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Climaveneta of Italy announced that the company has won a contract to provide liquid-cooling equipment for a 100 Petaflop supercomputer coming to the Jiangnan Institute of Computer Technology in Wuxi, China, near Shanghai.The post Climaveneta to Provide Liquid Cooling for 100 Petaflop Supercomputer Coming to China appeared first on insideHPC.

“Exascale levels of computing pose many system- and application-level computational challenges. Mellanox as a provider of end-to-end communication services is progressing the foundation of the InfiniBand architecture to meet the exascale challenges. This presentation will focus on recent technology improvements which significantly improve InfiniBand’s scalability, performance, and ease of use.”The post Video: The Road to Exascale appeared first on insideHPC.

"A parallel implementation of SpMV can be implemented, using OpenMP directives. However, by allocating memory for each core, data races can be eliminated and data locality can be exploited, leading to higher performance. Besides running on the main CPU, vectorization can be implemented on the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor. By blocking the data in various chunks, various implementations on the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor can be run and evaluated."The post Sparse Matrix Multiplication appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) announced that it has made significant upgrades to its cloud-based storage system to include a new range of computing services designed to support science-based researchers, especially those with large data requirements that preclude commercial cloud use, or who require collaboration with cloud engineers for building cloud-based services.The post SDSC Steps up with Upgraded Cloud and Storage Services appeared first on insideHPC.

Chris Morrone from OpenSFS/LLNL gave this talk at LAD'15. "The first thing I want to talk about is that Lustre.org is now managed collectively by OpenSFS and EOFS. So the Lustre.org site is now managed by the community. One of the major benefits of this is that the major mailing lists (lustre-announce, lustre-discuss, and lustre-devel) are now under our control, so we want everyone to come back to those mailing lists and start using them again."The post Lustre Development Update from LAD’15 appeared first on insideHPC.

The Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Computer Science Department is hiring a tenure-track faculty position in our HPC Job of the Week.The post Job of the Week: Tenure-track Faculty Position in HPC at Cal Poly appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team goes over a Trip Report from Rich Brueckner from insideHPC, who's been on the road at a series of HPC conferences. We captured more that 50 talks in the past month, and we have them all right here with the very latest in High Performance Computing.The post Radio Free HPC Looks at Highlights from Fall 2015 HPC Conferences appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the PRACE Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe issued their 12th Call for Proposals. By providing access to some of the fastest supercomputer in Europe, the Call for Proposals targets large-scale, computationally intensive projects that would not be possible or productive without access to PRACE resources.The post PRACE Opens 12th Call for Proposals appeared first on insideHPC.

"NVLink enables fast data exchange between CPU and GPU, thereby improving data throughput through the computing system and overcoming a key bottleneck for accelerated computing today. NVLink makes it easier for developers to modify high-performance and data analytics applications to take advantage of accelerated CPU-GPU systems. We think this technology represents another significant contribution to our OpenPOWER ecosystem.”The post Video: NVLink Interconnect for GPUs appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Mellanox announced a definitive agreement to acquire EZchip, a leader in high-performance processing solutions for carrier and data center networks. You may recognize EZchip from their recent Tilera acquisition, makers of Tile-Gx multicore network processors.The post Mellanox to Acquire EZchip AKA Tilera appeared first on insideHPC.

For some applications, cloud based clusters may be limited due to communication and/or storage latency and speeds. With GPUs, however, these issue are not present because application running on cloud GPUs perform exactly the same as those in your local cluster -- unless the application span multiple nodes and are sensitive to MPI speeds. For those GPU applications that can work well in the cloud environment, a remote cloud may be an attractive option for both production and feasibility studies.The post Developing a Plan for Cloud Based GPU Processing appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Cray announced the Company has been awarded a contract to provide a Cray XC40 supercomputer to the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP) at Kyoto University in Japan. The two-cabinet Cray XC40 system will provide the YITP user community with a supercomputer that occupies one-fourth of the physical footprint of the Institute's previous system and a 4x improvement in overall compute performance. The liquid-cooled system will power a wide range of theoretical physics research at YITP, such as astrophysics, nuclear physics and particle physics, and will also serve as a shared supercomputing resource supporting theoretical physicists all across Japan.The post Kyoto University to Install Cray XC40 Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.

