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Radio Free HPC wraps up the SC17 Student Cluster Competition
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team goes over the results of the SC17 Student Cluster Competition. This year, Nanyang Technological University from Singapore took the Top Prize. "In this competition, student teams design and build small clusters, with hardware and software vendor partners, learn designated scientific applications, apply optimization techniques for their chosen architectures, and compete in a non-stop, 48-hour challenge, at the SC conference."The post Radio Free HPC wraps up the SC17 Student Cluster Competition appeared first on insideHPC.
NVIDIA and Nuance to Advance AI for Radiology
Today Nuance Communications announced that they are working together to bring the power of machine learning to radiologists and data scientists working across the entire healthcare system. "We stand on the edge of a new age in radiology, where artificial intelligence and machine learning will become a necessity in every radiologist's essential toolkit,” said Dr. Luciano Prevedello, Division Chief of Medical Imaging Informatics at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. “It is critical for the state of AI adoption and its potential to improve patient outcomes and operations that AI-based tools are more than just available – they must be valuable, validated and valued by the institution of radiology.”The post NVIDIA and Nuance to Advance AI for Radiology appeared first on insideHPC.
Argonne to Install Comanche System to Explore ARM Technology for HPC
Argonne National Laboratory is collaborating with HPE to provide system software expertise and a development ecosystem for a future high-performance computing system based on 64-bit ARM processors. "Argonne is working with HPE to evaluate early versions of chipmaker Cavium ARM ThunderX2 64-bit processors for the ARM ecosystem. Argonne is interested in evaluating the ARM ecosystem as a cost-effective and power-effective alternative to x86 architectures based on Intel CPUs, which currently dominate the high-performance computing market."The post Argonne to Install Comanche System to Explore ARM Technology for HPC appeared first on insideHPC.
AMD steps up with EPYC Processors for HPC at SC17
In this video from SC17, Josh Mora describes how the new AMD EPYC Processors deliver huge memory bandwidth and application performance for HPC. "EPYC strikes the perfect balance of cores/threads, memory, I/O bandwidth and security to deliver excellent performance for many High Performance Computing (HPC) workloads. AMD’s state-of-the-art GPUs combined with EPYC provide excellent solutions for your most demanding HPC applications."The post AMD steps up with EPYC Processors for HPC at SC17 appeared first on insideHPC.
Video: HPE Showcases Innovation for HPC at SC17
In this video, Bill Mannel gives a booth tour that highlights some of the amazing HPC innovations on display in the HPE booth at SC17. "HPE’s first ARM-based HPC system brings more choice and flexibility to HPC customers. The Apollo 70, using Cavium’s 64-bit ARMv8-A ThunderX2 Server Processor, is purpose-built for memory intensive HPC workloads and delivers up to 33 percent more memory bandwidth than today’s industry standard servers."The post Video: HPE Showcases Innovation for HPC at SC17 appeared first on insideHPC.
Video: Introducing the 125 Petaflop Sierra Supercomputer
In this video, researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory describe Sierra, LLNL’s next-generation supercomputer. "The IBM-built advanced technology high-performance system is projected to provide four to six times the sustained performance and be at least seven times more powerful than LLNL’s current most advanced system, Sequoia, with a 125 petaFLOP/s peak. At approximately 11 megawatts, Sierra will also be about five times more power efficient than Sequoia."The post Video: Introducing the 125 Petaflop Sierra Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.
Video: Quantum Computing for the Real World Today
In this video from the International Workshop on Advanced Computing and Analysis Techniques in Physics Research, Dr. Colin P. Williams from D-Wave Systems presents: Quantum Computing for the Real World Today. His focus for the talk centers around using quantum computing for machine learning. "We expect that quantum computing will lead to breakthroughs in science, engineering, modeling and simulation, healthcare, financial analysis, optimization, logistics, and national defense applications."The post Video: Quantum Computing for the Real World Today appeared first on insideHPC.
