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In this video from the Dell EMC HPC Community meeting, Onur Celebioglu describes the Dell EMC HPC Innovation Lab, where his team does all of the integration testing and benchmarking for high performance computing systems. "Every HPC workload and associated data set has specific server, storage, networking and software configuration and tuning requirements to achieve optimal performance. The Dell EMC HPC Innovation Lab has been established to provide customers best practices for configuring and tuning systems and their applications for optimal performance and efficiency through blogs, whitepapers and other resources."The post Finding the Right Solutions with Dell EMC HPC Innovation Lab appeared first on insideHPC.

Game developers face a unique challenge – how to make their graphics-heavy applications perform well across a very wide spectrum of hardware devices, not just high-end systems. So while an early version of a game might have been developed on some high-end system with 10 teraflops of CPU potential in a discrete graphics card, how do you scale it down to smaller consumer devices where optimization options are more limited?The post Multicore Performance Challenges for Game Developers appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the STEM-Trek nonprofit announced that donation from Micron Foundation will make it possible for more scholars to participate in the PEARC17 conference and student program. The Practice & Experience in Advanced Research Computing conference will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, July 9-13, 2017.“We’re delighted to support STEM-Trek and the PEARC17 Student Program,” said Dee Mooney, Micron Foundation Executive Director. “It’s a great opportunity for students to learn in a professional engineering conference environment and engage with industry icons. As they prepare to fill the STEM pipeline, professional development and networking experiences will strengthen their success in the microelectronics industry and beyond,” she added.The post Micron Foundation Supports PEARC17 Student Program with STEM-Trek appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the 2017 GPU Technology Conference, Eliot Eshelman from Microway describes the company's GPU expertise and wide range of accelerated HPC products. "Since 1982, Microway has delivered high performance computing solutions. We have in-depth experience with demanding Linux-based scientific/engineering applications. Leveraging NVIDIA's latest Tesla GPUs, our team will design a solution for your specific applications. Our experts ensure your system is delivered fully tested and ready to run!"The post Microway GPU Systems for HPC & Deep Learning at GTC 2017 appeared first on insideHPC.

“We are pleased to partner with Mellanox to now offer even higher performance networking as an integrated component of the HPE Synergy platform. The unmatched Ethernet switch fabric performance and latency will enable our financial, business analytics, telco, and scientific customers to improve efficiency and achieve business results faster than ever before.”The post Mellanox Enables Composable Infrastructure on HPE Synergy Platform appeared first on insideHPC.

Today One Stop Systems announced that Raytheon has recognized One Stop Systems with a Premier Supplier Excellence Award for their outstanding innovation, technical achievement and customer support. "We're very honored to receive this award from Raytheon," said Steve Cooper, CEO of OSS. "We believe the relationship and working well together is a very important piece of the successes we've had, particularly as technology advances. We're very excited about this new product and we want to thank Raytheon for their support and trusting us to build the Data Storage Unit to meet all of Raytheon's and the Navy's requirements."The post One Stop Systems Receives Supplier Excellence Award from Raytheon appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the Dell EMC HPC Community meeting, Jay Boisseau describes the mission of the community and how Dell EMC is democratizing high performance computing. "​The Dell EMC HPC Community is a worldwide technical forum that fosters the exchange of ideas among researchers, computer scientists, technologists, and engineers and promotes the advancement of innovative, powerful HPC solutions."The post Jay Boisseau on How Dell EMC is Democratizing High Performance Computing appeared first on insideHPC.

When it came time to perform a substantial upgrade of the TTU IT Division’s High Performance Computing Center at Texas Tech University, the challenge was to easily manage such a large expansion, which would effectively double the center’s parallel computing capacity. Since the existing 10,000+ core system includes several equipment generations, as well as the latest technology from Intel, HPCC staff at TTU chose Intel® HPC Orchestrator for the task. In this article, Alan Sill, Senior Director of the TTU HPCC, explains why.The post Intel® Architecture Deployment at Texas Tech University Relies on Intel® HPC Orchestrator appeared first on insideHPC.

This is the first entry in an insideHPC series that explores the HPC transition to the cloud, and what your business needs to know about this evolution. Compiled in a complete Guide, we cover cloud computing, industry examples, IaaS components, OpenStack fundamentals, and more.The post The HPC Transition to the Cloud appeared first on insideHPC.

