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Today DDN announced that the University of Miami’s Center for Computational Science (CCS) has deployed high-performance, DDN GS12K scale-out file storage to speed scientific discoveries and boost collaboration with researchers around the world. CCS maintains one of the largest centralized academic cyberinfrastructures in the country, which fuels vital and critical discoveries in Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, gastrointestinal cancer, paralysis and climate modeling as well as marine and atmospheric science research.The post DDN Storage Speeds Genome Sequencing at University of Miami appeared first on insideHPC.

The EU-funded DEEP Project has unveiled their innovative HPC platform: a 500 TFlop/s prototype system that implements a Cluster-Booster concept that has a lot in common with a turbocharged engine. The prototype operates with a full system software stack and programming environment engineered for performance and ease of use.The post DEEP Project Unveils 500 Teraflop Prototype appeared first on insideHPC.

Drug discovery has accelerated with the advent of high performance computing and new algorithms. "A structural bioinformatics algorithm, eFindSuite, can be used to demonstrate how moving the code to a highly parallel implementation can speed up the computation, by using both the Intel Xeon processor and the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor. eFindSuite is implemented in both Fortran 77 and C++."The post Accelerated Drug Discovery with Intel Xeon Phi appeared first on insideHPC.

Today NERSC announced a collaboration with UC Berkeley’s AMPLab and Cray to design large-scale data analytics stacks. "Analytics workloads will be an increasingly important workload on our supercomputers and we are thrilled to support and participate in this key collaboration,” said Ryan Waite, senior vice president of products at Cray. “As Cray’s supercomputing platforms enable researchers and scientists to model reality ever more accurately using high-fidelity simulations, we have long seen the need for scalable, performant analytic tools to interpret the resulting data. The Berkeley Data Analytics Stack (BDAS) and Spark, in particular, are emerging as a de facto foundation of such a toolset because of their combined focus on productivity and scalable performance.”The post Cray, AMPLab, NERSC Collaborate on Spark Performance for HPC Platforms appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Justin Baba from the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory describes how HPC transforms medical diagnostic imaging. “A lot of studies have been published on the impact of detecting or tracking the polarization of photons,” Baba says. “But there isn't much understanding of what is actually occurring as these photons are scattering and propagating through the media. We have captured step by step what is taking place at each scattering event and the effects on the photons’ properties due to a scattering event. So we are able to elucidate what is already out there in the literature.”The post Video: HPC Transforms Diagnostic Medical Imaging appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Mellanox announced that IBM has selected the company’s ConnectX-4 EDR InfiniBand adapters and EDR 100Gb/s IB switch systems for their new Power Systems LC line of servers designed for cloud environments and high performance cluster deployments and infused with OpenPOWER-based innovations. The technology will be utilized in the servers and high performance computing clusters as a part of an open architecture model which will feature technology from IBM, Mellanox and several other members of the OpenPOWER Foundation.The post Mellanox EDR InfiniBand Speeds OpenPOWER Platforms appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the good folks at FlyElephant announced support for R, Python, and public API for the participants of its beta testing program.The post FlyElephant Startup Announces Support for R, Python, and Public API appeared first on insideHPC.

Today DDN announced plans to refresh their storage product portfolio at SC15 in Austin. "With massively scalable technology able to outpace the performance requirements and growth of Enterprise Big Data while enabling HPC users to achieve Exascale, DDN will introduce revolutionary products and demonstrate the staggering 3x to 10x performance increase real-world customers achieve when they migrate to DDN environments."The post DDN to Refresh Storage Product Portfolio at SC15 appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest feature from the Print'n Fly Guide to SC15 in Austin, Scot Schultz from Mellanox writes that a new era of Co-Design will pave the way to Exascale. "Exascale computing will undoubtedly include three primary concepts: heterogeneous systems, direct communication through a more sophisticated intelligent network, and backward/forward compatibility. Co-Design includes these concepts in order to create an evolutionary architectural approach that will enable Exascale-class systems."The post Paving the Road to Exascale with Co-Design Architecture appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Supermicro announced World Record STAC-A2 performance. Announced at the STAC Summit, Supemicro beat the record with their SYS-1028GR-TR server supporting dual Intel Xeon Haswell EP processors and dual Intel Xeon Phi 7120P coprocessors.The post Supermicro World Record STAC-2 Performance with Intel Xeon Phi appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the UberCloud announced a complete management and execution environment for UberCloud Application Containers powered by Univa Grid Engine Container Edition. Now, popular commercial and open source technical applications are available in ready-to-execute packages of software designed to deliver the tools that engineers need to complete their task in hand.The post UberCloud Delivers CAE as a Service with Univa Grid Engine Container Edition appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the SC15 HPC Matters series, Ryan Quick, Principal Architect for Advance Technologies at Paypal, talks about how HPC transforms online payment transactions. "IDC estimates that PayPal has saved more than $700 million by moving up to HPC in a very innovative way for real-time and predictive fraud analysis," said Earl Joseph of IDC. "High performance data analysis – big data using HPC – is the fastest growing part of the HPC market and is attracting many commercial users. "The post Video: HPC Matters at PayPal appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Bright Computing announced plans to release several updates and enhancements to its most popular management software solutions at SC15, which takes place November 15-20, 2015, in Austin, Texas. The updates will include more than a dozen features that simplify OpenStack deployment, add built-in integration functionality, and greatly improve Big Data integration, including support for the latest releases from Apache, Cloudera, Hortonworks, and Pivotal.The post Bright Computing to Update Cluster Management Software at SC15 appeared first on insideHPC.

