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In this video from ISC 2017, Trish Damkroger from Intel describes the company’s vision for HPC as more and more workloads move to the Cloud. She then goes on to preview the full week of Intel’s ISC activities. "Intel is transforming the future of high-performance computing with new tools for innovation and discovery.The post Intel’s Trish Damkroger on why HPC Matters at ISC 2017 appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from ISC 2017, Pradeep Dubey, Intel Fellow and Director of the Parallel Computing Lab at Intel, discusses how artificial intelligence impacts a wide range of industries and is driving the need for massive amounts of compute power enabled by Intel.The post How Intel is bringing AI & Machine Learning to the People appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Penguin Computing, a provider of high-performance computing, enterprise datacenter and cloud solutions, announced availability of its Tundra Extreme Scale (ES) server platforms based on Cavium second-generation ARMv8-based ThunderX2 processors. Tundra ES Valkre servers powered by ThunderX2 processors are now available for public order, and a standard 19” rack mount models will ship in 3rd Calendar Quarter 2017. "Penguin Computing is the leading developer of open, Linux-based, HPC, cloud, and enterprise data center solutions,” said Jussi Kukkonen, Vice President, Advanced Solutions, Penguin Computing. “By extending our product roadmap to Cavium's second generation 64-bit ARMv8 CPUs in our Tundra family of Open Compute servers we again step up our leadership position. Our customers get outstanding value from the efficiency and flexibility enabled by OCP infrastructure combined with best-in-class compute performance coming from Cavium's ThunderX2 offering.”The post Cavium’s ThunderX2 Processors coming to Penguin Computing Tundra OCP Platform appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Lenovo announced the deployment of the world’s largest, next-generation Intel-based Supercomputer at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). The 11.1 petaFLOP1 Supercomputer called MareNostrum 4, will be housed in the world’s “most beautiful data center”at the Chapel Torre Girona at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain, and will be used to power diverse science from human genome research, bioinformatics and biomechanics to weather forecasting and atmospheric composition. This new system, which will continue to grow over time, is listed at #13 on the latest TOP500 list that was released this week. "The fast delivery, installation and optimization of the MareNostrum 4 system at BSC, showcases Lenovo’s end-to-end, high-performance computing strength,” said Kirk Skaugen, President of Lenovo Data Center Group. “Building on our 25 years of history in x86 server computing and our number one position in x86 server customer satisfaction and reliability, our goal at Lenovo is to be the largest supercomputing company on earth helping solve humanities biggest challenges through the rapid advancement of technology and innovation.”The post Lenovo Powers World’s Largest Skylake Cluster at Barcelona Supercomputing Center appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from ISC 2017, Molly Presley from Quantum describes the company's advanced storage solutions for high performance computing. "At the core of all Quantum scale-out storage is StorNext advanced data management—engineered to tackle the world’s most demanding data-intensive workloads, with the performance and efficiency needed to cost-effectively achieve desired business results."The post Video: Quantum Steps up with High Speed Parallel Storage at ISC 2017 appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Univa announced the contribution of its Universal Resource Broker (URB) technology to the open-source community. "Open source software is critical in the modern application container ecosystem and market, where availability, flexibility and integration can be enhanced by open source software components and frameworks.“ said Jay Lyman, principal analyst for 451 Research. “Univa's URB also supports the variety of software - including big data, continuous integration and container management and orchestration technology - that is critical to success in enterprise IT today. “The post Univa Contributes Universal Resource Broker to Open Source Community appeared first on insideHPC.

Today CoolIT Systems announced a collaboration with Dell EMC to provide a factory-installed Direct Contact Liquid Cooling solution to address power and cooling challenges for a wide range of customers, especially in verticals such as High Performance Computing and High Frequency Trading. "As data center demands continue to rise globally, Dell EMC is at the forefront of delivering highly efficient, factory-installed liquid cooled PowerEdge servers,” said Patrick McGinn, Vice President Product Marketing at CoolIT Systems. “CoolIT Systems is proud to enable greener data centers through its patented Direct Contact Liquid Cooling technology and anticipates further success from the innovative collaboration with Dell EMC.”The post CoolIT Systems Teams with Dell EMC as Liquid Cooling Supplier to Enable Greener Datacenters appeared first on insideHPC.

