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Today Seagate announced the formation of Seagate Government Solutions, a new U.S.-based business entity dedicated to helping address the growing data-management needs of government agencies.The post Seagate Launches Government Solutions Group appeared first on insideHPC.

Today DDN announced that the French CEA has selected DDN’s SFA14KE as the core storage for this year’s comprehensive refresh of the agency's data management infrastructure, “GS1K”.The post CEA in France Upgrades Storage to DDN SFA14KE appeared first on insideHPC.

Today TACC announced it will enable users to take advantage of the capabilities of Microsoft's Project Catapult reconfigurable fabric platform. Project Catapult is expected to improve the speed and efficiency of science and engineering calculations using conventional cluster nodes augmented with field-programmable gate arrays, or FPGAs.The post TACC to Provide Onramp for Project Catapult Reconfigurable Fabric Platform appeared first on insideHPC.

Various industries have adopted or are in the planning and evaluation phase for using the cloud for HPC applications. Within the realm of technical computing, certain workloads are suited to a cloud-based HPC environment. Workloads could be considered either loosely coupled or tightly coupled. In each of the industries discussed in this article, multiple jobs submitted with different input parameters would be loosely coupled and not require a low-latency, high-speed interconnect, while a job that requires the use of multiple systems working in concert would be tightly coupled and need InfiniBand (IB).The post Industries that Use Cloud Computing for HPC Applications appeared first on insideHPC.

Today ARM announced new math libraries that are precision-tuned for 64-bit ARMv8-A processors. Designed for ARM-based HPC servers, ARM Performance Libraries are foundational math routines designed to enable the maximum performance of computational software. ARM math libraries take advantage of each silicon partner's specific microarchitecture innovations and features within their SoCs based on the ARMv8-A architecture to ensure peak system performance. The HPC community will have an opportunity to see the first public demonstrations of ARM Performance Libraries at the upcoming SC15 conference.The post New Math Libraries Speed 64-bit ARM-based HPC Systems appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Atos launched the Bull sequana X1000, its new family of supercomputers on the company's road to exascale. "The new Bull sequana system, powered by future Intel Xeon processors and the Intel Xeon Phi processor, code-named "Knights Landing", is designed to address the performance, reliability and energy-efficiency requirements of exascale-class supercomputers,” said Raj Hazra, vice president and general manager, Enterprise and HPC Platforms Group, Intel Corporation. “We’re excited to be collaborating with Bull to bring to market this new generation of supercomputers on the path to exascale.”The post Atos Launches Bull sequana X1000 Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the Linux Foundation announced plans to form the OpenHPC Collaborative Project. This project will provide a new, open source framework to support the world's most sophisticated HPC environments. "The use of open source software is central to HPC, but lack of a unified community across key stakeholders – academic institutions, workload management companies, software vendors, computing leaders – has caused duplication of effort and has increased the barrier to entry,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director, The Linux Foundation. “OpenHPC will provide a neutral forum to develop one open source framework that satisfies a diverse set of cluster environment use-cases.”The post Linux Foundation Announces OpenHPC Collaborative Project appeared first on insideHPC.

"The Amber Molecular Dynamics software is a well known and understood application for the structural dynamics of large biological molecules. With modern computer systems, a speedup in the computations can lead to studying events that occur on longer timescales, as well as statistical convergences. By incorporating the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor into the workflow on a compute server, additional speedups can be obtained."The post Amber Molecular Dynamics Optimization on Intel Xeon Phi appeared first on insideHPC.

"Today Mellanox announced Switch-IB 2, the new generation of its InfiniBand switch optimized for High-Performance Computing, Web 2.0, database and cloud data centers, capable of 100Gb/s per port speeds. Switch-IB 2 is the world's first smart network switch that offloads MPI operations from the CPU to the network to deliver 10X performance improvements. Switch-IB 2 will enables a performance breakthrough in building the next generation scalable and data intensive data centers, enabling users to gain a competitive advantage."The post Slidecast: Mellanox Announces Switch IB2 on the Road to Exascale appeared first on insideHPC.

