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NREL in Golden, Colorado is seeking a Scientific Computing Senior Engineer in our Job of the Week. "We have an immediate opening for a Systems Engineer (Job Req #R2314). This senior position is responsible for implementing and operating CSC systems and infrastructure in support of Science and Technical computing in support of NREL’s mission."The post Job of the Week: Scientific Computing Senior Engineer at NREL in Colorado appeared first on insideHPC.

As nuclear physicists delve ever deeper into the heart of matter, they require the tools to reveal the next layer of nature's secrets. Nowhere is that more true than in computational nuclear physics. A new research effort led by theorists at DOE's Jefferson Lab is now preparing for the next big leap forward in their studies thanks to funding under the 2017 SciDAC Awards for Computational Nuclear Physics.The post SciDAC funding to Move Quantum Chromodynamics forward at Jefferson Lab appeared first on insideHPC.

John Gustafson from A*STAR will host a BoF on Posit arithmetic at SC17. Entitled, "Improving Numerical Computation with Practical Tools and Novel Computer Arithmetic," this BOF will be co-hosted by Mike Lam with discussions on tools for measuring floating point accuracy. "This approach obtains more accurate answers than floating-point arithmetic yet uses fewer bits in many cases, saving memory, bandwidth, energy, and power."The post John Gustafson to host BoF on Posit Arithmetic at SC17 appeared first on insideHPC.

A team at Berkeley Lab are using innovative computational methods to enable new X-ray science. "The creation of XFEL facilities, including the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) and the European X-FEL, have created opportunities for conducting new experiments which can overcome the limitations of traditional crystallography."The post Supercomputing Virus Structures at Nanoscale with XFEL appeared first on insideHPC.

The PASC18 Organizing Team has posted their Call for Submissions. Proposals are now being accepted for minisymposium, papers, and posters. The conference takes place July 2-4 in Basel, Switzerland (the week after ISC 2018 in Frankfurt). We look forward to receiving your submissions through the online submission portal. Please note that the November 26th deadline for […]The post Call for Submissions: PASC18 in Basel appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Jesús Labarta from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center describes the POP (Performance Optimization and Productivity) Centre of Excellence led by BSC. According to Labarta, POP’s performance analysis results in performance improvements ranging from 10-15% to more than 10 times. Best of all, the POP services are free of charge to organizations / SMEs / ISVs / companies in the EU!The post How the POP Performance Optimization Centre at BSC is Speeding up HPC in Europe appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from SC17, Katrin Amunts from Jülich highlights how the massive European-based Human Brain Project (HBP), comprising a veritable orchestra of scientists, collaborates to deliver the most exquisitely detailed human brain models ever created. "We have to create an ‘atlas’ (of the brain) that has a very large size in terms and bits and bytes,” Amunts said.The post HPC Connects: How Supercomputers Are Unraveling the Mystery of the Human Brain appeared first on insideHPC.

The Intel HPC Developer conference at SC17 has posted its Session Agenda. The conference takes place Nov. 11-12 in Denver. "The Intel HPC Developer Conference is the premier technical training event to meet and hear from Intel architecture experts and connect with HPC industry leaders. Join in to learn what's next in HPC, attend technical sessions, hands-on tutorials, and poster chats that cover parallel programming, high productivity languages, artificial intelligence, systems, enterprise, visualization development and much more."The post Agenda Posted for Intel HPC Developer Conference at SC17 appeared first on insideHPC.

The recent Tapia Conference on Diversity in Computing in Atlanta brought together some 1,200 undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, researchers and professionals in computing from diverse backgrounds and ethnicities to learn from leading thinkers, present innovative ideas and network with peers.The post NERSC lends a hand to 2017 Tapia Conference on Diversity in Computing appeared first on insideHPC.

A new peer-reviewed paper is reportedly causing a stir in the climatology community. "The best hope for reducing long-standing global climate model biases, is through increasing the resolution to the kilometer scale. Here we present results from an ultra-high resolution non-hydrostatic climate model for a near-global setup running on the full Piz Daint supercomputer on 4888 GPUs."The post GPUs Power Near-global Climate Simulation at 1 km Resolution appeared first on insideHPC.