"Supercomputers are key to industrial and societal progress. The overarching goal of PRACE is to provide a federated Europe with a science-driven supercomputing infrastructure, and support European industries in becoming globally competitive." In fact, 97% of industrial companies that employ HPC consider it indispensable for their ability to innovate, compete, and survive and it is said today that “To out-compute is to out-compete.”The post Video: PRACE Powers HPC for European Industry appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the ISC High Performance conference announced the appointment of Dr. Erich Strohmaier of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA, and Prof. Yutong Lu from the National Supercomputing Center in Guangzhou, China, as ISC Fellows. ISC Fellows are individuals who have made and continue to make important contributions to the advancement of high performance computing (HPC), the community and the ISC High Performance conference series.The post ISC 2017 Names Erich Strohmaier and Yutong Lu as Conference Fellows appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the Dell EMC HPC Community meeting, Michael Senizaiz and Brian Kucic from R-Systems describe how the company delivers HPC in the Cloud as part of Dell EMC customer solutions. "Dell provides technical expertise and optimized cloud computing resources to the commercial and academic research communities. Using our flexible service offerings and simplified business model, you can access on-demand HPC capability— when you need it, as you need it. This allows you to minimize time, maximize effectiveness and add value to your HPC results."The post How R-Systems Powers Cloud HPC with Dell EMC appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the Ohio Supercomputer Center announced that is has run the single-largest scale calculation in the Center’s history. Scientel IT Corp used 16,800 cores of the Owens Cluster on May 24 to test database software optimized to run on supercomputer systems. The seamless run created 1.25 Terabytes of synthetic data.The post Ohio Supercomputer Center runs Biggest Calculation Ever appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from GTC 2017, Scot Schultz from Mellanox describes how high performance InfiniBand is powering new capabilities for Machine Learning with RDMA. "Mellanox Solutions accelerate many of the world’s leading artificial intelligence and machine learning platforms. Mellanox solutions enable companies and organizations such as Baidu, Facebook, JD.com, NVIDIA, PayPal, Tencent, Yahoo and many more to leverage machine learning platforms to enhance their competitive advantage."The post How InfiniBand is Powering new capabilities for Machine Learning with RDMA appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Intel announced that it has been selected by DARPA to collaborate on the development of a powerful new data-handling and computing platform that will leverage machine learning and other artificial intelligence (AI) techniques. "By mid-2021, the goal of HIVE is to provide a 16-node demonstration platform showcasing 1,000x performance-per-watt improvement over today’s best-in-class hardware and software for graph analytics workloads,” said Dhiraj Mallick, vice president of the Data Center Group and general manager of the Innovation Pathfinding and Architecture Group at Intel. “Intel’s interest and focus in the area may lead to earlier commercial products featuring components of this pathfinding technology much sooner.”The post Intel to Develop New Machine Learning and AI Platform for DARPA appeared first on insideHPC.

Last week at the Computex conference, Nvidia launched a partner program with hyperscale vendors Foxconn, Inventec, Quanta and Wistron to more rapidly meet the demands for AI cloud computing. Through the program, NVIDIA is providing each partner with early access to the NVIDIA HGX reference architecture, NVIDIA GPU computing technologies, and design guidelines. HGX is the same […]The post Nvidia Partners with Hyperscale Vendors for HGX-1 AI Reference Platform appeared first on insideHPC.

Les Ottolenghi from Ceasers Entertainment presented this keynote at the PBS Works Users Group meeting in Las Vegas. "Ceasers is focused on building loyalty and value with its guests through a unique combination of great service, excellent products, unsurpassed distribution, operational excellence and technology leadership."The post High Performance Computing: A Business Platform at Caesars Entertainment appeared first on insideHPC.

Today IBM announced it has developed an industry-first process with its research partners to build silicon nanosheet transistors that will enable 5 nanometer chips. The details of the process will be presented at the 2017 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits conference in Kyoto, Japan.The post IBM Research Alliance Paves the way for 5nm Technology appeared first on insideHPC.

