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Prabhat from NERSC and Michael F. Wehner from LBNL gave this talk at the Intel HPC Developer Conference in Denver. "Deep Learning has revolutionized the fields of computer vision, speech recognition and control systems. Can Deep Learning (DL) work for scientific problems? This talk will explore a variety of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s applications that are currently benefiting from DL."The post Video: Deep Learning for Science appeared first on insideHPC.

Intel reports that company has developed and is rapidly issuing updates for all types of Intel-based computer systems — including personal computers and servers — that render those systems immune from both exploits (referred to as “Spectre” and “Meltdown”) reported by Google Project Zero. "By the end of next week, Intel expects to have issued updates for more than 90 percent of processor products introduced within the past five years."The post Intel Deploying Updates for Spectre and Meltdown Exploits appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from SC17 in Denver, Pascale Bruner from Atos describes the company's innovative ARM-HPC technologies developed as part of the Mont-Blanc Project. "Atos will showcase our Dibona prototype for ARM-based HPC. Named after the Dibona peak in the French Alps, the new prototype is part of the Phase 3 of Mont-Blanc and is based on 64 bit ThunderX2 processors from Cavium, relying on the ARM v8 instruction set."The post Video: A Closer Look at the Atos Dibona Prototype for ARM-based HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

ESI Group has announced the release of SimulationX 3.9, a software platform for multiphysics system simulation. Designed for many industries – from automotive, energy, and mining to industrial machinery, railways, aerospace and aeronautics – SimulationX has proven to be one of the most reliable and customer-friendly solutions on the market.The post ESI Releases SimulationX 3.9 for Manufacturing appeared first on insideHPC.

The UK OpenMP User Conference has issued its Call for Sessions. The event takes place May 21-22 at St Catherine's College in Oxford. "This inaugural event is intended to become the annual meeting of the growing UK-based community of developers who use OpenMP."The post Call for Sessions: UK OpenMP User Conference appeared first on insideHPC.

Satoshi Matsuoka from the Tokyo Institute of Technology gave this talk at the NVIDIA booth at SC17. "TSUBAME3 embodies various BYTES-oriented features to allow for HPC to BD/AI convergence at scale, including significant scalable horizontal bandwidth as well as support for deep memory hierarchy and capacity, along with high flops in low precision arithmetic for deep learning."The post Converging HPC, Big Data, and AI at the Tokyo Institute of Technology appeared first on insideHPC.

In this slidecast, Joe Yaworski from Intel describes the Intel Omni-Path architecture and how it scales performance for a wide range of HPC applications. He also shows why recently published benchmarks have not reflected the real performance story.The post Intel Omni-Path Architecture: The Real Numbers appeared first on insideHPC.

The HPC User Forum has posted their Preliminary Agenda for their upcoming meeting in France. Free to attend, the event takes place March 6-7 near Paris at the Teratec campus in Bruyères-le-Châtel. "We have developed an exciting agenda with prominent speakers who will discuss the HPC strategies for Europe, Japan and the USA," said Earl Joseph, CEO of Hyperion Research. "We will also have talks on new HPC technologies, applications and markets; and the proliferation of HPC in industrial and commercial environments."The post Preliminary Agenda Posted for March HPC User Forum in France appeared first on insideHPC.

Over at the Microsoft Blog, Jason Zander writes that the company is acquiring Avere Systems. "By bringing together Avere’s storage expertise with the power of Microsoft’s cloud, customers will benefit from industry-leading innovations that enable the largest, most complex high-performance workloads to run in Microsoft Azure. We are excited to welcome Avere to Microsoft, and look forward to the impact their technology and the team will have on Azure and the customer experience."The post Microsoft to acquire Avere Systems appeared first on insideHPC.

Many of the top 10 2017 HPC white papers deal with the next steps in the HPC journey, including moving to the cloud, and discovering the potential of machine learning and AI. The most downloaded reports of the year were written with industry partners such as Red Hat, Dell EMC, Intel, HPE and more.The post Top 10 HPC White Papers for 2017: Machine Learning, AI, the Cloud & More appeared first on insideHPC.