DK Panda from Ohio State University presented this talk at the HPC Advisory Council Spain Conference. “Dr. Panda and his research group members have been doing extensive research on modern networking technologies including InfiniBand and 10-40GE/iWARP. His research group is currently collaborating with National Laboratories and leading InfiniBand and 10-40GE/iWARP companies on designing various subsystems of next generation high-end systems."The post Communication Frameworks for HPC and Big Data appeared first on insideHPC.

"Our vision is to deliver accelerated graphics and high performance computing to any connected device, regardless of location," said Jen-Hsun Huang, co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA. "We are excited to collaborate with Microsoft Azure to give engineers, designers, content creators, researchers and other professionals the ability to visualize complex, data-intensive designs accurately from anywhere."The post NVIDIA GRID 2.0 comes to Microsoft Azure appeared first on insideHPC.

Bob Sorensen from IDC presented this talk at the HPC User Forum. In a recent study, IDC assessed the EU's progress towards their 2012 action plan and made recommendations for funding exascale systems and fostering industrial HPC in the coming decade.The post EU/European HPC Plans for the Next Decade appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the European Commission announced HLRS, JSC, and LRZ have been named “Centers of Excellence for computing applications. Funded by the EC and the Horizon 2020 program, the new Centers of Excellence will provide their petascale HPC infrastructure for developing services for European users in science and industry.The post German Supercomputing Sites Become Centers of Excellence for Horizon 2020 appeared first on insideHPC.

While there is much discussion and products in the market regarding cloud computing and the ability to spin up a virtual machines quickly and efficiently, the fact remains that without planning for cloud based storage, the data will get lost. Simply put, without storage, there is no data.The post IBM Storage With OpenStack appeared first on insideHPC.

The performance-savvy HPC developer is in high demand today. Leaps in intra-node parallelism, memory performance and capacity are set to meet applications struggling to exploit existing systems head-on.The post Stepping up to the performance challenge appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Data Vortex Technologies announced that the company has sold and delivered a DV205 system, “PEPSY”, to the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). PEPSY is specifically designed to solve problems requiring extensive processor-to-processor communication in parallel computing systems.The post PNNL Installs Data Vortex System appeared first on insideHPC.

Nathan Rutman from Seagate presented this talk at the LAD'15 Conference. "So why is a spinning disk company talking about Flash? Last year, Seagate acquired Avago LSI's flash division. We now have an array of flash-based storage. So I have nothing against Flash. This presentation is really on: Where does Flash make sense? I also have a personal agenda because I hate the term "Burst Buffer." Everyone says "Burst Buffer" instead of saying "Flash." It drives me crazy. So I'm going to explain what a Burst Buffer is and what it is not."The post Video: On the Role of Flash in Large-Scale Storage Systems appeared first on insideHPC.

Today D-Wave Systems announced a new agreement covering the installation of a succession of D-Wave systems located at NASA's Ames Research Center. "The new agreement is the largest order in D-Wave's history, and indicative of the importance of quantum computing in its evolution toward solving problems that are difficult for even the largest supercomputers," said D-Wave CEO Vern Brownell. "We highly value the commitment that our partners have made to D-Wave and our technology, and are excited about the potential use of our systems for machine learning and complex optimization problems."The post D-Wave to Collaborate with Google, NASA, and USRA on Quantum Computing appeared first on insideHPC.

