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"The Avere C2N System transforms traditional storage environments into cloud infrastructure that scales from 120 Terabytes to more than five Petabytes to provide an easy and economical path to the cloud. Unlike other object storage solutions that start at a petabyte or more, Avere offers an entry-point solution built for starting small and scaling to large capacities for demanding applications in media and entertainment, life sciences, financial services, technology and other high data-growth industries."The post Avere Systems Unveils New Cloud-Core NAS (C2N) for the Enterprise appeared first on insideHPC.

"EXAScaler 3.0 raises the bar for Lustre performance and management,” said Laura Shepard, senior director of products and vertical markets, DDN. “As the world’s most experienced Lustre provider, DDN leverages input from a broad installed base and the Lustre community to deliver the most advanced Lustre solutions to our customers around the globe.”The post DDN Releases EXAScaler 3.0 Lustre Solution appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Wolfgang Gentzsch explains the role of HPC container technology in providing ubiquitous access to HPC. "The advent of lightweight pervasive, packageable, portable, scalable, interactive, easy to access and use HPC application containers based on Docker technology running seamlessly on workstations, servers, and clouds, is bringing us ever closer to the democratization of HPC."The post Putting HPC into the Hands of Every Engineer and Scientist appeared first on insideHPC.

Today, the European Adept Project wrapped up by releasing a set of open-source energy measurement tools. “This is a significant step forward in understanding where exactly in a parallel computing system energy is consumed,” says Dr Michèle Weiland, Project Coordinator for Adept. “Giving both hardware and software developers access to this type of information allows them to make informed choices about new implementations, without guesswork.”The post Adept Releases Open-Source Energy Measurement Tools for Parallel Hardware appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Quantum announced that Molly Rector has joined the company as vice president, marketing. Rector brings more than 15 years of enterprise storage experience to the role, including 12 years as a chief marketing officer — most recently at DDN and previously at archive storage vendor Spectra Logic.The post Quantum Names Molly Rector VP of Marketing appeared first on insideHPC.

Based on the “Barreleye” platform design pioneered by Rackspace and promoted by the OpenPOWER Foundation and the Open Compute Project (OCP) Foundation, Penguin Magna 1015 targets memory and I/O intensive workloads, including high density virtualization and data analytics. The Magna 1015 system uses the Open Rack physical infrastructure defined by the OCP Foundation and adopted by the largest hyperscale data centers, providing operational cost savings from the shared power infrastructure and improved serviceability.The post Penguin Computing Rolls Out Magna 1015 OpenPOWER Servers appeared first on insideHPC.

"Engineers at Cray noted that the HPC community was hungry for alternative parallel programming languages and developed Chapel as part of our response. The reaction from HPC users so far has been very encouraging—most would be excited to have the opportunity to use Chapel once it becomes production-grade."The post Video: Chapel – Productive, Multiresolution Parallel Programming appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the University of Alabama at Birmingham unveiled a new supercomputer powered by Dell. With a peak performance of 110 Teraflops, the system is 10 times faster than its predecessor. “With their new Dell EMC HPC cluster, UAB researchers will have the compute and storage they need to aggressively research, uncover and apply knowledge that changes the lives of individuals and communities in many areas, including genomics and personalized medicine.”The post Dell Powers New HPC Cluster at the University of Alabama at Birmingham appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the 2016 HPC User Forum in Austin, a select panel of HPC vendors describe their disruptive technologies for high performance computing. Vendors include: Altair, SUSE, ARM, AMD, Ryft, Red Hat, Cray, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. "A disruptive innovation is an innovation that creates a new market and value network and eventually disrupts an existing market and value network, displacing established market leading firms, products and alliances."The post Video: HPC Disruptive Technologies Panel appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at some interesting new developments in HPC Power & Cooling including: the Solar-Powered Hikari Supercomputer at TACC that is demonstrating the advantages HVDC racks. Plus, Aquila's new OCP Server Platform has an innovative, fan-less design based on liquid cooling technology from Clustered Systems that supports up to 100 Kw per rack.The post Radio Free HPC Looks at New HPC Power & Cooling Technologies appeared first on insideHPC.