"The European Extreme Data & Computing Initiative (EXDCI) objective is to support the development and implementation of a common strategy for the European HPC Ecosystem. One of the main goals of the meeting in Bologna was to set up a roadmap for future developments, and for other parties who would like to participate in HPC research."The post Introducing the European EXDCI initiative for HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

Intel® Cluster Checker, distributed as part of Intel® Parallel Studio XE 2018 Cluster Edition, provides a set of system diagnostics and analysis methods in a single tool to assist managing clusters of any size. "Think of Intel Cluster Checker as a clinical system that detects signs that issues affecting the health of the cluster exist, diagnoses those issues, and suggests remedies. Using common diagnostic tools signs that may indicate symptoms leading to a diagnosis and a possible solution."The post Diagnose Cluster Health with Intel® Cluster Checker appeared first on insideHPC.

"LTO-8 tape technology doubles the capacity of LTO-7 to an astonishing 30 TB compressed (12TB native) per cartridge, and improves performance by 20 percent, up to 360Mbps. The additional capacity equates to fewer tape cartridges required to store the same amount of data while the performance boost translates into the need for fewer tape drives to do the same amount of work. In addition, the new LTO-8 drives are backward compatible with LTO-7 tape media, allowing users to read/write any LTO-7 media."The post Spectra Logic Launches LTO-8 Pre-Purchase Program appeared first on insideHPC.

Jason Knight from Intel writes that the company has joined Microsoft, Facebook, and others to participate in the Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX) project. "By joining the project, we plan to further expand the choices developers have on top of frameworks powered by the Intel Nervana Graph library and deployment through our Deep Learning Deployment Toolkit. Developers should have the freedom to choose the best software and hardware to build their artificial intelligence model and not be locked into one solution based on a framework. Deep learning is better when developers can move models from framework to framework and use the best hardware platform for the job."The post Intel Joins Open Neural Network Exchange appeared first on insideHPC.

Today, Intel announced the delivery of a 17-qubit superconducting test chip for quantum computing to QuTech, Intel’s quantum research partner in the Netherlands. The new chip was fabricated by Intel and features a unique design to achieve improved yield and performance. "Our quantum research has progressed to the point where our partner QuTech is simulating quantum algorithm workloads, and Intel is fabricating new qubit test chips on a regular basis in our leading-edge manufacturing facilities."The post Intel Delivers 17-Qubit Superconducting Chip with Advanced Packaging to QuTech appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from HPE, researchers describe how Exascale will advance science and improve the quality of life for all. "Why is the U.S. government throwing down this gauntlet? Many countries are engaged in what has been referred to as a race to exascale. But getting there isn’t just for national bragging rights. Getting to exascale means reaching a new frontier for humanity, and the opportunity to potentially solve humanity’s most pressing problems."The post Exascale: The Movie appeared first on insideHPC.

Ruud van der Pas from Oracle has co-authored a new book on OpenMP. It covers the OpenMP 4.5 specifications, with a focus on the practical usage of the language features and constructs. "We start where the specifications end and explain the rationale behind the features. In particular the functionality and how a feature may be used in an application."The post New Book: Using OpenMP – The Next Step appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, future HPC professionals discuss their participation in the ISC Student Cluster Competition. "Now in its seventh year, the Student Cluster Competition enables international teams to take part in a real-time contest focused on advancing STEM disciplines and HPC skills development. To take home top honors, the teams will have to showcase systems of their own design, adhering to strict power constraints and achieve the highest performance across a series of standard HPC benchmarks and applications."The post Video: Why your school should enter the ISC Student Cluster Competition appeared first on insideHPC.

Today TYAN showcased their latest GPU-optimized platforms that target the high performance computing and artificial intelligence sectors at the GPU Technology Conference in Munich. "TYAN’s new GPU computing platforms are designed to provide efficient parallel computing for the analytics of vast amounts of data. By incorporating NVIDIA's latest Tesla V100 GPU accelerators, TYAN provides our customers with the power to accelerate both high performance and cognitive computing workloads” said Danny Hsu, Vice President of MiTAC Computing Technology Corporation's TYAN Business Unit.The post NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs Power New TYAN Server appeared first on insideHPC.

Ed Seidel from the University of Illinois gave this talk at the 2017 Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing. The theme of his talk centers around the need for interdisciplinary research. "Interdisciplinary research (IDR) is a mode of research by teams or individuals that integrates information, data, techniques, tools, perspectives, concepts, and/or theories from two or more disciplines or bodies of specialized knowledge to advance fundamental understanding or to solve problems whose solutions are beyond the scope of a single discipline or area of research practice."The post Video: Revolution in Computer and Data-enabled Science and Engineering appeared first on insideHPC.