Intel Xeon Scalable Processors come to Penguin on Demand HPC Cloud
Penguin Computing has announced plans to deploy more than 11,500 cores of the latest Intel Xeon Scalable processor in their Penguin Computing On-Demand HPC cloud. “The latest Intel Xeon Scalable processor expansion will provide an ideal compute environment for MPI workloads that can leverage thousands of cores for computation. We have significant customer demand for POD HPC cloud in applicable areas like high-resolution weather forecasting and computational fluid dynamics, including solutions from software partners like ANSYS, Flow Science and CD-adapco.”The post Intel Xeon Scalable Processors come to Penguin on Demand HPC Cloud appeared first on insideHPC.
SC17 Panel: Energy Efficiency Gains From Software
In this video from SC17 in Denver, Dan Reed moderates a panel discussion on HPC Software for Energy Efficiency. "This panel will explore what HPC software capabilities were most helpful over the past years in improving HPC system energy efficiency? It will then look forward; asking in what layers of the software stack should a priority be put on introducing energy-awareness; e.g., runtime, scheduling, applications? What is needed moving forward? Who is responsible for that forward momentum?"The post SC17 Panel: Energy Efficiency Gains From Software appeared first on insideHPC.
Job of the Week: IT Engineer at Case Western Reserve University
Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland is seeking an IT Engineer in our Job of the Week. "The IT Engineer will serve as lead architect to manage, develop and design high-level systems. The position shares responsibility for the research computing services provided to the university community, which leverages the university's investment in cyberinfrastructure. This includes identifying appropriate computational platforms (locally and externally) for research projects and diagnosing and resolving issues in the configuration, installation, tuning, and management of very large distributed and tightly coupled computer systems, based on the Linux OS."The post Job of the Week: IT Engineer at Case Western Reserve University appeared first on insideHPC.
Excelero NVMesh powers Canada’s new SciNet Petascale Storage Facility
Today Excelero announced that SciNet, Canada's largest supercomputer center, has deployed Excelero's NVMesh server SAN for the highly efficient, cost-effective storage behind a new supercomputer at the University of Toronto. "For SciNet, NVMesh is an extremely cost-effective method of achieving unheard-of burst buffer bandwidth," said Dr. Daniel Gruner, chief technical officer, SciNet High Performance Computing Consortium. "By adding commodity flash drives and NVMesh software to compute nodes, and to a low-latency network fabric that was already provided for the supercomputer itself, NVMesh provides redundancy without impacting target CPUs. This enables standard servers to go beyond their usual role in acting as block targets – the servers now can also act as file servers."The post Excelero NVMesh powers Canada’s new SciNet Petascale Storage Facility appeared first on insideHPC.
Asetek Rides the Wave of Liquid Cooling for HPC at SC17
In this video from SC17 in Denver, Steve Branton from Asetek describes the company's wide array of liquid cooling solutions for HPC. At the Asetek booth, the company displayed liquid cooling from recently announced OEMs and channel partners in addition to cooling solutions for the latest Intel, Nvidia and IBM CPUs, accelerators and GPUs. “We are seeing higher wattage HPC nodes that require liquid cooling as they cannot be cooled with air. Wattage density is only going to get higher with the inclusion of machine learning and AI across the HPC spectrum.”The post Asetek Rides the Wave of Liquid Cooling for HPC at SC17 appeared first on insideHPC.
Univa Grid Engine Powers University of Oxford Human Genetics Centre
Last week at SC17, Univa announced its Univa Grid Engine distributed resource management system is powering the Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics’ (WHG) high performance computing environment. WHG is a research institute within the Nuffield Department of Medicine at the University of Oxford. The Centre is an international leader in genetics, genomics, statistics and structural biology with more than 400 researchers and 70 administrative and support personnel. WHG’s mission is to advance the understanding of genetically-related conditions through a broad range of multi-disciplinary research.The post Univa Grid Engine Powers University of Oxford Human Genetics Centre appeared first on insideHPC.
Video: Altair Serves Up HPC with PBS Pro at SC17
In this video from the Altair Tiki Bar at SC17, Bill Nitzberg describes the company's open sources solutions for HPC system management. "PBS Professional automates job scheduling, management, monitoring and reporting, and is the trusted solution for complex Top500 systems as well as smaller cluster owners."The post Video: Altair Serves Up HPC with PBS Pro at SC17 appeared first on insideHPC.
