by Rich Brueckner on (#RNWB)
The Open Compute Project got a major endorsement in the HPC space news of NNSA's pending deployment of Tundra clusters from Penguin Computing. To learn more, we caught up with Dan Dowling, Penguin's VP of Engineering Services.The post Interview: Penguin Computing Lands Biggest Open Compute Contract Ever for HPC appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#RNJG)
Today 3M announced that the world’s most powerful two-phase immersion cooling project will be deployed in a 40+ MW data center in the Republic of Georgia. Designed and built by the Hong Kong-based engineering company, Allied Control, the 2PIC project will use 3M Novec 7100 Engineered Fluid, an immersion coolant with a low global warming potential. Allied Control is a pioneer in 2PIC, a field showing great promise in boosting data center efficiency.The post World’s Largest Two-Phase Immersion Cooling Project to Use 3M Novec Fluid appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#RNE2)
"The FASTMathSciDAC Institute develops and deploys scalable mathematical algorithms and software tools for reliable simulation of complex physical phenomena and collaborates with application scientists to ensure the usefulness and applicability of FASTMath technologies. Our current research efforts are focused on developing a full range of technologies to improve the reliability, accuracy, and robustness of application simulation codes."The post Panel Discussion: Extreme-Scale Numerical Algorithms and Software appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#RN5P)
Today SGI introduced the SGI UV 300RL for big data in-memory analytics. As a new model in the SGI UV server line certified and supported with Oracle Linux, the SGI UV 300RL provides up to 32 sockets and 24 terabytes of shared memory. The solution enables enterprises that have standardized on Intel-based servers to run Oracle Database In-Memory on a single system to help achieve real-time operations and accelerate data analytics at unprecedented scale.The post SGI UV 300RL Enables Real-time Analytics with Oracle Database In-Memory appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#RJQZ)
Intel will host a Lustre Vision Update in Austin at SC15. "Lustre is a key component of the Scalable System Framework which offers performance, scalability and balance for both compute and data-intensive applications - smoothing the path to Exascale and the HPC/Big Data convergence. Our vision for the future is very exciting! Join Intel’s High Performance Data Division team as we talk about where we have been and the future: where we are going, together."The post Intel to Host Lustre Vision Update at SC15 appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#RJMY)
In this video, Patrick Nichols from the Computational and Informational Systems Laboratory presents: Introduction to the Yellowstone Supercomputer. Yellowstone is NCAR's 1.5-petaflops high-performance IBM iDataPlex cluster, which features 72,576 Intel Sandy Bridge processors and 144.6 TB of memory.The post Video: Introduction to the Yellowstone Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#RG8R)
Today the Council on Competitiveness published a new report from the National Digital Engineering Manufacturing Consortium (NDEMC). Entitled “Modeling, Simulation and Analysis, and High Performance Computing: Force Multiplier for American Innovation,†the 88 age report explores how HPC transforms manufacturing.The post Council on Competitiveness Report: HPC Transforms Manufacturing appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#RG7D)
George Washinton University is seeking a Senior HPC Systems Administrator at in our Job of the Week.The post Job of the Week: Senior HPC Systems Administrator at George Washinton University appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#RDPF)
In this video from the recent Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing, William Scullin from Argonne National Labs presents: Python for High Performance Computing.The post Video: Python for High Performance Computing appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#RDGJ)
Today the Hartree Centre announced plans for the UK's first POWER Acceleration and Design Center (PADC) designed to help UK businesses exploit high performance computing on OpenPOWER systems for Modeling & Simulation and Big Data Analytics.The post Hartree Centre to Assist Industry with OpenPOWER Acceleration appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#RDB8)
Nimbix CTO Leo Reiter will present a featured Founder Story at the StartupHPC Summit, Monday Nov 16 at the Capital Factory in Austin. We sat down with him to get his perspectives on the challenges, risks, and rewards of startups in HPC.The post Leo Reiter from Nimbix on the Keys to HPC Startup Innovation appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Douglas Eadline on (#RD12)
This article describes the challenges that users face and the solutions available to make running cloud based HPC applications a reality. You'll learn about different cloud computing models, potential economic savings and factors to consider when comparing an on-site data center with a cloud-based provider.The post Cloud Computing Models for HPC appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#RDD5)
