT, HPC, VR, and more."The post Call for Participation: GTC 2018 in San Jose appeared first on insideHPC.

"In the last few years DNA sequencing technologies have become extremely cheap enabling us to quickly generate terabytes of data for a few thousand dollars. Analysis of this data has become the new bottleneck. Novel compute-intensive streaming approaches that leverage this data without the time-costly step of genome assembly and how UWA’s Edwards group leveraged these approaches to find new breeding targets in crop species are presented."The post Video: The State of Bioinformatics in HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Australia is seeking an HPC System Administrator in our Job of the Week. "Pawsey’s Supercomputing Team is responsible for configuring the infrastructure to fulfil the needs of the Australian research community and to engage with that community to make best use of the infrastructure. The incumbent, as part of this highly skilled team of professional specialists and system administrators, will ensure that Pawsey’s high performance computing resources and related services meet its service expectations."The post Job of the Week: HPC System Administrator at Pawsey Supercomputing Centre appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the HPC User Forum in Milwaukee, Earl Joseph and Steve Conway from Hyperion Research present and update on HPC, AI, and Storage markets. "Hyperion Research forecasts that the worldwide HPC server-based AI market will expand at a 29.5% CAGR to reach more than $1.26 billion in 2021, up more than three-fold from $346 million in 2016."The post Trends in the Worldwide HPC Market appeared first on insideHPC.

In this TechNative Podcast, Mark Fernandez from HPE describes the company’s collaboration with NASA to send a supercomputer into orbit. "“By NASA’s rules, not just any computer can go into space. Their components must be radiation hardened, especially the CPUs,” reports HPE Insights. “Otherwise, they tend to fail due to the effects of ionizing radiation."The post Podcast: HPE Sends a Supercomputer into Orbit appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Rescale announced plans to offer X2 Firebird CAE software on the company’s ScaleX cloud HPC platform. X2 Firebird will be deployed as the first on-demand, cloud-only numerical simulation software for scientists and engineers on Rescale. X2 Firebird leverages the latest in systems programming and parallel computing, enabling real-time team collaboration on complex technical projects. This […]The post X2 Firebird CAE Software Comes to Rescale HPC Cloud appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Asetek announced an order from a new channel partner to service demand from a new OEM customer for an undisclosed HPC installation. All parties remain undisclosed at this time. "Adding OEMs has been a key goal for our datacenter business and it is particularly satisfying to add another significant OEM to our portfolio of customers," said André Sloth Eriksen, CEO and founder of Asetek. "This order confirms our ability to leverage our leading position in the HPC segment to attract new customers as well as end-users."The post Asetek lands new OEM, Channel Partner, and HPC Installation appeared first on insideHPC.

"This talk will provide an overview of the MVAPICH project (past, present and future). Future roadmap and features for upcoming releases of the MVAPICH2 software family (including MVAPICH2-X, MVAPICH2-GDR, MVAPICH2-Virt, MVAPICH2-EA and MVAPICH2-MIC) will be presented. Current status and future plans for OSU INAM, OEMT and OMB will also be presented."The post Overview of the MVAPICH Project and Future Roadmap appeared first on insideHPC.

With support from CoolIT Systems with a custom Direct Liquid Cooling solution, the CHIME telescope will map out the entire northern sky each day, aiming to constrain the properties and evolution of Dark Energy over a broad swath of cosmic history. "The liquid cooled system consists of 256 rack-mounted General Technics GT0180 custom 4u servers housed in 26 racks managed by CoolIT Systems Rack DCLC CHx40 Heat Exchange Modules. The custom direct contact cooling loops manage 100% of heat generated by the single Intel Xeon E5 2620v3 CPUs and the Dual AMD FirePro S9300x2 GPUs, while simultaneously pulling heat from the ambient air into the liquid coolant loops."The post Canada’s Biggest Radio Telescope to use CoolIT Systems Liquid Cooling appeared first on insideHPC.