For HPC and Deep Learning, GPUs are here to stay
In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, David Yip, HPC and Storage Business Development at OCF, provides his take on the place of GPU technology in HPC. "Using GPUs in the HPC datacenter in place of CPUs can dramatically increase the power requirements needed, but if your computational performance goes through the roof, then I’d argue it’s a trade-off worth making."The post For HPC and Deep Learning, GPUs are here to stay appeared first on insideHPC.
GRC Builds GPU-Based Immersion Cluster for TACC
Green Revolution Cooling has announced plans to deliver a custom GPU-based cluster to the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). Our goal is to make HPC more affordable. Offering lower cost, energy dense servers that take full advantage of our highly efficient CarnotJet cooling system is a huge benefit to our customers,” said Larry Stone, VP of Engineering at GRC “we are seeing a growing number of people opt for servers designed for immersion, over traditional big brand OEM hardware.”The post GRC Builds GPU-Based Immersion Cluster for TACC appeared first on insideHPC.
CoolIT Systems Showcases OEM & Enterprise Data Center Liquid Cooling Solutions at SC17
In this video, Geoff Lyon from CoolIT Systems describes the company's innovative liquid-cooling solutions for HPC. "Liquid cooling in the data center continues to grow in adoption and delivers more compelling ROIs. Our collaboration with OEM partners such as Dell EMC, HPE, Intel and STULZ provides further evidence that the future of the data center is destined for liquid cooling,” said Geoff Lyon, CEO and CTO at CoolIT Systems.The post CoolIT Systems Showcases OEM & Enterprise Data Center Liquid Cooling Solutions at SC17 appeared first on insideHPC.
New BeeGFS 7.0 Delivers All-Flash Performance at Spinning Disk Price
Last week at SC17, ThinkParQ announced immediate availability of the BeeGFS version 7.0 release candidate. While previous versions of BeeGFS are already running on systems of all kinds and sizes around the globe (including burst buffers, hyper-converged setups and of course dedicated high-performance enterprise storage), this new major release introduces several features that were desired by the BeeGFS community.The post New BeeGFS 7.0 Delivers All-Flash Performance at Spinning Disk Price appeared first on insideHPC.
Moving HPC Workloads to the Cloud with Avere Systems at SC17
"Traditional methods of moving data are expensive and very time-consuming. These processes often negate the value-add that the cloud offers. Moving all of your data to the cloud is not necessary in order to use cloud compute for an individual application’s workload. In fact, you don’t need to move large data sets at all. Cloud caching filers can often take on the data required to run each job, putting the data migration portion all onto this caching appliance."The post Moving HPC Workloads to the Cloud with Avere Systems at SC17 appeared first on insideHPC.
InfiniBand Accelerates 77 Percent of New HPC Systems on the TOP500
"InfiniBand being the preferred interconnect for new HPC systems shows the increasing demand for the performance it can deliver. Its place at #1 and #4 are excellent examples of that performance,” said Bill Lee, IBTA Marketing Working Group Co-Chair. “Besides of delivering world-leading performance and scalability, InfiniBand guarantees backward and forward compatibility, ensuring users highest return on investment and future proofing their data centers.”The post InfiniBand Accelerates 77 Percent of New HPC Systems on the TOP500 appeared first on insideHPC.
Video: Share your know-how with “HPC for the Rest of Us”
"Are you operating a small to medium sized HPC Center? Interested in how others are managing their resources with open source tools and low risk/low overhead hardware? Questions about academic service centers and cost recovery models? Or just want to talk shop with other admins and center managers? This the the session for you! Come visit with Steve and Gowtham, they’re in the trenches with you, always on the lookout for innovative and interest ways of managing resources and sharing their experiences along the way. We’re open to discussing anything HPC for the rest of us!"The post Video: Share your know-how with “HPC for the Rest of Us” appeared first on insideHPC.
