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In this slidecast, Einar Rustad from Numascale describes how the company achieved a world-record on the McCalpin STREAM benchmark using their innovative scale-out to scale-up architecture. The benchmark measures sustainable memory bandwidth and the corresponding computation rate for simple vector kernels.The post Slidecast: Numascale Achieves Record STREAM Benchmark appeared first on insideHPC.

"HPC is transforming our everyday lives, as well as our not-so-ordinary ones. From nanomaterials to jet aircrafts, from medical treatments to disaster preparedness, and even the way we wash our clothes; the HPC community has transformed the world in multifaceted ways."The post HPC Transforms for Researchers of Global Climate Change appeared first on insideHPC.

Today ScaleMP announced it is teaming with leading vendors at the ISC 2015 in Frankfurt to showcase the ability of very large memory systems to handle the most demanding memory-intensive applications.The post ScaleMP Teams with Lenovo on Big Memory Systems appeared first on insideHPC.

Today JISC in the U.K. announced that Rolls-Royce is the first company to join its industrial supercomputing initiative. Designed to break down barriers between industry and academia, JISC will provide Rolls-Royce with easy access to supercomputing equipment at the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) HPC Midlands.The post Rolls-Royce Joins JISC Industrial Supercomputing Initiative appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Nvidia updated its GPU-accelerated deep learning software to accelerate deep learning training performance. With new releases of DIGITS and cuDNN, the new software provides significant performance enhancements to help data scientists create more accurate neural networks through faster model training and more sophisticated model design.The post Nvidia Speeds Up Deep Learning Software appeared first on insideHPC.

In the third report from the PRACEdays15 meeting in Dublin, Tom Wilkie from Scientific Computing World discusses how supercomputing can be made simpler for smaller companies.The post Making HPC Simple for Small Companies appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Kyle Lamb from the Infrastructure Team at Los Alamos National Lab describes the unique challenges he faces at a facility known for being at the forefront of technology. Kyle addresses the future of storage for High Performance Computing and the ways LANL is partnering with Seagate to tackle the changes on the horizon.The post Video: How Seagate Collaborates with LANL on HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

Top researchers from six of the largest supercomputing centers got together in Barcelona at the beginning of this month for the Joint Laboratory for Extreme‐Scale Computing (JLESC) to discuss the challenges for future supercomputers.The post Top HPC Centers Meet in Barcelona at JLESC appeared first on insideHPC.

In this NPR podcast, Dag Lohmann describes how his startup company called KatRisk is using the Titan supercomputer at ORNL to create detailed flood maps for use by insurance companies.The post Podcast: Supercomputing Flood Maps Using the Titan Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.

VMware is seeking an HPC Solutions Architect in our Job of the Week.The post Job of the Week: HPC Solutions Architect at VMware appeared first on insideHPC.

Over at Scientific Advances, a newly published paper describes a new high-efficiency computing paradigm called memcomputing. Modeled after the human brain, a memprocessor processes and stores information within the same units by means of their mutual interactions. Now, researchers have built a working prototype.The post Researchers Build Memcomputing Prototype appeared first on insideHPC.

Bill Gropp from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign presented this talk at the Blue Waters Symposium. "The large number of nodes and cores in extreme scale systems requires rethinking all aspects of algorithms, especially for load balancing and for latency hiding. In this project, I am looking at the use of nonblocking collective routines in Krylov methods, the use of speculation and large memory in graph algorithms, the use of locality-sensitive thread scheduling for better load balancing, and model-guided communication aggregation to reduce overall communication costs. This talk will discuss some current results and future plans, and possibilities for collaboration in evaluating some of these approaches."The post Video: Algorithms for Extreme-Scale Systems appeared first on insideHPC.

Over at the ISC Blog, Luna Backes writes that her Mont-Blanc Climbers Team is looking forward to building the first ARM-based cluster ever at the upcoming ISC Student Cluster Competition.The post Bringing ARM to the Student Cluster Competition appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Green Revolution Cooling announced that VSC-3 Vienna Scientific Cluster has achieved a mechanical Power Utilization Effectiveness (mPUE) rating 1.02, making it one of the most efficient data center facilities in the world.The post VSC-3 Cluster Achieves 1.02 mPUE Rating with Green Revolution Cooling appeared first on insideHPC.