Intel recently announced the availability of the Intel Stratix 10 MX FPGA, the industry’s first field programmable gate array (FPGA) with integrated HBM2. By integrating the FPGA and the HBM2, Intel Stratix 10 MX FPGAs offer up to 10 times the memory bandwidth when compared when compared to standard DDR 2400 DIMM.The post Intel tackles FPGA HPC Memory Bottleneck appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from SC17, Dan McGuan and Jon Masters from Red Hat describe the company's Multi-Architecture HPC capabilities. "At SC17, you will have an opportunity to see the power and flexibility of Red Hat Enterprise Linux across multiple architectures, including Arm v8-A, x86_64 and IBM POWER Little Endian."The post Red Hat steps up with Multi-Architecture Solutions for HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

The 2018 ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge (ASC18) will begin on January 16, 2018. First launched in 2012, the competition will feature a whopping 230 student teams looking to build the fastest possible cluster with a power cap of 3 Kilowatts. "The USA Student Cluster Competition is like a marathon, testing participants’ hard work and perseverance," said OrionX partner Dan Olds, who has covered all three major supercomputing challenges. "Germany’s ISC is a sprint, testing innovation and adaptability. China’s ASC is a combination of both.”The post ASC18 Student Cluster Competition to include 230 Teams appeared first on insideHPC.

"Deep Learning was recently scaled to obtain 15PF performance on the Cori supercomputer at NERSC. Cori Phase II features over 9600 KNL processors. It can significantly impact how we do computing and what computing can do for us. In this podcast, I will discuss some of the application-level opportunities and system-level challenges that lie at the heart of this intersection of traditional high performance computing with emerging data-intensive computing."The post Dr. Pradeep Dubey on AI & The Virtuous Cycle of Compute appeared first on insideHPC.

Jay Boisseau from Dell EMC gave this talk at SC17 in Denver. "Across every industry, organizations are moving aggressively to adopt AI | ML | DL tools and frameworks to help them become more effective in leveraging data and analytics to power their key business and operational use cases. To help our clients exploit the business and operational benefits of AI | ML | DL, Dell EMC has created “Ready Bundles” that are designed to simplify the configuration, deployment and management of AI | ML | DL solutions."The post Video: Dell EMC AI Vision & Strategy appeared first on insideHPC.

Over at the Rescale Blog, Joris Poort writes that the company has been named one of the fastest growing enterprise software companies of 2017. "It’s been a busy year as we’ve landed over 100 new enterprise customers, fueling our rapid growth in multiple key industry verticals including aerospace, automotive, life sciences, universities and with broad geographic coverage throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia."The post Why Rescale is one of the Fastest Growing Enterprise Software Companies of 2017 appeared first on insideHPC.

Judy Qiu from Indiana University gave this Invited Talk at SC17. "Our research has concentrated on runtime and data management to support HPC-ABDS. This is illustrated by our open source software Harp, a plug-in for native Apache Hadoop, which has a convenient science interface, high performance communication, and can invoke Intel’s Data Analytics Acceleration Library (DAAL). We are building a scalable parallel Machine Learning library that includes routines in Apache Mahout, MLlib, and others built in an NSF funded collaboration."The post Harp-DAAL: A Next Generation Platform for High Performance Machine Learning on HPC-Cloud appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Pointwise announced Project Geode, the company's response to the NASA CFD Vision 2030 Study's identification of the lack of CFD software access to geometry. As part of the announcement, Pointwise has opened beta testing of a geometry modeling kernel for computer-aided engineering (CAE) simulation software. "The kernel's core geometry evaluation functions can provide all the functionality a CFD solver would need for tasks like mesh adaption and elevation of elements to higher-order. We are now seeking additional beta testers to validate this idea.”The post Pointwise Announces Geode Geometry Kernel appeared first on insideHPC.

Narayanan Sundaram gave this talk at the Intel HPC Developer Conference. "We present the first 15-PetaFLOP Deep Learning system for solving supervised and semi-supervised scientific pattern classification problems, optimized for Intel Xeon Phi. We use a hybrid of synchronous and asynchronous training to scale to ~9600 nodes of Cori on CNN and autoencoder networks."The post Video: Deep Learning at 15 Petaflops appeared first on insideHPC.

NVIDIA in Silicon Valley is seeking a Senior Memory Systems Architect in our Job of the Week. "NVIDIA is building the world's fastest highly-parallel processing systems, period. Our high-bandwidth multi-client memory subsystems are blazing new territory with every generation. As we increase levels of parallelism, bandwidth and capacity, we are presented with design challenges exacerbated by clients with varying but simultaneous needs such as real-time, low latency, and high-bandwidth. In addition, we are adding improved virtualization and programming model capabilities."The post Job of the Week: Senior Memory Systems Architect at NVIDIA appeared first on insideHPC.

Jack Dongarra from the University of Tennessee gave this talk at SC17. "In this talk we will look at the current state of high performance computing and look to the future toward exascale. In addition, we will examine some issues that can help in reducing the power consumption for linear algebra computations."The post Jack Dongarra Presents: Overview of HPC and Energy Savings on NVIDIA’s V100 appeared first on insideHPC.