In this week's Industry Perspectives, Laura Shepard, Sr. Director Vertical and Product Marketing at DDN looks at trends in commodity hardware, specifically a converged approach to storage and the many benefits it offers to supercomputing professionals.The post The Hyper-Converged Approach to Storage – a Natural Next Step appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Bright Computing announced that the latest version of its Bright Cluster Manager software is now integrated with Dell's 13th generation PowerEdge server portfolio. The integration enables systems administrators to easily deploy and configure Dell infrastructure using Bright Cluster Manager.The post Dell Equips PowerEdge Servers with Bright Cluster Manager for HPC Environments appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Italy's NICE Software announced plans to demonstrate their latest remote visualization technologies at SC15 in Austin. Enhanced products include new release of NICE Desktop Cloud Visualization (DCV), improvements for ParaView users developed in collaboration with Kitware on NVIDIA GPUs, and the latest release of SGI VizServer powered by NICE software.The post NICE to Demo Technical Computing Apps in the Cloud at SC15 appeared first on insideHPC.

Welcome to the Mobile Edition of Print ‘n Fly Guide to Austin. "Formatted for your smartphone the Guide is custom tailored for your journey to SC15 — the world’s largest gathering of high performance computing professionals. Inside this guide you will also find technical articles on supercomputing, HPC interconnects, and the latest developments on the road to exascale."The post Mobile Edition: Print ‘n Fly Guide to SC15 in Austin appeared first on insideHPC.

Allinea Software will demonstrate significant extensions to their Forge integrated development tool suite and Performance Reports analytics tool at SC15. "Version 6.0 of both products delivers for developers, users, analysts and system administrators – not only on Intel Xeon and Xeon Phi platforms, but also ARM 64-bit and OpenPOWER platforms."The post Allinea to Extend Performance Tools at SC15 appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast, Stephen Sofhauser from Dell describes what’s coming up at the company’s exhibit at SC15 in Austin. With a 50×50 exhibit and two booth theaters, Dell will showcase how customers are using their technology to solve their toughest computational problems. "Our own Rich Brueckner from insideHPC will host a pair of panel discussions in the Dell booth #1009 on Wednesday, Nov. 18."The post Podcast: Dell Panels on NSCI and the Convergence of Big Data Coming to SC15 appeared first on insideHPC.

Today DDN announced that the Texas Advanced Computing Center has selected the company's new SFA14KTM to deliver the performance, capacity and density needed for TACC’s latest Lonestar supercomputer. With 50 percent more cores and four times the performance of its predecessor, Lonestar 5 required the most advanced storage solution to support an exponential surge in big data resulting from hundreds of diverse research projects in astronomy, computational science, physics, bioinformatics, biomedicine, climate change, life sciences and more.The post TACC to Speed Lonestar Supercomputer with DDN SFA14K appeared first on insideHPC.

The San Diego Supercomputer Center is adding 800GB Seagate SAS SSDs to significantly boost the data analytics capability of its Comet supercomputer. To expand its node-local storage capacity for data-intensive workloads, device pairs will be added to all 72 compute nodes in one rack of Comet, alongside the existing SSDs. This will bring the flash storage in a single node to almost 2TB, with total rack capacity at more than 138TB.The post Seagate SSDs Boost Analytics on Comet Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.

Today D-Wave Systems announced that Los Alamos National Laboratory will acquire and install the latest D-Wave quantum computer, the 1000+ qubit D-Wave 2X system. Los Alamos, a multidisciplinary research institution engaged in strategic science on behalf of national security, will lead a collaboration within the Department of Energy and with select university partners to explore the capabilities and applications of quantum annealing technology, consistent with the goals of the government-wide National Strategic Computing Initiative.The post Los Alamos Orders D-Wave 2X Quantum Computer appeared first on insideHPC.

