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Today ArrayFire released the latest version of their ArrayFire open source library of parallel computing functions supporting CUDA, OpenCL, and CPU devices. ArrayFire v3.4 improves features and performance for applications in machine learning, computer vision, signal processing, statistics, finance, and more.The post ArrayFire v3.4 Parallel Computing Library Speeds Machine Learning appeared first on insideHPC.

"Fortran has been proven to be extremely resilient to new developments that have appeared in other programming languages over the years. New versions continue to be available and associated with ANSI standards, so that an application written for one operating system should be able to be compiled and run with different compilers on different operating systems. The latest version is Fortran 2008, with the next version reportedly to be available as Fortran 2015, in 2018."The post Fortran for HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from GTC 2016 in Taiwan, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang unveils technology that will accelerate the deep learning revolution that is sweeping across industries. “AI computing will let us create machines that can learn and behave as humans do. It’s the reason why we believe this is the beginning of the age of AI.”The post Video: The Deep Learning AI Revolution appeared first on insideHPC.

The George Washington University is seeking a Simulation IT Specialist in our Job of the Week.GW’s Clinical Learning and Simulation Skills (CLASS) Center provides one of the most innovative educational environments in the nation. "The CLASS Center is seeking and Simulation IT Specialist to be part of the dynamic team that develops and delivers simulation scenarios for GW learners. The Simulation IT Specialist will oversee the technology infrastructure for theCLASS Center by ensuring all AV and IT equipment are integrated seamlessly."The post Job of the Week: Simulation IT Specialist at George Washington University appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the 2016 HPC User Forum in Austin, Earl Joseph describes IDC's new Exascale Tracking Study. The project will monitor the many Exascale projects around the world.The post IDC to Launch New Exascale Tracking Study appeared first on insideHPC.

In this RCE Podcast, Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres speak with Gregory Kurtzer about Singularity, a container solution for HPC and research environments. "Singularity allows a non-privileged user to “swap out” the operating system on the host for one they control. So if the host system is running RHEL6 but your application runs in Ubuntu, you can create an Ubuntu image, install your applications into that image, copy the image to another host, and run your application on that host in it's native Ubuntu environment."The post RCE Podcast Looks at Singularity Container Solution for HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

"PSyclone was developed for the UK Met Office and is now a part of the build system for Dynamo, the dynamical core currently in development for the Met Office’s ‘next generation’ weather and climate model software. By generating the complex code needed to make use of thousands of processors, PSyclone leaves the Met Office scientists free to concentrate on the science aspects of the model. This means that they will not have to change their code from something that works on a single processing unit (or core) to something that runs on many thousands of cores."The post PSyclone Software Eases Weather and Climate Forecasting appeared first on insideHPC.

The CloudLightning Project in Europe has published preliminary results from a survey on Barriers to Using HPC in the Cloud. "Trust in cloud computing would appear to be a significant barrier to adopting cloud computing for HPC workloads. Data management concerns dominate the responses."The post CloudLightning Report Looks at Barriers to HPC in the Cloud appeared first on insideHPC.

Today TYAN announced support and availability of the NVIDIA Tesla P100, P40 and P4 GPU accelerators with the new NVIDIA Pascal architecture. Incorporating NVIDIA’s state-of-the-art technologies allows TYAN to offer the exceptional performance and data-intensive applications features to HPC users.The post TYAN Adds Support for NVIDIA Tesla P100, P40 and P4 GPUs appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Cycle Computing announced the Cloud-Agnostic Glossary, a solution brief written by Cycle Computing executives to help customers understand the different terms the different providers use and how they relate. "Technology keeps evolving, terms keep changing, and because of this, we were inspired to stop and take a moment to develop a glossary to keep track of meanings in real time, and according to vendor,” said Jason Stowe, CEO, Cycle Computing. “We ended up with this great solution brief, worthy of reading and sharing. It's a useful document that we plan to update regularly.”The post Cycle Computing Publishes Cloud-Agnostic Glossary appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Better Markets CEO Dennis Kelleher discusses the progress of the Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT), a proposed SEC supercomputer that will be used to track orders and peer into dark pools. While this sounds like a good idea, Kelleher describes the conflicts of interest inherent in the proposal process the SEC is using for CAT. Kelleher is the CEO of Better Markets, a non-profit, non-partisan, and independent organization founded in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis to promote the public interest in the financial markets.The post Video: CAT Supercomputer to Track Dark Pools on Wall Street appeared first on insideHPC.

Submissions are now open for ISC 2017 tutorial and workshop proposals. The ISC 2017 conference takes place June 18-22, 2017 in Frankfurt, Germany.The post Call For Proposals: ISC 2017 Tutorials and Workshops appeared first on insideHPC.

"PushToCompute is the easiest and most advanced DevOps pipeline for high performance applications available today”, said Nimbix CTO Leo Reiter. “It seamlessly enables serverless computing of even the most complex workflows, greatly simplifying application deployment at scale, and eliminating the need for any platform orchestration or user interface work. Developers simply focus on their specific functionality, rather than on building cloud capabilities into their applications.”The post Nimbix Cloud Adds Docker Integration to JARVICE appeared first on insideHPC.

With a massive surge in genomics research, the ability to quickly process very large amounts of data is now required for any organization that is involved in genomics. While the cost has been reduced significantly, the amount of data that is produced is has increased as well. This article describes next generation sequencing and how a combination of hardware and innovative software can decrease the amount of time to sequence genomes.The post Next Generation Sequencing appeared first on insideHPC.

"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.