In this Radio Free HPC podcast, Rich gives us the lowdown on his recent tour of the SuperNAP datacenter in Las Vegas. Run by Switch, the campus has over up to 2.4 million sqft of Tier IV Gold data center space with 315 Megawatts of datacenter capacity.The post Radio Free HPC Tours the 100 Megawatt SuperNAP Datacenter appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest feature, Bill Mannel from Hewlett Packard Enterprise writes that this week's HPE Discover meeting in Las Vegas will bring together leaders from across the HPC community to collaborate, share, and investigate the impact of IT modernization, big data analytics, and AI. "Organizations across all industries must adopt solutions that allow them to anticipate and pursue future innovation. HPE is striving to be your best strategic digital transformation partner."The post Accelerating Innovation with HPC and AI at HPE Discover appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast, Sumit Gupta from IBM describes the company's new PowerAI deep learning software distribution on Power Systems. PowerAI attacks the major challenges facing data scientists and developers by simplifying the development experience with tools and data preparation while also dramatically reducing the time required for AI system training from weeks to hours.The post Podcast: Sumit Gupta on IBM’s New PowerAI Software for Data Scientists appeared first on insideHPC.

Hyperion Research, the new name for the former IDC HPC group, today announced that it will hold its Annual HPC Market Update Meeting at ISC 2017 in Frankfurt, Germany. The session will take 4pm to 5pm, Monday, June 19 in the Panorama 1 room, at the Messe Frankfurt.The post Hyperion Research to hold Annual HPC Market Update Meeting at ISC 2017 appeared first on insideHPC.

Dale Brantley presented this talk at the PBS Works User Group meeting. "Panasas storage solutions drive industry and research innovation by accelerating workflows and simplifying data management. Our ActiveStor appliances leverage the patented PanFS storage operating system and DirectFlow protocol to deliver performance and reliability at scale from an appliance that is as easy to manage as it is fast to deploy. Panasas storage is optimized for the most demanding workloads in life sciences, manufacturing, media and entertainment, energy, government as well as education environments, and has been deployed in more than 50 countries worldwide."The post Overview of Panasas Storage for HPC & Big Data appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Seagate Government Solutions announced that Carahsoft has become an approved distributer of the company's Secure Self-Encrypting Drives (SEDs). Designed to help Protect Data At Rest (DAR), Seagate SEDs are used to mitigate security risks associated with today’s mobile workforce. "Seagate SEDs are used to protect Data at Rest and reduce IT drive retirement costs—two key goals of every government agency,” said Craig P. Abod, Carahsoft president. “With Seagate in our portfolio, we are now able to offer our government customers and reseller partners the widest selection of FIPS 140-2 certified SEDs to prevent the loss and theft of sensitive data and achieve regulatory compliance.”The post Seagate Self-Encrypting Drives now available through Carahsoft appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the Dell EMC HPC Community meeting, Armughan Ahmad describes how the company is delivering world-class HPC solutions together with its partners and customers. "I lead a global team at Dell EMC that is focused on helping our customers and partners navigate and succeed in the rapidly-evolving world of digital transformation. We want to help our customers deliver industry specific outcomes that are enabled through ON / OFF premise workload focused solutions that lower cost of traditional IT allowing them to invest in a new digital ready business models."The post Armughan Ahmad on how Dell EMC is Driving High Performance Computing appeared first on insideHPC.

The MVAPICH User Group Meeting (MUG) has issued its Call for Presentations. As the annual gathering of MVAPICH2 users, researchers, developers, and system administrators, the MUG event includes Keynote Talks, Invited Tutorials, Invited Talks, Contributed Presentations, Open MIC session, and hands-on sessions. The event takes place August 14-16, 2017 in Columbus, Ohio.The post Call for Presentations: MVAPICH User Group Meeting (MUG) appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the PBS Works User Group 2017, Rich Brueckner from insideHPC moderates a vendor panel on The Changing Landscape of HPC. "When it comes down to it, the HPC community depends on a healthy ecosystem. In this panel discussion, we will explore emerging technology trends that are reshaping the way high performance computing is delivered to the end user."The post Vendor Panel: The Changing Landscape of HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

The Intel Omni-Path Architecture is the next-generation fabric for high-performance computing. In this feature, we will explore what makes a great HPC fabric and the workings behind Intel Omni-Path Architecture. "What makes a great HPC fabric? Focusing on improving and enhancing application performance with fast throughput and low latency."The post Intel Omni-Path Architecture: A Focus on Application Performance appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the Dell EMC HPC Community meeting, Tim Carroll from Cycle Computing describes how the company makes it easier to move big HPC workloads to the Cloud with the help of Dell EMC. "Dell EMC has embraced the notion that hybrid environments of internal and external resources will be the optimal path for customers."The post Cycle Computing’s Tim Carroll on how Dell EMC Powers Cloud HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