Sharing a common architecture, Intel® HPC Orchestrator and OpenHPC are changing the face of HPC by providing a cohesive and comprehensive system software stack. Dr. Robert Wisniewski, Chief Software Architect Extreme Scale Computing at Intel Corporation, discusses the advantages of this approach and how to leverage it to bring together HPC and the cloud.The post Intel® HPC Orchestrator and OpenHPC: Trends and Directions appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest feature, Sarp Oral from ORNL writes that the recent LUG Lustre User Group meeting in Indiana has set a new course for the popular parallel file system. “LUG is the premier event for the Lustre community and brings together developers, system architects and administrators, and users from all around the world to discuss the current status and future roadmap of Lustre."The post Lustre Moves Forward: A Wrapup of LUG 2017 appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from ISC 2017, Dr. Eng Lim Goh from HPE discusses the company's recent PathForward award as well as the challenges of designing energy efficient Exascale systems. After that, he gives his unique perspective on HPE's "The Machine" architecture for memory-driven computing. “The work funded by PathForward will include development of innovative memory architectures, higher-speed interconnects, improved reliability systems, and approaches for increasing computing power without prohibitive increases in energy demand."The post Dr. Eng Lim Goh on HPE’s Recent PathForward Award for Exascale Computing appeared first on insideHPC.

Today CEO Quest appointed Brent Gorda as Managing Director. Gorda will coach startup CEOs across the globe that lead companies involved in Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning & High-Performance Computing. Gorda brings 30 years of leadership, entrepreneurship, and expertise in technology to his new role. "I am delighted that Brent is joining our CEO Quest team. He's widely regarded as a world-class authority in the big data space, and he's a proven entrepreneur and leader," said Tom Mohr, founder and CEO of CEO Quest.The post CEO Quest Names Brent Gorda Managing Director appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Nvidia announced that the NVIDIA Tesla AI supercomputing platform powers the top 13 measured systems on the new Green500 list of the world’s most energy-efficient high performance computing systems. All 13 use NVIDIA Tesla P100 data center GPU accelerators, including four systems based on the NVIDIA DGX-1 AI supercomputer. "NVIDIA also released performance data illustrating that NVIDIA Tesla GPUs have improved performance for HPC applications by 3X over the Kepler architecture released two years ago. This significantly boosts performance beyond what would have been predicted by Moore’s Law, even before it began slowing in recent years."The post NVIDIA Powers Top 13 Most Energy Efficient Supercomputers appeared first on insideHPC.

“Today, customer’s HPC requirements go beyond superior performance and efficiency,” said Bill Mannel, Vice President and General Manager, HPC and AI solutions, Hewlett Packard Enterprise. “They are also increasingly considering security, agility and cost control. With today’s announcements, we are addressing these considerations and delivering optimized systems, infrastructure management and services capabilities that provide A New Compute Experience.”The post Video: HPE Moves HPC & Deep Learning Forward at ISC 2017 appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from ISC 2017, Gilad Shainer from Mellanox discusses the company's newest announcements for HPC: New Shield Technology Brings Self Healing to Networks, InfiniBand continues to grow on the TOP500, and how RDMA is enabling Machine Learning at Scale.The post Video: InfiniBand Accelerates Majority of New Systems on TOP500 List appeared first on insideHPC.