In this podcast, Intel Software Evangelist James Reinders describes the upcoming Intel HPC Developer Conference. Featuring a keynote by Jack Dongarra from the University of Tennessee, the event takes place Nov. 14-15 in Austin, just prior to SC15. “Modernizing your code on Intel architecture can help you achieve breakthrough performance for highly parallel applications. And, you won’t have to recode your entire problem, or master new tools and programming models.â€The post Podcast: Intel HPC Developer Conference Coming to Austin for SC15 appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#R90P)
There's one party you don't want to miss at SC15, an that's the Beowulf Bash. This year, the Bash is returning to SC15 with a bullriding contest. The event takes place at Austin's Fair Market on Monday, Nov 16 at 9:00pm after the SC15 exhibit floor closes. At insideHPC, we are proud sponsors of the Beowulf Bash, so we hope to see you there.The post Beowulf Bash Returns to SC15 in Austin with Bullriding Contest appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Douglas Eadline on (#RAKH)
A successful example of how a well-managed GPU cluster allowed scientist to focus on obtaining results comes from the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT) results. A research group lead by Dr. Akinori Yamanaka develops computation models and simulates engineering materials, for a variety of applications, using HPC. Using Bright Cluster Manager, Dr. Yamanaka and his team were able to immediately focus on algorithm development and not burden the team with cluster administration issues.The post Accelerated Science: GPU Cluster Case Study appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#RA1A)
Today Asetek announced an OEM purchase agreement with HPC vendor Penguin Computing. As a part of the agreement, Penguin will incorporate Asetek’s RackCDU D2C liquid cooling technology into its Tundra Extreme Scale (ES) HPC server product line. RackCDU direct-to-chip hot water liquid cooling enhances Penguin’s ability to provide HPC solutions with extreme energy efficiency and higher rack cluster densities. The agreement has already resulted in an order by Penguin described in a previously anonymous announcement.The post Asetek Enters OEM Purchase Agreement with Penguin Computing appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#R9X6)
In this video from the World Economic Forum, Santiago Badia from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona introduces some of the challenges of working to make safe, efficient nuclear fusion a reality by 2040.The post Video: Supercomputing for Nuclear Fusion appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#R9TT)
On Oct. 16, the U.S. Army introduced Excalibur, its newest supercomputer. Currently ranked at #26 on the TOP500, the Cray XC40 system will help ensure Soldiers have the technological advantage on the battlefield, officials said.The post Army Unveils Excalibur Cray XC40 Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#R9S7)
Today DataDirect Networks announced DDN Omni-Connect, the industry’s first custom Intel Omni-Path enabled storage architecture. DDN Omni-Connect enabled storage platforms deliver best in breed cost and performance for the next generation of Web, Cloud and HPC data intensive environments with the need for Omni-Path connectivity.The post DDN Accelerates Intel Omni-Path Fabric for HPC appeared first on insideHPC.
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by MichaelS on (#R9PE)
"Microphysics provides atmospheric heat and moisture tendencies. This module has been optimized to take advantage of the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor. However, some manual optimization can lead to even greater performance gains. By using manual optimizations, the overall speedup on a host CPU (Intel Xeon E5-2670) was 2.8 X, while the performance of running on the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor was 3.5 X."The post WRF Microphysics Optimization appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#R6F7)
Today Dell announced its first DSS-branded servers. Formally announced in August 2015, Dell Datacenter Scalable Solutions (DSS) is a new line of business within Dell’s Enterprise Solutions organization designed to meet the specific needs of web tech, telecommunications service providers, hosting companies, oil and gas, and research organizations.The post Dell Rolls Out DSS-branded Servers appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#R6DM)
Today Western Digital announced plans to acquire SanDisk for a combination of cash and stock worth approximately $19 billion. The transaction has been approved by the boards of directors of both companies.The post Western Digital to Acquire SanDisk appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#R691)
DataDirect Networks will host its annual DDN User Group Meeting on Monday, Nov. 16 at SC15 in Austin, Texas.The post DDN User Group Coming to SC15 appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#R67T)
Today Cray announced the achievement of a new performance benchmark for reservoir simulations using Stone Ridge Technology's ECHELON reservoir simulation software and the Cray CS-Storm cluster supercomputer.The post GPUs Speed Reservoir Simulation with Cray CS-Storm Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#R664)
