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Researchers at LANL are using Machine Learning to predict earthquakes. “The novelty of our work is the use of machine learning to discover and understand new physics of failure, through examination of the recorded auditory signal from the experimental setup. I think the future of earthquake physics will rely heavily on machine learning to process massive amounts of raw seismic data. Our work represents an important step in this direction."The post Predicting Earthquakes with Machine Learning appeared first on insideHPC.

Researchers from across the University of Exeter can now benefit from a new HPC machine - Isca - that was configured and integrated by OCF to give the university a larger capacity for computational research. "We’ve seen in the last few years a real growth in interest in High-Performance Computing from life sciences, particularly with the availability of new high-fidelity genome sequencers, which have heavy compute requirements, and that demand will keep going up."The post OCF Builds Isca Supercomputer for Life Sciences at University of Exeter appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Univa announced the open source availability of the Universal Resource Broker (URB) adapter for Kubernetes. This new URB adapter will be of interest for organizations running Apache Mesos frameworks that are looking to deploy Kubernetes and Mesos workloads on a common infrastructure. The release of the URB adapter for Kubernetes marks a significant open source contribution by Univa and demonstrates its commitment to the Kubernetes community and to helping users get the most from their infrastructure investments.The post Univa Open Sources Universal Resource Broker for Kubernetes appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at Dan’s recent talk on High Performance Interconnects. "When it comes to choosing an interconnect for your HPC cluster, what is the best way to go? Is offloading better than onloading? You can find out more by watching Dan’s talk from the HPC Advisory Council Australia conference."The post Radio Free HPC Looks at High Performance Interconnects appeared first on insideHPC.

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center will host the ACM Europe Conference this week, bringing together over 300 computer scientists from around the world. With main themes centering on Cybersecurity and High Performance Computing, the event takes place Sept. 7-8 in Barcelona.The post ACM Europe to Focus on Cybersecurity and HPC this week in Barcelona appeared first on insideHPC.

"This talk will reflect on prior analysis of the challenges facing high-performance interconnect technologies intended to support extreme-scale scientific computing systems, how some of these challenges have been addressed, and what new challenges lay ahead. Many of these challenges can be attributed to the complexity created by hardware diversity, which has a direct impact on interconnect technology, but new challenges are also arising indirectly as reactions to other aspects of high-performance computing, such as alternative parallel programming models and more complex system usage models."The post Challenges and Opportunities for HPC Interconnects and MPI appeared first on insideHPC.

Today One Stop Systems announced that the company ranks in the top half of the Inc. 5000 list of Fastest Growing Private Companies. This is the 7th time OSS has been on the Inc. 5000 list. Of the tens of thousands of companies that have applied to the Inc. 5000 over the years, only a fraction have made the list more than once. A mere two percent have made the list seven times. "We’re proud to be part of the small fraction of companies that have made the Inc. 5000 list seven times," said Steve Cooper, CEO of OSS. "One Stop Systems continues to provide leading edge technology products to the high performance computing market, propelling its growth."The post One Stop Systems on Inc. 5000 List of Fastest Growing Private Companies appeared first on insideHPC.

Alan Williams from NCI presented this talk at the HPC Advisory Council Australia Conference. "Explore the services and technology at the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI), based in Canberra, Australia, with Allan Williams, and the delivery of HPC, Cloud and Storage services to Australian researchers around the country."The post HPC vs. Cloud – The Return on Investment in eResearch appeared first on insideHPC.

"To meet the ambitious targets for exascale computing, many cooling companies are exploring optimizations and innovative methods that will redefine cooling architectures for the next generation of HPC systems. Here, some of the prominent cooling technology providers give their views on the current state and future prospects of cooling technology in HPC."The post What Lies Ahead for HPC Cooling? appeared first on insideHPC.

Kitware is seeking a Scientific Visualization Developer in our Job of Week. "Kitware is seeking to hire highly skilled Research and Development Engineers (R&D Engineers) to join our Scientific Computing team and contribute to our scientific and information visualization efforts. Candidates will work to develop and improve leading visualization software solutions."The post Job of the Week: Scientific Visualization Developer at Kitware appeared first on insideHPC.

Sponsored Post Researchers at Google and Intel recently collaborated to extract the maximum performance from Intel® Xeon and Intel® Xeon Phi processors running TensorFlow*, a leading deep learning and machine learning framework. This effort resulted in significant performance gains and leads the way for ensuring similar gains from the next generation of products from Intel.The post TensorFlow Copy appeared first on insideHPC.

