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"We have made substantial progress towards three transformative contributions: (1) we are the first team to formally link high-resolution astrodynamics design and coordination of space assets with their Earth science impacts within a Petascale “many-objective” global optimization framework, (2) we have successfully completed the largest Monte Carlo simulation experiment for evaluating the required satellite frequencies and coverage to maintain acceptable global forecasts of terrestrial hydrology (especially in poorer countries), and (3) we have evaluated the limitations and vulnerabilities of the full suite of current satellite precipitation missions including the recently approved Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission. This work illustrates the tradeoffs and consequences of a collapse in the current portfolio of rainfall missions.The post Video: Petascale Supercomputing for Space-Based Earth Science appeared first on insideHPC.

A new computer model developed by scientists at LANL increases global climate simulation accuracy through a better representation of the vast eddies that swirl across hundreds of miles of open ocean.The post Supercomputing Flow of Carbon Emissions in Deep Oceans appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from PASC15, Torsten Hoefler from ETH Zurich discusses HPC trends with Satoshi Matsuoka from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Along the way, Matsuoka describes lessons learned during this multi-disciplinary conference about application requirements on the road to exascale.The post Video: Satoshi Matsuoka on HPC Trends from PASC15 appeared first on insideHPC.

With ISC 2015 coming up in July, a number of ancillary events have been scheduled in Frankfurt to take advantage of this annual gathering of over 2500 supercomputing professionals. On deck are special events from DDN, HP, IDC, Intel, and Mellanox.The post Ancillary Events Line up for ISC 2015 in Frankfurt appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Asetek announced that the company has joined the OpenPOWER Foundation, an open development community based on the POWER microprocessor architecture.The post Asetek’s Liquid Cooling to Enable Highest Performance on POWER Based Systems appeared first on insideHPC.

Today GE announced a multi-year joint development agreement with Cascade Technologies to improve combustion simulation software. With new visualaztion capabilities, engineers can virtually look inside a gas turbine as it operates and gain a better understanding of the turbulent fluid, chemical and acoustic processes occurring within advanced, low-emissions gas-turbine combustion systems.The post GE and Cascade Optimize Gas Turbine Simulation appeared first on insideHPC.

"The industry needs to accomplish a lot in the coming years to deliver a working, useful exascale machine. PBS Pro is only one piece of the puzzle… but it’s an important piece. Job scheduling and workload management are core capabilities – a “must have” for every HPC system – ensuring HPC goals are met by enforcing site-specific use policies, enabling users to focus on science and engineering rather than IT, and optimizing utilization (of hardware, licenses, and power) to minimize waste."The post Interview: PBS Pro 13 is Biggest Release Ever for Altair appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Altair announced the general availability of PBS Professional 13.0, the latest version of the market-leading software product for high-performance computing workload management and job scheduling on clusters and supercomputers.The post Altair Launches PBS Pro 13 appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) announced the launch of the RoCE Initiative to further the advancement of RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) technology and promote RoCE awareness.The post IBTA Launches the RoCE Initiative appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Dell announced the PowerEdge C6320 server for HPC and Big Data. With twice the performance of its predecessor on the LINPACK benchmark, the PowerEdge C6320 delivers extreme performance with four compute nodes in a compact, 2U chassis.The post Dell Ups its HPC Game with New PowerEdge C-Series appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Mellanox launches their new 100G end-to-end Ethernet solutions in New York City.The post Video: Mellanox Launches Spectrum 25/100 Gigabit Open Ethernet Switch appeared first on insideHPC.

With the launch of Univa Small Jobs add-on for Univa Grid Engine, the company, the company offers "the world’s most efficient processing and lowest latency available for important tasks like real-time trading, transactions, and other critical applications.” To learn more, we caught up with Univa President & CEO Gary Tyreman.The post Interview: How Univa Short Jobs Brings Low Latency to Financial Services appeared first on insideHPC.

This presentation will briefly review XSEDE, its past mission and accomplishments, and give insight into the direction and vision for the second round of XSEDE.The post Video: Introduction to XSEDE 2.0 and Beyond appeared first on insideHPC.

Today D-Wave Systems announced that it has broken the 1000 qubit barrier, developing a processor about double the size of D-Wave’s previous generation.The post D-Wave Breaks 1000 Qubit Quantum Computing Barrier appeared first on insideHPC.

While not every industry is making the move to the Cloud at quite the same rate, the high performance side of the Financial Services industry seems to be ahead of the curve. This year, the ISC 2015 conference will feature a session on HPC & Cloud Computing in Financial Services. To learn more about the latest trends in this area, we caught up with Prof. Juho Kanniainen from Tampere University of Technology and Tuomas Eerola from Techila Technologies.The post Interview: Trends in HPC & Cloud in Financial Services appeared first on insideHPC.

