High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC

IDC will present a report on ROI for HPC at their next HPC User Forum. The event will take place Sept. 8-10 in Broomfield, CO.The post HPC User Forum to Spotlight High Performance Computing ROI appeared first on insideHPC.

"When Professor Ross Walker explains what he does for a living, he says he’s on the cutting edge of drug discovery research using supercomputers. Today, he and his team build supercomputer molecular biology software thanks in part to a partnership with Intel’s Software Academic Program. The program provides tools and resources to help Walker's molecular dynamics lab develop highly effective supercomputer simulations."The post Video: Drug Discovery Team Finds Inspiration at SDSC appeared first on insideHPC.

Ascentiant International in California is seeking a Senior Linux & HPC Administrator in our Job of the Week.The post Job of the Week: Senior Linux & HPC Administrator at Ascentiant appeared first on insideHPC.

We should all be thankful for the Perennials that keep coming back, year after year. That's the sentiment over at the SC15 Blog, which pays tribute to 18 hearty souls that have attended all 27 of the Supercomputing conferences since they began in 1988.The post A Tribute to the Very First SC Attendees appeared first on insideHPC.

"As a result of a new alliance with Intel, HP is offering its HPC Solutions Framework based on HP Apollo servers, which are specialized for HPC and now optimized to support industry- specific software applications from leading independent software vendors. These solutions will dramatically simplify the deployment of HPC for customers in industries such as oil and gas, life sciences and financial services. The HP Apollo product line integrates Intel’s technology innovation from its HPC scalable system framework, which helps to extend the resilience, reliability, power efficiency and price/performance of the HP Apollo solutions."The post Video: HP Moves Forward with New Business Unit for HPC & Big Data appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Adrian Giordani asks what benchmarks should be applied as the nature of supercomputing changes on the way to exascale.The post How to Measure a Supercomputer’s Speed? appeared first on insideHPC.

The HPC Advisory Council has posted their agenda for the 2nd Annual HPCAC Brazil Conference 2015. The event will take place Aug. 26 at Laboratório Nacional de Computação in Rio de Janeiro.The post Agenda Posted for HPCAC Brazil Conference, Aug. 26 appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) announced the selection of six projects for its Theta Early Science Program (ESP), a collaborative effort designed to help prepare scientific applications for the architecture and scale of the new supercomputer.The post Argonne Selects Theta Supercomputer Early Science Projects appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from ISC 2015, Dan Olds from Gabriel Consulting interviews Team Spain, the first team ever to use ARM processors in the Student Cluster Competition.The post Video: Team Spain Brings ARM to the Student Cluster Competition appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) and Australia’s Academic and Research Network (AARNet) announced a partnership to connect Australian researchers to the US Pacific Research Platform (PRP), a next generation data sharing network linking research universities and supercomputing centers at unprecedented speeds.The post Australia Connects to US Pacific Research Platform appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the Velocity 2015 conference, Brendan Gregg from Netflix presents a 90 minute tutorial on Linux performance tools. "There are many performance tools nowadays for Linux, but how do they all fit together, and when do we use them? I’ve spoken on this topic before, but given a 90 minute time slot I was able to include more methodologies, tools, and live demonstrations, making it the most complete tour of the topic I’ve done."The post Video: Brendan Gregg Tutorial on Linux Performance Tools appeared first on insideHPC.

"An expanding area of work both on the hardware front and the software side is to modify and optimize applications to run on both the host processor and a coprocessor. Many techniques to transform applications to reduce runtime have been discussed and implemented across a wide variety of applications."The post Black-Scholes Pricing on Intel Xeon Phi appeared first on insideHPC.

"As the newest flavor of Linux Containers, Docker gained a lot of momentum in the last 12 months. With a very convenient and open API-driven architecture Docker is able to help decrease the complexity of operations and increase the productivity of computation."The post Video: Docker for HPC in a Nutshell appeared first on insideHPC.