Applications are now being accepted for the ISC 2018 Student Cluster Competition. Entering its 33rd year, ISC High Performance offers students a unique opportunity to learn how HPC influences our world and day-to-day learning. "The ISC-HPCAC Student Cluster Competition encourages international teams of university students to showcase their expertise in a friendly yet spirited competition that builds critical skills, professional relationships, competitive spirits, and lifelong friendship."The post Enter Your Team in the ISC 2018 Student Cluster Competition appeared first on insideHPC.

Advanced Clustering Technologies has installed a new supercomputer at the University of Southern Mississippi. Called Magnolia, the system will support research and training in computational and data-enabled science and engineering.The post Magnolia Supercomputer Powers Research at University of Southern Mississippi appeared first on insideHPC.

Today XTREME Design Inc. announced that Dr. David Barkai has joined the company as an adviser. As a Japanese startup offering cloud-based, virtual supercomputing-on-demand, XTREME Design hopes to tap Dr. Barkai's extensive HPC expertise in their efforts to enter US market for Cloud HPC. "XTREME Design IaaS computing services deliver an easy-to-use customer experience through a robust UI/UX and cloud management features."The post David Barkai Joins XTREME Design as the company Looks to Bring Cloud HPC to U.S. appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) announced it has upgraded its current quantum annealing computer to a D-Wave 2000Q system. The computer offers the promise for solving challenging problems in a variety of applications including machine learning, scheduling, diagnostics, medicine and biology among others.The post USRA Upgrades D-Wave Quantum Computer to 2000 Qubits appeared first on insideHPC.

Justin Glen and Daniel Richards from DDN presented this talk at the HPC Advisory Council Australia Conference. "Burst Buffer was originally created to checkpoint-restart applications and has evolved to help accelerate applications & file systems and make HPC clusters more predictable. This presentation explores regional use cases, recommendations on burst buffer sizing and investment and where it is best positioned in a HPC workflow."The post Video: DDN Burst Buffer appeared first on insideHPC.

The Exascale Computing Project (ECP) is working with a number of National Labs on the development of supercomputers with 50x better performance than today's systems. In this special guest feature, ECP describes how Argonne is stepping up to the challenge. "Given the complexity and importance of exascale, it is not anything a single lab can do,” said Argonne's Rick Stevens.The post Argonne Steps up to the Exascale Computing Project appeared first on insideHPC.

Ace Computers and BeeGFS have teamed to deliver a complete parallel file system solving storage access speed issues that slow down even the fastest supercomputers. BeeGFS eliminates the gap between compute speed and the limited speed of storage access for these clusters--stalling on disk access while reading input data or writing the intermediate or final simulation results. "We are building clusters that are more and more powerful," said Ace Computers CEO John Samborski. "So we recognized that storage access speed was becoming an issue. BeeGFS has proven to be an excellent, cost-effective solution for our clients and a valuable addition to our portfolio of partners.”The post Ace Computers Teams with BeeGFS for HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

"As part of its ongoing inclusivity efforts, SC17 will once again offer on-site child care during the conference. Available to registered attendees and exhibitors for a small fee, SC17 day care is available for children between the ages of 6 months through 12 years old are eligible to participate."The post Bringing Your Kids to SC17 in Denver? appeared first on insideHPC.

Researchers at Google and Intel recently collaborated to extract the maximum performance from Intel® Xeon and Intel® Xeon Phi processors running TensorFlow*, a leading deep learning and machine learning framework. This effort resulted in significant performance gains and leads the way for ensuring similar gains from the next generation of products from Intel. Optimizing Deep Neural Network (DNN) models such as TensorFlow presents challenges not unlike those encountered with more traditional High Performance Computing applications for science and industry.The post TensorFlow Deep Learning Optimized for Modern Intel Architectures appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Globus.org announced general availability of Globus for Google Drive, a new capability that lets users seamlessly connect Google Drive with their existing storage ecosystem, enabling a single interface for data transfer, sharing and publication across all storage systems. "Our researchers wanted to use Google Drive for data storage, but found that they had to babysit the data transfers,” said Krishna Muriki, Computer Systems Engineer, HPC Services, at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. “They were already familiar with using Globus so we thought it would make a good interface for Google Drive; that’s why we partnered with Globus to develop this connector. Now our researchers have a familiar, web-based interface across all their storage resources, including Google Drive, so it is painless to move data where they need it and share results with collaborators. Globus manages all the data movement and authorization, improving security and reliability as well."The post Globus for Google Drive Provides Unified Interface for Collaborative Research appeared first on insideHPC.

