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​Today AMD announced that the Alibaba Cloud will use AMD Radeon Pro GPU technology to help expand its cloud computing offerings and accelerate adoption of its cloud-based services. "The partnership between AMD and Alibaba Cloud will bring both of our customers more diversified, cloud-based graphic processing solutions. It is our vision to work together with leading technology firms like AMD to empower businesses in every industry with cutting-edge technologies and computing capabilities,” said Simon Hu, president of Alibaba Cloud.The post AMD GPUs to Speed Alibaba Cloud appeared first on insideHPC.

Jack Dongarra presented this talk at the Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing. "ATPESC provides intensive, two weeks of training on the key skills, approaches, and tools to design, implement, and execute computational science and engineering applications on current high-end computing systems and the leadership-class computing systems of the future."The post Jack Dongarra Presents: Adaptive Linear Solvers and Eigensolvers appeared first on insideHPC.

NCI in Australia is seeking a new Director in our Job of the Week. Based in the Nation’s capital, and hosted by the Australian National University, NCI is supported by the Australian Government’s National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy, with operational funding provided through a formal collaboration of CSIRO, Bureau of Meteorology, The Australian National University […]The post Job of the week: Director at NCI in Australia appeared first on insideHPC.

"IBM has decided to double down on our commitment to open standards and enablement of industry innovation by opening up access to our CAPI technology to the entire industry. With the support of our OpenCAPI co-founders, we have created a new OpenCAPI specification that tremendously improves performance over our prior specification and IBM will be among the first to implement it with our POWER9 products expected in 2017.”The post New OpenCAPI Consortium to Boost Server Performance 10x appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Pure Storage announced the availability of petabyte-scale storage for mission-critical cloud IT, anchored by the release of the next-generation of FlashArray//m the company’s flagship all-flash storage array, which now delivers best-in-class performance with the simplicity and agility of public cloud.The post Pure Storage Introduces Petabyte Flash Arrays appeared first on insideHPC.

Today, to ready the United States for a future in which Artificial Intelligence (AI) plays a growing role, the White House is releasing a report on future directions and considerations for AI called Preparing for the Future of Artificial Intelligence. This report surveys the current state of AI, its existing and potential applications, and the questions that progress in AI raise for society and public policy."The post White House Releases Report on the Future of Artificial Intelligence appeared first on insideHPC.

European scientists and researchers can now apply for access to PRACE supercomputing resources through the PRACE Call 14.The post European Scientists Can Access more PRACE Supercomputing Power appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the HPC Advisory Council Spain Conference, Martin Hilgeman from Dell Technologies provides a detailed overview of how to approach code optimization through providing more parallelism. "Martin Hilgeman brings perspectives of a system builder to the massively parallel performance discussion – examining the continuous advances in multi-core architectures and its impact on users and computational work."The post Video: How to Reclaim your Application Performance appeared first on insideHPC.

With the advent of the tremendous compute density of new processors, it is important to understand if an application can take advantage of multicore. "Developers should understand if an application might be ready to run in a highly vectorized or many core environment before attempting to do the work necessary to obtain the high performance that might be expected."The post Preparing Code For Parallel Execution appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, NYU researchers describe their plans to advance deep learning with their new Nvidia DGX-1 AI supercomputer. “The DGX-1 is going to be used in just about every research project we have here,” said Yann LeCun, founding director of the NYU Center for Data Science and a pioneer in the field of AI. “The students here can’t wait to get their hands on it.”The post NYU Advances Robotics with Nvidia DGX-1 Deep Learning Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Dave Hart, CISL User Services Manager presents: Cheyenne - NCAR's Next-Generation Data-Centric Supercomputing Environment. "Cheyenne is a new 5.34-petaflops, high-performance computer built for NCAR by SGI. The hardware was delivered on Monday, September 12, at the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center (NWSC) and the system is on schedule to become operational at the beginning of 2017. All of the compute racks were powered up and nodes booted up within a few days of delivery."The post Cheyenne – NCAR’s Next-Gen Data-Centric Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.