"IBM Platform Data Manager for LSF takes control of data transfers to help organizations improve data throughput and lower costs by minimizing wasted compute cycles and conserving disk space. Platform Data Manager automates the transfer of data used by application workloads running on IBM Platform LSF clusters and the cloud, bringing frequently used data closer to compute resources by storing it in a smart, managed cache that can be shared among users and workloads."The post Slidecast: IBM Platform Data Manager for LSF appeared first on insideHPC.

Tom Wilkie reports from ISC 2015 on moves to make it easier for SMEs to access high-performance computing, and on why it matters.The post Bringing HPC to the SME appeared first on insideHPC.

"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."The post Intel Code Modernization Picks Up Steam at ISC 2015 appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Diablo Technologies announced the launch of Memory1, the first all-flash server system memory technology.The post Diablo Rolls Out All-Flash DDR4 Memory appeared first on insideHPC.

Researchers at MIT are using XSEDE resources to study polymers, the chemical compounds used to make plastic, rubber, and more.The post XSEDE Powers Polymer Research at MIT appeared first on insideHPC.

"The framework established between Seagate and Micron has led to the development and production of this next-generation, high-capacity SAS SSD platform. It is the first 12 gigabits-per-second (Gb/s) SAS device to optimize dual channel throughput with up to 1800 megabytes-per-second (MB/s) sequential reads and offer multiple endurance choices within a single hardware and firmware design. These advantages engineered for the 1200.2 SAS SSD ensure it will deliver ultra-fast performance to match the needs of specific enterprise applications and workloads."The post Seagate & Micron Develop Enterprise SSD appeared first on insideHPC.

Today DDN announced that Purdue University has deployed DDN’s SFA high-performance storage to accelerate the delivery of research results for up to 1,000 researchers working on several hundred concurrent projects.The post DDN Solid State Storage Cache Speeds Research at Purdue appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from ISC 2015, Ross C. Walker from SDSC presents: Amber - The How, What, and Why on Intel Xeon Phi.AMBER is a key application in molecular dynamics used to simulate biocatalysis and the interaction between drug candidates and protein receptors. A feature of AMBER is the ability to use Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors to speed up complex molecular simulations and improves research accuracy."The post Amber – The How, What, and Why on Intel Xeon Phi appeared first on insideHPC.

"By introducing Cavium’s 64-bit ARMv8 CPUs in our Penguin Tundra family of Open Compute servers we again step up our leadership position. Our customers get outstanding value from the efficiency and flexibility enabled by OCP infrastructure combined with workload-optimized performance of Cavium’s ThunderX architecture.”The post Video: Penguin Computing Brings ThunderX to OCP Servers appeared first on insideHPC.

Compute Canada has become the first international partner to join the Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC) network. "Achieving gender balance in advanced research computing is an important goal for Compute Canada," said Mark Dietrich, President and Chief Executive Officer Compute Canada. "This is not just an important equality and balance issue. We know achieving gender balance, and diversity in general, improves innovation and research outputs. In order to meet the growing demand for HPC skillsets that address the increasing requirements of key industrial and academic sectors we must support and grow our skill base in this area."The post Compute Canada Joins Women in HPC Network appeared first on insideHPC.

Cobham has updated their Opera electromagnetic and multiphysics design software. According to Cobham, the Version 18 release of this finite element analysis and simulation software incorporates numerous enhancements to boost functionality, speed and accuracy, while further improving ease of use.The post Cobham Updates Opera Mulitphysics Software appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from PyCon SG 2015, Anand S. presents: Faster Data Processing in Python. This talk covers methods to process and analyze visualize data faster in Python. The primary focus is on the technique (should you optimize? what to optimize? how to optimize?) while covering libraries that help with this (line_profiler, Pandas, Numba, etc.)The post Video: Faster Data Processing in Python appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from ISC 2015, Mark O'Connor from Allinea demonstrates how the company's Performance Reports tool enables coders to speed up the Discovar bioinformatics code. "Allinea Performance Reports are the most effective way to characterize and understand the performance of HPC application runs. One single-page HTML report elegantly answers a range of vital questions for any HPC installation."The post Tuning Bioinformatics Codes with Allinea Performance Reports appeared first on insideHPC.