"The UCX Unified Communication X project is a collaboration between industry, laboratories, and academia to create an open-source production grade communication framework for data centric and high-performance applications. At the core of the UCX project are the combined features, ideas, and concepts of industry leading technologies including MXM, PAMI and UCCS. Mellanox Technologies has contributed their MXM technology, which provides enhancements to parallel communication."The post UCX: Co-Design Architecture For Next Generation HPC Systems appeared first on insideHPC.

Pointwise has announced the latest release of its meshing software featuring new native interfaces to computational fluid dynamics codes.The post Pointwise Improves Mesh Generation Capabilities appeared first on insideHPC.

Rich Brueckner from insideHPC moderated this panel discussion on current trends in HPC. "President Obama's Executive Order establishing the National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI) will set the stage for a new chapter in leadership computing for the United States. In this panel discussion, thought leaders from leading supercomputing vendors share their perspectives on current HPC trends and the way forward."The post Video: HPC Technology Panel at the PBS Works User Group appeared first on insideHPC.

Jack Dongarra from the University of Tennessee will keynote the first-ever Intel HPC Developer Conference, Nov. 14-15 in Austin, Texas. "The Intel HPC Developer Conference offers high levels of access. This is your best opportunity to connect with Intel architecture experts, meet HPC industry leaders, and build a lasting network of peers. This is your best opportunity to connect with Intel architecture experts, meet HPC industry leaders, and build a lasting network of peers. The conference will also offer insights into the future of HPC with Intel experts on visualization, machine learning, software tools and much more."The post Jack Dongarra to Keynote Intel HPC Developer Conference at SC15 appeared first on insideHPC.

Earl Joseph from IDC presented this talk at the HPC User Forum. "This study investigates how HPC investments can improve economic success and increase scientific innovation. This research is focused on the common good and should be useful to DOE, other government agencies, industry, and academia."The post IDC Presents an Update on ROI with HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

ARM in Austin is seeking an HPC R&D Engineer in our Job of the Week.The post Job of the Week: HPC R&D Engineer at ARM in Austin appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the Disruptive Technologies session at the 2015 HPC User Forum, Nick Ihli from Adaptive Computing presents: Leveraging Containers in Elastic Environments.The post Video: Leveraging Containers in Elastic Environments appeared first on insideHPC.

High Performance Computing has long been dominated by men, but there seems to be little hard data as to how our HPC community really looks in terms of diversity. Over at TOP500.org, John West calls for every HPC center, company, and research organization to create a diversity page that reflects the current state of their institution.The post SC16 Chair Calls for HPC Organizations to Create Diversity Pages appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the 2015 HPC Advisory Council Spain Conference, Gilad Shainer moderates a panel discussion on Exascale computing.The post Exascale Panel Discussion from HPCAC Spain Conference appeared first on insideHPC.

High Performance Computing (HPC) in the cloud has become a hot topic with new offerings targeted at this market. The demands of technical computing professional to use the cloud for HPC workloads are different than that of a general enterprise software requirement. Performance is key, which requires a different infrastructure at the cloud providers premises.The post IBM Cloud Services vs Amazon EC2 appeared first on insideHPC.

Jim Ganthier from Dell presented this talk at the HPC User Forum. "Dell HPC solutions are deployed across the globe as the computational foundation for industrial, academic and governmental research critical to scientific advancement and economic and global competitiveness. With the richness of the Dell enterprise portfolio, HPC customers are increasingly relying on Dell HPC experts to provide integrated, turnkey solutions and services resulting in enhanced performance, reliability and simplicity."The post Video: Dell’s New HPC Vision, Strategy, and Plans appeared first on insideHPC.

Peter Hopton from Iceotope presented this talk at the HPC User Forum. "ExaNeSt will develop, evaluate, and prototype the physical platform and architectural solution for a unified Communication and Storage Interconnect and the physical rack and environmental structures required to deliver European Exascale Systems. The consortium brings technology, skills, and knowledge across the entire value chain from computing IP to packaging and system deployment; and from operating systems, storage, and communication to HPC with big data management, algorithms, applications, and frameworks. Building on a decade of advanced R&D, ExaNeSt will deliver the solution that can support exascale deployment in the follow-up industrial commercialization phases."The post ExaNeSt Technology: Targeting Exascale in 2018 appeared first on insideHPC.