"This project will make a substantial contribution to advancing wind energy," said Steve Hammond, NREL's Director of Computational Science and the principal investigator on the project. "It will advance our fundamental understanding of the complex flow physics of whole wind plants, which will help further reduce the cost of electricity derived from wind energy."The post NREL to Lead for Wind Power Research for Exascale Computing Project appeared first on insideHPC.

Engineers of the Hikari HVDC power feeding system predict it will save 15 percent compared to conventional systems. "The 380 volt design reduces the number of power conversions when compared to AC voltage systems," said James Stark, director of Engineering and Construction at the Electronic Environments Corporation (EEC), a Division of NTT FACILITIES. "What's interesting about that," Stark added, "is the computers themselves - the supercomputer, the blade servers, cooling units, and lighting - are really all designed to run on DC voltage. By supplying 380 volts DC to Hikari instead of having an AC supply with conversion steps, it just makes a lot more sense. That's really the largest technical innovation."The post Podcast: Solar-Powered Hikari Supercomputer at TACC Demonstrates HVDC Efficiencies appeared first on insideHPC.

Doug Ball presented this talk at the HPC User Forum in Austin. "Doug Ball served as enterprise director for computational fluid dynamics within Boeing’s Enterprise Technology Strategy, providing strategic guidance and manages investments into CFD technologies across Boeing’s businesses. Earlier, he was chief engineer for all of aerodynamics within Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Throughout his career, he served as a consultant to NASA, the National Research Council, the U.S. Air Force and The Ohio State University. Before joining Boeing, Ball worked for General Dynamics Corporation as an aerodynamicist."The post CFD in the Aerospace Industry – Past, Present, and Future appeared first on insideHPC.

"The integration of FLOW-3D with CAESES creates a powerful design environment for our users. FLOW-3D’s inherent ease of modifying geometry is even more potent when combined with an optimization tool like CAESES, which specializes in optimizing for geometry as well as other parametric studies," said Flow Science Vice President of Sales and Business Development, Amir Isfahani.The post Flow Science Partners with FRIENDSHIP SYSTEMS for Optimizing Simulation appeared first on insideHPC.

“DDN has a long history of technological innovation, a great team and a phenomenal market opportunity,” said Triendl. “I am excited to help realize what I believe is tremendous potential to extend our unmatched delivery of performance and capacity at scale – far beyond what most can even imagine.”The post DDN Names Robert Triendl SVP Global Sales, Marketing and Field Services appeared first on insideHPC.

Loyola University Maryland has been awarded a $280,120 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to build an HPC cluster that will exponentially expand research opportunities for faculty and students across disciplines.The post Loyola University Maryland to Build HPC Cluster with NSF Grant appeared first on insideHPC.

"Companies are awash in data, but struggle to take advantage of it to build better predictive models and gain deeper insights,” says David Rich, MATLAB marketing director, MathWorks. “With R2016b, we’ve lowered the bar to allow domain experts to work with more data, more easily. This leads to improved system design, performance, and reliability.”The post MathWorks Release 2016b Makes it Easier to Work with Big Data appeared first on insideHPC.

"The drive towards Exascale computing requires cooling the next generation of extremely hot CPUs, while staying within a manageable power envelope,” said Bob Bolz, HPC and Data Center Business development at Aquila. “Liquid cooling holds the key. Aquarius is designed from the ground up to meet reliability and the feature-specific demands of high performance and high density computing. Our design goal was to reduce the cost of cooling server resources to well under 5% of overall data center usage.”The post Aquila Launches Liquid Cooled OCP Server Platform appeared first on insideHPC.

"AMD has been away from the HPC space for a while, but now they are coming back in a big way with an open software approach to GPU computing. The Radeon Open Compute Platform (ROCm) was born from the Boltzmann Initiative announced last year at SC15. Now available on GitHub, the ROCm Platform bringing a rich foundation to advanced computing by better integrating the CPU and GPU to solve real-world problems."The post Slidecast: For AMD, It’s Time to ROCm! appeared first on insideHPC.

The big data analytics market has seen rapid growth in recent years. Part of this trend includes the increased use of machine learning (Deep Learning) technologies. Indeed, machine learning speed has been drastically increased though the use of GPU accelerators. The issues facing the HPC market are similar to the analytics market — efficient use of the underlying hardware. A position paper from the third annual Big Data and Extreme Computing conference (2015) illustrates the power of co-design in the analytics market.The post Co-design for Data Analytics And Machine Learning appeared first on insideHPC.