"With this delivery, the DEEP consortium can leverage a supercomputer with a peak performance of 505 TFlop/s and an efficiency of over 3 GFlop/s per Watt. The Eurotech hot water cooling solution allows for additional permanent gains in energy efficiency at data centre level as it guarantees year-round free cooling in all climate zones. The system includes a matching innovative software stack, and six carefully selected grand challenge simulation applications have been optimized to show the full performance potential of the system."The post DEEP Project Moves Towards Exascale at ISC 2015 appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, student participants in Research Experience for High School Students (REHS) program discuss their experiences using HPC resources at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego (SDSC).The post Video: Teens Apply HPC at SDSC Summer Program appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Tom Wilkie reports on two US initiatives for future supercomputers, announced at the ISC in Frankfurt in July.The post Advancing HPC with Collaboration & Co-design appeared first on insideHPC.

"Building on the success of the Intel Parallel Computing Centers, Intel is announcing the Intel Modern Code Developer Community to help HPC developers to code for maximum performance on current and future hardware. Targeting over 400,000 HPC-focused developers and partners, the program brings tools, training, knowledge and support to developers worldwide by offering access to a network of elite experts in parallelism and HPC. The broader developer community can now gain the skills needed to unlock the full potential of Intel hardware and enable the next decade of discovery."The post Introducing the Intel Modern Code Community appeared first on insideHPC.

Ryft in San Francisco is seeking a Director of Sales in our Job of the Week.The post Job of the Week: Director of Sales at Ryft appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from ISC 2015, Wolfgang Gentzsch from The UberCloud presents: HPC Workloads Using Docker. "The UberCloud Project provides an environment to run HPC workloads on a variety of cloud providers. Wolfgang elaborates on the projects and provides his experience about the roadblocks towards a more flexible cloud-backed HPC future."The post Video: HPC Workloads using Docker appeared first on insideHPC.

IDC has published the agenda for their next HPC User Forum. The event will take place Sept. 8-10 in Broomfield, CO.The post Agenda Posted for HPC User Forum, Sept. 8-10 in Broomfield appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the Intel booth at ISC 2015, Dr Juha Jäykkä, ‎COSMOS System Manager at University of Cambridge describes a cosmology demonstration running on prototype Intel Knights Landing and Omni-Path hardware. "At ISC 2015, unveiled new details for its future generation high performance computing products, including the first public “powered-on” demonstration of the Intel Omni-Path Architecture, a next-generation fabric technology optimized for HPC deployments."The post Knights Landing Prototype Powers Cosmology at ISC 2015 appeared first on insideHPC.

"HPC has reached an inflection point with the convergence of traditional high performance computing and the emerging world of Big Data analytics. Intel's HPC Scalable System Framework enables an unprecedented level of system balance, performance, and scalability necessary to meet the demands of bot compute- and data-intensive workloads, today and well into the future."The post Coral and Intel’s Scalable System Framework – The Path to Exascale appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Compute Canada announced funding to renew and consolidate the Canadian national platform for advanced research computing. Compute Canada and its regional partners ACENET, Calcul Quebec, Compute Ontario, and WestGrid will receive close to $75 million through the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s Cyberinfrastructure Initiative competition launched in 2014.The post Compute Canada to Renew National Research Computing Infrastructure appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) announced plans to collaborate on HPC research and technology innovation. Both organizations have signed an agreement to help promoting “a globally competitive HPC value chain and flagship industry”, echoing the European Union strategy in the domain.The post BSC and CEA to Collaborate on HPC Innovation appeared first on insideHPC.