One of the most used algorithms in numerical simulation is the solving of large, dense matrices. Thermal analysis, boundary element methods and electromagnetic wave calculations all depend on the ability to solve these large matrices as fast as possible. The ability to use a coprocessor such as the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor will greatly speed up these calculations.The post Out of Core Solvers on a Cluster appeared first on insideHPC.

A new breakthrough battery — one that has significantly higher energy, lasts longer, and is cheaper and safer — will likely be impossible without a new material discovery. And a new material discovery could take years, if not decades, since trial and error has been the best available approach. But Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) scientist Kristin Persson says she can take some of the guesswork out of the discovery process with her Electrolyte Genome.The post LBNL to Improve Batteries with Electrolyte Genome Project appeared first on insideHPC.

"Intelligent Pharma is a biotechnology company dedicated to developing, commercializing and using new computational technologies for drug discovery. According to our clients' needs, we carry out customized computational chemistry projects using cutting-edge technologies."The post Video: HPC Tools to Discover New Drugs appeared first on insideHPC.

Oil and gas are becoming increasingly harder to find. This article looks at how oil and gas companies are using cutting edge technology, like HPC servers, compute accelerators and flash storage arrays for applications such as seismic processing, seismic interpretation and reservoir modeling.The post HPC in Seismic Processing and Interpretation and Reservoir Modeling appeared first on insideHPC.

As an open source tool designed to navigate large amounts of data, Hadoop continues to find new uses in HPC. Managing a Hadoop cluster is different than managing an HPC cluster, however. It requires mastering some new concepts, but the hardware is basically the same and many Hadoop clusters now include GPUs to facilitate deep learning.The post Planning for the Convergence of HPC and Big Data appeared first on insideHPC.

Thomas Leung from the GE Global Research Center presented this talk at the PBS Works User Group. "The commercial world uses significant HPC resources for simulation and product design. An increasing number of HPC systems are deployed in the commercial space and their scale is getting larger and larger. These advanced systems push limits in every aspect of Enterprise IT. Accommodating such systems within the enterprise is a challenge, and there have been many recent changes to enterprise IT infrastructures and architectures resulting from the need to support HPC."The post HPC Across the Enterprise: How HPC Transforms the Corporate IT Ecosystem appeared first on insideHPC.

Today IEEE announced that Mateo Valero from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center will be the first European researcher to receive the Seymour Cray Award. "As one of the most prestigious honors in high performance computing, the Seymour Cray Award is given to those who exemplify "recognition of innovative contributions in the computer systems of high performance better exemplify the creative spirit of Seymour Cray. Valero is being recognized for his fundamental contributions to the field of vector architectures, super-scalar processors, processors,multithreaded processors and Very Long Instruction Word."The post Mateo Valero will be the first European to Receive the Seymour Cray Award appeared first on insideHPC.

"We figured out a way to get consumer-grade cards into a 4U chassis,” said Nor-Tech’s Vice President of Engineering, Dom Daninger and his team tested and retested the prototype until they were satisfied that their solution would be successful for most applications. “The result is a niche product that allows nearly all organizations to take advantage of GPU supercomputing capabilities—in essence supercomputing capabilities at an unheard of price point.”The post GPUs Power Low-Cost Supercomputer Solution from Nor-Tech appeared first on insideHPC.

PEZY Computing from Japan has earned the top three rankings on the Green500 list, using a 3M Fluorinert Electronic Liquid in an immersive cooling system built by ExaScaler Inc. The Green500 is a biannual ranking of the most energy-efficient supercomputers in the world. The triple win indicates growing progress and adoption in the field of immersion cooling with engineered dielectric fluids and its potential to transform the high performance computing (HPC) industry with step-change improvements in energy efficiency and compute performance.The post PEZY & ExaScaler Step Up on the Green500 List with Immersive Cooling appeared first on insideHPC.