At GTC Europe this week, One Stop Systems (OSS) will exhibit two of the most powerful GPU accelerators for data scientists and deep learning researchers, the CA16010 and SCA8000. NVIDIA GPU computing is helping researchers and engineers take on some the world's hardest challenges,” said Paresh Kharya, group product marketing manager of Accelerated Computing at NVIDIA. “One Stop Systems' customers can now tap into the power of our Volta architecture to accelerate their deep learning and high performance computing workloads.”The post OSS Showcases New HDCA Platforms with Volta GPUs at GTC Europe appeared first on insideHPC.

Google Compute Engine now offers new VMs with the most Skylake vCPUs of any cloud provider. "Skylake in turn provides up to 20% faster compute performance, 82% faster HPC performance, and almost 2X the memory bandwidth compared with the previous generation Xeon. Need even more compute power or memory? We’re also working on a range of new, even larger VMs, with up to 4TB of memory."The post Google Compute Engine offers VMs with 96 Skylake CPUs and 624GB of Memory appeared first on insideHPC.

In the pharmaceutical industry, drug discovery is a long and expensive process. This sponsored post from Nvidia explores how the University of Florida and University of North Carolina developed an anakin-me neural network engine to produce computationally fast quantum mechanical simulations with high accuracy at a very low cost to speed drug discovery and exploration.The post Accelerating Quantum Chemistry for Drug Discovery appeared first on insideHPC.

"Intel OPA, part of Intel Scalable System Framework, is a high-performance fabric enabling the responsiveness, throughput, and scalability required by today's and tomorrow's most-demanding high performance computing workloads. In this interview, Misage talks about market uptake in Intel OPA's first year of availability, reports on some of the first HPC deployments using the Intel Xeon Scalable platform and Intel OPA, and gives a sneak peek of what Intel OPA will be talking about at SC17."The post Podcast: Intel Omni-Path adds Performance and Scalalability appeared first on insideHPC.

Over at ALCF, Andrea Manning writes that the recent Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing brought together HPC practitioners from around the world. "You can’t get this material out of a textbook,” said Eric Nielsen, a research scientist at NASA’s Langley Research Center. Added Johann Dahm of IBM Research, “I haven’t had this material presented to me in this sort of way ever.”The post Future HPC Leaders Gather at Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the European PRACE initiative announced that 46 Awards from their recent 15th Call for Proposals total up to nearly 1.7 thousand million core hours. The 46 awarded projects are led by principal investigators from 12 different European countries. "Of local interest this time around, the awarded projects involve co-investigators from the USA (7) and Russia (2). All information and the abstracts of the projects awarded under the 15th PRACE Call for Proposals are now available online."The post PRACE Awards 1.7 Thousand Million Core Hours for Research Projects in Europe appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at Smart Cities. As the featured topic this year at the SC17 Plenary, the Smart Cities initiative looks to improve the quality of life for residents using urban informatics and other technologies to improve the efficiency of services.The post Radio Free HPC Previews the SC17 Plenary on Smart Cities appeared first on insideHPC.

Nikkei in Japan reports that Fujitsu is building a 37 Petaflop supercomputer for the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). "Targeted at Deep Learning workloads, the machine will power the AI research center at the University of Tokyo's Chiba Prefecture campus. The new Fujitsu system feature will comprise 1,088 servers, 2,176 Intel Xeon processors, and 4,352 NVIDIA GPUs."The post Fujitsu to Build 37 Petaflop AI Supercomputer for AIST in Japan appeared first on insideHPC.

Scott Parker gave this talk at the Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing. "Designed in collaboration with Intel and Cray, Theta is a 9.65-petaflops system based on the second-generation Intel Xeon Phi processor and Cray’s high-performance computing software stack. Capable of nearly 10 quadrillion calculations per second, Theta will enable researchers to break new ground in scientific investigations that range from modeling the inner workings of the brain to developing new materials for renewable energy applications."The post Video: Argonne’s Theta Supercomputer Architecture appeared first on insideHPC.

Attendees of the COMSOL Conference in Boston this week were treated to a sneak preview future developments of the popular multiphysics software from Svante Littmarck, President and CEO of COMSOL. The conference featured a robust technical program with approximately 300 attendees. "Our customers are at the forefront of innovation behind the products that will shape our future,” says Littmarck. “We work tirelessly to support their efforts by increasing the modeling power of the COMSOL software and by making collaboration among simulation experts and their colleagues the core of everything we do. This annual event is our opportunity to connect and exchange knowledge within the COMSOL community on multiphysics modeling.”The post COMSOL Conference Showcases Next-Gen Multiphysics appeared first on insideHPC.