Today ISC 2017 announced that a record 3200 HPC enthusiasts from 60 countries have registered for the conference. The event also received an international media spotlight, with 60 technical and business journalists on site to provide live coverage of the exhibition and the conference sessions.The post ISC 2017 Announces Record Attendance appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast from ISC 2017 in Frankfurt, the Radio Free HPC team sits down with Scott Misage from Intel to learn why Intel Omni-Path has gained momentum on the TOP500. “Intel Omni-Path Architecture delivers the performance for tomorrow’s high performance computing workloads and the ability to scale to tens of thousands of nodes—and eventually more—at a price competitive with today’s fabrics. The Intel OPA 100 Series product line is an end-to-end solution of PCIe* adapters, silicon, switches, cables, and management software. As the successor to Intel® True Scale Fabric, this optimized HPC fabric is built upon a combination of enhanced IP and Intel technology.”The post Podcast: Intel Omni-Path Rocks the TOP500 appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the OpenACC standards group announced plans to showcase new advancements and increasing momentum for their programming model at ISC 2017 in Frankfurt. "OpenACC is a user-driven directive-based performance-portable parallel programming model designed for scientists and engineers interested in porting their codes to a wide-variety of heterogeneous HPC hardware platforms and architectures with significantly less programming effort than required with a low-level or explicit models."The post OpenACC Takes Off at ISC17 appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the latest TOP500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers. It’s Day 1 here at the ISC 2017 conference, and we’ll be keeping you posted on all the news as the show goes June 18-22 in Frankfurt, Germany.The post Radio Free HPC Runs Down the Latest TOP500 appeared first on insideHPC.

Rodger Edberg from NCI presented this talk at the PBS User Group meeting in Las Vegas. "As Australia’s national research computing service, the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) provides world-class, high-end services to Australian researchers, including access to advanced computational and data-intensive methods, support, and high-performance infrastructure. NCI supports computationally-based research with a focus on the environment, climate and earth system science in particular. Since 2007, NCI’s infrastructure investments, which exceed $80M, have been provided by the Australian Government under its National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) and Super Science Initiatives."The post Video: PBS Pro Manages Workloads at NCI in Australia appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Spectra Logic their annual review of the data storage industry. The report provides insight for storage and media manufacturers, application developers and enterprise storage customers into the trends, pricing and technology shaping the data storage industry, and projects future storage needs and the technologies with the best chance of satisfying them. "The world’s repository of data is growing more rapidly than we could have imagined. At the same time, organizations are more reliant than ever on digital assets, and must protect and preserve access to this data forever,” said Spectra Logic CEO Nathan Thompson. “This is a unique time for the data storage industry, and we are proud to take a leadership role in helping the industry anticipate the trends, tiers and technologies of the future.”The post Podcast: Spectra Logic Report looks at the State of Data Storage appeared first on insideHPC.

Over the last two years, E4 Computer Engineering and QCT have worked in close collaboration to supply CERN with thousands of server systems, cores and Petabytes of storage. "E4 has successfully supplied us with reliable and performant servers of the QCT brand over the last couple of years,” said Olof Bärring, Deputy Head of the computing facilities group, IT department, CERN. “The systems have proved to be suitable for different purposes ranging from High Throughput Computing (HTC) number crunching of physics data coming from LHC experiments to High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters for the CERN theory group. We are also very pleased with the reliable deliveries, the warranty support provided.”The post E4 Engineering Powers CERN with Quanta Cloud Technology appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest feature, Kim McMahon checks in from Frankfurt to give us a preview of ISC 2017. There is much in store this week, so be sure not to miss a beat!The post 10 Things Not to Miss at ISC 2017 in Frankfurt appeared first on insideHPC.

The recently published Department of Energy FY 2018 Congressional Budget Request has raised a lot of questions about the Aurora supercomputer that was scheduled to be deployed at Argonne ALCF next year. "As we covered in our Radio Free HPC podcast, Aurora appears to be morphing into a very different kind of machine."The post Is Aurora Morphing into an Exascale AI Supercomputer? appeared first on insideHPC.