Today StartupHPC announced its second annual summit will be held in Austin on Nov 16 at the Capital Factory. Held in conjunction with SC15, the conference features prominent speakers from TechStars and Inside-Startups.com, among others, who have in-depth experience with entrepreneurship and the startup culture. The StartupHPC community caters to students and young entrepreneurs, corporations, venture capital firms, academia, government agencies, and support organizations.The post StartupHPC Summit to Inspire Entrepreneurs at SC15 appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#R62B)
"The Cognitive Era is the next step in the application of science to understand nature and improve the human condition. In that sense, it is a new chapter of a familiar story, and the controversy surrounding Artificial Intelligence is merely the latest example of the age-old debate between those who believe in progress and those who fear it. Within the scientific community —as opposed to the media and popular entertainment —the verdict is in. There is broad agreement on the importance of pursuing a cognitive future, along with recognition of the need to develop the technology responsibly."The post Video: Cognitive Computing – Past and Present appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#R2S7)
Today the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) announced a contract with Penguin Computing for a set of large-scale Open Compute HPC clusters. With 7-to-9 Petaflops of aggregate peak performance, the systems will be installed as part of NNSA’s tri-laboratory Commodity Technology Systems program. Scheduled for installation starting next year, the systems will bolster computing for national security at Los Alamos, Sandia and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories.The post Penguin Computing to Build 7-9 Petaflops of Open Compute Clusters for NNSA appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#R2JB)
The Stanford Solar Car Project is using the Sabalcore HPC Cloud to significantly improve aerodynamics for their entry in the 2015 World Solar Challenge. "The car’s asymmetrical body, or catamaran design, as it’s called, required detailed simulation to understand and refine. After initial simulations comparing symmetrical and asymmetrical cars in general, the team embarked on a CFD iteration and refinement process that took over five months and utilized over 100,000 core-hours using Sabalcore's HPC Cloud."The post Stanford Accelerates Solar Car with Sabalcore HPC Cloud appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#R2F0)
Neuroscientists will find an easier path to supercomputiong thanks to new SDSC funding from the NSF. The project will contribute to the national BRAIN initiative announced by the Obama administration in 2013 to advance researchers’ understanding of the human brain.The post NSF Funds Supercomputing for Neuroscientists at SDSC appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#R1TH)
Across industries, companies are beginning to watch the convergence of High-performance Computing (HPC) and Big Data. Many organizations in the Financial Services Industry (FSI) are running their financial simulations on business analytics systems, some on HPC clusters. But they have a growing problem: integrating analytics of non-structured data from sources like social media with their internal data. Learn how Lustre can help solves these challenges.The post Lustre* Accelerates the Convergence of Big Data and HPC in Financial Services appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#R1TJ)
Bill Gropp presented this talk at the Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing. "Where it is used as an alternative to MPI, OpenMP often has difficulty achieving the performance of MPI (MPI’s much-criticized requirement that the user directly manage data motion ensures that the programmer does in fact manage that memory motion, leading to improved performance). This suggests that other programming models can be productively combined with MPI as long as they complement, rather than replace, MPI."The post Bill Gropp Presents: MPI and Hybrid Programming Models appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#QZJZ)
The HPC Advisory Council has published the Agenda for their China Conference. The event takes place Nov. 9 in Wuxi, China.The post Agenda Posted for HPC Advisory Council China Conference appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#QZ4Q)
Researchers are calling for a coordinated national network of neurotechnology centers or "brain observatories." As proposed in an Opinion paper published in the Neuron journal, the observatories would augment the BRAIN Initiative involving more than 100 laboratories in the United States has already made progress in establishing large-scale neuroscience goals and developing shared tools.The post Researchers Propose “Brain Observatory†Neurotechnology Centers appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#QYXX)
Rob Walsh from Altair Engineering presented this talk at the HPC User Forum. "The HyperWorks Unlimited Physical Appliance is a fully configured high-performance computing (HPC) appliance specifically designed to manage and solve today’s advanced computer-aided engineering (CAE) workload demands. Completely managed by Altair, this appliance creates an instant, secure private cloud environment allowing unlimited use of Altair’s entire HyperWorks CAE software suite."The post Optimizing Cloud and HPC Technologies for Advanced Simulation appeared first on insideHPC.
