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Are you planning on attending SC15 in Austin? Discounted "Early Bird" Advance registration for the SC15 conference ends Thursday, Oct. 15. After that, fees go up and could add several hundred dollars to your costs.The post Register for SC15 by Oct 15 and Save Big appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Mellanox announced the speaker lineup for their annual Dinner Event at SC15 will include comedian Jason Alexander from Seinfeld. Special guests include: Marek Michalewicz from A*STAR, Thomas Lippert from Jülich, and Jack Wells from Oak Ridge.The post Comedian Jason Alexander to Perform at Mellanox Event at SC15 appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest feature, Linda Barney writes that researchers at the University of Cambridge are using an Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor-based supercomputer from SGI to accelerate discovery efforts. “We have managed to modernize and optimize the main workhorse code used in the research so it now runs at 1/100-1/1000 of the original runtime. This allows us to tackle problems which would have taken unfeasibly long to solve. Secondly, it has opened windows for previously unthinkable research, namely using the MODAL code in cosmological parameter search: this is a problem which is constantly being solved in an iterative process, but adding the MODAL results to the process has only become possible with the improved performance.”The post Researching Origins of the Universe at the Stephen Hawking Centre for Theoretical Cosmology appeared first on insideHPC.

James Reinders from Intel presented this talk at the Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing. "We need to embrace explicit vectorization in our programming. But, generally use parallelism first (tasks, threads, MPI, etc.)."The post James Reinders Presents: Vectorization (SIMD) and Scaling (TBB and OpenMP) appeared first on insideHPC.

Leo Reiter from Nimbix presented this talk at the HPC User Forum. "Unlike conventional commodity cloud platforms, JARVICE and the Nimbix Cloud are purpose built to run any processing job at speed and scale. It means that as your problems get more complex, JARVICE simply expands to handle them."The post Heterogeneous On-Demand Storage for HPC Workflows in the Cloud appeared first on insideHPC.

Five up-and-coming networking experts have been selected to take part in the Women in IT Networking at SC (WINS) program. The women, all early- to mid-career networking and computer professionals, will receive full travel support to participate in the design, construction, and management of one of the largest networks in the world at the annual SC conference this November in Austin, TX (USA).The post Agencies, Universities Announce Recipients of Inaugural Program to Expand Role of Women in Leading-Edge Networks appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Asetek announced its biggest purchase order to date for its RackCDU data center liquid cooling system. The order was placed by an undisclosed Original Equipment Manufacturing partner. The order for 21 RackCDU with Direct-to-Chip cooling loops is to satisfy an undisclosed OEM customer installation. Both the OEM and the end user will be announced when the information becomes public.The post Asetek Continues Momentum with Largest Server Installation Order to Date appeared first on insideHPC.

Today ACM and IEEE announced that Kathy Yelick from LBNL will be the recipient of the 2015 ACM/IEEE Computer Society Ken Kennedy Award for innovative research contributions to parallel computing languages that have been used in both the research community and in production environments. She was also cited for her strategic leadership of the national research laboratories and for developing novel educational and mentoring tools. The award will be presented at SC15, which takes place Nov. 15-20, in Austin, Texas.The post Kathy Yelick to Receive Ken Kennedy Award at SC15 appeared first on insideHPC.

OpenSFS is sponsoring two Lustre BoFs at SC15 in Austin. As a nonprofit organization, OpenSFS was founded in 2010 to advance Lustre development, ensuring it remains vendor-neutral, open, and free.The post OpenSFS to Sponsor Two Lustre BoFs at SC15 appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Bright Computing announced that Anadolu University has chosen a collaborative solution from Bright, Dell and Eduline, for its high performance computing environment. Located in Northwest Turkey, Anadolu is the second largest university in the world by enrollment.The post Bright, Dell, & Eduline Build HPC Solution for Turkey’s Anadolu University appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks Dell's pending acquisition of EMC. "Dell Inc. and EMC Corporation have signed a definitive agreement under which Dell, together with its owners, Michael S. Dell, founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Dell, MSD Partners and Silver Lake, the global leader in technology investing, will acquire EMC Corporation, while maintaining VMware as a publicly-traded company."The post Radio Free HPC Looks at Dell’s Acquisition of EMC appeared first on insideHPC.