JCAHPC in Japan Wins Inaugural IO500 Award with help from DDN
Today DDN announced that the Oakforest-PACS system JCAHPC in Japan, which uses DDN’s Infinite Memory Engine (IME), has been named the first annual IO500 winner. "The goal of the IO500 is to create a suite of I/O benchmarks that allow comparison of storage systems and is similar in concept to the Top500 for computing systems. Storage systems are ranked according to the combination of a set of I/O benchmarks that are designed to represent a mix of applications and real-world workloads."The post JCAHPC in Japan Wins Inaugural IO500 Award with help from DDN appeared first on insideHPC.
Nallatech Showcases Next Generation FPGA Accelerators at SC17
Last week at SC17, Nallatech showcased their FPGA solutions for high-performance computing, low latency network acceleration, and data analytics. "FPGAs are being deployed in volume across a range of on-premise platforms and cloud infrastructure to achieve a step-change in application performance and energy-efficiency above and beyond what can be achieved using conventional processor technologies” said Craig Petrie, VP Business Development of FPGA Solutions at Nallatech. “We’re excited to be showcasing our new OpenCL-programmable ‘520’ product range featuring Intel Stratix-10 FPGAs. These server-qualified accelerator products have been engineered to cost-effectively solve demanding co-processing and real-time data ingest and enrichment applications."The post Nallatech Showcases Next Generation FPGA Accelerators at SC17 appeared first on insideHPC.
SkyScale HPC Cloud steps up with Volta GPUs
Last week at SC17, SkyScale announced its partnership with Rescale, the foremost cloud simulation and HPC solution provider, and availability of NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPU accelerators on its GPU as a Service cloud platform. Enhancing SkyScale’s dedicated, cloud-based ultra-fast multi-GPU platforms for deep learning and HPC applications, the Tesla V100 offers the performance of 100 CPUs in a single GPU—enabling data scientists, researchers, and engineers to tackle the most difficult deep learning and HPC challenges.The post SkyScale HPC Cloud steps up with Volta GPUs appeared first on insideHPC.
Video: Nyriad Unveils GPU-accelerated Storage Device for the Square Kilometer Array
At SC17 last week, Nyriad Limited demonstrated their company's first commercial product, Nsulate, a GPU-accelerated storage solution that enables increased storage resilience while reducing the storage power requirements by over 50 percent. "Using a GPU as a storage controller inserts an enormous amount of general purpose processing power directly into the storage pipeline, enabling modern HPC storage appliances to deliver unprecedented speed, scale, security, storage efficiency and intelligence in real-time."The post Video: Nyriad Unveils GPU-accelerated Storage Device for the Square Kilometer Array appeared first on insideHPC.
Energy-efficient CoolMUC-3 Cluster comes to LRZ in Germany
An new energy-efficient supercomputer called CoolMUC-3 has been deployed at LRZ in Germany. Developed by MEGWARE, the HPC cluster features Intel’s many-core architecture and warm-water cooled Omni-Path switches. "In the long run, we want to get rid of inefficient air-cooling completely."The post Energy-efficient CoolMUC-3 Cluster comes to LRZ in Germany appeared first on insideHPC.
NEC Supercomputer at JGU in Germany Ranks #65 on TOP500
NEC Deutschland GmbH has delivered an LX series supercomputer to Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), one of Germany’s leading research universities and part of the German Gauss Alliance consortium of excellence in high-performance computing. The new HPC cluster ranks 65th in the most current TOP500 list of the fastest supercomputers in the world from November 2017 and 51st in the Green500 list of the most energy-efficient supercomputers.The post NEC Supercomputer at JGU in Germany Ranks #65 on TOP500 appeared first on insideHPC.
DDN Powers Big Data and Machine Learning at UTC in Tennessee
Last week at SC17, Data Direct Networks announced that The University of Tennessee, Chattanooga (UTC) has selected DDN’s GS14KX parallel file system appliance with 1.1PB of storage to replace its aging big data storage system and to support a diversifying range of data-intensive research projects. The Center of Excellence in Applied Computational Science and Engineering (SimCenter) at UTC needed a big data storage solution that could scale easily to support growing research programs focused on computational fluid dynamics (CFD), machine learning, data analytics, smart cities and molecular biology.The post DDN Powers Big Data and Machine Learning at UTC in Tennessee appeared first on insideHPC.