Today LiquidCool Solutions (LCS) announced plans to launch its newest technology - the Clamshell - at SC15 in Austin. As a rack-based server, the Clamshell is low-cost and flexible enough to meet Open Compute Project design standards.The post LiquidCool Solutions Launches Newest Technology at SC15 appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the European Commission announced a partnership agreement with the Human Brain Project (HBP), a key EU research project aiming to better understand how the human brain works. "Understanding the human brain is one of the greatest challenges facing 21st century science," said Günther H. Oettinger, European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society. "Major challenges like these can only be tackled at European level."The post European Commission Funds Human Brain Project Through 2020 appeared first on insideHPC.

VDI or Virtual Desktop Infrastructure helps companies save money, time and resources. Instead of large bulky machines on every desk in the office, companies can connect multiple workstations to a single computer using thin clients. Instead of replacing individual desktops every year, companies only have to replace thin clients every 5 years. And when it comes time to do updates, the IT staff updates the one computer instead of spending time updating every individual workstation.The post GPUs in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Solutions appeared first on insideHPC.

SC15 in Austin is world’s largest gathering of HPC professionals, and the smart money is on the organizations that leverage the show for their own gatherings, meetups, special booth sessions, and user groups. Here is a roundup of special events not to miss.The post Ancillary Event Lineup for SC15 in Austin appeared first on insideHPC.

The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on High-Performance Interconnection Networks in the Exascale and Big-Data Era has issued its Call for Papers. The HiPINEB event will take place March 12, 2016 in Barcelona in conjunction with the IEEE HPCA 2016 conference.The post HiPINEB 2016 in Barcelona Issues Call for Papers appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the NSF announced major awards totaling more than $5 million to support four regional Data Hubs organized by some of the top universities and Big Data researchers in the country.The post NSF Funds Regional Data Hubs appeared first on insideHPC.

In the video, Ed Seidel from NSCA testifies at a House hearing on the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program. NITRD provides a framework in which many Federal agencies come together to coordinate their networking and information technology (IT) research and development (R&D) efforts.The post Video: NCSA’s Ed Seidel Testifies on the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program appeared first on insideHPC.

PRACEdays16 has issued their Call for Participation. 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 Issues Call for Participation appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest feature from the Print'nFly Guide to SC15 in Austin, Peter ffoulkes from OrionX looks at how HPC Transforms. "If we thought the last five years were disruptive, we may not have seen anything yet, and in many ways the HPC community will continue to lead that transformation, even if it does not always receive recognition for that leadership. The general enterprise market shift towards a data-centric focus, based upon “big-data”, the impending deluge of sensor data from “The Internet of Things”, and real-time analytics using in-memory databases could be the best thing that has happened to the HPC community in decades."The post SC15 HPC Transforms – but how, what, where, when, why and for whom? appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Mellanox announced the acceptance of its 10GbE and 40GbE switch systems by the Open Compute Project (OCP).The post Mellanox Open Ethernet Switches Accepted By Open Compute Project appeared first on insideHPC.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory has opened up submissions for their ORNL Challenge Program. Designed to propel the careers of bright young minds in computational science, the challenge program offers college students 10-week paid internships at Oak Ridge National Lab, DOE’s largest multi-program science and energy laboratory.The post Students: Apply for the ORNL Challenge Program appeared first on insideHPC.

