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DDN CEO Alex Bouzari presented this talk at ISC 2015. "For over 15 years, DDN has relentlessly focused on delivering innovation to enable HPC globally. As the reigning HPC Storage Leader, DDN is once again the storage solution trusted by 2/3 of the Top500 supercomputing sites. Whether you need to accelerate your data-intensive applications and workflow or scale in performance and capacity for your requirements, DataDirect Networks (DDN) can help you unlock the value of your data by delivering systems with the highest performance, scalability, efficiency and simplicity."The post DDN’s Alex Bouzari Presents: Enabling Scientific Discoveries and Exascale Initiatives appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Altair announced a new High-Performance Computing Cloud Challenge utilizing Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Intel technologies to demonstrate the benefits of leveraging the cloud for large-scale design exploration in the area of computer-aided engineering (CAE).The post Altair Announces HPC Cloud Challenge appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Bright Computing announced that the latest version of its Bright Cluster Manager software is now integrated with the Intel Enterprise Edition for Lustre software. Systems administrators can easily deploy, use and maintain Intel Enterprise Edition for Lustre using Bright. Because Intel Enterprise Edition for Lustre metrics and diagnostics are included, admins have access to a comprehensive view of Lustre file systems, servers, and clients as managed resources through Bright’s GUI.The post Bright Computing Integrates Intel Enterprise Edition for Lustre appeared first on insideHPC.

Today One Stop Systems announced its High Density Compute Accelerator (HDCA) with AMD’s newly released S9170 GPUs. The 3U High Density Compute Accelerator (CA16003) provides up to 84 Tflops of peak single precision (SP), 42 Tflops of peak dual precision (DP) and 512GB of GPU memory using AMD FIREPRO S9170 GPU accelerators.The post One Stop Systems HDCA Sports 16 Firepro GPUs appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Cray announced it has strengthened its Lustre and overall storage and data management expertise with the addition of key individuals from Terascala, a Boston-based storage company highly regarded for developing easy-to-use and easy-to-manage storage solutions.The post Cray Brings on Storage Experts from Terascala appeared first on insideHPC.

"The Intel Omni-Path Architecture is designed to deliver the performance for tomorrow’s HPC workloads and the ability to scale to tens—and eventually hundreds—of thousands of nodes at a cost-competitive price to today’s fabrics. This next-generation fabric from Intel builds on the Intel True Scale Fabric with an end-to-end solution, including PCIe* adapters, silicon, switches, cables, and management software. Customers deploying Intel True Scale Fabric today will be able to migrate to Intel Omni-Path Architecture through an Intel upgrade program."The post Video: Intel Moves Omni-Path Forward for HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

By using Direct-to-Chip liquid cooling, Mississippi State University was able to purchase more servers by minimizing the capital spent to cool the data center. The success of the initial cluster at MSU led to the installation of second cluster.The post Invest in Supercomputers, Not Chillers appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Penguin Computing announced the Relion 1904GT server, which packs four GPU accelerators in a 1U form factor. As the company's densest 1U GPU server, Relion is an exceptional platform for running scientific and engineering applications that support GPU technology.The post Penguin Computing Announces Extreme Density 1U GPU Server appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Univa announced availability of its much anticipated Preemption feature for Univa Grid Engine. Preemption, in combination with Universal Resource Broker, gives users the unprecedented ability to “pause” workload, services, or containers in the system on a moment’s notice in order to run a higher priority application. This is the first time a preemption feature has been able to work with big data applications.The post Univa Grid Engine Adds Preemption Feature to Increase Cluster Efficiency appeared first on insideHPC.

UCX is a collaboration between industry, laboratories, and academia to create an open-source production grade communication framework for HPC applications. "The path to Exascale, in addition to many other challenges, requires programming models where communications and computations unfold together, collaborating instead of competing for the underlying resources. In such an environment, providing holistic access to the hardware is a major component of any programming model or communication library. With UCX, we have the opportunity to provide not only a vehicle for production quality software, but also a low-level research infrastructure for more flexible and portable support for the Exascale-ready programming models.”The post New UCX Network Communication Framework for Next-Gen Programming Models appeared first on insideHPC.

"At ISC 2015, Seagate announced that the company has extended its alliance agreement with computing leader HP to equip its high performance computing solutions with ClusterStor scale-out storage capabilities. Building on a proven partnership, HP will resell Seagate’s ClusterStor 1500 and 9000 appliances along with its HPC solutions. This partnership will support HP’s Apollo portfolio of products and services, which manage HPC workloads in complex computing environments."The post Video: Seagate Teams with HP for ClusterStor appeared first on insideHPC.