Hyperion Innovation Excellence Award goes to UberCloud and Stanford Living Heart Project
Last week at SC17, Hyperion Research announced that the UberCloud and the Stanford Living Heart Project have won the Hyperion Award for Innovation Excellence. "The Stanford LHP project is simulating cardiac arrhythmia, which can be an undesirable and potentially lethal side effect of drugs. The electrical activity of the heart turns chaotic, decimating its pumping function, thus diminishing the circulation of blood through the body."The post Hyperion Innovation Excellence Award goes to UberCloud and Stanford Living Heart Project appeared first on insideHPC.
Russian RSC Group Joins the Intel Select Solutions for HPC Program
Last week at SC17, Russian HPC vendor RSC Group showcased the next generation of their liquid-cooled RSC Tornado supercomputers based on Intel Xeon Scalable Processors. "RSC is demonstrating a full set of components for modern HPC computing systems of different scale with 100% direct liquid cooling in ‘hot water’ mode, including high-performance RSC Tornado computing nodes based on the top-bin Intel Xeon Platinum and Intel Xeon Gold processors (part of the Intel Xeon Scalable platform), Intel Server Board S2600BP, high-speed NVMe solid state drives in high-dense М.2 format and the latest Intel Optane SSD DC P4800X Series. The RSC Tornado solution is built using 100% direct liquid cooled Intel Omni-Path Edge Switch 100 Series that ensures end-to-end efficiency of the cooling solution with ‘hot water’ and eventually the lowest possible total cost of ownership of the system."The post Russian RSC Group Joins the Intel Select Solutions for HPC Program appeared first on insideHPC.
Intel Xeon Processors and Intel Omni-Path Architecture Offer Breakthroughs for Top500 Systems
Last week, the rhetorical one-two punch of the Intel HPC Developer Conference and Supercomputing 2017 offered global HPC aficionados new insights into the direction of advanced HPC technologies, and how those tools will empower the future of discovery and innovation. In case you missed it, here is a breakdown of all the action.The post Intel Xeon Processors and Intel Omni-Path Architecture Offer Breakthroughs for Top500 Systems appeared first on insideHPC.
Video: An Affordable Supercomputing Testbed based on Rasberry Pi
In this video from SC17, Bruce Tulloch from BitScope describes a low-cost Rasberry Pi cluster that LANL can use to simulate large-scale supercomputers. "The BitScope Pi Cluster Modules system creates an affordable, scalable, highly parallel testbed for high-performance-computing system-software developers. The system comprises five rack-mounted BitScope Pi Cluster Modules consisting of 3,000 cores using Raspberry Pi ARM processor boards, fully integrated with network switching infrastructure."The post Video: An Affordable Supercomputing Testbed based on Rasberry Pi appeared first on insideHPC.
Job of the Week: Computational Scientist at the School of Mines
The School of Mines in Colorado is seeking a Computational Scientist in our Job of the Week. "The Computational Scientist works as part of the High Performance Computing Group to help Mines researchers by collaborating with other researchers and computational scientists to develop, integrate, port and tune applications to take advantage of the high performance computing capabilities at Mines."The post Job of the Week: Computational Scientist at the School of Mines appeared first on insideHPC.
Radio Free HPC Recaps SC17 in Denver
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team describes the highlights of SC17 in Denver. Highlights includes the debut of ARM hardware for HPC, a Rasberry Pie Cluster, and pervasive liquid cooling.The post Radio Free HPC Recaps SC17 in Denver appeared first on insideHPC.
Dell EMC Brings Machine Learning to Mainstream Enterprises
This week at SC17, Dell EMC announced new machine learning and deep learning solutions, continuing the company’s work to bring high performance computing and data analytics capabilities to mainstream enterprises worldwide. "When you think about what this means for industries like financial services or personalized medicine, the possibilities are endless and exciting.”The post Dell EMC Brings Machine Learning to Mainstream Enterprises appeared first on insideHPC.