In this AI Podcast, Paul Wigley from the Australian National University describes how his team of scientists applied AI to an experiment to create a Bose-Einstein condensate. And in doing so they had a question: if we can use AI as a tool in this experiment, can we use AI as its own novel, scientist, to explore different parts of physics and different parts of science?The post Podcast: Could an AI Win the Nobel Prize? appeared first on insideHPC.

"This talk will focus on the role MVAPICH has played at the Texas Advanced Computing Center over multiple generations of multiple technologies of interconnect, and why it has been critical not only in maximizing interconnect performance, but overall system performance as well. The talk will include examples of how poorly tuned interconnects can mean the difference between success and failure for large systems, and how the MVAPICH software level continues to provide significant performance advantages across a range of applications and interconnects."The post Video: MVAPICH at Petascale on the Stampede System appeared first on insideHPC.

"There were several other ways of doing generative models that had been popular for several years before I had the idea for GANs. And after I'd been working on all those other methods throughout most of my Ph.D., I knew a lot about the advantages and disadvantages of all the other frameworks like Boltzmann machines and sparse coding and all the other approaches that have been really popular for years. I was looking for something that avoid all these disadvantages at the same time."The post Heroes of Deep Learning: Andrew Ng interviews Ian Goodfellow from Google Brain appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University announced it has deployed a Cray CS400 supercomputer. The four-cabinet system will power collaborative applied research with industry partners at the University’s new research facility – the John Mica Engineering and Aerospace Innovation Complex (“MicaPlex”) at Embry-Riddle Research Park.The post Embry-Riddle University Deploys Cray CS Supercomputer for Aerospace appeared first on insideHPC.

The LAD'17 conference has posted their meeting agenda. Also known as the Lustre Administrator and Developer Workshop, the event takes place Oct. 4-5 in Paris. "EOFS and OpenSFS are organizing the seventh european lustre workshop. This will be a great opportunity for Lustre worldwide administrators and developers to gather and exchange their experiences, developments, tools, good practices and more."The post Agenda Posted for LAD’17 in Paris appeared first on insideHPC.

Researchers are tapping Argonne and NCSA supercomputers to tackle the unprecedented amounts of data involved with simulating the Big Bang. "Researchers performed cosmological simulations on the ALCF’s Mira supercomputer, and then sent huge quantities of data to UI’s Blue Waters, which is better suited to perform the required data analysis tasks because of its processing power and memory balance."The post Illinois Supercomputers Tag Team for Big Bang Simulation appeared first on insideHPC.

Today ScaleMP a leading provider of virtualization solutions for high-end computing, delivering technology for software-defined computing and software-defined memory products, today announced it has completed a $10 million funding round. The investment follows deeper and broader adoption of ScaleMP’s technology by server and storage OEMs. The funds will further accelerate the company’s growth, enhance the company’s products and technology, and expand ScaleMP’s support for its OEM partners.The post ScaleMP Completes $10M Funding Round appeared first on insideHPC.

HPC is becoming a competitive requirement as high performance data analysis (HPDA) joins multi-physics simulation as table stakes for successful innovation across a growing range of industries and research disciplines. Yet complexity remains a very real hurdle for both new and experienced HPC users. Learn how new Intel products, including the Intel HPC Orchestrator, can work to simplify some of the complexities and challenges that can arise in high performance computing environments.The post A Simpler Path to Reliable, Productive HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

AnandTech reports that Intel is discontinuing it's line of Knights Landing PCIe based Co-processors. The move is not a surprise given that the company has been producing bootable Xeon Phi processors since early in 2016. "At least for now, Intel does not want to compete against add-on PCIe compute accelerators with its Xeon Phi products. A big question is whether it actually needs to, given the stand-alone capabilities of Xeon Phi and its performance characteristics."The post Intel Discontinues Xeon Phi 7200-Series Knights Landing Coprocessors appeared first on insideHPC.