The Mont-Blanc Project will once again sponsor a team at the upcoming ISC 2018 Student Cluster Competition. The sponsored team from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya / Barcelona Tech (UPC) will compete for the fourth time at ISC 2018, which takes place June 24– 28 in Frankfurt, Germany. "I am always impressed by the technical prowess exhibited by these young teams: the way they are turning our lessons into applied knowledge, through live benchmarking and on the fly troubleshooting is a great process and it triggers a positive loop in all of us."The post Mont-Blanc to Sponsor UPC Team at ISC 2018 Student Cluster Competition appeared first on insideHPC.

In this Invited Talk from SC17, Michael Wolfe from NVIDIA presents: Why Iteration Space Tiling? The talk is based on his noted paper, which won the SC17 Test of Time Award. "Tiling is well-known and has been included in many compilers and code transformation systems. The talk will explore the basic contribution of the SC1989 paper to the current state of iteration space tiling."The post Michael Wolfe Presents: Why Iteration Space Tiling? appeared first on insideHPC.

Intel Inspector is an integrated debugger that can easily diagnose latent and intermittent errors and guide users to locate the root cause. It does this by instrumenting the binaries, including dynamically generated or linked libraries, even when the source code is not available. This includes C, C++, and legacy Fortran codes.The post Use Intel® Inspector to Diagnose Hidden Memory and Threading Errors in Parallel Code appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team reviews their 2017 technology predictions from last year. After that, we do our 2018 Predictions including a bombshell on who Rich thinks will acquire Cray by the end of the year.The post Radio Free HPC does their 2018 Technology Predictions appeared first on insideHPC.

In this time-lapse video, engineers install the first racks of the Summit supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Lab. "Summit is the next leap in leadership-class computing systems for open science. With Summit we will be able to address, with greater complexity and higher fidelity, questions concerning who we are, our place on earth, and in our universe."The post Time-Lapse Video of Summit Supercomputer Installation appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast, Zaira Martín-Moldes and Davoud Ebrahimi describe their computational research into how bones form. "The authors used XSEDE supercomputers to model the protein folding of integrin, an essential step in the intracellular pathways that lead to osteogenesis. This research will help larger efforts to cure bone disorders such as osteoporosis or calcific aortic valve disease."The post Podcast: Supercomputing Osteogenesis appeared first on insideHPC.

Inquisitive minds want to know what causes the universe to expand, how M-theory binds the smallest of the small particles or how social dynamics can lead to revolutions. "The way that statisticians answer these questions is with Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC), which we learn on the first day of the summer school and which we combine with High Performance Computing. The second day focuses on a popular machine learning approach 'Deep-learning' which mimics the deep neural network structure in our brain, in order to predict complex phenomena of nature."The post Deep Learning and Automatic Differentiation from Theano to PyTorch appeared first on insideHPC.

The Trinity Supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory was recently named as a top 10 supercomputer on two lists: it made number three on the High Performance Conjugate Gradients (HPCG) Benchmark project, and is number seven on the TOP500 list. "Trinity has already made unique contributions to important national security challenges, and we look forward to Trinity having a long tenure as one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world.” said John Sarrao, associate director for Theory, Simulation and Computation at Los Alamos.The post Trinity Supercomputer lands at #7 on TOP500 appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from SC17, Naoki Shibata from Xtreme Design demonstrates the company's innovative solutions for deploying and managing HPC clouds. "Customers can use our easy-to-deploy turnkey HPC cluster system on public cloud, including setup of HPC middleware (OpenHPC-based packages), configuration of SLURM, OpenMPI, and OSS HPC applications such as OpenFOAM. The user can start the HPC cluster (submitting jobs) within 10 minutes on the public cloud. Our team is a technical startup for focusing HPC cloud technology."The post Xtreme Design HPC Cloud Management Demo at SC17 appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Dan Olds from Radio Free HPC offers up his rant-filled rendition of the 12 Days of Christmas. The Radio Free HPC podcast is a joint production by industry pundits focused on High Performance Computing. "To all of our listeners, we wish you a very happy Holiday Season!"The post 12 Days of Christmas from Radio Free HPC & Dan Olds appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Mellanox CTO Michael Kagan offers his view of technology trends for 2018. "Mellanox is looking forward to continued to Technology and Product Leadership in 2018. As the leader in End-to-End InfiniBand and Ethernet Technologies, Mellanox will introduce new products (Switch Systems/Silicon, Acq. EZchip Technology) to accelerate future growth. The company is also positioned to benefit from market transition from 10Gb to 25/50/100Gb."The post 2018 Technology Trends from Mellanox CTO Michael Kagan appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Ace Computers announced four leading-edge OpenStack applications for clusters, servers and workstations. Although the company has been working with top open source application providers for decades—this is the first announcement of an offering portfolio that includes Red Hat, SUSE, Bright Computing and CentOS. "We have the advantage over most of our competitors of decades-long partnerships with many platform developers," said Ace Computers CEO John Samborski. " These strong relationships give us access to leading-edge innovations and expertise that allow us to build the best possible solutions for our clients.”The post Ace Computers Offers OpenStack Solutions appeared first on insideHPC.

