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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.

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.