"In this presentation, Andy Rudoff from Intel reports on the latest developments around persistent memory programming. He’ll describing current discussions in the SNIA NVM Programming Technical Work Group, the current state of operating system support, recent tool and library development, and finally he’ll describe some of the upcoming challenges for high performance persistent memory use."The post Persistent Memory Programming: The Current State of the Ecosystem appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Allinea software, now part of ARM, announced plans to preview the latest update to its powerful tool suite for developing and optimizing high performance and scientific applications at ISC17 in Frankfurt. "Eliminating performance loss across systems and minimizing the communication overhead often make a critical difference in improving application run times in HPC. We believe that our extended cross-platform support will enable users to achieve unprecedented results by running their systems more efficiently on each of the major platforms and even across platforms,” said Mark O’Connor, director of product management, server and HPC tools, ARM.The post Allinea to Showcase V7.1 Performance Tools at ISC 2017 appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Atos announced that the company has won a contract with GENCI to deliver one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, planned for the end of 2017. A successor of the Curie system installed at the TGCC, the Bull Sequana supercomputer will have an overall power of 9 petaflops for research purposes in France and Europe.The post Atos to Build 9 Petaflop Supercomputer for GENCI appeared first on insideHPC.

Today NEC Corporation announced that the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute (CHMI) will soon deploy an NEC LX series supercomputer for weather forecasting. "We are very happy that CHMI has selected NEC to deliver an HPC solution for their weather and climate simulations, as NEC has a very special expertise in meteorological applications. For years, we have been successfully collaborating with meteorological institutes, and we look forward to cultivating these partnerships further," said Andreas Gottlicher, Senior Sales Manager, NEC Deutschland.The post NEC LX Supercomputer coming to Czech Hydrometeorological Institute appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Fujitsu announced an order from the Research Institute for Information Technology at Kyushu University for a new supercomputer system for deployment in October 2017. "This system will consist of over 2,000 servers, including the Fujitsu Server PRIMERGY CX400, the next-generation model of Fujitsu's x86 server. It is expected to offer top-class performance in Japan, providing a theoretical peak performance of about 10 petaflops. This will also be Japan's first supercomputer system featuring a large-scale private cloud environment constructed on a front-end sub system, linked with a computational server of a back-end sub system through a high-speed file system."The post Kyushu University Orders Fujitsu Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Penguin Computing announced FrostByte with ThinkParQ BeeGFS, the latest member of the family of software-defined storage solutions. FrostByte is Penguin Computing’s scalable storage solution for HPC clusters, high-performance enterprise applications and data intensive analytics. "We are pleased to announce our Gold Partner relationship with ThinkParQ," said Tom Coull, President and CEO, Penguin Computing. "Together, Penguin Computing and ThinkParQ can deliver a fully supported, scalable storage solution based on BeeGFS, engineered for optimal performance and reliability with best-in-class hardware and expert services."The post Penguin Computing FrostByte adds BeeGFS Storage appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced it has been awarded a research grant from the DoE to develop a reference design for an exascale supercomputer. “Our novel Memory-Driven Computing architecture combined with our deep expertise in HPC and robust partner ecosystem uniquely positions HPE to develop the first U.S. exascale supercomputer and deliver against the PathForward program’s goals.”The post Video: DoE Taps HPE Memory-Driven Computing for Exascale appeared first on insideHPC.

Today U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry announced that six leading U.S. technology companies will receive funding from the Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) as part of its new PathForward program, accelerating the research necessary to deploy the nation’s first exascale supercomputers. "Continued U.S. leadership in high performance computing is essential to our security, prosperity, and economic competitiveness as a nation,” said Secretary Perry. “These awards will enable leading U.S. technology firms to marshal their formidable skills, expertise, and resources in the global race for the next stage in supercomputing—exascale-capable systems.”The post Podcast: DoE Awards $258 Million for Exascale to U.S. HPC Vendors appeared first on insideHPC.

"With the Intel compilers, intrinsics are recognized and the instructions are generated in-line which is a tremendous advantage. Since the Intel Xeon Phi processor when using the AVX-512 intrinsics can perform a tremendous number of floating point operations per second, it is beneficial to use intrinsics for certain math computations. To use intrinsics, all that is needed is the proper header file and then to call the desired intrinsic function."The post Vectorization with AVX-512 Intrinsics appeared first on insideHPC.