The Department of Energy’s Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) have built a 400 gigabit-per-second (Gbps) super-channel, the first-ever 400G production link to be deployed by a national research and education network.The post ESnet and NERSC Build 400G Production Network appeared first on insideHPC.

Today DDN announced the new DDN SFA14K and SFA14KE high performance hybrid storage platforms. According to DDN, the new SFA14K and SFA14KE deliver the world’s fastest, densest storage with more than 6 million IOPS and 60GB/sec in 4U with scalability to nearly 7PB of capacity in a single rack.The post DDN Introduces the World’s Fastest Hybrid SSD and Hyper-Converged Storage appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Los Alamos, Lawrence Berkeley, and Sandia national laboratories announced the Alliance for Application Performance at Extreme Scale (APEX). The new collaboration will focus on the design, acquisition and deployment of future advanced technology high performance computing systems.The post With APEX, National Labs Collaborate to Develop Next-Gen Supercomputers appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Nimbix announced the release of its JARVICE 2.0 cloud platform. As Nimbix’s Platform-as-a-Service for big data and HPC applications, JARVICE simplifies compute-intensive engineering/simulation, rendering and analytics by reducing complex configuration and tedious data movement.The post Nimbix Speeds Cloud HPC with New JARVICE Platform appeared first on insideHPC.

Today CoolIT Systems announced plans to showcase new server cooling technologies at the SC15 conference in Austin. Exhibiting at booth #163, CoolIT Systems will exhibit an expanded line of heat exchange solutions. Attendees will also find new customer case studies outlining the real-world benefits the industry is experiencing with liquid cooling.The post CoolIT Systems to Showcase New Liquid Cooling Technologies at SC15 appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Cycle Computing unveiled the latest version of its flagship product CycleCloud v5. This version contains a number of enhancements including a single dashboard for quickly and securely accessing and managing workloads on each of the world’s leading Cloud Service Providers (CSPs): AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Compute Engine.The post CycleCloud V5 Enables Single Dashboard for Major Cloud Service Providers appeared first on insideHPC.

"Micron is delivering on the promise of persistent memory with a solution that gives system architects a new approach for designing systems with better performance, reduced energy usage and improved total cost of ownership,” said Tom Eby, vice president for Micron’s compute and networking business unit. “With NVDIMM, we have a powerful solution that is available today. We’re also leading the way on future persistent memory development by spearheading R&D efforts on promising new technologies such as 3D XPoint memory, which will be available in 2016 and beyond.”The post Slidecast: Micron Persistent Memory & NVDIMM appeared first on insideHPC.

“The artificial intelligence race is on,” said Jen-Hsun Huang, co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “Machine learning is unquestionably one of the most important developments in computing today, on the scale of the PC, the internet and cloud computing. Industries ranging from consumer cloud services, automotive and health care are being revolutionized as we speak. Machine learning is the grand computational challenge of our generation. We created the Tesla Hyperscale Accelerator line to give machine learning a 10X boost. The time and cost savings to data centers will be significant.”The post Nvidia Releases Machine Learning Products for Hyperscale Datacenters appeared first on insideHPC.

In the pantheon of HPC grand challenges, weather forecasting and long term climate simulation rank right up there with the most complex and computationally demanding problems in astrophysics, aeronautics, fusion power, exotic materials, and earthquake prediction, to name just a few. This special reports looks at how HPC takes on the challenge of global weather forecasting and climate research.The post insideHPC Special Report on HPC Weather Forecasting and Climate Research appeared first on insideHPC.

In the past few years, accelerated computing has become strategically important for a wide range of applications. To gain performance on a variety of codes, hardware developers and software developers have concentrated their efforts to create systems that can accelerate certain applications by significant amount compared to what was previously possible.The post New GPUs accelerate HPC applications appeared first on insideHPC.