The PDT team is seeking a highly-talented Linux HPC Systems Administrator to enhance and support our research computing clusters. As part of the HPC/Grid team, you will be responsible for improving, extending, and maintaining the HPC/Grid infrastructure, and helping provide a world-class computing and big data environment for PDT’s Quantitative Researchers. You will interface closely with research teams using the Grid, the entire Linux engineering group, software engineers, and PDT’s in-house monitoring team. You will also have the opportunity to serve as PDT’s subject matter expert for various HPC technologies.The post Job of the Week: HPC Systems Engineer at PDT Partners in NYC appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Norman Kutemperor from Scientel describes how his company ran a record-setting big data problem on the Owens supcomputer at OSC."The Ohio Supercomputer Center recently displayed the power of its new Owens Cluster by running 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 Video: Scientel Runs Record Breaking Calculation on Owens Cluster at OSC appeared first on insideHPC.

Mark Sims (DoD) and Bob Sorensen from Hyperion Research gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Milwaukee. Here, they demonstrate an exciting new tool that aims to map HPC centers across the USA.The post Mapping of the Opportunities for Government, Academia, and Industry Engagement in HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Advanced Clustering Technologies announced the deployment of a new supercomputer at the University of South Dakota. cluster. The machine is named "Lawrence" after Nobel Laureate and University of South Dakota alumnus E. O. Lawrence. "Lawrence makes it possible for us to accelerate scientific progress while reducing the time to discovery,” said Doug Jennewein, the University’s Director of Research Computing. “University researchers will be able to achieve scientific results not previously possible, and our students and faculty will become more engaged in computationally assisted research.”The post Advanced Clustering Technologies Deploys Lawrence Supercomputer at University of South Dakota appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the Barcelona Supercomputing Center announced it has allocated 20 million processor hours to the LIGO project, the most recent winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics. "The importance of MareNostrum for our work is very easy to explain: without it we could not do the kind of work we do; we would have to change our direction of research.”The post Video: MareNostrum Supercomputer Powers LIGO Project with 20 Million Processor Hours appeared first on insideHPC.

Researchers are exploring the Tree of Life with the help of the CIPRES portal at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. “As a community-built resource, CIPRES addresses what the scientists really want and need to do in the real world of research,” said Mishler. "Aside from increasing our understanding of the evolutionary relationships of this planet’s diverse range of species, the research also has yielded results of critical importance to the health and welfare of humans."The post Exploring Evolutionary Relationships through CIPRES appeared first on insideHPC.

Sunita Chandrasekaran and Guido Juckeland have published a new book on Programming with OpenACC. "Scientists and technical professionals can use OpenACC to leverage the immense power of modern GPUs without the complexity traditionally associated with programming them. OpenACC for Programmers integrates contributions from 19 leading parallel-programming experts from academia, public research organizations, and industry."The post New Book: OpenACC for Programmers appeared first on insideHPC.

Marius Stan from Argonne gave this talk at the 2017 Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing. Famous for his part-time acting role on the Breaking Bad TV show, Marius Stan is a physicist and a chemist interested in non-equilibrium thermodynamics, heterogeneity, and multi-scale computational science for energy applications. The goal of his research is to discover or design materials, structures, and device architectures for nuclear energy and energy storage.The post Dr. Marius Stan Presents: Uncertainty of Thermodynamic Data – Humans and Machines appeared first on insideHPC.

Internet2 will host its annual technical meeting, the Technology Exchange, for the research and education community from October 15-18 in San Francisco. The event will convene over 650 attendees from more than 250 institutions, 17 countries, and 46 states including network engineers, technologists, architects, scientists, operators, and administrators in the fields of advanced networking, trust and identity, information security, applications for research, and web-scale computing.The post Internet2 Technology Exchange Meeting Comes to San Francisco Oct. 15-18 appeared first on insideHPC.

ISC 2018 has issued their Call for Research Papers. "Submissions are now open for the ISC 2018 conference research paper sessions, which aim to provide first-class opportunities for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government to present and discuss issues, trends, and results that will shape the future of high performance computing. Submissions will be accepted through Dec. 22, 2017. The research paper sessions will be held from Monday, June 25, through Wednesday, June 27, 2018."The post Call For Research Papers: ISC 2018 appeared first on insideHPC.