"The successful conclusion of this event provides assurance to the FC SAN community that the draft version of the FC-NVMe standard specification combined with the NVMe fabric specifications meets the demanding performance and availability requirements of flash and NVMe storage,” said Mark Jones, president and chairman of the board, FCIA, and director, Technical Marketing and Performance, Broadcom Limited and FC-NVMe plugfest participant. “This event was also notable as providing the first multi-vendor interoperability demonstrating sustained low latency of Gen 6 32GFC port and fabric concurrency of FC-NVMe and FC, highlighting the adaptive architecture of FC that has more than 50 million installed ports in operation in the world’s leading datacenters.”The post Plugfest Demonstrates Fibre Channel Capabilities for NVMe Storage appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from GTC 2017, Dr. Rene Meyer from AMAX describes the company's innovative virtualization solutions for GPU computing. "What we are showcasing here is a very interesting solution—a hardware/software solution. We not only present the hardware, but we put a software layer on top, which allows you to virtualize GPUs in those machines."The post AMAX Showcases Virtualization Solutions for GPUs at GTC 2017 appeared first on insideHPC.

"With a wide range of Intel Xeon processors available, a truly immersive video experience can be delivered to a diverse set of end users who enjoy watching a concert or sporting event from wherever they may be located. While not an immersive VR experience, immersive video where the user has control over the viewing angle is a very important technology that can deliver exciting content to many consumers."The post Jump Start your Immersive Video Experiences appeared first on insideHPC.

Today UT-Battelle announced that Thomas Zacharia, who helped build Oak Ridge National Laboratory into a global supercomputing power, has been selected as the laboratory’s next director. "Thomas has a compelling vision for the future of ORNL that is directly aligned with the U.S. Department of Energy’s strategic priorities,” said Joe DiPietro, chair of the UT-Battelle Board of Governors and president of the University of Tennessee.The post Thomas Zacharia named Director of Oak Ridge National Lab appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest post, Professor Jack Dongarra sits down with Mike Bernhardt from ECP to discuss the role of Dongarra’s team as they tackle several ECP-funded software development projects. "What we’re planning with ECP is to take the algorithms and the problems that are tackled with LAPACK and rearrange, rework, and reimplement the algorithms so they run efficiently across exascale-based systems.”The post Jack Dongarra on ECP-funded Software Projects for Exascale appeared first on insideHPC.

The importance of supercomputing on local and national economic prosperity has been highlighted by a recent study which reported that its Blue Waters project to be worth more than $1.08 billion for the Illinois’ economy. The study was completed by the published by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.The post NCSA Blue Waters Report Shows Economic Benefits of HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

ISC 2017 may be just around the corner, but the conference team is already busy planning the show for next year. Today they announced that Prof Horst Simon will be the ISC 2018 program chair. "ISC 2018 topics will embrace a range of subject matter critical to the development of the high performance computing field, which, in return, impacts the quality of human life."The post Horst Simon to be Program Chair for ISC 2018 appeared first on insideHPC.

Jim Glidewell from Boeing presented this talk at the PBS Works User Group. "There are multiple elements to providing an effective and efficient HPC service. This presentation will share some of our strategies for extracting maximal value from our HPC hardware and providing a service that meets the needs of our engineering customers."The post Video: Optimizing HPC Service Delivery at Boeing appeared first on insideHPC.

In the past 5 years, GPUs have gotten even more powerful so rendering tasks can be completed even faster than before. Katie (Garrison) Rivera, of One Stop Systems, explains how HPC can act as a service for high performance video rendering.The post HPC as a Service for High Performance Video Rendering appeared first on insideHPC.

Industry is collaborating with researchers at LBNL to significantly reduce paper production costs and increase energy efficiencies. “The major purpose is to leverage our advanced simulation capabilities, high performance computing resources and industry paper press data to help develop integrated models to accurately simulate the water papering process.”The post Supercomputing More Efficient Paper Production with HPC4MFG appeared first on insideHPC.