Today DDN rolled out a new entry-level, turnkey Lustre storage appliance at ISC 2015. "As a founding member of OpenSFS, DDN was the first storage vendor to support Lustre and sells and supports more Lustre environments than any other storage vendor in the world. Expanding on this experience, the DDN EXAScaler 7000 (ES7K) leverages Lustre 2.5 pre-installed and fully optimized for DDN’s high-density storage appliances. ES7K delivers enterprise-level features including simple management and monitoring interfaces, and HPC-level performance that optimizes both mixed and parallel I/O performance."The post DDN Rolls Out World’s Fastest Entry-Level Lustre Appliance appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Bright Computing rolled out Version 7.1 of Bright Cluster Manager for HPC at ISC 2015. The event will be held July 12-16, 2015, in Frankfurt, Germany. Drop by Booth #920 to see how the new Version 7.1 features help Bright Cluster Manager for HPC fulfill its mission – advanced cluster management made easy.The post Announcing Bright Cluster Manager 7.1 for HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the OpenMP Architecture Review Board (ARB) announced the full line-up of world-class keynote speakers, technical presentations, tutorials and panel sessions to be hosted at the inaugural OpenMPCon Developer Conference, which will take place Sept. 28-30 in Aachen, Germany.The post Speaker Lineup Announced for OpenMPCon Developer Conference appeared first on insideHPC.

While large scale supercomputing centers continue to push the boundaries of the ability to process numerical information, either HPC like or Big Data like, a concern is the ability for the datacenter to power and cool such large installations. The new Cray XC Supercomputer is an energy efficient advancement to the traditional cluster.The post Energy Efficient Supercomputing appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Seagate announced it is integrating IBM Spectrum Scale software, based upon GPFS technology, with its ClusterStor HPC storage to deliver a new software defined storage appliance. The new appliance will help users manage the demands of data-intensive workloads, such as genomic research, computer aided design, digital media, data analytics, financial model analysis and electronic design simulations.The post Seagate Adopts IBM Spectrum Scale, based on GPFS appeared first on insideHPC.

The latest High Performance Conjugate Gradients (HPCG) Benchmark list will be announced in a special session this week at ISC 2015. This is the third list produced for the emerging benchmark designed to complement the traditional High Performance Linpack (HPL) benchmark used as the official metric for ranking the Top 500 systems.The post Latest HPCG Performance List Complements TOP500 appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Numascale announced record-breaking results from a shared memory system running the McCalpin STREAM Benchmark, a synthetic benchmark program that measures sustainable memory bandwidth and the corresponding computation rate for simple vector kernels.The post Numascale Sets New World Record on STREAM Benchmark appeared first on insideHPC.

Today IBM along with Nvidia and two U.S. Department of Energy National Laboratories today announced a pair of Centers of Excellence for supercomputing – one at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the other at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The collaborations are in support of IBM’s supercomputing contract with the U.S. Department of Energy. They will enable advanced, large-scale scientific and engineering applications both for supporting DOE missions, and for the Summit and Sierra supercomputer systems to be delivered respectively to Oak Ridge and Lawrence Livermore in 2017 and to be operational in 2018.The post IBM and NVIDIA Launch Centers of Excellence at ORNL and LLNL appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Nice Software in Italy announced the release of EnginFrame 2015, the most powerful and easy-to-use web-based front end for accessing technical and scientific applications in the cloud.The post NICE Releases EnginFrame 2015 appeared first on insideHPC.

HP is bringing Intel's Scalable System Framework to its HP Apollo servers.The post HP and Intel Team on Scalable System Framework appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Cray announced the Company has been awarded a contract to provide a Cray XC40 supercomputer to the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). This contract marks the first ever Cray supercomputer to be installed at TACC.The post TACC to Acquire Cray XC40 Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Gilad Shainer from Mellanox discusses how the company's off-load model of InfiniBand reduces overhead on the CPU and provides maximum application performance.The post Offload vs Onload: How Mellanox Champions Flexibility and Scalability appeared first on insideHPC.

Over at the Nvidia Blog, Paresh Kharya writes that the company is releasing its OpenACC Toolkit as a free download for Academia.The post OpenACC Toolkit is now Free for Academia appeared first on insideHPC.

Today SGI announced a 30 percent increase in TOP500 systems and new additions to their SGI UV family of large-memory supercomputers.The post Latest Xeon Processors come to SGI UV In-Memory Supercomputers appeared first on insideHPC.

The latest TOP500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers was released this morning at the ISC 2015 conference in Frankfurt, Germany. And while there was little change in the upper ranks of the list, the TOP500 continues to offer insight into the latest HPC trends.The post 10 Fastest Machines Look Familiar on New TOP500 List appeared first on insideHPC.

