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Today Green Revolution Cooling announced that their immersive cooling technology is used by the most efficient supercomputers in the world as ranked in the latest Green500 list. For the third consecutive year, the Green Revolution Cooling-powered Tsubame-KFC supercomputer at Tokyo Institute of Technology achieved top honors, ranking as the most efficient commercially available setup, and second overall.The post Green Revolution Cooling Helps Tsubame-KFC Supercomputer Top the Green500 appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the ISC 2016 conference issued their Call for Proposals for their new PhD Forum, which will allow PhD students to present their research results in a setting that sparks the exchange of scientific knowledge and lively discussions. The call is now open and interested students are encouraged to submit their proposals by February 15, 2016.The post PhD Forum Coming to ISC 2016 appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the HPC Advisory Council announced that 12 university teams from around the world will compete in the HPCAC-ISC 2016 Student Cluster Competition at ISC 2016 conference next June in Frankfurt.The post 12 International Student Teams to Face Off at HPCAC-ISC 2016 Student Cluster Competition appeared first on insideHPC.

"What we're showcasing this year is - what we're jokingly calling - face-melting performance. What we're trying to do is make extreme performance available at a very aggressive price point, and at a very aggressive space point, for end users. So, what we've been doing and what we've been working on for the past couple of months has been, basically, building an NVMe-type unit. This NVMe unit connects flash devices through a PCIe interface to the processor complex."The post “Face-Melting Performance” with the Forte Hyperconverged NVMe Appliance from Scalable Informatics appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Seagate and Newisys announced a new flash storage architecture capable or 1 Terabyte/sec performance. Designed for HPC applications, the "industry’s fastest flash storage design" comprises 21 Newisys NSS-2601 with dual NSS-HWxEA Storage Server Modules deployed with Seagate’s newest SAS 1200.2 SSD drives. These devices can be combined in a single 42U rack to achieve block I/O performance of 1TB/s with 5PB of storage. Each Newisys 2U server with 60 Seagate SSDs is capable of achieving bandwidth of 49GB/s.The post Seagate and Newisys Demonstrate 1 TB/s Flash Architecture appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from SC15, Bill Mannel from HPE, Charlie Wuischpard from Intel, and Nick Nystrom from the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center discuss their collaboration for High Performance Computing. Early next year, Hewlett Packard Enterprise will deploy the Bridges supercomputer based on Intel technology for breakthrough data centric computing at PSC. "Welcome to Bridges, a new concept in HPC - a system designed to support familiar, convenient software and environments for both traditional and non-traditional HPC users. It is a richly connected set of interacting systems offering a flexible mix of gateways (web portals), Hadoop and Spark ecosystems, batch processing and interactivity."The post Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Intel and PSC: Driving Innovation in HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

Genome sequencing is a technology that can takes advantage of the growing capability of todays ‘ modern HPC systems. Dell is leading the charge in the area of personalized medicine by providing highly tuned systems to perform genomic sequencing and data management. The whitepaper, The InsideHPC Guide to Genomic is a overview of how Dell is providing state-of-the-art solutions to the life science industry.The post Genomics and HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

"We're now providing LSF in the Cloud as a service to our customers because their workloads are getting larger over time, they're converging-- HPC is not converging with Analytics and even tough they provision for their average load, they can never provision for the spikes or for new projects. So we're helping our clients out by providing the services in the Cloud, where they can get LSF or Platform Symphony, or Spectrum Scale."The post Video: IBM Platform LSF in the Cloud at SC15 appeared first on insideHPC.

Dan Stanzione from TACC presented this talk at the DDN User Group at SC15. "TACC is an advanced computing research center that provides comprehensive advanced computing resources and support services to researchers in Texas and across the USA. The mission of TACC is to enable discoveries that advance science and society through the application of advanced computing technologies. Specializing in high performance computing, scientific visualization, data analysis & storage systems, software, research & development and portal interfaces, TACC deploys and operates advanced computational infrastructure to enable computational research activities of faculty, staff, and students of UT Austin."The post Towards the Convergence of HPC and Big Data — Data-Centric Architecture at TACC appeared first on insideHPC.