Twenty Ohio high school students were selected to attend the Ohio Supercomputer Center’s 28th annual Summer Institute, June 4-16 at Ohio State University. These academically gifted students will investigate complex science and engineering problems while discovering the many career opportunities in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. "The Summer Institute allows students to gain a better understanding of what scientists and engineers do,” Guilfoos said. “SI gives students real-world knowledge and experience that they can use for the rest of their lives.”The post Ohio Supercomputer Center to Boost STEM Education at annual Summer Institute appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast, Rich notes that recent reports on the Aurora supercomputer were incorrect. According to Rick Borchelt from the DoE: “On the record, Aurora contract is not cancelled." Before that, we follow Henry on an unprecedented shopping spree at Best Buy.The post In Search Of: Radio Free HPC on the Hunt for the Aurora Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the Dell EMC HPC Community meeting, Adnan Khaleel, Global Strategist for HPC at Dell describes how the company works with partners to deliver HPC in the Cloud. "By tapping into on-demand cloud resources as needed, your organization can access high-end computing power without the additional capital investment of building and maintaining your own HPC cluster."The post Adnan Khaleel on how Dell EMC Delivers HPC in the Cloud appeared first on insideHPC.

Wattages are rising so high that to cool the nodes containing the highest performance chips used in HPC leaves one with little choice other than liquid cooling to maintain reasonable rack densities. Asetek explores how an increase in wattage trends is pushing the HPC industry toward more versatile liquid cooling options.The post Increase in Wattage Trends Make Versatile Liquid Cooling the New Norm appeared first on insideHPC.

"In a real-time challenge, 12 teams of six undergraduate students will build a small cluster of their own design on the ISC exhibit floor and race to demonstrate the greatest performance across a series of benchmarks and applications. The students will have a unique opportunity to learn, experience and demonstrate how high-performance computing influence our world and day-to-day learning."The post Video: Previewing the ISC 2017 Student Cluster Competition appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Inventec in Taiwan announced Baymax, a new server platform optimized for Cloud compute, high-performance cloud storage and Big Data applications based on Cavium's second-generation 64-bit ARMv8 ThunderX2 processors. "Inventec's success as world's largest server ODM has been based on our compelling designs and manufacturing expertise and our ability to deliver leading edge cost effective server platforms to world's largest mega scale datacenters," said Evan Chien, Senior Director of Inventec Server Business Unit 6. "Earlier this year Inventec's customers requested platforms based on Cavium's ThunderX2 ARMv8 processors, and the new Baymax platform is the first platform being delivered."The post Cavium ThunderX2 Processors Power new Baymax HyperScale Server Platforms appeared first on insideHPC.

We'll start by providing a handy five-step enterprise AI strategy designed to ensure your early AI deployment projects are a success. This article is part of a special insideHPC report that explores trends in machine learning and deep learning.The post What Does it Take to Get Started with AI? appeared first on insideHPC.

"What is so new about the container environment that a new class of storage software is emerging to address these use cases? And can container orchestration systems themselves be part of the solution? As is often the case in storage, metadata matters here. We are implementing in the open source OpenEBS.io some approaches that are in some regards inspired by ZFS to enable much more efficient scale out block storage for containers that itself is containerized. The goal is to enable storage to be treated in many regards as just another application while, of course, also providing storage services to stateful applications in the environment."The post Learning from ZFS to Scale Storage on and under Containers appeared first on insideHPC.

"In recent years there has been increasing concern about the reproducibility of scientific results. Because scientific research represents a major public investment and is the basis for many decisions that we make in medicine and society, it is essential that we can trust the results. Our goal is to provide researchers with tools to do better science. Our starting point is in the field of neuroimaging, because that’s the domain where our expertise lies."The post RCE Podcast Looks at Reproducibility of Scientific Results appeared first on insideHPC.

Ellen Salmon from NASA gave this talk at the 2017 MSST conference. "This talk will describe recent developments at the NASA Center for Climate Simulation, which is funded by NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, and supports the specialized data storage and computational needs of weather, ocean, and climate researchers, as well as astrophysicists, heliophysicists, and planetary scientists."The post Evolving Storage and Cyber Infrastructure at the NASA Center for Climate Simulation appeared first on insideHPC.

Oracle in Seattle is seeking a Cloud Performance Architect in our Job of the Week. "As a Cloud Performance Architect, you will be a leading contributor in improving performance of Oracle’s latest Cloud Services Technologies. You will take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures. Additionally, you will be responsible for defining and developing software for tasks associated with the developing, designing and debugging of software applications or operating systems. If you have a passion for improving and creating high performance software products, this is the place where you can make a difference."The post Job of the Week: Cloud Performance Architect at Oracle in Seattle appeared first on insideHPC.