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by veronicahpc1 on (#QYTQ)
Today Qumulo announced that Sinclair Oil has chosen the company's scale-out NAS storage for increased performance and real-time data visibility necessary to properly monitor the companys rapidly growing digital system.The post Qumulo Data-Aware Scale-Out NAS Powers Analytics at Sinclair Oil appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#QYM9)
"Comet is SDSC’s newest HPC cluster, designed as a high-throughput system with unique HPC virtualization capabilities to accommodate a large number of researchers looking for rapid turnaround. It is built on Dell PowerEdge C6320 servers with Intel Xeon Haswell E5 2680v3 processors."The post Video: Dell Powers Comet Supercomputer at SDSC appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#QW4H)
"We describe Oclgrind, a platform designed to enable the creation of developer tools for analysis and debugging of OpenCL programs. Oclgrind simulates how OpenCL kernels execute with respect to the OpenCL standard, adhering to the execution and memory models that it defines. A simple plugin interface allows developer tools to observe the simulation and collect execution information to provide useful analysis, or catch bugs that would be otherwise difficult to spot when running the application on a real device. We give details about the implementation of the simulator, and describe how it can be extended with plugins that provide useful developer tools. We also present several example use-cases that have already been created using this platform, motivated by real-world problems that OpenCL developers face."The post Video: Oclgrind – An Extensible OpenCL Device Simulator appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#QW1W)
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has opened the CENATE Center for Advanced Technology Evaluation, a first-of-its-kind computing proving ground. Designed to shape future extreme-scale computing systems, CENATE evaluations will mostly concern processors; memory; networks; storage; input/output; and the physical aspects of certain systems, such as sizing and thermal effects.The post PNNL Launches CENATE Computing Proving Ground appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#QSKV)
In this video from the SC15 HPC Matters series, NASA Aerospace Engineer Dr. Shishir Pandya describes how high performance computing helps advance airplane and rocket technologies. “Why does high-performance computing matter? Because science matters! Discovery matters! Human beings are seekers, questers, questioners. And when we get answers, we ask bigger questions. HPC extends our reach, putting more knowledge, more discovery, and more innovation within our grasp. With HPC, the future is ours to create! HPC Matters!â€The post HPC Matters to Aerospace appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#QS0Z)
Johns Hopkins University is seeking an HPC Software Engineer in our Job of the Week.The post Job of the Week: HPC Software Engineer at Johns Hopkins University appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#QPT1)
An Iceland-based "HPC in the Cloud" company called Advania has published an interesting case study with The Ubercloud, and online community and marketplace where engineers, scientists, and their service providers discover, try, and buy Computing Power and Software as a Service, from Cloud Resource and Software Providers around the world.The post Advania in Iceland Tests HPC Cloud Bursting with Docker using the Ubercloud appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#QPPM)
Today Bitfusion announced Bitfusion Labs, a collaborative proving ground for delivering performance improvements for hardware-accelerated applications.The post Bitfusion Labs Opens for Boosting Application Performance appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#QPKK)
Today Spectra Logic launched ArcticBlue, a new nearline disk storage system that delivers "Twice the Shelf Life of Competing Disk Platforms at Half the Cost." ArcticBlue leverages the company’s BlackPearl hybrid storage architecture and Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) disk media, creating an object storage based disk platform with maximum longevity, efficiency and cost effectiveness. Datacenter and private cloud managers can now affordably integrate a long-life nearline disk solution with online performance.The post ArcticBlue Nearline Storage from Spectra Logic Increases Data Shelf Life appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#QPHV)
Bull Atos has installed the fastest supercomputer in Croatia at the University in Rijeka. With an expected debut on the TOP500 in November, the 239 Teraflop BURA supercomputer will be used by university researchers in areas including drug discovery and genomics.The post Bull Atos Installs Fastest Supercomputer in Croatia appeared first on insideHPC.
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by MichaelS on (#QPG7)
Cloud computing is changing the way that IT organizations operate and innovate. While moving enterprise type applications to a cloud service provider is progressing, technical computing has been lagging in this transformation. This is changing, as the technology that once sat in a protected data center is now available in the cloud.The post insideHPC Guide to Cloud Computing for HPC appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#QPEW)
Pavan Balaji from Argonne presented this talk at the Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing. "More cores will drive the network, with more sharing of the network infrastructure. The aggregate amount of communication from each node will increase moderately, but will be divided into many smaller messages."The post Video: Network Architecture Trends appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#QK30)
IDC will host a complimentary Analyst Briefing and Breakfast at SC15. The popular annual event is great way to catch up with the latest trends in the HPC Market and High Performance Data Analytics.The post IDC Breakfast Briefing Returns to SC15 appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#QK07)
"This exciting course offers students and teachers a unique opportunity to work with advanced research technology not usually available in a typical classroom setting. Students will engage in the following activities: building a computer cluster from scratch; installing the Linux operating system on the computer they've built; connecting computers put together by their peers to make a mini-supercomputer; learning how to program a mini-supercomputer in parallel with Python; interactive activities to help understand how Parallel computing works in Supercomputing; running performance benchmarks to determine how your cluster ranks in comparison with the fastest and largest supercomputers in the world."The post Video: Beowulf Boot Camp Trains the Next Generation of HPC Experts appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#QJXP)
The Gauss Centre for Supercomputing is sponsoring a team from the Technische Universität München for the SC15 Student Cluster Competition at SC15.The post GCS Sponsors TUM Team for SC15 Student Cluster Challenge appeared first on insideHPC.
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by MichaelS on (#QJTJ)
"Modern Numerical Weather prediction (NWP) can now use many thousands of cores in a single run of the application. By using modern CPUs such as the Intel Xeon processors and the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors, tremendous performance and efficiency can be obtained. It is important to remember that many of the applications are written in Fortran and many of the contributors are domain experts, not parallel programming gurus."The post Weather Prediction with Intel Xeon Phi appeared first on insideHPC.
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