"Looking for the HPC community thought leaders at SC15? You will find many of them at the Intel Community Hub where hourly interactive discussions will feature more than 35 community thought leaders over three-days. Speakers from organizations such as CERN, ANL, LANL, LLNL, TACC, and NERSC, along with updates on the U.S. National Strategic Computing Initiative, a talk from Nielsen on ‘Bridging the Worlds of HPC and Big Data’, and community discussion groups addressing topics on diversity in HPC, lessons learned from many code modernization efforts, the changing landscape of HPC storage, the latest HPC initiatives in Europe, and the latest views from the Lustre* community."The post HPC Thought Leaders Headline Intel Community Hub at SC15 appeared first on insideHPC.

Today ArcaStream and General Atomics introduced Ngenea, the world’s first data-aware cloud storage gateway. Ready for quick deployment, Ngenea seamlessly integrates with popular cloud and object storage providers such as Amazon S3, Google GCS, Scality, Cleversafe and Swift and is optimized for data-intensive workflows in life science, education, research, and oil and gas exploration.The post World’s First Data-Aware Cloud Storage Gateway Coming to SC15 appeared first on insideHPC.

In a surprise move, Google has open-sourced TensorFlow artificial intelligence software. The powerful machine learning engine is one of Google’s successful experiments and helps the search giant in automated search and analysis.The post Google Open Sources TensorFlow for Machine Learning appeared first on insideHPC.

Today LSU announced the deployment of a POWER8-based supercomputer to advance big data research in Louisiana. Named Delta, the new supercomputer's unique design brings a new way of conducting computational research to LSU. The supercomputer will be housed at the LSU Center for Computation & Technology, or CCT.The post LSU Deploys IBM Power8 Delta Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.

In this slidecast, Andrew Jones from NAG discusses the lessons learned from over 40 supercomputing procurements. NAG has announced plans to launch an impartial HPC technology intelligence and analysis subscription service at SC15. "Developed in partnership with Red Oak Consulting, the NAG HPC Technology Intelligence Service will deliver technology insight and risk-reduction to help HPC buyers and users make better decisions and optimize their HPC investments."The post Slidecast: How to Buy a Supercomputer – Lessons Learned from NAG appeared first on insideHPC.

Today eXcellence in IS Solutions (X-ISS) announced plans for European expansion. With details to be unveiled at the SC15, X-ISS will expand its signature ManagedHPC service into the European market.The post X-ISS to Bring ManagedHPC to Europe appeared first on insideHPC.

Austin a great destination for the SC15 conference. In this special guest feature from the Print 'n Fly Guide to SC15, William Wallace describes five things not to miss in Austin.The post Five Things Not to Miss in Austin appeared first on insideHPC.

With SC15 in Austin this year, we all have a lot of good food and entertainment in store. In this special guest feature from the Print 'n Fly Guide to Austin, William Wallace writes that there’s a lot more to this town than just BBQ. Here are the places not to miss!The post A Foodie’s Guide to Restaurants and Entertainment in Austin appeared first on insideHPC.

The SC15 Blog has published a listing of Diversity Sessions not to miss. Just a week away, the SC15 conference runs Nov. 15-20 in Austin.The post SC15 Diversity Sessions Coming to Austin appeared first on insideHPC.

Brad Chamberlain from Cray presented this talk at the recent Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing. "We believe Chapel can greatly improve productivity for current and emerging HPC architectures and meet emerging mainstream needs for parallelism and locality."The post Video: Chapel – Productive, Multiresolution Parallel Programming appeared first on insideHPC.

SC15 has produced a handy Smartphone App for IOS and Android platforms. "Navigating the SC15 site from a phone is difficult, so the SC15 app comes in really handy when you're trying to find a booth number on the show floor."The post Smartphone App Keeps You Up to Date on SC15 appeared first on insideHPC.

Aspen Systems is seeking an HPC Sales Engineer in our Job of the Week.The post Job of the Week: HPC Sales Engineer at Aspen Systems appeared first on insideHPC.