Theresa Windus from Iowa State University gave this Invited Talk at SC17. "This talk will focus on the challenges that computational chemistry faces in taking the equations that model the very small (molecules and the reactions they undergo) to efficient and scalable implementations on the very large computers of today and tomorrow. In particular, how do we take advantage of the newest architectures while preparing for the next generation of computers? "The post Video: Taking the Nanoscale to the Exascale appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from SC17, Jeff Hollingsworth and Paul Hovland host the Conference Finale Event announcing the winners of the Best Paper, Best Poster, ACM Gordon Bell Prize, Student Cluster Challenge and other honors for our technical program. "The conference drew 12,753 attendees and featured a technical program spanning six days – marking the second largest SC conference of all time."The post SC17 Awards Ceremony and Conference Recap appeared first on insideHPC.

The European Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) is expanding to make its programs and training offerings more accessible for university students and faculty members. "The Outreach to Universities program is the one-stop shop where the latest student-centric information on programs, educational opportunities and more can be found."The post PRACE Launches Outreach to Universities Program appeared first on insideHPC.

“The tremendous progress that we’re making toward the achievement of exascale systems, both here in the United States and in the European Union and Asia, will be undermined unless we can create a shared distributed computing platform to manage the logistics of massive, multistage data workflows with their sources at the network edge. Backhauling these rivers of data to the supercomputing center or the commercial cloud will not be a viable option for many, if not most applications.”The post Report: Future Software and Data Ecosystem for Scientific Inquiry appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Staffan Hansson from AdvaniaDC chats with Wolfgang Gentzsch from The UberCloud about the award-winning Stanford Living Heart Project, how the partnership was so successful, and his thoughts on HPC in the cloud and what it means for the future of research. "The Stanford LHP project is simulating cardiac arrhythmia, which can be an undesirable and potentially lethal side effect of drugs."The post Video: Inside the Award-Winning Stanford Living Heart Project appeared first on insideHPC.

ORNL is hosting a series of GPU Hackathons in 2018. The first event will take place March 5-9 at TU Dresden in Germany. "The goal of each Hackathon is for current or prospective user groups of large hybrid CPU-GPU systems to send teams of at least 3 developers along with either (1) a (potentially) scalable application that could benefit from GPU accelerators, or (2) an application running on accelerators that need optimization. There will be intensive mentoring during this 5-day hands-on workshop, with the goal that the teams leave with applications running on GPUs, or at least with a clear roadmap of how to get there. Our mentors come from national laboratories, universities, and vendors, and besides having extensive experience in programming GPUs, many of them develop the GPU-capable compilers and help define standards such as OpenACC and OpenMP."The post Announcing a Series of Worldwide GPU Hackathons in 2018 appeared first on insideHPC.

Researchers at NCSA used the Blue Waters Supercomputer and Deep Learning to achieve a breakthrough in protein structure predictions. As published in the Cell Systems journal, the research was conducted by Jian Peng, NCSA Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Illinois and Yang Liu, a graduate student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. "Peng’s research proposes to largely explore a more accurate function for evaluating predicted protein structures through his development of the deep learning tool, DeepContact. DeepContact automatically leverages local information and multiple features to discover patterns in contact map space and embeds this knowledge within the neural network. Furthermore, in subsequent prediction of new proteins, DeepContact uses what it has learned about structure and contact map space to impute missing contacts and remove spurious predictions, leading to significantly more accurate inference of residue-residue contacts."The post Advanced Protein Prediction Using Deep Learning on Blue Waters Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.