The PASC17 Conference has issued its Call for Submissions. Co-sponsored by ACM and SIGHPC, the event will take place June 26-28, 2017 in Lugano, Switzerland. "The PASC Conference is an interdisciplinary event in high performance computing that brings together domain science, applied mathematics and computer science – where computer science is focused on enabling the realization of scientific computation."The post Call for Papers: PASC17 Conference in Lugano appeared first on insideHPC.

“Being ready with full support for Intel Xeon Phi from day one has been a key strategy for Allinea and underpins our approach for supporting customers, such as Los Alamos National Laboratory on the Trinity system, Argonne National Laboratory on Theta and NERSC on Cori, where work is now underway to port code and get applications ready for more complex science on a larger scale.”The post Allinea Tools Helping Science Move to Intel Xeon Phi appeared first on insideHPC.

"The Lenovo HPC organization is delighted to welcome DDN into our HPC Innovation and Benchmark center and strengthen our close collaboration,” said Rick Koopman, EMEA Technical Lead HPC DCG HPC at Lenovo. “With DDN’s high-performance storage and Lustre filesystem solution, customers can easily facilitate proof of concept and benchmarking activities at our HPC Innovation center and more quickly determine the best solution for their needs. We are excited to support our HPC customers and partners in this way.”The post DDN Collaborates with Lenovo at HPC Innovation Center in Germany appeared first on insideHPC.

The StartupHPC Conference has announced their keynotes speakers for their upcoming meeting at SC16. Now in its third year, the event takes place Nov. 13 at the Grand America in Salt Lake City. "StartupHPC-16 speakers represent a very distinguised group of experts the combine entrepreneurship, technology depth, and market insight."The post StartupHPC at SC16 Announces Keynote Speakers appeared first on insideHPC.

Today a group of leading technology companies today announced the Gen-Z Consortium, an industry alliance working to create and commercialize a new scalable computing interconnect and protocol. This flexible, high-performance memory semantic fabric provides a peer-to-peer interconnect that easily accesses large volumes of data while lowering costs and avoiding today’s bottlenecks.The post Gen-Z Consortium to Promote New High-Performance Interconnect appeared first on insideHPC.

Will this be the year of artificial intelligence, when the technology comes into its own for mainstream business? There are big pushes for AI in manufacturing, agriculture, healthcare and many other industry sectors. But why now? Please share your insights in our Reader Survey.The post Reader Survey: Is Machine Learning in Your Future? appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Bright Computing announced that Oldenburg University in Germany has once again chosen to renew its license agreement with Bright Computing. "There were three compelling reasons for Oldenburg to choose to reinvest with Bright," said Dr. Stefan Harfst, Oldenburg University. “Firstly, Bright helps you to get your HPC environment up and running very quickly. Secondly, Bright makes it incredibly easy to manage your HPC environment which takes a lot of pressure of the IT Services team. Thirdly, Bright is a very robust and reliable, so our team is free to focus on other tasks.”The post Bright Computing Powers HPC Cluster at Oldenburg University appeared first on insideHPC.

Datacenters that are designed for High Performance Computing (HPC) applications are more difficult to design and construct than those that are designed for more basic enterprise applications. Organizations that are creating these datacenters need to be aware of, and design for systems that are expected to run at their maximum or near maximum performance for the lifecycle of the servers.The post Datacenter Efficiencies Through Innovative Cooling appeared first on insideHPC.

Over at the IBM System Blog, Sumit Gupta writes that the company's new IBM Power System 822LC with Nvidia Tesla P100 GPUs is already demonstrating impressive performance on Deep Learning training applications. "A single S822LC for HPC with four NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPUs is 2.2 times faster reaching 50 percent accuracy in AlexNet than a server with four NVIDIA Tesla M40 GPUs!"The post NVLink Speeds Deep Learning on New OpenPOWER Servers appeared first on insideHPC.