"Supercomputing has reached a level of maturity and capability where many areas of science and engineering are not only advancing rapidly due to computing power, they cannot progress without it. I will illustrate examples from NCSA's Blue Waters supercomputer, and from major data-intensive projects including the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, and give thoughts on what will be needed going forward."The post Ed Seidel Presents: Supercomputing in an Era of Big Data and Big Collaboration appeared first on insideHPC.

Citigroup in Irving, Texas is seeking a Senior HPC Grid Engineer in our Job of the Week.The post Job of the Week: Senior HPC Grid Engineer at Citigroup 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 big boosts for Apache Spark, Containerization, and Lustre.The post HPC News Bytes for June 19, 2015 appeared first on insideHPC.

"Increasing computational power and advances in algorithms have made it possible to resolve an ever increasing fraction of the scales of atmospheric motion. While it remains inconceivable to resolve all the relevant scales of motion we are currently in the midst of a great leap across a range of scales that have posed some of the greatest challenges to climate science over the past sixty years. This leap is bringing wholly new insights into the structure of the climate system on both ends of the spectrum of atmospheric motions."The post Video: The Great Leap (Computing the Uncomputable Climate System) appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Mellanox announced its ConnectX-4 Lx 10/25/40/50 Gigabit Ethernet adapter, delivering optimal cost-performance and scalable connectivity for Cloud, Web 2.0 and storage platforms. As the first adapter designed to serve as a direct replacement for commonly deployed 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters, the ConnectX-4 Lx allows businesses to migrate to higher-performance technology as their bandwidth requirements increase without demanding an infrastructure overhaul or added operating expense.The post Mellanox Announces ConnectX-4 Lx 25/50 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter appeared first on insideHPC.

Medical applications like CT (computed tomography) scanning and MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) require quick, accurate results from processing complex algorithms. So reducing the compute time required is a primary challenge to manufacturers of CT and MRI equipment.The post HPC in Medical Applications appeared first on insideHPC.

Today SGI announced its latest win at the Institute for Solid State Physics (ISSP) of the University of Tokyo. Scheduled to start operation on July 1 of this year, the 2.65 Petaflop SGI ICE XA supercomputer will be used by material science researchers across Japan.The post SGI Ships 2.65 Petaflop ICE XA Supercomputer to ISSP in Japan appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast, Karen Vasquez and Albino Bacolla of the University of Texas at Austin describe how TACC supercomputers have helped scientists find a surprising link between cross-shaped pieces of DNA and human cancer.The post Podcast: TACC Supercomputers Power Cancer Discovery appeared first on insideHPC.

Designating the appropriate provider for large MPI applications is critical to taking advantage of all of the compute power available. "A modern HPC system with multiple host cpus and multiple coprocessors such as the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor housed in numerous racks can be optimized for maximum application performance with intelligent thread placement."The post Computing With MPI in Heterogeneous Environments appeared first on insideHPC.

Could there still be a place for Windows in HPC environments? To find out, we caught up with Jan Wender from German IT service provider science+computing, who will deliver a talk on this topic at the ISC High Performance conference next month in Frankfurt, Germany.The post HPC on Windows – Does It Still Make Sense? appeared first on insideHPC.

Today CoolIT Systems announced it has successfully deployed its Rack DCLC liquid cooling solution at the Center for Biological Sequence Analysis (CBS) at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). The installation addresses DTU’s need to be CO2 neutral in the university’s High Performance Computing facility by replacing traditional air cooling with highly efficient liquid.The post DTU Denmark Chills Computerome with CoolIT Systems appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Univa announced Univa Short Jobs for financial services. As an add-on for Univa Grid Engine, Univa Short Jobs provides the financial services industry a framework to run massive quantities of low latency tasks inside a cluster.The post Announcing Univa Short Jobs for Financial Services appeared first on insideHPC.

The annual IDC Breakfast Briefing is returning to the ISC 2015 conference next month. The meeting takes place at 8:30am on July 14 in the Panorama 3 room at the Frankfurt Messe.The post IDC Breakfast Briefing Coming to ISC 2015 appeared first on insideHPC.

"Blue Waters can tackle a very wide range of challenging tasks, not only from science, but also from engineering demonstrating the feasibility of efficiently solving extreme size real world multi-physics problems on the peta-scale and potentially exa-scale level, and thus adding tremendous value to future engineering simulation and research."The post Industrial Computational Breakthroughs on Blue Waters appeared first on insideHPC.