"The SPARC M7 incorporates silicon-embedded advancements primarily in two areas: security and performance. First, the SPARC M7 accelerates data encryption through “cryptographic units” integrated in each of its 32 cores. And by incorporating very high-performance encryption in the chip, Fowler says, the M7 is able to not only secure data quickly but also devote substantial processor resources to additional projects, resources that otherwise would be occupied encrypting data at the software layer."The post Video: How the SPARC M7 Builds Security into Silicon appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special Halloween podcast, the Radio Free HPC team shares their biggest fears for HPC. From cybersecurity to a lack of funding for important research, what's the worst that could possibly happen?The post Halloween Podcast: Radio Free HPC Shares their Biggest Fears for High Performance Computing appeared first on insideHPC.

Celgene in San Diego is seeking a Lead Specialist for HPC in our Job of the Week.The post Job of the Week: Lead Specialist for HPC at Celgene appeared first on insideHPC.

Lewey Anton reports on who’s jumping ship and moving on up in high performance computing. Familiar names this month include Ron Blessing, Rick Friedman, Karl Freund, and Mark Woodyard.The post HPC People on the Move: Halloween Edition appeared first on insideHPC.

Work began recently on the Agave Platform, an open ‘Science-as-a-Service’ (ScaaS) cloud platform for reproducible science. Funded by a $4 Million NSF grant, the Agave Platform will leverage the success of what originated in 2011 as a set of hosted, web-based application programming interfaces (APIs) for plant biologists under the NSF iPlant project.The post Agave Platform Provides Science as a Service appeared first on insideHPC.

The PASC16 Conference in Switzerland has issued its Call for Papers. The event takes place June 8-10 in Laussane.The post PASC16 Conference in Switzerland Issues Call for Papers appeared first on insideHPC.

Today SGI Japan announced that the Institute for Chemical Research (ICR) at Kyoto University has ordered an SGI UV 2000 supercomputer. "The large-scale hybrid supercomputer system will combine two of the SGI UV 2000, 16 terabyte shared-memory servers with Intel Xeon Processor E5-4600 v2 Product Family and SGI Rackable Standard Depth cluster servers with total 3,000 cores of Intel Xeon Processor E5-2600 v3."The post Kyoto University Orders SGI UV Supercomputer for Life Sciences appeared first on insideHPC.

"Deep neural networks are increasingly important for powering AI-based applications like speech recognition. Baidu's research shows that adding GPUs to the data center makes deploying big deep neural networks practical at scale. Deep learning based technologies benefit from batching user requests in the data center, which requires a different software architecture than traditional web applications."The post Interview: Baidu Speeds Deep Learning with GPU Clusters appeared first on insideHPC.

David Lecomber from Allinea Software presented this talk at the Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing. "From climate modeling to astrophysics, from financial modeling to engine design, the power of clusters and supercomputers advances the frontiers of knowledge and delivers results for industry. Writing and deploying software that exploits that computing power is a demanding challenge - it needs to run fast, and run right. That's where Allinea comes in."The post Video: Debugging and Profiling Your HPC Applications appeared first on insideHPC.

Today CoolIT Systems announced that the Poznan Supercomputing Center has ordered its second deployment of Rack DCLC data center liquid cooling systems. Building on the success of their existing liquid cooled deployment with CoolIT built in partnership with Huawei and Itprojekt, PSNC has purchased an additional 17 racks of liquid cooled Huawei servers for a project total of 20 racks. A new feature of this expanded deployment will see the server energy captured in the liquid being re-used for heating buildings on campus, making this installation one of the most efficient HPC clusters in EMEA.The post Poznan Supercomputing Center Expands CoolIT Systems Liquid Cooling to 1160 Nodes appeared first on insideHPC.

The Smith-Waterman algorithm is widely used for pairwise DNA sequence alignment. The computation, consisting of looking for pattern in very long strings of the DNA alphabet, is very demanding. Using the Intel Xeon Phi, tremendous performance gains can be obtained, as long as the algorithms have been modified to take advantage of parallelism.The post Pairwise DNA Optimization using Intel Xeon Phi appeared first on insideHPC.

A recent IDC survey indicated that about 25 percent of sites that ran HPC workloads are using some sort of cloud computing, and that just over 30 percent of the HPC workloads were being performed at cloud sites. There are a number of reasons to consider HPC in the cloud. Here are 5 good ones.The post Why HPC in a Cloud Environment appeared first on insideHPC.