"Intel Parallel Studio 2018 has been designed to recognize the latest CPU architectures including the Intel Xeon Scalable processor family and the Intel Xeon Phi processors in order to get maximum performance from their differing architectures, yet remain binary compatible. With the recent introduction of the Intel AVX-512 vectorization instructions, application developers can more easily take advantage of these new instructions when developing and compiling with the Intel Parallel Studio 2018."The post Intel Parallel Studio 2018: Modernize Your Code appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the HPC Advisory Council announced that registration is now open for the Swiss HPC Conference. The event takes place April 9-12 in Lugano, Switzerland. For the first time, the conference will be held in concert with the Winter HPCXXL User Group meeting. "We are very excited to organize a joint conference here in Lugano, bringing together the communities of HPCAC and HPCXXL,” said Hussein Harake, HPC system manager, CSCS. “We believe that such a collaboration will offer a unique opportunity for HPC professionals to discuss and share their knowledge and experiences.”The post Swiss HPC Conference Returns to Lugano in April with Winter HPCXXL User Group appeared first on insideHPC.

Sumit Gupta from IBM gave this talk at H2O World. "From chat bots, to recommendation engines, to Google Voice and Apple Siri, AI has begun to permeate our lives. We will demystify what AI is, present the difference between machine learning and deep learning, why the huge interest now, show some fun use cases and demos, and then discuss use cases of how deep learning based AI methods can be used to garner insights from data for enterprises. We will also talk about what IBM is doing to make deep learning and machine learning more accessible and useful to a broader set of data scientists, and how to build out the right hardware infrastructure."The post Video: Deep Learning for the Enterprise with POWER9 appeared first on insideHPC.

Today HPC Advisory Council announced its 2018 Stanford HPC Conference will take place February 20-21, 2018 at Stanford University. The annual California-based conference draws world-class experts from all over the world for two days of thought leadership talks and immersive tutorials focusing on emerging trends with extensive coverage of AI, Data Sciences, HPC, Machine Learning and more. "The Stanford Conference is an intimate gathering of the global HPC community who come together to collaborate and innovate the way to the future,” said Steve Jones, Director of Stanford’s High Performance Computing Center. “SMEs, mentors, students, peers and professionals, representing a diverse range of disciplines, interests and industry, are drawn to the conference to learn from each other and leave collectively inspired to contribute to making the world a better place."The post Stanford HPC Conference Returns to Palo Alto in February appeared first on insideHPC.

The IEEE International Workshop on High-Performance Interconnection Networks in the Exascale and Big-Data Era (HiPINEB) has issued its Call for Papers. The event takes place February 25, 2018 in Vienna, Austria in conjunction with HPCA 2018 Conference. "The main goal of the fourth edition of HiPINEB is to gather and discuss in a full-day event the latest and most prominent efforts and advances, from both industry and academia, in the design and development of scalable high-performance interconnection networks, especially those oriented to meet the Exascale challenge and Big-data demands."The post Call for Papers: HiPINEB 2018 in Vienna appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest feature, Siddhartha Jana summarizes the key findings of the first-of-its-kind survey on Energy and Power Aware Job Scheduling and Resource Management. "The goal of this year-long survey was to investigate the active investments by HPC centers in enabling energy and power management within their software stack, especially the job schedulers and resource managers."The post First Global Survey of Energy and Power Aware Job Scheduling and Resource Management appeared first on insideHPC.

"HPC Cloud services built on the latest Intel architecture, Skylake Xeon processor, are now powering the C5 compute intensive instance at AWS and can serve as your next-generation HPC platform. Hear how customers are starting to consider hybrid strategies to increase productivity and lower their capital expenditure and maintenance costs. Also learn how to adapt this model to meet the increasing HPC and data analytics needs for your applications with the new technologies incorporated into the platform."The post Video: How to Get the HPC Best-in-class Performance via Intel Xeon Skylake appeared first on insideHPC.

The hardware and software for AI devices is rapidly evolving, so it is important to procure wisely for the future without incurring technology or vendor lock in. This post from an insideHPC Special Report focuses on AI software and how to best use and understand this rapidly expanding ecosystem.The post AI Software: Understanding the Rapidly Expanding Ecosystem appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Hyperion Research announced that it has completed an employee buyout and is now an independent company. "The team will continue all the worldwide activities that have made it the world’s most respected HPC industry analyst group for more than 25 years," said Steve Conway, senior vice president of research. "That includes sizing and tracking the global markets for HPC and high-performance data analysis (HPDA). We will also continue offering our subscription services, customer studies and papers, and operating the HPC User Forum."The post Hyperion Research Becomes Independent Company appeared first on insideHPC.

Over at Rigetti Computing, Will Zeng writes that the company has published a new white paper on unsupervised machine learning using 19Q, their new 19-qubit general purpose superconducting quantum processor. To accomplish this, they used a quantum/classical hybrid algorithm for clustering developed at Rigetti.The post New Paper looks at Unsupervised Machine Learning on Rigetti 19Q Quantum Computer appeared first on insideHPC.