Training the neural networks used in deep learning is an ideal task for GPUs because GPUs can perform many calculations at once (parallel calculations), meaning the training will take much less time than it used to take. More GPUs means more computational power so if a system has multiple GPUs, it can compute data much faster than a system with CPUs only, or a system with a CPU and a single GPU. One Stop System’s High Density Compute Accelerator is the densest GPU expansion system to date.The post High Performance Computing GPU Accelerators in Deep Learning appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Adaptive Computing announced that they have fully deployed Moab 8.1 at the HPC4Health consortium in Canada. “The folks at Adaptive Computing helped us create the technology to build a converged data center that dynamically shares resources securely and allows us to account for the workloads used by each organization involved in the HPC4Health venture.”The post Moab Powers Dynamic Resource Sharing at HPC4Health in Canada appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Cray announced the creation of the Cray Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Research Lab. The Cray EMEA Research Lab will foster the development of deep technical collaborations with key customers and partners, and will serve as the focal point for the Company’s technical engagements with the European HPC ecosystem.The post Cray Opens EMEA Research Lab in Bristol appeared first on insideHPC.

SC16 has issued a Call for Proposals for a new initiative that aims to integrate aspects of past technical papers into the Student Cluster Competition.The post Call for Benchmark Proposals: SC16 Student Cluster Competition appeared first on insideHPC.

"When looking to buy a used car, you kick the tires, make sure the radio works, check underneath for leaks, etc. You should be just as careful when deciding which nodes to use to run job scripts. At the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Facility (NAS), our prologue and epilogue have grown almost into an extension of the O/S to make sure resources that are nominally capable of running jobs are, in fact, able to run the jobs. This presentation describes the issues and solutions used by the NAS for this purpose."The post Video: Prologue O/S – Improving the Odds of Job Success appeared first on insideHPC.

I’ve been commissioned by insideHPC to get the scoop on who’s jumping ship and moving on up in high performance computing. Familiar names this week include Mary Bass, Wilf Pinfold, and Mike Vildibill.The post HPC People on the Move: October Edition appeared first on insideHPC.

Professor Taisuke Boku from the University of Tsukuba presented this talk at the PBS User Group. "We have been operating a large scale GPU cluster HA-PACS with 332 computation nodes equipped with 1,328 GPUs managed by PBS Professional scheduler. The users are spread out across a wide variety of computational science fields with widely distributed resource sizes from single node to full-scale parallel processing. There are also several categories of user groups with paid and free scientific projects. It is a challenging operation of such a large system keeping high system utilization rate as well as keeping fairness over these user groups. We have successfully been keeping over 85%-90% of job utilization under multiple constraints."The post Case Study: PBS Pro on a Large Scale Scientific GPU Cluster appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest feature, Kim McMahon from McMahon Consulting writes that, for High Performance Computing vendors, HPC Marketing is a completely different animal than B2B.The post 10 Reasons HPC Marketing Differs from B2B appeared first on insideHPC.

Christopher Lynnes from NASA presented this talk at the HPC User Forum. "The Earth Observing System Data and Information System is a key core capability in NASA’s Earth Science Data Systems Program. It provides end-to-end capabilities for managing NASA’s Earth science data from various sources—satellites, aircraft, field measurements, and various other programs."The post Evolution of NASA Earth Science Data Systems in the Era of Big Data appeared first on insideHPC.

"In business and commercial computing, momentum towards cloud and big data has already built up to the point where it is unstoppable. In technical computing, the growth of the Internet of Things is pressing towards convergence of technologies, but obstacles remain, in that HPC and big data have evolved different hardware and software systems while Open Stack, the Open Source cloud computing platform, does not work well with HPC."The post Scientific Cloud Computing Lags Behind the Enterprise appeared first on insideHPC.

Tommaso Cecchi from DDN presented this talk at the HPCAC Spain Conference. "IME unleashes a new I/O provisioning paradigm. This breakthrough, software defined storage application introduces a whole new new tier of transparent, extendable, non-volatile memory (NVM), that provides game-changing latency reduction and greater bandwidth and IOPS performance for the next generation of performance hungry scientific, analytic and big data applications – all while offering significantly greater economic and operational efficiency than today’s traditional disk-based and all flash array storage approaches that are currently used to scale performance."The post Video: DDN Infinite Memory Engine IME appeared first on insideHPC.

NOAA is seeking an HPC Program Manager in our HPC Job of the Week.The post Job of the Week: HPC Program Manager at NOAA appeared first on insideHPC.

ISC 2016 has issued its Call for BoFs. "Like-minded ISC High Performance conference attendees come together in our informal Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) sessions to discuss current HPC topics, network and share their thoughts and ideas. Each 60-minute BoF session addresses a different topic and is led by one or more individuals with expertise in the area. The ISC 2016 BoF sessions will be held from Monday, June 20 through Wednesday, June 22."The post ISC 2016 Issues Call for BoFs appeared first on insideHPC.