ESI Group has signed agreement with Huawei to collaborate on on High Performance Computing and cloud computing for industrial manufacturing solutions for customers in China and worldwide. "The ongoing digital transformation of industrial manufacturing demands enterprise-level IT solutions that are more intelligent, efficient, and convenient, especially in the HPC domain," said Zheng Yelai, President, Huawei IT Product Line.The post Huawei and ESI to Collaborate on HPC for Manufacturing appeared first on insideHPC.

Over at the Nvidia Blog, Jamie Beckett writes that the company's is expanding its Deep Learning Institute with Microsoft and Coursera. The institute provides training to help people apply deep learning to solve challenging problems.The post Nvidia Expands Deep Learning Institute appeared first on insideHPC.

Gary Paek from Intel presented this talk at the HPC User Forum in Austin. "Traditional high performance computing is hitting a performance wall. With data volumes exploding and workloads becoming increasingly complex, the need for a breakthrough in HPC performance is clear. Intel Scalable System Framework provides that breakthrough. Designed to work for small clusters to the world’s largest supercomputers, Intel SSF provides scalability and balance for both compute- and data intensive applications, as well as machine learning and visualization. The design moves everything closer to the processor to improve bandwidth, reduce latency and allow you to spend more time processing and less time waiting."The post Video: Intel Scalable System Framework appeared first on insideHPC.

PRACE has announced the winners of its 13th Call for Proposals for PRACE Project Access. Selected proposals will receive allocations to the following PRACE HPC resources: Marconi and MareNostrum.The post PRACE Awards Time on Marconi Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.

"We’re currently installing the most powerful supercomputer in the history of the center, but it’s just a roomful of hardware without fast and easy access for our clients,” said David Hudak, interim executive director of OSC. “OnDemand 3.0 provides them with seamless, flexible access to all our computer and storage services.”The post OnDemand 3.0 Portal to Power Owens Supercomputer at OSC appeared first on insideHPC.

In this Intel Chip Chat podcast, Dr. Julie Krugler Hollek, co-organizer of PyLadies San Francisco and Data Scientist at Twitter, joins Allyson Klein to discuss efforts to democratize participation in open source communities and the future of data science. "PyLadies helps people who identify as women become participants in open source Python projects like The SciPy Stack, a specification that provides access to machine learning and data visualization tools."The post Podcast: How PyLadies are Increasing Diversity in Coding and Data Science appeared first on insideHPC.

"SGI and Bright Computing have been working together for the last year to provide our joint customers with enterprise level clustered infrastructure management software for production supercomputing,” said Gabriel Broner, vice president and general manager of HPC, SGI. “By partnering with Bright Computing, our customers are able to select the cluster management tool that best suits their needs.”The post Bright Computing Announces Reseller Agreement with SGI appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the Energy Department’s Advanced Manufacturing Office announced up to $3 million in available funding for manufacturers to use high-performance computing resources at the Department's national laboratories to tackle major manufacturing challenges. The High Performance Computing for Manufacturing (HPC4Mfg) program enables innovation in U.S. manufacturing through the adoption of high performance computing (HPC) to advance applied science and technology in manufacturing, with an aim of increasing energy efficiency, advancing clean energy technology, and reducing energy’s impact on the environment.The post HPC4mfg Seeks New Proposals to Advance Energy Technologies appeared first on insideHPC.

"The growing number of use cases that object storage can satisfy represents a huge opportunity for DDN – especially as cases like collaboration and active archive for large and 'forever' data sets are concentrated in DDN customer sites and well-established DDN markets," said Molly Rector, CMO, executive vice president product management and worldwide marketing at DDN. "WOS' differentiated benefits give it a strong competitive advantage for current and emerging use cases, and with multiple appliance and software-only options customers have complete architectural flexibility and choice."The post DDN Appliance Speeds WOS Object Storage appeared first on insideHPC.