Last week, XSEDE announced it has awarded more than $16M worth of compute resources to 155 research projects. This is the first cohort of allocations awardees after the announcement of a 5-year renewal of XSEDE by the National Science Foundation to expand access to the nation’s cyberinfrastructure ecosystem.The post XSEDE Awards Supercomputer Time to 155 Research Teams appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the HPC Advisory Council Spain Conference, Dan Olds from OrionX discusses the High Performance Interconnect (HPI) market landscape, plus provides ratings and rankings of HPI choices today. "In this talk, we’ll take a look at the technologies and performance of high-end networking technology and the coming battle between onloading vs. offloading interconnect architectures."The post High Performance Interconnects: Assessment & Rankings appeared first on insideHPC.

Today EUDAT, the pan European collaborative data infrastructure announced that 16 major European research organizations and datacenters have signed an agreement to sustain the EUDAT – pan European collaborative data infrastructure for the next 10 years. The organizations stand together behind a long term sustainability plan and commit to develop, maintain and deploy pan-European research data services and to promote harmonization of research data management practices across centers.The post EUDAT Renews European Data Infrastructure for Research appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the issue of security for Augmented Reality and IoT. Now that every device in our lives is getting connected to the Internet, how will be prevented from attackers? Henry points out that even our medical devices are not safe any more.The post Radio Free HPC Looks at Security Concerns for Augmented Reality appeared first on insideHPC.

This week, IEEE announced that Dr. William Camp, Director Emeritus at Sandia National Laboratories, has been named the recipient of the 2016 IEEE Computer Society Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award “for visionary leadership of the Red Storm project, and for decades of leadership of the HPC community.” Dr. Camp spent most of his career at NNSA’s Sandia Labs, at Cray Research and at Intel.The post Sandia’s Bill Camp to Receive Seymour Cray Award appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the HPC Advisory Council Spain Conference, Hussein Harake provides an overview of the CSCS and then introduces the audience to the BeeGFS parallel file system. "BeeGFS (formerly FhGFS) is an up and coming parallel cluster file system for I/O intensive workloads. Developed with a strong focus on performance, BeeGFS was designed for very easy installation and management."The post First Look: BeeGFS File System at CSCS appeared first on insideHPC.

Over at Cluster Monkey, Douglas Eadline writes that the "free lunch" performance boost of Moore's Law may indeed be back with the 1024-core Epiphany-V chip that will hit the market in the next few months.The post Is Free Lunch Back? Douglas Eadline Looks at the Epiphany-V Processor appeared first on insideHPC.

Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory will play major roles in two of the 15 fully funded application development proposals recently selected by the DOE's Exascale Computing Project (ECP) in its first-round funding of $39.8 million. "The team at Brookhaven will develop algorithms, language environments, and application codes that will enable scientists to perform lattice quantum chromodynamics (QCD) calculations on next-generation supercomputers."The post Brookhaven Lab to Develop ECP Exascale Software appeared first on insideHPC.

Computer scientists at LLNL and Norwegian researchers are collaborating to apply high performance computing to the analysis of medical data to improve screening for cervical cancer. The team is developing a flexible, extendable model that incorporates new data such as other biomolecular markers, genetics and lifestyle factors to individualize risk assessment, according to Abdulla. "We want to identify the optimal interval for screening each patient."The post LLNL Collaboration to Improve Cancer Screening appeared first on insideHPC.

Pete Beckman presented this talk at the Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing. "Here is the Parallel Platform Paradox: The average time required to implement a moderate-sized application on a parallel computer architecture is equivalent to the half-life of the latest parallel supercomputer.”The post Video: Introduction to Parallel Supercomputing appeared first on insideHPC.

"We're trying to make high resolution simulations of super cell storms, or tornadoes," McGovern said. "What we get with the simulations are the fundamental variables of whatever our resolution is — we've been doing 100 meter x 100 meter cubes — there's no way you can get that kind of data without doing simulations. We're getting the fundamental variables like pressure, temperature and wind, and we're doing that for a lot of storms, some of which will generate tornadoes and some that won't. The idea is to do data mining and visualization to figure out what the difference is between the two."The post Supercomputing Tornadogenesis appeared first on insideHPC.