The HPC Advisory Council Stanford Conference 2016 has issued its Call for Participation. The event will take place Feb 24-25, 2016 on the Stanford University campus at the new Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center. "The HPC Advisory Council Stanford Conference 2016 will focus on High-Performance Computing usage models and benefits, the future of supercomputing, latest technology developments, best practices and advanced HPC topics. In addition, there will be a strong focus on new topics such as Machine Learning and Big Data. The conference is open to the public free of charge and will bring together system managers, researchers, developers, computational scientists and industry affiliates."The post Call for Participation: HPC Advisory Council Stanford Conference appeared first on insideHPC.

"We have enabled virtualization for HPC but it's important to bring the benefits of virtualization to end researchers in a way they can use it, right? So what we have done is we have created the solution plus VMware High-Performance Analytics, which allows researchers to author their own workloads, they can collaborate it, they can clone it, then they can share it with other researchers. And they can modify their workload - they can fine tune it."The post Video: VMware HPC Virtualization Enables Research as Service appeared first on insideHPC.

Today NEC Corporation announced that SX-ACE vector supercomputers delivered to the University of Kiel, Alfred Wegener Institute, and the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart have begun operating and contributing to research.The post Three German Instititutes Deploy NEC’s SX-ACE Vector Supercomputers appeared first on insideHPC.

The computational requirements for weather forecasting are driven by the need for higher resolution models for more accurate and extended forecasts. In addition, more physics and chemistry processes are included in the models so we can observe the very fine features of weather behavior. These models operate on 3D grids that encompass the globe. The closer the points on the grid are to each other, the more accurate the results.The post HPC Helps Drive Weather Forecasting appeared first on insideHPC.

Last week at SC15, Rambus announced that it has partnered with Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) for evaluating elements of its Smart Data Acceleration (SDA) Research Program. The SDA platform has been deployed at LANL to improve the performance of in-memory databases, graph analytics and other Big Data applications.The post Rambus Advances Smart Data Acceleration Research Program with LANL appeared first on insideHPC.

Baidu's Chief Scientist Andrew Ng has started a Social Media campaign for inspiring people to study Machine Learning. "Regardless of where you learned Machine Learning, if it has had an impact on you or your work, please share your story on Facebook or Twitter in a short written or video post. I will invite the people who shared the 5 most inspirational stories to join me in a conversation on Google Hangout about the future of machine learning."The post Share Your Machine Learning Story to Inspire Others appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from SC15, Intel's Diane Bryant discusses how next-generation supercomputers are transforming HPC and presenting exciting opportunities to advance scientific research and discovery to deliver far-reaching impacts on society. As a frequent speaker on the future of technology, Bryant draws on her experience running Intel’s Data Center Group, which includes the HPC business segment, and products ranging from high-end co-processors for supercomputers to big data analytics solutions to high-density systems for the cloud.The post Video: SC15 HPC Matters Plenary Session with Intel’s Diane Bryant appeared first on insideHPC.

Intel in Oregon is seeking an HPC Software Intern in our Job of the Week. "If you are interested in being on the team that builds the world's fastest supercomputer, read on. Our team is designing how we integrate new HW and SW, validate extreme scale systems, and debug challenges that arise. The team consist of engineers who love to learn, love a good challenge, and aren't afraid of a changing environment. We need someone who can help us with creating and executing codes that will be used to validate and debug our system from first Si bring-up through at-scale deployment. The successful candidate will have experience in the Linux environment creating code: C or Python. If you have the right skills, you will help build systems utilized by the best minds on the planet to solve grand challenge science problems such as climate research, bio-medical research, genome analysis, renewable energy, and other areas that require the world's fastest supercomputers to tackle. Be part of the first to get to Exascale!"The post Job of the Week: HPC Software Intern at Intel appeared first on insideHPC.