“Argonne National Laboratory is one of the labs helping to lead the exascale push for the nation with the DOE. We lead in a numbers of areas with software and storage systems and applied math. And we’re really focusing, our expertise is focusing on those new ideas, those novel new things that will allow us to sort of leapfrog the standard slow evolution of technology and get something further out ahead, three years, five years out ahead. And that’s where our research is focused.”The post Pete Beckman Presents: Exascale Architecture Trends appeared first on insideHPC.

HLRS in Stuttgart, Germany has upgraded their Hornet system to Hazel Hen, a 7.42 Petaflop Cray XC40 supercomputer. Twice as fast as its predecessor, Hazel Hen is now now ready to support European scientific and industrial users in their pursuit of R&D break-throughs. "In case you're wondering, HRLS chose the name Hazel Hen because it's the one animal that eats Hornets."The post With Hazel Hen Cray XC40, HRLS Upgrades to 7.42 Petaflops appeared first on insideHPC.

"As HPC resource requirements continue to increase, the need for finding economical solutions to handle the rising requirements increases as well. There are numerous ways to approach this challenge. For example, leveraging existing equipment, adding new or used equipment, and handling uncommon peak usage dynamically through cloud solutions managed by a central job management system can prove to be highly available and resource rich, while remaining economical. In this presentation we will discuss how Wayne State University implemented a combination of these approaches to dramatically increase our compute resources for the equivalent cost of only a few new servers."The post Maximizing HPC Compute Resources with Minimal Cost appeared first on insideHPC.

XSEDE is now accepting 2016 Research Allocation Requests for the Bridges supercomputer. Available starting in January, 2016 at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Bridges represents a new concept in high performance computing: a system designed to support familiar, convenient software and environments for both traditional and non-traditional HPC users.The post Submit Your 2016 Research Allocation Requests for the Bridges Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.

What can we do to help ocean coral survive Global Warming? In this TACC podcast, Jorge Salazar looks at how researchers are using the Stampede supercomputer to investigate how Corals can genetically adapt to warmer waters.The post Podcast: Supercomputing Powers Efforts to Save Ocean Coral appeared first on insideHPC.

"This webinar replay discusses the use of high performance computing (HPC) in the design of aircraft jet engines and gas turbines used to generate electrical power. HPC is the critical enabler in this process, but applying HPC effectively in an industrial design setting requires an integrated hardware/software solution and a clear understanding of how the value outweighs the costs. This webinar will share GE’s perspective on the successful deployment and utilization of HPC, offer examples of HPC’s impact on GE products, and discuss future trends."The post Video: HPC in the Design of Aircraft Engines appeared first on insideHPC.

Today HP and SanDisk announced a long-term partnership to collaborate on a new technology within the Storage Class Memory (SCM) category. The partnership will center around HP’s Memristor technology and expertise and SanDisk’s non-volatile ReRAM memory technology and manufacturing and design expertise to create new enterprise-wide solutions for Memory-driven Computing. The two companies also will partner in enhancing data center solutions with SSDs.The post HP and SanDisk to Team on Memory-Driven Computing appeared first on insideHPC.

Today IBM announced launched a new LC series of servers that infuse technologies from members of the OpenPOWER Foundation and are part of IBM's Power Systems portfolio of servers. According to IBM, the new LC systems perform data analytics workloads faster and cheaper than comparable x86-based servers.The post IBM Launches LC OpenPower Servers appeared first on insideHPC.

"The Robinhood Policy Engine is a versatile tool to manage contents of large file systems. It maintains a replicate of filesystem medatada in a database that can be queried at will. It makes it possible to schedule mass action on filesystem entries by defining attribute-based policies."The post Lustre Video: Robinhood v3 Policy Engine and Beyond appeared first on insideHPC.

The Morton order is a mapping of multidimensional data to one dimension that preserves locality of the data. This is also known as Z-order. "By using Morton ordering as an alternative to row-major or column-major data storage, significant speedups can be achieved on the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor or Intel Xeon CPU when performing matrix multiplies or matrix transposes."The post Morton Ordering on the Intel Xeon Phi appeared first on insideHPC.

We'd like to invite our readers to participate in our new HPC & Large Enterprise Purchase Sentiment Survey. "It's designed to get a feel for the technology purchasing plans of HPC and large enterprise data centers. We'll also ask some questions about how your data center is approaching new technologies, usage models, and the like. Additionally, we'd like to know how you regard major vendors in the data center space."The post Requesting Your Input on the HPC & Large Enterprise Purchase Sentiment Survey appeared first on insideHPC.

“Although the use of GPUs has generalized nowadays, including GPUs in current HPC clusters presents several drawbacks mainly related with increased costs. In this talk we present how the use of remote GPU virtualization may overcome these drawbacks while noticeably increasing the overall cluster throughput. The talk presents real throughput measurements by making use of the rCUDA remote GPU virtualization middleware.”The post Video: Is Remote GPU Virtualization Useful? appeared first on insideHPC.