Today IBM announced the establishment of a new POWER Acceleration and Design Center in Montpellier, France. Launched in collaboration with Nvidia and Mellanox, the new center will advance the development of data-intensive research, industrial, and commercial applications.The post New OpenPOWER Acceleration Center Opens in France appeared first on insideHPC.

Today AMD unveiled innovation in heterogeneous HPC at the Centre of New Technologies at the University of Warsaw. In a new cluster deployment called Orion, the Next Generation Sequencing Centre in Warsaw is powering bioinformatics research with 1.5 petaFLOPS of AMD FirePro S9150 server GPU performance.The post AMD and Dell Power Bioinformatics at University of Warsaw appeared first on insideHPC.

At the Centre for High-Performance Computing (CHPC) in South Africa, the mission is to enable cutting-edge research by supporting the highest levels of HPC available. That means ensuring researchers – who often are not experienced with computers let alone HPC systems – to get their work done with the HPC getting in the way.The post South Africa’s CHPC Builds a Better Infrastructure with Altair PBS Works appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Intel CEO Brian Krzanich announced a series of leadership and organizational changes in a message to employees.The post Intel Shakes up Leadership appeared first on insideHPC.

At the National Institute of Computational Sciences (NICS), a joint venture by the University of Tennessee and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a joint team set out to learn how to integrate the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor into cluster configurations.The post Integrating an Intel Xeon Phi Cluster appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Nallatech announced the 510T FPGA co-processor. Designed to deliver ultimate performance per watt for compute-intensive datacenter applications, the 510T is a GPU-sized 16-lane PCIe 3.0 card featuring two of Altera’s new floating-point enabled Arria 10 FPGAs delivering up to sixteen times the performance of the previous generation. According to Nallatech, applications can achieve a total sustained performance of up to 3 TFlops.The post Nallatech Rolls Out 510T FPGA Accelerator appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Bright Computing announced it will be releasing Version 7.1 of Bright Cluster Manager for HPC at the ISC 2015 conference. The event takes place July 12-16 in Frankfurt, Germany.The post Bright Cluster Manager 7.1 Release Coming to ISC 2015 appeared first on insideHPC.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s ALCC challenge has awarded 24 projects a total of 1.7 billion core-hours at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility.The post ALCC Challenge Awards 1.7 Billion Core Hours to Science Projects appeared first on insideHPC.

Today CoolIT Systems announced that the U.S Patent and Trademark Office has granted the company three new patents in the space of liquid cooling.The post CoolIT Systems Lands New Patents for Liquid Cooling appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Altair published the agenda for their PBS Works User Group Meeting, which takes place Sept. 14-17 in Silicon Valley. At the event, engineers, IT administrators, cluster managers, and users of HPC systems will have the opportunity to learn from and collaborate with the best minds in supercomputing.The post Great Speakers Lined Up for PBS Works User Group appeared first on insideHPC.

Amazon is seeking an HPC Solutions Architect in our Job of the Week.The post Job of the Week: HPC Solutions Architect at Amazon appeared first on insideHPC.

On Monday, the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) celebrated the expansion of their SuperMUC cluster. Now in production mode, the 6.8 Petaflop "Phase 2" supercomputer is powered by over 241,000 Intel processor cores.The post SuperMUC Upgraded to 6.8 Petaflops appeared first on insideHPC.

"For more than a decade, DDN’s innovative, proven technology has been at the forefront of solving big data storage challenges in the world’s largest and most demanding environments,” said Molly Rector, CMO and EVP of Product Management at DDN. “Today, our vision and roadmap is being increasingly influenced by our enterprise and commercial HPC customers who are demanding new features in addition to the highest availability, reliability, scalability and best price/performance.”The post Slidecast: DDN Strategic Vision for High Performance Storage appeared first on insideHPC.

Today DataDirect Networks announced the latest release of its advanced WOS object storage platform. WOS 360 2.0 includes a new, low-cost capacity node, increased efficiency and an OpenStack Swift API.The post DDN Boosts Object Storage with WOS 360 2.0 appeared first on insideHPC.

A new high-resolution science documentary about the dynamics of the Sun will feature data-driven supercomputer visualizations produced by NCSA. Narrated by Benedict Cumberbach, Solar Superstorms debuts June 30 at the Louisiana Art & Science Museum in Baton Rouge before heading out to more than a dozen planetariums and science centers around the world.The post Solar Superstorms Documentary Powered by Blue Waters appeared first on insideHPC.