Last week at SC15, Numascale announced the successful installation of a large shared memory Numascale/Supermicro/AMD system at a customer datacenter facility in North America. The system is the first part of a large cloud computing facility for analytics and simulation of sensor data combined with historical data. "The Numascale system, installed over the last two weeks, consists of 108 Supermicro 1U servers connected in a 3D torus with NumaConnect, using three cabinets with 36 servers apiece in a 6x6x3 topology. Each server has 48 cores in three AMD Opteron 6386 CPUs and 192 GBytes memory, providing a single system image and 20.7 TBytes to all 5184 cores. The system was designed to meet user demand for “very large memory” hardware solutions running a standard single image Linux OS on commodity x86 based servers."The post Numascale Teams with Supermicro & AMD for Large Shared Memory System appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast, Jorge Salazar from TACC interviews two winners of the 2015 ACM Gordon Bell Prize, Omar Ghattas and Johann Rudi of the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, UT Austin. As part of the discussion, Ghattas describes how parallelism and exascale computing will propel science forward.The post Podcast: Supercomputing the Deep Earth with the Gordon Bell Prize Winners appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from SC15, Rich Brueckner from insideHPC moderates a panel discussion with Hewlett Packard Enterprise HPC customers. "Government labs, as well as public and private universities worldwide, are using HPE Compute solutions to conduct research across scientific disciplines, develop new drugs, discover renewable energy sources and bring supercomputing to nontraditional users and research communities."The post Video: Hewlett Packard Enterprise HPC Customer Panel at SC15 appeared first on insideHPC.

PRACEdays16 has extended the deadline for its Call for Participation to Dec. 13, 2015. Taking place May 10-12, 2016 in Prague, the conference will bring together experts from academia and industry who will present their advancements in HPC-supported science and engineering.The post PRACEdays16 Extends Deadline for Submissions to Dec. 13, 2015 appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Torsten Hoefler from ETH Zurich and John West from TACC discuss the preview the upcoming PASC16 and SC16 conferences. With a focus on Exascale computing and user applications, the events will set the stage for the next decade in High Performance Computing.The post Video: A Preview of the PASC16 and SC16 Conferences appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Russia's RSC Group announced that Team TUMuch Phun from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) won the Highest Linpack Award in the SC15 Student Cluster Competition. The enthusiastic students achieved 7.1 Teraflops on the Linpack benchmark using an RSC PetaStream cluster with computing nodes based on Intel Xeon Phi. TUM student team took 3rd place in overall competition within 9 teams participated in SCC at SC15, so as only one European representative in this challenge.The post TUM Germany Wins Highest Linpack Award on RSC system at SC15 Student Cluster Competition appeared first on insideHPC.

Basic optimization techniques that include an understanding of math functions and how to simplify can go a long way towards better performance. "When optimizing for a parallel SIMD system such as the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor, it is also important to make sure that the results match the scalar system. Using vector data may cause parts of the computer program to be re-written, so that the compiler can generate vector code."The post Parallel Methods in Financial Services for Intel Xeon Phi appeared first on insideHPC.

Software for data analysis, system management, and for debugging other software were be among the innovations on display at SC15 last week. In addition to the software, novel and improved hardware will also be on display, together with an impressive array of initiatives from Europe in research and development leading up to Exascale computing.The post Speeding Up Applications at SC15 appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from SC15, Sam Mahalingam from Altair discusses the HyperWorks Unlimited Virtual Appliance and the new open source version of PBS Pro. “Our goal is for the open source community to actively participate in shaping the future of PBS Professional driving both innovation and agility. The community’s contributions combined with Altair’s continued research and development, and collaboration with Intel and our HPC technology partners will accelerate the advancement of PBS Pro to aggressively pursue exascale computing initiatives in broad classes and domains.”The post Video: PBS Pro Workload Manager Goes Open Source appeared first on insideHPC.

Last week at SC15, Fujifilm announced that its next-generation LTO Ultrium 7 data cartridge has been qualified by the LTO technology provider companies for commercial production and is available immediately. FUJIFILM LTO Ultrium 7 has a compressed storage capacity of 15.0TB with a transfer rate of 750MB/sec assuming 2.5:1 compression ratio. This capacity achievement represents a 2.4X increase over the current LTO-6 generation.The post FujiFilm Qualifies Next-Gen LTO-7 Cartridge appeared first on insideHPC.

NCSA is now accepting applications for the Blue Waters Graduate Program. This unique program lets graduate students from across the country immerse themselves in a year of focused high-performance computing and data-intensive research using the Blue Waters supercomputer to accelerate their research.The post Apply Now for Blue Waters Graduate Fellowships appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Jason Souloglou and Eric Van Hensbergen from ARM describe how Pathscale EKOPath compilers are enabling a new HPC ecosystem based on low-power processors. "As an enabling technology, EKOPath gives our customers the ability to compile for native ARMv8 CPU or accelerated architectures that return the fastest time to solution."The post Video: Pathscale Compilers Power ARM for HPC at SC15 appeared first on insideHPC.