New TeraBox 1U FPGA Server Doubles Compute and I/O Density
Today BittWare announced the TeraBox 1432D high density 1U FPGA server at SC17. Based on a Dell PowerEdge C4130, the customized TeraBox 1432D provides an unprecedented thirty-two 100GbE ports directly connected to four large Xilinx or Intel FPGAs on BittWare accelerator cards. This server targets users requiring the highest density of large FPGAs with directly-connected I/O for clustering or networking.The post New TeraBox 1U FPGA Server Doubles Compute and I/O Density appeared first on insideHPC.
Video: Atos and ParTec to deploy 12 Petaflop Supercomputer at Jülich
In this video, Hugo Falter from Par-Tec describes the new 12 Petaflop supercomputer coming to the Jülich Supercomputing Centre in Germany. "Modular supercomputing, an idea conceived by Dr. Lippert almost 20 years ago, was realised by JSC and ParTec in the EU-funded research projects DEEP and DEEP-ER together with many partners from research and industry. Since 2010, our experts have been developing the software, which will in future create the union of several modules into a single system."The post Video: Atos and ParTec to deploy 12 Petaflop Supercomputer at Jülich appeared first on insideHPC.
Xtreme Design Showcases Innovative Solutions for Deploying and Managing HPC Clouds
In this video from SC17, Naoki Shibata from Xtreme Design describes the company's innovative solutions for deploying and managing HPC clouds. "XTREME-D is well-known in Japan for architecting technical computing in the cloud. The company develops and sells XTREME DNA, a cloud-based, virtual, supercomputing-on-demand service that provides unattended services ranging from the construction of a high-speed analysis system on the cloud to optimal operation monitoring, and eliminates the systems after use."The post Xtreme Design Showcases Innovative Solutions for Deploying and Managing HPC Clouds appeared first on insideHPC.
BOXX rolls out AMD EPYC Deep Learning Server at SC17
This week at SC17, BOXX Technologies debuted the new GX8-M server, featuring dual AMD EPYC 7000-series processors, eight full-size AMD or NVIDIA graphics cards, and other innovative features designed to accelerate high performance computing applications. "BOXX is taking the lead with deep learning solutions like the GX8-M which enables users to boost high performance computing application performance and accelerate their workflows like never before.”The post BOXX rolls out AMD EPYC Deep Learning Server at SC17 appeared first on insideHPC.
Video: ZFS Improvements for Lustre
In this video from LAD'17 in Paris, Adreas Dilger from Intel presents: ZFS Improvements for Lustre. "Lustre is the Parallel file system of choice for High Performance Computing and large file applications. To meet the capacity and throughput requirements of HPC workloads, Lustre has traditionally required adoption of custom proprietary storage products leading to vendor lock-in and reduced innovation. The evolution of software defined high availability platforms like ZFS running on Linux now make it possible to meet the performance requirements of HPC on open industry standard x86 platforms."The post Video: ZFS Improvements for Lustre appeared first on insideHPC.
Lenovo Accelerates AI to Solve Humanity’s Greatest Challenges
Today at SC17, Lenovo announced new initiatives designed to empower customers to embrace Artificial Intelligence and make it a true reality for their organizations to achieve augmented intelligence capabilities for increased productivity and transformative results. "Artificial intelligence is already having a profound impact on traditional business strategies and scientific research, and most senior leaders consider it a priority for the year ahead. To truly benefit from the vast amount of data available to organizations today, our customers must embrace AI as the vehicle to help them achieve success in today’s competitive business landscape,” said Kirk Skaugen, president, Lenovo Data Center Group. “With our newly opened, global AI innovation centers and a comprehensive product and service portfolio we are committed to helping bring their AI deployments to life.”The post Lenovo Accelerates AI to Solve Humanity’s Greatest Challenges appeared first on insideHPC.
Intel Select Solutions for HPC Debut at SC17
Intel Select Solutions HPC provide a fast path for purchasing and deploying a cluster for simulation and modeling workloads with a pre-validated selection of components designed to meet the demands of HPC applications and workflows. These systems provide the capabilities and agility needed to support a range of different workloads and reduce or eliminate the need for multiple single-purpose systems. In addition, the performance of key system characteristics are verified for Intel Select Solutions for Simulation and Modeling at both the node and cluster level.The post Intel Select Solutions for HPC Debut at SC17 appeared first on insideHPC.