This is the third entry in an insideHPC series that explores the HPC transition to the cloud, and what your business needs to know about this evolution. This series, compiled in a complete Guide, covers cloud computing for HPC, considerations for applications to transition to the cloud, IaaS components, OpenStack fundamentals and more.The post Considerations for Applications to Transition to a Cloud appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Exxact Corporation announced that it will offer the new NVIDIA DGX Station and DGX-1 systems featuring the NVIDIA Tesla V100 data center GPUs based on the NVIDIA Volta architecture. "NVIDIA’s DGX portfolio is paving the way for a new era of computing,” said Jason Chen, Vice President of Exxact Corporation. “The performance of the new DGX Station and DGX-1 systems for AI and advanced analytics is unmatched, providing data scientists a complete hardware and software package for compute-intensive AI exploration.”The post Exxact Corporation offers NVIDIA DGX Station and DGX-1 for Deep Learning appeared first on insideHPC.

"We are pleased to offer this new integration to our customers and we are confident that the solution will be very popular with our user base," said Martijn de Vries, CTO at Bright Computing. "Cloud bursting from an on-premises cluster to Microsoft Azure offers companies an efficient, cost-effective, secure and flexible way to add additional resources to their HPC infrastructure. Bright's integration with Azure also gives our clients the ability to build an entire off-premises cluster for compute-intensive workloads in the Azure cloud platform.”The post Bright Computing Adds Cloud Bursting Support for Microsoft Azure appeared first on insideHPC.

"Today DDN announced a series of performance and reliability innovations across its storage appliances, aimed at meeting the growing demand for storage performance, simplicity and reliability at scale in a new era of data-centric computing. Infinite Memory Engine (IME) and Storage Fusion Architecture (SFA) product lines now feature significant new data protection and performance improvements that allow DDN customers to deploy a complete suite of storage services across even the most demanding emerging IoT, deep learning and technical HPC environments."The post DDN Storage Innovations Enhance Performance and Reliability at Scale appeared first on insideHPC.

"The Micro DC is a compact data center that can be easily deployed in any environment while managing an incredible amount of power and performance,” said Joerg Desler, President of STULZ USA. “It’s modular system is configured to use various combinations of liquid and air cooling allowing the system to grow with the customer’s needs. Integrating STULZ technology with CoolIT Systems Rack DCLC has resulted in ultra-efficient total thermal solutions that can support any OEM server at even the highest density configurations.”The post STULZ and CoolIT Systems Launch Liquid Cooled Micro Data Center for HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning — decades-old technologies that are now electrifying the computing industry — for all intents and purposes, seem to be in the process of transforming corporate America. This article is part of a special insideHPC report that explores trends in machine learning and deep learning.The post Riding the Wave of Machine Learning and Deep Learning appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the TACC announced that the first High Performance Computing for Managers Institute will take place September 12-14 in Austin. "With course materials by TACC and the Numerical Algorithms Group, this three-day workshop is specifically tailored to managers and decision makers who are using, or considering using, HPC within their organizations. It is also applicable to those with a real opportunity to make this career step in the future."The post TACC to Hosts HPC for Managers Institute in Austin appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the Energy Department announced up to $3 million in available support for manufacturers to use supercomputers at the department's national laboratories to tackle major manufacturing challenges. The High Performance Computing for Manufacturing (HPC4Mfg) Program enables the use of high performance computing (HPC) expertise and resources for the manufacturing sector to address research and development challenges with HPC and investigate its use to support advanced energy and manufacturing issues. "The technologies adopted as a result of the HPC4Mfg Program can have a significant impact with potential to close the knowledge gaps in the manufacturing and energy industry," said Mark Johnson, director of the Advanced Manufacturing Office. "This program aligns well with the technical focus areas our office is pursuing in early-stage, applied research and development."The post Call for Proposals: HPC4Mfg Program has $3 Million to Boost Supercomputing in Industry appeared first on insideHPC.