Today COMSOL announced updates to their software solutions for multiphysics modeling, simulation, app design and deployment. The latest update of the COMSOL software features major performance increases and the release of the Rotordynamics Module, which is now available as an add-on product to the Structural Mechanics Module.The post COMSOL Speeds Multiphysics Modeling & Simulation appeared first on insideHPC.

Today General Atomics announced the next generation of Nirvana – a premier metadata, data placement and data management software solution for the most demanding workflows in Life Sciences, Scientific Research, Media & Entertainment and Energy Exploration. "Nirvana 5.0 reduces storage costs up to 75% by turning geographically dispersed, multiple vendor storage silos into a single global namespace that automatically moves infrequently-accessed data to lower-cost storage or to the cloud."The post General Atomics Releases Next-Gen Nirvana Data Management Software appeared first on insideHPC.

"Our solutions ultimately make data readily available for users, applications and analytics, helping to facilitate faster results and better decisions,” said Gary Lyng, senior director of marketing, Data Center Systems at Western Digital. “We are excited to be working with Panasas as the volume, velocity, variety and value of data generated by modern lab equipment along with varying application and workflow requirements make implementing the right solution all the more challenging - and we have the right solution.”The post Panasas & Western Digital to Power Life Science Research with iRODS appeared first on insideHPC.

Today International Computer Concepts (ICC) announced the release of a new line of overclocked servers: ICC Alpha. These systems were designed specifically for high-frequency trading (HFT) applications, where sequential processing speed is critical.

Today Russia's RSC Group announced a business cooperation agreement with M Computers to market and deploy RSC's HPC solutions in the Czech Republic. "We believe that partnership with M Computers will help RSC to offer its innovative supercomputing and data center solutions for European clients, which could recognize such advantages of our equipment as the ultimate computing and power density, energy-efficiency, compactness, reliability, ease to manage and maintain."The post RSC Group to Market HPC Solutions in Czech Republic appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Bright Computing announced expanded collaboration with Huawei across EMEA.Huawei places win-win collaboration at the heart of our business in Europe," said Jaco Pesschier, Senior Channel Sales Manager, Huawei West Europe Enterprise Business. "We’re committed to building a partner ecosystem which enables end-users to make the most of new ICT to become leaders in their markets. As our relationship with Bright Computing grows we look forward to a productive and optimistic future working together.”The post Bright Broadens Partnership with Huawei in EMEA appeared first on insideHPC.

RENCI’s Dell-powered supercomputer is working overtime to model the storm surge that Hurricane Matthew could bring to communities along the Eastern Seaboard. Named Hatteras, the 150-node M610 Dell cluster runs the ADCIRC storm surge model every six hours when a hurricane is active. "We are working on doing storm surge predictions the same way that meteorologists develop predictions for rain and wind speeds.”The post Dell Powers RENCI Supercomputer Tracking Hurricane Matthew appeared first on insideHPC.

"Science problems are becoming increasingly complex in all areas from physics and bioinformatics to engineering," said Siegfried Hoefinger, High Performance Computing Specialist at VSC explains. "Bigger is better, but inefficiency will always limit what you can achieve. The Allinea tools will enable us to quickly establish the root cause of bottlenecks and understand the markers for inefficient code. By doing so we’re helping to prove the case for modernization, can start to eliminate inefficiencies and exploit latent capacity to its full effect.”The post Allinea Tools Advance Research at VSC in Austria appeared first on insideHPC.

Today ACM and IEEE Computer Society named Bill Gropp from NCSA as the recipient of the 2016 ACM/IEEE Computer Society Ken Kennedy Award for highly influential contributions to the programmability of high performance parallel and distributed computers. The award will be presented at SC16 in Salt Lake City.The post Bill Gropp to Receive Ken Kennedy Award appeared first on insideHPC.

Robotics and Deep Learning applications were front and center at GTC Japan this week, where 2600 attendees lined up to hear the latest on GPU technologies. The age of AI is here,” said Jen-Hsun Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “‎GPU deep learning ignited this new wave of computing where software learns and machines reason. […]The post AI & Robotics Front and Center at GTC Japan appeared first on insideHPC.