The benefits of nested parallelism on highly threaded applications can be determined and quantified. With the number of cores in both the host CPU (Intel Xeon) and the coprocessor (Intel Xeon Phi) continues to increase, much thought must be given to minimizing the thread overhead when many threads need to be synchronized, as well as the memory access for each processor (core). Tasks that can be spread across an entire system to exploit the algorithm’s parallelism, should be mapped to the NUMA node to make them more efficient.The post Nested Parallelism appeared first on insideHPC.

"In April 2015, the U.S. Department of Energy announced a $200 million supercomputing investment coming to Argonne National Laboratory. As the third of three Coral supercomputer procurements, the deal will comprise an 8.5 Petaflop “Theta” system based on Knights Landing in 2016 and a much larger 180 Petaflop “Aurora” supercomputer in 2018. Intel will be the prime contractor on the deal, with sub-contractor Cray building the actual supercomputers."The post Video: Argonne Presents HPC Plans at ISC 2015 appeared first on insideHPC.

"Exascale computers are going to deliver only one or two per cent of their theoretical peak performance when they run real applications; and both the people paying for, and the people using, such machines need to have realistic expectations about just how low a percentage of the peak performance they will obtain."The post Should Users Reset Performance Expectations for Exascale? appeared first on insideHPC.

Today President Obama issued an Executive Order establishing the National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI) to ensure the United States continues leading high performance computing over the coming decades.The post Obama Establishes National Strategic Computing Initiative appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from ISC 2015, Intel's Raj Hazra explores how new innovations and Intel’s Scalable System Framework approach can maximize the potential in the new HPC era. Raj also shares details of upcoming Intel technologies, products and ecosystem collaborations that are powering these breakthroughs and ensuring technical computing continues to fulfill its potential as a scientific and industrial tool for discovery and innovation.The post Intel’s Raj Hazra on the Convergence of HPC & Big Data at ISC 2015 appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from ISC 2015, Michele De Lorenzi sits down with Rich Brueckner from insideHPC to discuss the latest updates from the conference and how the CSCS booth is constructed to reflect Switzerland's focus on sustainability.The post Video: CSCS Focuses on Sustainability at ISC 2015 appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the newly announced 3D XPoint technology from Intel and Micron. "3D XPoint ushers in a new class of non-volatile memory that significantly reduces latencies, allowing much more data to be stored close to the processor and accessed at speeds previously impossible for non-volatile storage."The post Radio Free HPC Looks at 3D XPoint Non-Volatile Memory appeared first on insideHPC.

Today SGI announced that its SGI UV 300H is now SAP-certified to run the SAP HANA platform in controlled availability at 20-sockets— delivering up to 15 terabytes (TB) of in-memory computing capacity in a single node.The post SGI UV 300H 20-Socket Appliance Now SAP HANA Certified appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) announced that its new Chameleon testbed is in full production for researchers across the country. Designed to help investigate and develop the promising future of cloud-based science, the NSF-funded Chameleon is a configurable, large-scale environment for testing and demonstrate new concepts.The post TACC Puts Chameleon Cloud Testbed into Production appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from ISC 2015, Earl Joseph and Bob Sorensen from IDC provide an HPC Market Update. Additional topics include: the HPC Market in Europe, the upcoming HPC User Forum, and an HPDA Update: Where Big Data Meets HPC.The post HPC Market Update from IDC appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Intel Corporation and Micron Technology unveiled 3D XPoint technology, a non-volatile memory that has the potential to revolutionize any device, application or service that benefits from fast access to large sets of data. Now in production, 3D XPoint technology is a major breakthrough in memory process technology and the first new memory category since the introduction of NAND flash in 1989.The post Intel and Micron Announce 3D XPoint Non-Volatile Memory appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Savage IO announced the SavageStor open storage platform. According to the company, SavageStor is the highest-performing, most-densely populated Open Storage Platform server available today.The post Savage IO Rolls Out High Performance Open Storage appeared first on insideHPC.