In this Radio Free HPC podcast, Rich gives us a day-by-day preview of the upcoming ISC 2017 conference. The event takes place June 18-22 in Frankfurt, Germany. "ISC High Performance focuses on HPC technological development and its application in scientific fields, as well as its adoption in commercial environments. In 2017 we offer you 13 fascinating HPC topics grouped under three categories: systems, applications, and emerging topics. All topics will be addressed in different power-packed sessions. The ISC tutorials, workshops and the exhibition will complement these sessions."The post Radio Free HPC Does the Day-by-Day Preview of ISC 2017 appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the Dell EMC HPC Community meeting, Steve Stein from Intel describes the company's powerful processing solutions for Machine Learning. "With Intel technology, artificial intelligence helps businesses accelerate solutions, automate operations, and gather better insights to make smarter decisions."The post Intel Moves Forward with Machine Learning with Dell EMC appeared first on insideHPC.

Cloud computing providers are now allowing users to rent GPU power in the cloud for big data analytics instead of building or buying their own hardware. In this week’s Sponsored Post, Katie Rivera, of One Stop Systems, explains the technology behind analytics for massive datasets using high density GPU accelerators.The post Analytics for Massive Datasets Using High Density GPU Accelerators appeared first on insideHPC.

In this slidecast, Scott Misage from Intel is our guest on the Rich Report. As the General Manager of the Intel Omni-Path Business Unit, Scott has a lot to say about scalability, performance, and market momentum for this powerful interconnect technology. He also provides a preview of ISC 2017, where Intel Omni-Path will be in the spotlight as a rising star on the TOP500.The post Slidecast: Intel Omni-Path Architecture – A World Class High Performance Interconnect appeared first on insideHPC.

Bruce Burns from Oracle presented this talk at the PBS Works User Group. "In this session you learn how to use PBS Professional with Oracle BMCS for common customer use case scenarios to dynamically scale out, on demand and leverage the price / performance advantages that Oracle BMCS uniquely provides with PBS Works."The post Using Oracle Bare Metal Cloud Services with PBS Professional appeared first on insideHPC.

ISC 2017 and WHPC will once again host the Women in HPC Workshop on June 22 in Frankfurt, Germany. "Entitled Diversifying the HPC Community, this workshop aims to provide leaders, managers, and individual contributors in the HPC community with methods to improve diversity while providing early career women an opportunity to develop their professional skills."The post Women in HPC Workshop Returns to ISC 2017 appeared first on insideHPC.

To help customers discover a new compute experience marked by enhanced agility, security, and control, HPE will host its High Performance Consortium for Advanced Scientific and Technical (HP-CAST) computing users group event in Frankfurt, Germany from June 16th-17th. HPE's Bill Mannel covers highlights from the upcoming conference.The post Discover a New Compute Experience at HP-CAST 28 appeared first on insideHPC.

The Intel Omni-Path Architecture is the next-generation fabric for high-performance computing. In this feature, we will explore Intel's end-to-end fabric solution designed for HPC and Enterprise. "Intel Omni-Path Architecture immerses Intel in an entire fabric architecture for HPC, rather than just a single component."The post Intel Omni-Path Architecture: End-to-End Fabric Solution Designed for HPC and Enterprise appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the Dell EMC HPC Community meeting, Hugo Falter from Par-Tec describes the company's software contribution to the 5 Petaflop booster Dell EMC supercomputer coming the Julich Supercomputing Center. "ParaStation MPI software from ParTec will be used to keep the new Booster system running efficiently. The resiliency-related extensions of ParaStation MPI support fine-grained recovery of parallel application tasks."The post How Par-Tec Software will Power the 5 Petaflop Dell EMC Booster Supercomputer coming to Jülich appeared first on insideHPC.