Today IBM announced a 10-year, $240 million investment to create the MIT–IBM Watson AI Lab. "The combined MIT and IBM talent dedicated to this new effort will bring formidable power to a field with staggering potential to advance knowledge and help solve important challenges.”The post Announcing the New MIT–IBM Watson AI Lab appeared first on insideHPC.

Over at the NVIDIA Blog, Abdul Hamid Halabi writes that the Center for Clinical Data Science (CCDS) today received the world’s first NVIDIA DGX systems with Volta. "Soon, Boston-area radiologists will have AI “assistants” integrated into their daily workflows, helping them more quickly and accurately diagnose disease from MRIs, CAT scans, X-rays and more. The trained neural networks residing on DGX-1 systems in CCDS’s data center are in a constant state of learning, continually ingesting countless medical images worldwide."The post NVIDIA Volta GPUs to Help CDDS Advance Medicine with AI appeared first on insideHPC.

"Understanding how the pipeline slots are being utilized can greatly increase the performance of the application. If pipeline slots are blocked for some reason, performance will suffer. Likewise, getting an understanding of the various cache misses can lead to a better organization of the data. This can increase performance while reducing latencies of memory to CPU."The post The Internet of Things and Tuning appeared first on insideHPC.

Today announced that the Company has signed a solutions provider agreement with Vanguard Infrastructures in order for Vanguard to develop, market, and sell on premise and cloud-as-a-service cybersecurity solutions that fuse supercomputing technologies with an open, enterprise-ready software framework for big data analytics. Vanguard has also purchased a Cray Urika-GX system.The post Vanguard Infrastructures Teams with Cray for Cybersecurity appeared first on insideHPC.

Leonardo Flores from the European Commission gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Milwaukee. "High-Performance Computing is a strategic resource for Europe's future as it allows researchers to study and understand complex phenomena while allowing policy makers to make better decisions and enabling industry to innovate in products and services. The European Commission funds projects to address these needs."The post Video: Europe’s HPC Strategy appeared first on insideHPC.

Open OnDemand is an NSF-funded project to develop a widely shareable web portal that provides HPC centers with advanced web and graphical interface capabilities. Through OnDemand, HPC clients can upload and download files, create, edit, submit and monitor jobs, run GUI applications and connect via SSH, all via a web browser, with no client software to install and configure.The post Ohio Supercomputer Center open-sources HPC Access Portal appeared first on insideHPC.

EPFL’s physicists are moving forward in their efforts to solve the mysteries of the universe. A particle detector made up of 10,000 kilometers of scintillating fiber is under construction and will be added onto CERN's particle accelerator.The post EPFL Building New Particle Detector for Large Hadron Collider appeared first on insideHPC.

In this guest feature, Jeffrey Schwab describes his role as SCinet Chair at SC17 and how his team of volunteers is building the fastest and most powerful volunteer-built network in the world. "I believe the main attraction for SCinet volunteers is the opportunity to build something unique on a scale and timetable that is challenging in its own right."The post Interview: Jeffrey Schwab on Building the World’s Fastest Network at SC17 appeared first on insideHPC.

Today, 16 organizations met at the Barcelona Supercomputer Centre to mark the start of the EuroEXA project and the commencement of the execution in the next stage of EU investment towards realizing Exa-Scale computing in Europe. "In EuroEXA, we have taken a holistic approach to break-down the inefficiencies of the historic abstractions and bring significant innovation and co-design across the entire computing stack.”The post Announcing the EuroEXA Project for Exascale appeared first on insideHPC.

Like many other HPC workloads, deep learning is a tightly coupled application that alternates between compute-intensive number-crunching and high-volume data sharing. Intel explores how the Intel Scalable System can act as a solution for a high performance computing platform that can run deep learning workloads and more.The post The Intel Scalable System Framework: Kick-Starting the AI Revolution appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Atos announced it has signed a channel partner agreement with OCF DATA Limited to resell Atos Bullion servers. OCF will sell the Bullion devices to higher education, manufacturing, and utilities sectors in the UK.The post OCF DATA to sell Bullion High-end Servers appeared first on insideHPC.