"Intersect360 Research's annual HPC market model and forecast shows modest growth in 2014. Despite ongoing weakness in the public sector, commercial usage of HPC drove the market to $29.4 billion in 2014, a year-over-year growth of 2.8%. As applications for high-performance technologies expand, the market is projected to grow at a compound annual rate of 4.2% through 2019."The post Video: Worldwide HPC Market & 2015-2019 Market Forecast appeared first on insideHPC.

"Historically cyber security in HPC has been limited to detecting intrusions rather than designing security from the beginning in a holistic, layered approach to protect the system. SELinux has provided the needed framework to address cyber security issues for a decade, but the lack of an HPC and data analysis eco-system based on SELinux and the perception that the resulting configuration is “hard” to use has prevented SELinux configurations from being widely accepted. This presentation will discuss the eco-system that has been developed and certified, debunk the “hard” perception, and illustrate approaches for both government and commercial applications."The post SELinux at Lockheed: A New Multi-Level Security Initiative appeared first on insideHPC.

“This talk will focus on programming models and their designs for upcoming exascale systems with millions of processors and accelerators. Current status and future trends of MPI and PGAS (UPC and OpenSHMEM) programming models will be presented. We will discuss challenges in designing runtime environments for these programming models by taking into account support for multi-core, high-performance networks, GPGPUs, Intel MIC, scalable collectives (multi-core-aware, topology-aware, and power-aware), non-blocking collectives using Offload framework, one-sided RMA operations, schemes and architectures for fault-tolerance/fault-resilience.”The post Video: Communication Frameworks for HPC and Big Data appeared first on insideHPC.

Toni Cortés from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center presented this talk at the HPC Advisory Council Spain Conference. "BSC is the National Supercomputing Facility in Spain and was officially constituted in April 2005. BSC-CNS manages MareNostrum, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe, located at the Torre Girona chapel. The mission of BSC-CNS is to investigate, develop and manage information technology in order to facilitate scientific progress."The post BSC and Integrating Persistent Data and Parallel Programming Models appeared first on insideHPC.

Substantial challenges loom for the Oil and Gas sector, as problem sizes, resolution requirements and business pressures to reduce computing costs all continue to increase. To address these challenges, suppliers like Intel and NVIDIA are relentlessly increasing the number of cores and threads available in their CPU and GPU/co-processor modules.The post The Increase in Processing Demands of Seismic Computing appeared first on insideHPC.

"A university environment can be a challenge in many ways, with a wide variety of differing demands from more than a hundred different research groups, so how can a High Performance Computing group hope to meet the requirements of everyone? In this presentation I’ll explore some of the drivers for the HPC services we run at Imperial College London and how this maps onto our PBS Professional configuration. My talk will also cover how we use different features of PBS Pro and what advantages and benefits they give to us."The post Video: Imperial College: 30 Million HPC Jobs a Year and Counting appeared first on insideHPC.

"FieldView products and services from Intelligent Light have been specifically developed to help CFD users get more reliable results in less time from their CFD investments. Post-processing can be the most important step in the CFD process -this is where the “pay off” occurs – where you gain insight and make decisions. Yet it is often overlooked when planning effective CFD workflows."The post Intelligent Light: Breaking the Disk IO Bottleneck in CFD by Eliminating It appeared first on insideHPC.

Cloud computing is another tool that is helping the wind power sector up its game. "We are seeing movement from most engineering companies to cloud computing as the economics are better and the security of the cloud has improved. Additionally, massive amounts of resources are available cheaply and bandwidth has increased to match the needs of the wind power simulation space."The post Boosting Wind Power with Cloud Computing appeared first on insideHPC.