Today SGI announced that Jorge Titinger, president and CEO of SGI, was named by the Hispanic IT Executive Council to the HITEC 100, a comprehensive list of the top 100 Hispanic executives who excel in their technology careers and are actively involved in HITEC's mission of addressing diversity in information technology.The post SGI’s CEO Jorge Titinger Recognized as Top 100 Hispanic Leader in Technology appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) announced plans to launch an impartial HPC technology intelligence and analysis subscription service at SC15. Developed in partnership with Red Oak Consulting, the NAG HPC Technology Intelligence Service will deliver technology insight and risk-reduction to help HPC buyers and users make better decisions and optimize their HPC investments.The post New NAG Service Helps Supercomputer Buyers Make Smarter Decisions appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, researchers from Cyfronet in Poland describe Prometheus, their new supercomputer built by Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Comprising more than 1700 servers of HPE Apollo 8000 platform and connected by FDR Infiniband, Prometheus will benefit scientists in the fields of chemistry, physics, astrophysics, biology, energy, nanotechnology and medicine.The post Video: Prometheus Supercomputer from HP Enterprise appeared first on insideHPC.

"Spack is designed to support multiple versions and configurations of software on a wide variety of platforms and environments. It was designed for large supercomputing centers, where many users and application teams share common installations of software on clusters with exotic architectures, using libraries that do not have a standard ABI. Spack is non-destructive: installing a new version does not break existing installations, so many configurations can coexist on the same system."The post RCE Podcast: Spack Package Management Tool appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the Ethernet Alliance shared details of its recent 25Gb/s technical feasibility event in New Hampshire. With 25Gb/s technologies being driven in part by hyperscale data center and cloud services market needs, the productive event drew industry-wide support and participation. The event produced promising results, with a high percentage of tests exceeding expected requirements of the proposed IEEE 25Gb/s standard, and achieving a success rate of greater than 86 percent for all test cases performed.The post Ethernet Alliance Moves Forward on 25G Technologies appeared first on insideHPC.

"Successful startups are the ones who have knowledge and a strong focus on a problem to solve. Knowledge comes from experience and there is no better way to accumulate that than working at one of the HPC facilities in the US or abroad. In fact I participated in this directly, moving to the US to work at a DOE lab. These opportunities still exist but the Labs often find it difficult to compete with Facebook and Google. If you are able to attend SC15 in Austin, you absolutely must visit the booths on the show floor and engage with the staff and seek out opportunities that exist. Again, SC is where the industry meets research and amazing things happen: go make it happen for you!"The post Interview: Brent Gorda from Intel on the Keys to Startup Innovation for HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

Users in HPC environments have requirements for using a cloud provider that are different than typical enterprise applications. Learn about the key considerations for ensuring maximum performance for running HPC applications in the cloud.The post Critical Requirements for HPC in the Cloud appeared first on insideHPC.

Researchers at TACC have developed a new tool to analyze bigger datasets using supercomputers and machine learning algorithms. Called NOMAD, the tool can pull insights from data much faster than other current state-of-the-art tools. It is also able to explore datasets, including some of the largest available, that break other leading software.The post TACC Speeds Big Data Analytics with Nomadic Computing appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Cycle Computing announced that their CTO, Rob Futrick will be the Keynote speaker at DataCloud 2015, the 6th International Workshop on Data Intensive Computing in the Clouds. The event takes place Nov. 15 in conjunction with SC15 in Austin. In his talk, Futrick will pose the question, “Why would you NOT use public clouds for your big compute workloads?”The post Cycle Computing’s Rob Futrick to Keynote DataCloud 2015 in Austin appeared first on insideHPC.

"With a differentiated strategy, sufficient investment, and political will, Europe has what it takes to be a global player and to achieve this ambitious goal. We believe that, with a common effort by all public and private actors in HPC – including EU member states, industry, academia, and the European Commission – Europe can make it happen."The post How to Move HPC Forward in Europe appeared first on insideHPC.