Jim Collins writes that a research team from Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago is using the Mira supercomputer to investigate the effectiveness of dynamically downscaled climate models.The post Dynamically Downscaling Climate Models appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at how the KatRisk startup is using GPUs on the Titan supercomputer to calculate global flood maps. "KatRisk develops event-based probabilistic models to quantify portfolio aggregate losses and exceeding probability curves. Their goal is to develop models that fully correlate all sources of flood loss including explicit consideration of tropical cyclone rainfall and storm surge."The post Radio Free HPC Looks at Supercomputing Global Flood Maps appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest feature, John Kirkley writes that Intel is using its new Omni-Path Architecture as a foundation for supercomputing systems that will scale to 200 Petaflops and beyond.The post A New Direction in HPC System Fabric: Intel’s Omni-Path Architecture appeared first on insideHPC.

Today CoolIT Systems announced that the company’s CEO & CTO, Geoff Lyon, has been selected as a finalist for Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur Of The Year Award 2015 in the Prairies region.The post Geoff Lyon from CoolIT Systems up for Entrepreneur Of The Year appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Asetek announced plans to showcase its RackCDU warm water liquid cooling solutions at the ISC 2015 conference July 12–16 in Frankfurt.The post Asetek to Showcase Liquid Cooling at ISC 2015 appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Mellanox announced that the Jülich Supercomputing Centre has selected the company's EDR 100Gb/s solution to accelerate its new large-scale supercomputer. Called JURECA, the new 1.8 Petaflop system will be developed T-Platforms and ParTec to include Mellanox’s end-to-end EDR 100Gb/s solutions, consisting of ConnectX-4 adapters, Switch-IB switch systems, LinkX cables, and HPC-X software.The post Mellanox EDR IB to Power 1.8 Petaflop Jureca System at Jülich appeared first on insideHPC.

In order to speed up applications, a developer must learn to take advantage of the multiple threads, cores and sockets found on a single server or on a cluster. Just hoping for a faster CPU anymore won’t cut it.The post Why Modernize Code? appeared first on insideHPC.

The Second Workshop on Accelerator Programming using Directives (WACCPD) has issued its Call for Papers. Co-located with SC15, the workshop takes place November 16 in Austin.The post Call For Papers: Workshop on Accelerator Programming using Directives appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Panasas announced ActiveStor 18, its latest generation hybrid scale-out NAS appliance. By adopting 8 terabyte drive technology, ActiveStor 18 increases scalability to more than 20 petabytes and 200 gigabytes per second. According to Panasas, ActiveStor 18 also offers increased CPU power and twice the storage cache capacity to further accelerate mixed workload performance.The post Panasas Rolls Out ActiveStor 18 Scale-out NAS Appliance appeared first on insideHPC.

Today IBM Research announced that working with alliance partners at SUNY Polytechnic Institute’s Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering it has produced the semiconductor industry’s first 7nm node test chips with functional transistors. According to IBM, the breakthrough underscores the company's continued leadership and long-term commitment to semiconductor technology research.The post IBM Research Alliance Develops First 7nm Node appeared first on insideHPC.

Today IBM announced that the company is now offering Nvidia Tesla K80 GPU accelerators on bare metal cloud servers. With the new offering, IBM Cloud is bringing high-speed performance to the SoftLayer cloud infrastructure, enabling companies to build supercomputing clusters without having to expand their existing technology infrastructure.The post Nvidia K80 GPUs Available on IBM Cloud appeared first on insideHPC.

Today ISC 2015 forecasted that a record 2600 HPC enthusiasts from 53 countries and 153 exhibitors will make their way to Frankfurt for the ISC High Performance conference and exhibition. Registration is still open for the event, which takes place July 12-16 at the Frankfurt Messe in Hall 3.The post ISC 2015 to Draw 2600 HPC Enthusiasts Next Week appeared first on insideHPC.

"Numerical simulations on supercomputers play an ever more important role in astrophysics. They have become the tool of choice to predict the non-linear outcome of the initial conditions left behind by the Big Bang, providing crucial tests of cosmological theories. However, the problem of galaxy and star formation confronts us with a staggering multi-physics complexity and an enormous dynamic range that severely challenges existing numerical methods."The post Video: Simulating Cosmic Structure Formation appeared first on insideHPC.

“The AMD FirePro S9170 server GPU can accelerate complex workloads in scientific computing, data analytics, or seismic processing, wielding an industry-leading 32GB of memory. We designed the new offering for supercomputers to achieve massive compute performance while maximizing available power budgets.”The post New AMD FirePro S9170 GPU Sports 32GB Memory for HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Bright Computing announced that the company will roll out an enhanced partner program next week at ISC 2015 in Frankfurt.The post Bright Computing Enhances Partner Program appeared first on insideHPC.