Nvidia's GPU platforms have been widely used on the training side of the Deep Learning equation for some time now. Today the company announced a new Pascal-based GPU tailor-made for the inferencing side of Deep Learning workloads. "With the Tesla P100 and now Tesla P4 and P40, NVIDIA offers the only end-to-end deep learning platform for the data center, unlocking the enormous power of AI for a broad range of industries," said Ian Buck, general manager of accelerated computing at NVIDIA."The post Nvidia Unveils World’s First GPU Design for Inferencing appeared first on insideHPC.

The prevalency of cloud computing has changed the HPC landscape necessaiting HPC management tools that can manage and simplify complex enviornments in order to optimize flexibility and speed. Altair’s new solution PBS Cloud Manager makes it easy to build and manage HPC application stacks.The post The Future of HPC Application Management in a Post Cloud World appeared first on insideHPC.

"More than just building bigger and faster computers, high-performance computing is about how to build the algorithms and applications that run on these computers,” said School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) Associate Professor Edmond Chow. “We've brought together the top people in the U.S. with expertise in asynchronous techniques as well as experience needed to develop, test, and deploy this research in scientific and engineering applications.”The post DOE Funds Asynchronous Supercomputing Research at Georgia Tech appeared first on insideHPC.

Andrew Jones from NAG presented this talk at the HPC User Forum in Austin. "This talk will discuss why it is important to measure High Performance Computing, and how to do so. The talk covers measuring performance, both technical (e.g., benchmarks) and non-technical (e.g., utilization); measuring the cost of HPC, from the simple beginnings to the complexity of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and beyond; and finally, the daunting world of measuring value, including the dreaded Return on Investment (ROI) and other metrics. The talk is based on NAG HPC consulting experiences with a range of industry HPC users and others. This is not a sales talk, nor a highly technical talk. It should be readily understood by anyone involved in using or managing HPC technology."The post Measuring HPC: Performance, Cost, & Value appeared first on insideHPC.

BSC researcher Xevi Roca will receive a one of the European Union’s most prestigious research grants for a project to create new simulation methods to respond to the aviation industry’s most pressing challenges. Roca, who has been working on geometry for aeronautical simulation since 2004, is proposing to integrate time as a dimension into the geometries of simulations. The aim is to improve the efficiency, accuracy and robustness of the aerodynamic performance simulations carried out on supercomputers such as BSC’s MareNostrum.The post EU Funds BSC Researcher to Develop New Aircraft Simulation Tools appeared first on insideHPC.

Humans are very good at visual pattern recognition especially when it comes to facial features and graphic symbols and identifying a specific person or associating a specific symbol with an associated meaning. It is in these kinds of scenarios where deep learning systems excel. Clearly identifying each new person or symbol is more efficiently achieved by a training methodology than by needing to reprogram a conventional computer or explicitly update database entries.The post Examples of Deep Learning Industrialization appeared first on insideHPC.

"Our collaborative role in these exascale applications projects stems from our laboratory’s long-term strategy in co-design and our appreciation of the vital role of high-performance computing to address national security challenges,” said John Sarrao, associate director for Theory, Simulation and Computation at Los Alamos National Laboratory. “The opportunity to take on these scientific explorations will be especially rewarding because of the strategic partnerships with our sister laboratories.”The post Funding Boosts Exascale Research at LANL appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team discusses the recent news that Intel has sold its controlling stake in McAfee and that NSF has funded the next generation of XSEDE.The post Radio Free Looks at Exascale Application Challenges in the Wake of XSEDE 2.0 Funding appeared first on insideHPC.

A consortium of European researchers and technology companies recently completed the EU-funded SAVE project, aimed at simplifying the execution data-intensive applications on complex hardware architectures. Funded by the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), the project was launched in 2013, under the project name ‘Self-Adaptive Virtualization-Aware High-Performance/Low-Energy Heterogeneous System Architectures’ (SAVE). The project, which was completed at the start of this month, has led to innovations in hardware, software and operating system (OS) components.The post European SAVE Project Streamlines Data Intensive Computing appeared first on insideHPC.

Leonardo Flores from the European Commission presented this talk at the HPC User Forum. "The Cloud Initiative will make it easier for researchers, businesses and public services to fully exploit the benefits of Big Data by making it possible to move, share and re-use data seamlessly across global markets and borders, and among institutions and research disciplines. Making research data openly available can help boost Europe's competitiveness, especially for start-ups, SMEs and companies who can use data as a basis for R&D and innovation, and can even spur new industries."The post EU HPC Strategy and the European Cloud Initiative appeared first on insideHPC.