New Report Offers insight on OpenMP
Technical Report 6 demonstrates the importance of user feedback to the OpenMP specification,” says Bronis R. de Supinski, the Chair of the OpenMP Language Committee. “Users have indicated that several features are vitally important to them, such as multilevel memory support, deep copy, easy access to unified shared memory and a descriptive loop construct. As a result of that feedback, OpenMP 5.0 will include all of these major additions.”The post New Report Offers insight on OpenMP appeared first on insideHPC.
Bright Computing Offers Fast Onramp to Deep Learning
Today Bright Computing announced Bright Cluster Manager for Data Science, an all-in-one product for data scientists. The new product brings together all of the tools needed to build, manage, and operate an enterprise-class data science cluster.The post Bright Computing Offers Fast Onramp to Deep Learning appeared first on insideHPC.
Ray Tracing on Intel Xeon Phi with Embree
In computer graphics, ray tracing is a rendering technique for generating an image by tracing the path of light as pixels in an image plane and simulating the effects of its encounters with virtual objects. "Experienced computer graphics developers that understand how ray tracing works, in conjunction with a deep knowledge of the Intel Xeon Phi processor hardware have created a set of ray tracing kernels that take advantage of the underlying instruction sets and the available number of computing cores."The post Ray Tracing on Intel Xeon Phi with Embree appeared first on insideHPC.
Video: Project Cyclops comes to SC17 in a Quest to Build the World’s Fastest Node
In this video from SC17, Rich Brueckner from insideHPC describes Project Cyclops, a benchmarking quest to build the world’s fastest single node. The single-node Cyclops supercomputer demonstrates the computational power that individual scientists, engineers, artificial intelligence practitioners, and data scientists can deploy in their offices. Cyclops looks to rank well on the HPCG benchmark.The post Video: Project Cyclops comes to SC17 in a Quest to Build the World’s Fastest Node appeared first on insideHPC.
Lenovo Steps up with Intel Select Solutions for HPC
The new Intel Select Solutions for HPC leverage the proven Intel Scalable System Framework delivers balanced HPC through tighter integration of compute, memory/storage, fabric, and software. The Intel SSF specification provides an architectural foundation that enables development and deployment of a wide variety of high-performance, compute- and data-intensive workloads. Its standards-based programmability allows engineers to run diverse workloads on a broadly available, common infrastructure. Intel SSF enables organizations to achieve high performance with flexibility, scalability, balance, and portability."The post Lenovo Steps up with Intel Select Solutions for HPC appeared first on insideHPC.
SC17 Preview: BoF Session on IEEE Consortium on HPC
Are you at SC17 in Denver? Please join a special session for the IEEE Computer Society Technical Consortium on High Performance Computing (TCHPC). The meeting takes place (Wednesday Nov 15, 2017) in room 201-203 at the Denver Convention Center. "The annual TCHPC Birds of a Feather session at SC provides a forum to discuss the consortium and its mission, activities and initiatives with members of the community, as well as to get inputs from the community. It give members of the community a chance to interact with the TCHPC volunteers and representatives from its member technical committees and to explore opportunities to get involved."The post SC17 Preview: BoF Session on IEEE Consortium on HPC appeared first on insideHPC.
AMD Delivers ‘Supercomputing for All’ at SC17
At SC17 in Denver, AMD and its ecosystem partners announced at SC17 immediate availability of a suite of new, high performance systems powered by AMD EPYC CPUs and AMD Radeon Instinct GPUs to accelerate innovation in supercomputing. "Target workloads for AMD solutions include machine learning, weather modeling, computational fluid dynamics, simulation and crash analysis in aviation and automotive manufacturing, oil and gas exploration, and more."The post AMD Delivers ‘Supercomputing for All’ at SC17 appeared first on insideHPC.
Cray to Power AI Innovation at Samsung
Today Cray announced that Samsung has purchased a Cray CS-Storm accelerated cluster supercomputer. The Samsung Strategy & Innovation Center (SSIC) procured the system for use in its research into Artificial Intelligence and deep learning workloads, including systems for connected cars and autonomous technologies.The post Cray to Power AI Innovation at Samsung appeared first on insideHPC.
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