Sometimes the inbox for HPC news fills up faster than we can handle. In an effort to keep up, we've compiled noteworthy news into a Jeopardy type of Speed Round that phrases topics in the form a question.The post HPC News Bytes for Oct. 7, 2015 appeared first on insideHPC.

Joseph Lombardo from UNLV presented this talk at the PBS Works User Group. "Lombardo will highlight results from an Alzheimer’s research project that benefited from using PBS Professional. He will then describe the NSCEE’s new system at the Supernap and how this system can be used to advance research for HPC users in both academia/R&D and commercial industry. Lombardo will also highlight two emerging projects; the New School of Medicine and new Technology park."The post Leveraging HPC for Alzheimer’s Research and Beyond appeared first on insideHPC.

A new private Cloud HPC system will soon benefit bioinformatics researchers in their work on bacterial pathogens. The Cloud Infrastructure for Microbial Bioinformatics (CLIMB) project, a collaboration between the University of Birmingham, the University of Warwick, Cardiff University, and Swansea University, will create a free-to-use, world leading cyber infrastructure specifically designed for microbial bioinformatics research.The post Building the CLIMB Project – World’s Largest Single System for Microbial Bioinformatics appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the Disruptive Technologies Session at the 2015 HPC User Forum, Intel's Ralph Biesemeyer presents: Intel 3D XPoint Technology."For decades, the industry has searched for ways to reduce the lag time between the processor and data to allow much faster analysis,” said Rob Crooke, senior vice president and general manager of Intel’s Non-Volatile Memory Solutions Group. “This new class of non-volatile memory achieves this goal and brings game-changing performance to memory and storage solutions.”The post Video: Intel 3D XPoint Technology appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the LAD'15 Conference, Daniel Kobras from science+computing presents: Operational Characteristics of a ZFS-backed Lustre Filesystem.The post Operational Characteristics of a ZFS-backed Lustre Filesystem appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Seagate Technology announced it has completed its previously announced acquisition of Dot Hill Systems, makers of innovative software and hardware storage systems.The post Seagate Acquires Dot Hill Systems appeared first on insideHPC.

XSEDE's new Jetstream shared cloud resource is coming online early next year, but you can now apply for Jetstream research allocations.The post Apply Now for XSEDE’s Jetstream Shared Cloud Research Allocations appeared first on insideHPC.

Steve Conway from IDC describes high performance computing and how it really does impact our daily lives. "When you put HPC together with some of the most creative, scientific, engineering & business minds on the planet, magical things happen."The post IDC’s Steve Conway on Why HPC Matters appeared first on insideHPC.

With the explosion of data over the past few years, data storage has become a hot topic among corporate decision makers. It is no longer sufficient to have adequate space for the massive quantities of data that must be stored; it is just as critical that stored data be accessible without any bottlenecks that impede the ability to process and analyze data in real time.The post RDMA Enabling Storage Technology Revolution appeared first on insideHPC.

Hussein Harake from CSCS presented this talk at the HPC Advisory Council Spain Conference. “IME unleashes a new I/O provisioning paradigm. This breakthrough, software defined storage application introduces a whole new new tier of transparent, extendable, non-volatile memory (NVM), that provides game-changing latency reduction and greater bandwidth and IOPS performance for the next generation of performance hungry scientific, analytic and big data applications – all while offering significantly greater economic and operational efficiency than today’s traditional disk-based and all flash array storage approaches that are currently used to scale performance.”The post Video: Infinite Memory Engine (IME) Burst Buffer Experience at CSCS appeared first on insideHPC.

NERSC has selected a number of HPC research projects to participate in the center’s new Burst Buffer Early User Program, where they will be able to test and run their codes using the new Burst Buffer feature on the center’s newest supercomputer, Cori.The post Users to Test DataWarp Burst Buffer on Cori Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.

"We are excited that the H2020 SAGE Project gives us the opportunity to research and move HPC storage into the Exascale age,” said Ken Claffey, vice president and general manager, Seagate HPC systems business. “Seagate will contribute its unique skills and device technology to address the convergence of Exascale and Big Data, with an excellent selection of participants each bringing their own capabilities together to build the future of storage on an unprecedented scale.”The post Seagate to Lead Sage Storage Project for Exascale Horizon 2020 appeared first on insideHPC.

"For High Performance Computing users who leverage open-source Lustre software, a good file system for big data is now getting even better. Building on its substantial contributions to the Lustre community, Intel is rolling out new features that will make the file system more scalable, easier to use, and more accessible to enterprise customers."The post Video: Intel Commitment to Lustre appeared first on insideHPC.