Today VMware introduced vSphere Scale-Out Edition for Big Data and HPC Workloads, a new solution in the vSphere product line aimed at Big Data and HPC workloads. VMware vSphere Scale-Out edition includes the features and functions most useful to Big Data and HPC workloads such as those provided by the core vSphere hypervisor and the vSphere Distributed Switch. "This new solution also enables the ability to rapidly change and provision compute nodes. The solution will be offered at an attractive price point, optimized for Big Data and HPC environments."The post VMware Rolls Out vSphere Scale-Out Edition for Big Data and HPC Workloads appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Tuomas Sandholm from Strategic Machine, Inc. and Eng Lim Goh from HPE discuss how High Performance Computing is fast-becoming an integral part of our lives. "Our HPC solutions empower innovation at any scale, building on our purpose-built HPC systems and technologies solutions, applications and support services. The results? More power to differentiate your business, drive research and find answers like never before."The post Interview: How HPE is Democratizing High Performance Computing appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at some new developments in the Quantum Computing ecosystem. Last week, IEEE approved a new Standards Project for Quantum Computing Definitions. Meanwhile, Silicon Valley Startup Rigetti Computing has teamed up the CDL incubator to boost the Quantum Machine Learning Startup ecosystem.The post Radio Free HPC Catches up with Quantum Computing News appeared first on insideHPC.

Yale University is seeking a Sr. Linux System Administrator in our Job of the Week. "In this role, you will work as a Linux senior administrator in ITS Systems Administration. Provide leadership in Linux server administration, for mission-critical services in a dynamic, 24/7 production data center environment."The post Job of the Week: Senior Linux System Administrator at Yale appeared first on insideHPC.

The Advances in Machine Learning to Improve Scientific Discovery at Exascale and Beyond (ASCEND) project aims to use deep learning to assist researchers in making sense of massive datasets produced at the world's most sophisticated scientific facilities. Deep learning is an area of machine learning that uses artificial neural networks to enable self-learning devices and platforms. The team, led by ORNL's Thomas Potok, includes Robert Patton, Chris Symons, Steven Young and Catherine Schuman.The post Oak Ridge Turns to Deep Learning for Big Data Problems appeared first on insideHPC.

"Modern HPC systems do some things very similar to ordinary IT computing, but they also have some significant differences. Two key security challenges are the notions that traditional security solutions often are not effective given the paramount priority of high-performance in HPC. In addition, the need to make some HPC environments as open as possible to enable broad scientific collaboration and interactive HPC also presents a challenge."The post Video: Security in HPC Environments appeared first on insideHPC.

HPE has posted the preliminary preliminary agenda for HP-CAST at SC17 in Denver. Now open for registration, the event takes place Nov. 10-11 at the Grand Hyatt hotel.

Dr. Erwin Laure from the PDC Center for HPC in Sweden presented this talk at the 4th Human Brain Project School in Austria. The 4th HBP School offered a comprehensive program covering all aspects of software, hardware, simulation, databasing, robotics, machine learning and theory relevant to the HBP research program.The post Video: Introduction to High Performance Computing appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the Heroes of Deep Learning series, Andrew Ng interviews Pieter Abbeel from UC Berkeley. "Work in Artificial Intelligence in the EECS department at Berkeley involves foundational research in core areas of knowledge representation, reasoning, learning, planning, decision-making, vision, robotics, speech and language processing. There are also significant efforts aimed at applying algorithmic advances to applied problems in a range of areas, including bioinformatics, networking and systems, search and information retrieval."The post Heroes of Deep Learning: Andrew Ng interviews Pieter Abbeel appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced $17.7 million in funding for 12 Transdisciplinary Research in Principles of Data Science (TRIPODS) projects, which will bring together the statistics, mathematics and theoretical computer science communities to develop the foundations of data science. Conducted at 14 institutions in 11 states, these projects will promote long-term research and training activities in data science that transcend disciplinary boundaries. "Data is accelerating the pace of scientific discovery and innovation," said Jim Kurose, NSF assistant director for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE). "These new TRIPODS projects will help build the theoretical foundations of data science that will enable continued data-driven discovery and breakthroughs across all fields of science and engineering."The post NSF Announces $17.7 Million Funding for Data Science Projects appeared first on insideHPC.