Asetek showcased its full range of RackCDU hot water liquid cooling systems for HPC data centers at SC15 in Austin. On display were early adopting OEMs such as CIARA, Cray, Fujitsu, Format and Penguin. HPC installations from around the world incorporating Asetek RackCDU D2C (Direct-to-Chip) technology were also be featured. In addition, liquid cooling solutions for both current and future high wattage CPUs and GPUs from Intel, Nvidia and OpenPower were on display.The post Video: Asetek Showcases Growing Adoption of OEM Solutions at SC15 appeared first on insideHPC.

"General Relativity is celebrating this year a hundred years since its first publication in 1915, when Einstein introduced his theory of General Relativity, which has revolutionized in many ways the way we view our universe. For instance, the idea of a static Euclidean space, which had been assumed for centuries and the concept that gravity was viewed as a force changed. They were replaced with a very dynamical concept of now having a curved space-time in which space and time are related together in an intertwined way described by these very complex, but very beautiful equations."The post Podcast: Supercomputing Black Hole Mergers appeared first on insideHPC.

Last week at SC15, NEC Corporation announced that the Flemish Supercomputer Center (VSC) has selected an LX-series supercomputer. With a peak performance of 623 Teraflops, the new system will be the fastest in Belgium, ranking amongst the top 150 biggest and fastest supercomputers in the world. Financed by the Flemish minister for Science and Innovation in Belgium, the infrastructure will cost 5.5 million Euro.The post NEC to Build Fastest Supercomputer in Belgium for VSC appeared first on insideHPC.

Does your research generate, analyze, and/or visualize data using advanced digital resources? In its recent Call for Participation, the CADENS project is looking for scientific data to visualize or existing data visualizations to weave into larger documentary narratives in a series of fulldome digital films and TV programs aimed at broad public audiences. Visualizations of your work could reach millions of people, amplifying its greater societal impacts!The post CADENS Project Seeking Data and Visualizations appeared first on insideHPC.

"We've had a great time here in Austin talking about data centric computing-- the ability to use IBM Spectrum Scale and Platform LSF to do Cognitive Computing. Customers, partners, and the world have been talking about how we can really bring together file, object, and even business analytics workloads together in amazing ways. It's been fun."The post Video: Data Centric Computing for File and Object Storage from IBM appeared first on insideHPC.

At SC15, Intel talked about some transformational high-performance computing technologies and the architecture—Intel® Scalable System Framework (Intel® SSF). Intel describes Intel SSF as “an advanced architectural approach for simplifying the procurement, deployment, and management of HPC systems, while broadening the accessibility of HPC to more industries and workloads.” Intel SSF is designed to eliminate the traditional bottlenecks; the so called power, memory, storage, and I/O walls that system builders and operators have run into over the years.The post Setting a Path for the Next-Generation of High-Performance Computing Architecture appeared first on insideHPC.

SC15 has announced the winners of the Student Cluster Competition, which took place last week in Austin. Team Diablo, a team of undergraduate students from Tsinghua University in China, was named the overall winner. "The competition is a real-time, non-stop, 48-hour challenge in which teams of six undergraduates assemble a small cluster at SC15 and race to complete a real-world workload across a series of scientific applications, demonstrate knowledge of system architecture and application performance, and impress HPC industry judges."The post China’s Team Diablo Wins SC15 Student Cluster Competition appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Robert Roe writes that software scalability and portability may be more important even than energy efficiency to the future of HPC. "As the HPC market searches for the optimal strategy to reach exascale, it is clear that the major roadblock to improving the performance of applications will be the scalability of software, rather than the hardware configuration – or even the energy costs associated with running the system."The post Who Will Write Next-generation Software? appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from SC15, Larry Jones from Seagate provides an overview of the company's revamped HPC storage product line, including a new 10,000 RPM ClusterStor hard disk drive tailor-made for the HPC market. “ClusterStor integrates the latest in Big Data technologies to deliver class-leading ingest speeds, massively scalable capacities to more than 100PB and the ability to handle a variety of mixed workloads.”The post Slidecast: Seagate Beefs Up ClusterStor at SC15 appeared first on insideHPC.

The HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference 2016 has announced their Call for Participation. Hosted by the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, the event will take place in Lugano, Switzerland March 21-23, 2016.The post Call for Participation: HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference 2016 appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from SC15, Dr. Eng Lim Goh from SGI describes how the company is embracing new HPC technology trends such as new memory hierarchies. With the convergence of HPC and Big Data as a growing trend, SGI is envisions a "Zero Copy Architecture" that would bring together a traditional supercomputer with a Big Data analytics machine in a way that would not require users to move their data between systems.The post Video: SGI Looks to Zero Copy Architecture for HPC and Big Data appeared first on insideHPC.

This week at SC15, Eurotech announced that their HiVe HPC system is now available with x86 and ARM-64 based processors. The HiVe supercomputer leverages a new original high performance computing system architecture combining extreme density and best-in-class energy efficiency.The post Eurotech HiVe HPC System Adds ARM CPUs appeared first on insideHPC.

This week, the University of Warsaw in Poland announced plans to install a Cray XC40 supercomputer at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modeling. The six-cabinet Cray XC40 system will be located in ICM’s OCEAN research data center, and will enable interdisciplinary teams of scientists to address the most computationally complex challenges in areas such as life sciences, physics, cosmology, chemistry, environmental science, engineering, and the humanities. ICM is Poland’s leading research center for computational and data driven sciences, and is one of the premier centers for large-scale high performance computing simulations and big data analytics in Central and Eastern Europe.The post University of Warsaw Selects Cray XC40 Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.

This week at SC15, Altair announced today it will provide an open source licensing option for its PBS Professional HPC workload manager. Scheduled to be released to the open source community in mid-2016, PBS Pro will become available under two different licensing options for commercial installations and as an Open Source Initiative compliant version. The decision includes working closely with Intel and the Linux Foundation’s OpenHPC Collaborative Project to integrate the open source version of PBS Pro.The post Altair Collaborates with Intel to Integrate PBS Pro with OpenHPC Software Stack appeared first on insideHPC.

This week at SC15, One Stop Systems featured the first PCIe 3.0 expansion appliance to support up to sixteen Nallatech 510T accelerator cards. The preconfigured appliance is targeted for data centers operating HPC applications, providing the user with a complete appliance that solves many integration issues, provides enhanced performance, and allows for scalable flexibility. The user simply attaches the HDCA to up to four servers and has thousands of additional compute cores readily available. Each connection operates at PCIe x16 3.0 with speeds of up to 128Gb/s.The post One Stop Systems HDCA Supports 16 Nallatech 510T Accelerator Cards appeared first on insideHPC.

Los Alamos National Lab is seeking an HPC Modeling and Optimization Postdoc in our Job of the Week.The post Job of the Week: HPC Modeling and Optimization Postdoc at LANL appeared first on insideHPC.

This week at SC15, Penguin Computing announced availability of its OCP-compliant Tundra platform on the company’s Penguin Computing on Demand (POD) public HPC cloud service. "POD customers will realize an immediate benefit of more capacity, as Tundra allows us to scale POD faster and more cost effectively,” said Tom Coull, President and CEO, Penguin Computing. “The rapid, modular scaling enabled by Tundra will result in increased capacity and greater performance.”The post Tundra Servers come to Penguin on Demand appeared first on insideHPC.

The OpenACC Standards Group released the 2.5 version of the OpenACC API specification.The post OpenACC 2.5 Includes Support for ARM and x86 Processors appeared first on insideHPC.

Scientists at the University of Texas at Austin, IBM Research, New York University and the California Institute of Technology have been awarded the 2015 Gordon Bell Prize for realistically simulating the forces inside the Earth that drive plate tectonics. The team’s work could herald a major step toward better understanding of earthquakes and volcanic activity.The post Earth Core Simulation Awarded Gordon Bell Prize appeared first on insideHPC.

"Recognition of status and career advancement in academia relies on publications. If your skills as a software developer lead you to focus on code to the detriment of your publication history, then your career will come to a grinding halt – despite the fact that your work may have significantly advanced research. This situation is simply not acceptable."The post Creating Careers for Research Software Engineers appeared first on insideHPC.