The "Tiny Titan" parallel computer has become interactive display at the American Museum of Science and Energy at Oak Ridge. Constructed last year at ORNL, Tiny Titan is a nine-node scale-model of Titan designed to make it easier for students to understand how a supercomputer works.The post Tiny Titan Supercomputer Debuts at Oak Ridge Museum appeared first on insideHPC.

Europe and Japan have come to the same conclusion; HPC resources must be shared and not monopolized by the individual owners of the computer systems themselves. And both have set up bodies to coordinate that process of sharing which bear remarkable resemblances to each other.The post Contrasting how Japan and Europe Promote the Use of HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

Today ISC Events announced that Prof. Dr. Satoshi Matsuoka of Tokyo Institute of Technology will be the program chairman for ISC 2016. "As the program chair, Dr. Matsuoka will be actively involved in leading the ISC program team to define the ISC 2016 program, especially the focus topics, whilst also working with the steering committee in a multi-year effort to further elevate the value of ISC for the HPC community."The post Satoshi Matsuoka to Chair ISC 2016 Conference Program appeared first on insideHPC.

Over at the NASA Ames Research Center, Michelle Moyer writes that the agency is using supercomputer simulations to explore the interior dynamics of stars and giant exoplanets.The post Supercomputing the Interior Dynamics of Stars and Giant Exoplanets appeared first on insideHPC.

"Early in February, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) successfully deployed the Mont-Blanc prototype. After three years of intensive research effort, the team installed a two-rack prototype which is now available to the Mont-Blanc consortium partners. This has been a formidable challenge as this is the first time that a large HPC system based on mobile embedded technology has been deployed and made fully operational to a scientific community composed of scientists of six of the most important research centers in Europe."The post Video: Mont-Blanc Prototype One Step Closer to Exascale appeared first on insideHPC.

Today SGI announced the signing of an OEM agreement with Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions. This agreement enables SGI’s world-class service organization to provide support of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) to customers across SGI's full product line. This means that customers who choose RHEL can call SGI directly for any RHEL support they may require for their platform.The post SGI Broadens HPC Solutions with Red Hat OEM Agreement appeared first on insideHPC.

"The ability to accurately and efficiently study the absorption spectra of large chemical systems necessitates the development of new algorithms and the use of different architectures. We have developed a highly parallelizable algorithm in order to study excited state properties with ab initio electronic structure theory. This approach has recently been implemented to take advantage of graphical processing units to further improve efficiency."The post GPU Accelerated Quantum Chemistry: A New Method appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the ISC 2015 conference announced the winners of its annual awards, recognizing excellence in the development of energy-efficient supercomputers.The post ISC 2015 Recognizes Research in Energy-Efficient Supercomputing appeared first on insideHPC.

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the recent hack of U.S. government employee data. Hackers stole personnel data and Social Security numbers for every federal employee, including military records and veterans’ status information, address, birth date, job and pay history, health insurance, life insurance and pension information; and age, gender, and race data.The post Radio Free HPC Looks at Federal Employee Hack appeared first on insideHPC.

Today SGI announced that PETRONAS in Malaysia has procured an SGI ICE X system to accelerate its research and development in subsurface imaging.The post PETRONAS Procures SGI ICE X for Seismic Imaging appeared first on insideHPC.

"Algorithmic adaptations are required to use anticipated exascale hardware near its potential, since the code base has been engineered to squeeze out flops. Instead, algorithms must now squeeze out synchronizations, memory, and transfers, while extra flops on locally cacheable data represent small costs in time and energy."The post Video: Algorithmic Adaptations to Extreme Scale appeared first on insideHPC.

The Ohio Supercomputer Center is seeking an Education and Training Specialist in our Job of the Week.The post Job of the Week: Education and Training Specialist at OSC appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Bright Computing announced that its OpenStack management software integrates with Ceph to provide OpenStack with highly available and self-healing storage backend for volumes and objects.The post Bright OpenStack Integrates with Ceph appeared first on insideHPC.

"In Deep Learning what we do is try to minimize the amount of hand engineering and get the neural nets to learn, more or less, everything. Instead of programing computers to do particular tasks, you program the computer to know how to learn. And then you can give it any old task, and the more data and the more computation you provide, the better it will get."The post Podcast: Geoffrey Hinton on the Rise of Deep Learning appeared first on insideHPC.

Over at the Nvidia Blog, George Middleton writes that Tesla K80 GPUs powered the winning team from Tsinghua University at the recent ASC15 International Student Cluster Competition.The post Students Win ASC15 Competition with K80 GPUs appeared first on insideHPC.