"This collaborative research between the University of Illinois, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and the University of Maryland is aimed at using the Blue Waters petascale resources to address key uncertainties associated with the numerical modeling of the Earth’s climate system and the ability to accurately analyze past and projected future changes in climate."The post Addressing Climate Change Uncertainties with Petascale Computing appeared first on insideHPC.

Over at the Altair Blog, Bill Nitzberg has started a series of posts looking at the road to Exascale. He starts by looking back at the trends that have lead us to this point, concluding that Exascale infrastructure will require advances in four areas: scale, speed, resilience, and power management.The post Trends in HPC Leading to Exascale appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the ISC Cloud & Big Data conference announced that Professor Peter V. Coveney from University College London will be their keynote speaker. Coveney will discuss the current state-of-the-art in the development of personalized medicine, at the event, which takes place Sept. 28-30 in Frankfurt, Germany.The post Peter V. Coveney to Keynote ISC Cloud & Big Data appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team previews the ISC 2015 conference, which takes place July 12-16 in Frankfurt, Germany. In addition to a great technical program, the conference will feature an exhibition, tutorials, workshops, and a Student Cluster Competition.The post Radio Free HPC Previews ISC 2015 appeared first on insideHPC.

How old is Saturn? Researchers are using Sandia's Z machine to find out.The post Sandia’s Z machine Helps Pinpoint Age of Saturn appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, officials from Cyfronet describe Prometheus, a new HP Apollo 8000 supercomputer with 1.68 Petaflops of peak performance.The post Video: 1.68 Petaflop Prometheus Supercomputer Comes to Cyfronet appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Prof. Dr. Dirk Pleiter from the Jülich Supercomputing Centre describes how Jülich is creating a 3D model of the human brain. "Jülich Supercomputing Centre, one of the largest research center in Germany, uses Lenovo Enterprise Systems to support research into a wide range of fields including neuroscience, fundamental physics, life sciences, climate change and energy."The post Video: Supercomputing the Human Brain at Jülich appeared first on insideHPC.

Open Systems Technologies in New York City is seeking an HPC Grid Engineer in our Job of the Week.The post Job of the Week: HPC Grid Engineer at Open Systems Technologies appeared first on insideHPC.

While we're always on the lookout for HPC news, not everything makes it to the front page. Notable items from this week include new benchmarks for 100GB Ethernet, the Open MPI roadmap, and Docker containers.The post HPC News Bytes for Friday, June 26 appeared first on insideHPC.

Astronomers Erika Nesvold (UMBC) and Marc Kuchner (NASA Goddard) essentially created a virtual Beta Pictoris in the computer and watched it evolve over millions of years. It is the first full 3-D model of a debris disk where scientists can watch the development of asymmetric features formed by planets, like warps and eccentric rings, and also track collisions among the particles at the same time.The post Video: Supercomputing Exoplanets appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Dan Reed from the University of Iowa describes the era of Exascale Computing and Big Data. In a recent paper co-authored with Jack Dongarra, Reed makes an impassioned plea for hardware and software integration and cultural convergence.The post Time to Unite Exascale and Big Data appeared first on insideHPC.

"We will describe recent progress and successes obtained in predicting properties of matter by quantum simulations, and discuss algorithmic challenges in connection with the use of evolving high-performance computing architectures. We will also discuss open issues related to the validation of the approximate, first principles theories used in large-scale quantum simulations."The post Materials Discovery by Computation – a Revolution Still in the Making appeared first on insideHPC.

Dr. Lewey reports on who’s jumping ship and moving on up in high performance computing.The post HPC People on the Move – Long, Hot Summer Edition appeared first on insideHPC.

"As the use of coprocessors increases to speedup HPC applications, it is important to understand how much additional power the coprocessors use. With various measurements and benchmarks arising to calculate the power used during the running of compute and data intensive applications, measuring the power draw from an Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor is important to understanding the best use of resources."The post Power Usage for Coprocessors appeared first on insideHPC.

High Performance Computing and Big Data analytics touch us every day. We each rely on daily weather forecasts, banking and financial information, scientific and health analyses, and thousands of other activities that involve HPC and Big Data analysis.The post New HP Apollo 4000 Systems Fulfill Booming Big Data Analytics & Object Storage Requirements appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Caterpillar Inc. announced it will expand its collaboration with NCSA to develop more realistic simulations that can lead to improved product designs.The post Caterpillar & NCSA Expand Collaboration for Realistic Simulations appeared first on insideHPC.