Even though SC17 is still more than two months away, this year’s Exhibition is already setting records.We are excited to report that we have already smashed the record for both net square feet of exhibit space sold as well as the total number of exhibitors,” says Bronis R. de Supinski, SC17 Exhibits Chair from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. “Whether industry or research – if you have anything to do with high performance computing, you need to have a presence at SC17. The SC exhibition floor is an exciting place to discover the latest innovations and make positive career-impacting connections.”The post SC17 Exhibition Setting Records appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from AWS Summit in Tel Aviv, Adrian Cockcroft describes how AWS gives Superpowers to Startups. "AWS offers low cost, on-demand IT solutions to help you build and launch your applications quickly and easily with minimum costs. With no upfront investments and a pay-as-you-go price model, you only pay for what you use, when you use it, to build your minimum viable product (MVP), experiment and iterate, all at low cost."The post Adrian Cockcroft on how AWS Gives Superpowers to Startups appeared first on insideHPC.

While practical Quantum Computing remains somewhere in the future, it is already starting to spark new Startup opportunities. "Quantum machine learning will power some of the most impactful and exciting near-term applications of quantum computing. The startups at the CDL are at the leading edge of this technology and will get early access to Rigetti's general-purpose quantum hardware and to Forest, one of the most sophisticated quantum programming environments in the world,” said Madhav Thattai, Chief Strategy Officer, Rigetti. “We’re looking forward to working with these pioneering individuals and teams to help create and accelerate the quantum application ecosystem.”The post Rigetti Computing helps Foster Quantum Machine Learning Startup Ecosystem appeared first on insideHPC.

The Ohio Supercomputer Center is help teachers like Sultana Nahar, Ph.D. conduct computational workshops as part of her lecture courses. Through physics and STEM courses and workshops, Nahar has been improving the computational skills of the scientific community one person at a time with the hope that more breakthroughs will be made. "One of the most important parts of STEM education and research is computation of parameters for solving real problems,” Nahar said. “It’s not easy to calculate and we need very high accuracy in our results, that can only be achieved through precise computations with high performance computer facilities."The post OSC Supercomputers Power STEM Learning Across the Globe appeared first on insideHPC.

"While MPI was originally developed for general purpose CPUs and is widely used in the HPC space in this capacity, MPI applications can also be developed and then deployed with the Intel Xeon Phi Processor. With the understanding of the algorithms that are used for a specific application, tremendous performance can be achieved by using a combination of OpenMP and MPI."The post Internode Programming With MPI and Intel Xeon Phi Processor appeared first on insideHPC.

This is the fifth and final entry in an insideHPC series that explores the HPC transition to the cloud and how this move can help create seamless HPC. This series, compiled in a complete Guide, covers cloud computing for HPC, why the OS is important, OpenStack fundamentals and more.The post Moving Toward the Cloud & Seamless HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

"While Quantum Computing is poised for significant growth and advancement, the emergent industry is currently fragmented and lacks a common communications framework,” said Whurley (William Hurley), chair, IEEE Quantum Computing Working Group. “IEEE P7130 marks an important milestone in the development of Quantum Computing by building consensus on a nomenclature that will bring the benefits of standardization, reduce confusion, and foster a more broadly accepted understanding for all stakeholders involved in advancing technology and solutions in the space.”The post IEEE Approves Standards Project for Quantum Computing Definitions appeared first on insideHPC.

In this Chip Chat podcast, Dr. Naveen Rao describes his work at the Artificial Intelligence Products Group (AIPG) at Intel. "The Intel Nervana Platform includes what you need to design, develop, and deploy state-of-the-art deep learning models. There’s no need for you to download multiple frameworks and libraries and to troubleshoot complex integration issues. Everything you need is included and “just works” to make building AI solutions as easy as possible."The post Podcast: A Look at the Intel Nervana Platform for AI appeared first on insideHPC.

Registration is now open for the 2017 NCSA Industry Conference. The event takes place Oct. 11-12 on the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus. "This year’s conference provides attendees with the opportunity to experience the transformative power of high performance computing and big data as we showcase how the NCSA Industry Program is giving industry and government a competitive edge. Attendees will also get an exclusive look at new resources and collaboration opportunities, the chance to network with business leaders and domain experts, meet the future generation of HPC experts at our student reception, and hear several ground-breaking success stories of how NCSA is enabling computational breakthroughs and changing the world again.The post NCSA Industry Conference to Showcase Supercomputing Partnerships appeared first on insideHPC.