“Our goal is to enable HPC developers to easily port applications across all major CPU and accelerator platforms with uniformly high performance using a common source code base,” said Douglas Miles, director of PGI Compilers & Tools at NVIDIA. “This capability will be particularly important in the race towards exascale computing in which there will be a variety of system architectures requiring a more flexible application programming approach.”The post PGI Accelerator Compilers Add OpenACC Support for x86 appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest feature, Tom Wilkie from Scientific Computing World reports that the European Commission is funding research projects and centers of excellence as part of its strategy to coordinate European HPC efforts. In October, the EC made a series of announcements on how it is going to invest some of the €700 million allocated to its Public-Private Partnership on high performance computing.The post European Commission Steps Up Funding of HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

A new EU research project called "ExaHyPE" is developing open-source software for exascale-class supercomputers. As an international project coordinated at TUM in Munich, ExaHyPE ("An Exascale Hyperbolic PDE Engine") seeks to develop novel software, initially for simulations in geophysics and astrophysics.The post ExaHyPE Project to Develop Exascale Software for Geophysics and Astrophysics appeared first on insideHPC.

Today DDN announced the highest bookings quarter in the company’s history with double-digit year-over-year growth.The post DDN Reports Growing Momentum Leading into SC15 appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the SC15 Energy Efficient HPC Workshop announced that parallel supercomputing pioneer Justin Rattner will deliver the keynote address at their event in Austin on Monday, November 16th, 2015. Formerly head of Intel Labs, Rattner directed Intel’s global research efforts in microprocessors, systems and communications including the company’s disruptive research activity.The post Justin Rattner to Keynote SC15 Energy Efficient HPC Workshop appeared first on insideHPC.

Submissions are now open for the ISC 2016 conference including workshops, tutorials, birds-of-a-feather (BoF) sessions, research papers, research posters, and the student volunteer program. The event takes place June 19-23 in Frankfurt, Germany.The post Submissions Open for ISC 2016 in Frankfurt appeared first on insideHPC.

Seagate will hosts its annual HPC User Group at SC15 on Monday, Nov 16 from 4:00pm – 7:00pm at the JW Marriott in Austin. "You don’t want to miss what our speakers have to say – it could change the way you do things (not to mention the fact that you’ll walk away with the most talked-about consumer hard drive on the market – the Seagate Seven)."The post Seagate HPC User Group Returns to SC15 in Austin appeared first on insideHPC.

In HPC news from CEA in France, the EoCoE (Oriented Energy Center of Excellence) project officially launched earlier this month. Pronounced "Echo," the EoCoE has a mission to create a new, long lasting and sustainable community around computational energy science.The post EoCoE Center of Excellence Using HPC to Accelerate Transition to Low Carbon Energy appeared first on insideHPC.

At insideHPC, are very pleased to publish the Print ‘n Fly Guide to SC15 in Austin. We designed this Guide to be an in-flight magazine custom tailored for your journey to SC15 — the world’s largest gathering of high performance computing professionals.The post It’s Here: The Print ‘n Fly Guide to SC15 in Austin appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Rogue Wave Software announced CodeDynamics, the next generation of dynamic analysis for data-intensive commercial applications. CodeDynamics expands the reach of multithreaded debugging from high performance computing environment into the commercial market.The post Rogue Wave Software CodeDynamics Expands the Reach of Multithreaded Debugging appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Mellanox announced that Monash University in Australia has selected the company's CloudX platform based on Mellanox’s Spectrum SN2700 Open Ethernet™ switches, ConnectX-4 NICs and Mellanox’s LinkX cables to provide the network for the world’s first 100Gb/s end-to-end OpenStack cloud.The post Mellanox Powers World’s First 100G End-to-End Cloud at Monash University appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Scality announced that company's software-based storage for has been selected by the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) to power its HPC storage needs. Scality and CEA will work together to advance their ongoing research and development projects, as well as CEA’s own HPC contributions, including the “Lustre”, “RobinHood” and “Ganesha” software solutions, and to collaborate on an exascale project environment.The post CEA in France Selects Scality for HPC Storage appeared first on insideHPC.

It’s a different kind of computing world out there. The demand for more compute performance for applications used by engineering, risk modeling, or life sciences is relentless. So, how are you keeping up with modern HPC demands? Meet Apollo - creating next-gen HPC and super-computing.The post Meet Apollo – Revolutionizing HPC and the Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.

In this RCE podcast, Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres discuss Conduit with Cyrus Harriston from LLNL. Conduit is an open source project from Lawrence Livermore that provides an intuitive model for describing hierarchical scientific data in C++, C, Fortran, and Python and is used for data coupling between packages in-core, serialization, and I/O tasks.The post RCE Podcast on the Conduit Model for Hierarchical Scientific Data appeared first on insideHPC.