Yutaka Ishikawa from Riken AICS presented this talk at the HPC User Forum. "Slated for delivery sometime around 2022, the ARM-based Post-K Computer has a performance target of being 100 times faster than the original K computer within a power envelope that will only be 3-4 times that of its predecessor. RIKEN AICS has been appointed as the main organization for leading the development of the Post-K."The post Video: Japan’s Post K Computer appeared first on insideHPC.

Coming to SC16? Intel is hosting a one-day Lustre training session on Friday November 18th, 2016 at the Sheraton in Salt Lake City. "You can expect the top Lustre experts to spend the day with on the training topics that you care about."The post Lustre Training Day Coming to SC16 in Salt Lake City appeared first on insideHPC.

Supermicro’s density optimized 4U SuperServer 4028GR-TR(T)2 supports up to 10 PCI-E Tesla P100 accelerators for up to 210 TFLOPS FP16 peak performance with GPU Direct RDMA support. Supermicro’s innovative and GPU optimized single root complex PCI-E design is proven to dramatically improve GPU peer-to-peer communication efficiency over QPI and PCI-E links, with up to 21% higher QPI throughput and 60% lower latency compared to previous generation products. These 4U SuperServers support dual Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v4/v3 product families, up to 3TB DDR4-2400MHz memory, optional dual onboard 10GBase-T ports, and redundant Titanium Level (96%) digital power supplies.The post Supermicro Shipping Servers with NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPUs appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Juniper Networks announced it has been selected by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) to provide the networking infrastructure for a new supercomputer that will be used by researchers to predict climate patterns and assess the effects of global warming.The post Juniper Networks Powers Climate Research at NCAR appeared first on insideHPC.

"Nimbis was founded in 2008 by HPC industry veterans Robert Graybill and Brian Schott to act as the first nationwide brokerage clearinghouse for a broad spectrum of integrated cloud-based HPC platforms and applications. Our fully integrated online Technical Computing Marketplace comprises several stores hosting modeling and simulation applications on HPC platforms in the cloud."The post Video: HPC in the Cloud appeared first on insideHPC.

"With the Yottabyte Research Cloud, researchers will be able to ask more questions, faster, of the ever-expanding and massive sets of data collected for their work," said Yottabyte CEO Paul Hodges. "We are very pleased to be a part of the diverse and challenging research environment at U-M. This partnership is a great opportunity to develop and refine computing tools that will increase the productivity of U-M's world class researchers."The post Yottabyte Powers Data-Intensive Research at University of Michigan appeared first on insideHPC.

Today One Stop Systems (OSS) announced that its High Density Compute Accelerator (HDCA) and its Express Box 3600 (EB3600) are now available for purchase with the NVIDIA Tesla P100 for PCIe GPU. These high-density platforms deliver teraflop performance with greatly reduced cost and space requirements. The HDCA supports up to 16 Tesla P100s and the EB3600 supports up to 9 Tesla P100s. The Tesla P100 provides 4.7 TeraFLOPS of double-precision performance, 9.3 TeraFLOPS of single-precision performance and 18.7 TeraFLOPS of half-precision performance with NVIDIA GPU BOOST technology.The post One Stop Systems Shipping Platforms with NVIDIA Tesla P100 for PCIe appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Fujitsu announced that the company has received an order for an experiment-analysis system from Kamioka Observatory, part of the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR) at the University of Tokyo. The system is destined for Kamioka Observatory's Super-Kamiokande facility, which is helping to shed light on the workings of the universe through the observation of neutrinos, and is scheduled to go operational in March 2017.The post Fujitsu Cluster to Power Super-Kamiokande Neutrino Experiments appeared first on insideHPC.

"An environment that assists in deep learning usually consists of algorithms that can draw conclusions from data that is run at very high speeds. Processors such as the Intel Xeon Phi Processor that contain a significant number of processing cores and operate in a SIMD mode are critical to these new environments. With the Intel Xeon Phi processor, new insights can be discovered from either existing data or new data sources."The post Deep Learning with the Intel Xeon Phi Processor appeared first on insideHPC.