Over at the Parallella Blog, Andreas Olafsson from Adapteva writes that the company has reached an important milestone on its next-generation Epiphany-V chip. "Thanks to a generous grant from DARPA, we just taped out a 16nm chip with 1024 64-bit processor cores. To give a comparison, our 4.5B transistor chip is smaller than Apple's latest A10 chip and has 256 times as many processors. The chip offers an 80x processor density advantage over high performance chips from Intel and Nvidia."The post Parallella Tapes Out 1024-core Epiphany-V Chip appeared first on insideHPC.

Businesses could dramatically cut the time taken to bring new products and services to market with help from a new SGI supercomputer at EPCC, the UK's leading supercomputing center based at the University of Edinburgh. "This newly installed computing power - in tandem with EPCC's in-house expertise - means we are well placed to help businesses meet many of the computational challenges associated with developing new products and services," said George Graham, Commercial Manager of EPCC.The post SGI Powers New Cirrus Supercomputer at EPCC appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the Barcelona Supercomputing Center presented a big data roadmap that it has coordinated on behalf of the European Commission. As part of the RETHINK Big Project, the presentation was given as part of the Big Data Congress and BSC used it to highlight the need for Europe to carry out research on new solutions for hardware and software for big data use.The post BSC Lays out European RETHINK Big Roadmap appeared first on insideHPC.

Today’s emerging workloads like machine and deep learning, artificial intelligence, accelerated databases, and high performance data analytics require incredible speed through accelerated computing,” said Sumit Gupta, Vice President, High Performance Computing and Data Analytics, IBM. “Delivering the capabilities of the new IBM POWER8 with NVIDIA NVLink-based system through the Nimbix cloud expands the horizons of HPC and brings a highly differentiated accelerated computing platform to a whole new set of users.”The post Power8 Systems with NVLink Come to Nimbix HPC Cloud appeared first on insideHPC.

Ozalp Babaoglu from the University of Bologna presented this Google Talk. "At exascale, failures and errors will be frequent, with many instances occurring daily. This fact places resilience squarely as another major roadblock to sustainability. In this talk, I will argue that large computer systems, including exascale HPC systems, will ultimately be operated based on predictive computational models obtained through data-science tools, and at that point, the intervention of humans will be limited to setting high-level goals and policies rather than performing “nuts-and-bolts” operations."The post Video: Sustainable High-Performance Computing through Data Science appeared first on insideHPC.

Researchers at the Future Technologies Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed a novel programming system that extends C with intuitive, language-level support for programming NVM as persistent, high-performance main memory; the prototype system is named NVL-C.The post ORNL Creates Programming System for NVM Main Memory Systems appeared first on insideHPC.

Today NVIDIA announced APAC's first deployment of NVIDIA DGX-1 deep learning supercomputers CSIRO in Australia. "There is a growing interest from research groups to adopt machine learning techniques to support their projects,” said Angus Macoustra, executive manager for Scientific Computing at CSIRO. “CSIRO research projects are already using the DGX-1 systems, and in time, it is expected that machine learning will have applicability across all our areas of research and be used by hundreds of researchers.”The post CSIRO Deploys NVIDIA DGX-1 Deep Learning Supercomputers Down Under appeared first on insideHPC.

Supercomputing developers and experts from around the globe will converge on Salt Lake City, Utah for the 2016 Intel® HPC Developer Conference on November 12-13 – just prior to SC ‘16. Conference attendance is free, however, those interested in attending should register quickly as Intel is expecting a big response, reflecting the broadening demand for HPC learning opportunities among technical developers. road on to learn about the incredible presenter lineup this year.The post 2016 Intel HPC Developer Conference Addresses In-Demand Topics appeared first on insideHPC.

This may indeed be the year of artificial intelligence, when the technology came into its own for mainstream businesses. "But will other companies understand if AI has value for them? Perhaps a better question is "Why now?" This question centers on both the opportunity and why many companies are scared about missing out."The post insideHPC Readers: Weigh in on Why AI is Taking Off Now appeared first on insideHPC.