The product design process has undergone a significant transformation with the availability of supercomputing power at traditional workstation prices. With over 100 threads available to an application in compact 2 socket servers, scalability of applications that are used as part of the product design and development process are just a keyboard away for a wide range of engineers.The post Parallel Applications Speed Up Manufacturing Product Development appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from SC17, researchers discuss the role of HPC in the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of gravitational waves, originally theorized 100 years ago by Albert Einstein in his general theory of relativity. "We are only now beginning to hear the vibrations of space-time that are all around us—we just needed a better ear. And when we detect that, we’re detecting the vibrations of everything that has ever moved in the universe. This is real. This is really there, and we’ve never noticed it until now."The post SC17 Highlights Nobel Prize Winning LIGO Collaboration appeared first on insideHPC.

A $1-million upgrade to Clemson University’s Palmetto Cluster is expected to help researchers quicken the pace of scientific discovery and technological innovation in a broad range of fields, from developing new medicines to creating advanced materials. "New hardware that could be in place as early as spring will add even more power to the Palmetto Cluster. Even before the upgrade, it rated eighth in the nation among academic supercomputers, according to the twice-annual TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful computers."The post Clemson to complete $1 million upgrade of Palmetto HPC Cluster appeared first on insideHPC.

Hal Gerber from Shiloh Industries gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Milwaukee. "Shiloh is the global leader in high-integrity, high-vacuum, high-pressure die castings, providing high ductility in aluminum and magnesium. Shiloh Industries is a global innovative solutions provider focusing on "lightweighting" technologies that provide environmental and safety benefits to the mobility market."The post HPC Powers High Pressure Casting Simulation at Shiloh Industries appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Argonne announced that the ALCF Data Science Program (ADSP) has awarded computing time to four new projects, bringing the total number of ADSP projects for 2017-2018 to eight. All four of the program’s inaugural projects were also renewed. "The new project award recipients include an industry-based deep learning project; a national laboratory-based cosmology workflow project; and two university-based projects: one that uses machine-learning for materials discovery, and a deep-learning computer science project."The post Argonne’s Data Science Program Doubles Down with New Projects appeared first on insideHPC.

Researchers are using new techniques with HPC to learn more about how the West Nile virus replicates inside the brain. "Over several years, Demeler has developed analysis software for experiments performed with analytical ultracentrifuges. The goal is to facilitate the extraction of all of the information possible from the available data. To do this, we developed very high-resolution analysis methods that require high performance computing to access this information," he said. "We rely on HPC. It's absolutely critical."The post Fighting the West Nile Virus with HPC & Analytical Ultracentrifugation appeared first on insideHPC.

Over at the NVIDIA Blog, Kristin Bryson writes that the Oracle Bare Metal Cloud now offers Tesla P100 GPUs for technical computing. "The move underscores growing demand for public-cloud access to our GPU computing platform from an increasingly wide set of enterprise users. Oracle’s massive customer base means that a broad range of businesses across many industries will have access to accelerated computing to harness the power of AI, accelerated analytics and high performance computing."The post NVIDIA Tesla GPUs Come to Oracle Bare Metal Cloud appeared first on insideHPC.

Associate Professor Jonathan Poggie and his team from Purdue have received a large research grant from the U.S. Department of Defense for supercomputing resources. The award enables science and technology research that would not be possible without extraordinary computer resources. "Poggie is the principal investigator for a new U.S. Department of Defense high-performance computing modernization program beginning in October, entitled “Prediction of Hypersonic Laminar-Turbulent Transition through Direct Numerical Simulation.” The project is focused on making conventional hypersonic wind tunnels more useful for vehicle design by helping designers work through the noise and turbulence present in the tunnels and allowing them to more accurately interpret the results of the wind tunnel tests."The post Jonathan Poggie from Purdue Wins DoD Computing Award appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Engility announced $14 million in task order awards from NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory. Engility scientists will conduct HPC software development and optimization, help users gain scientific insights, and maintain cyber security controls on NOAA’s R&D High Performance Computing System. These services assist NOAA GFDL in enhancing and advancing their HPC capability to explore and understand climate and weather. "As we saw with Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, a deeper understanding of climate and weather are critical to America’s preparedness, infrastructure and security stance,” said Lynn Dugle, CEO of Engility. “Engility has been at the forefront of leveraging HPC to advance scientific discovery and solve the toughest engineering problems. HPC is, and will continue to be, an area of high interest and value among our customers as they seek to analyze huge and ever-expanding data sets.”The post Engility To Provide NOAA With HPC Expertise appeared first on insideHPC.

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