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"The strengths and the limitations of Europe’s supercomputing strategy were laid out at the PRACEDdays15 conference in Dublin at the end of May, with the minds of many delegates concentrated by the announcement in the USA over the course of the past few months of the $425 million ‘Coral’ procurement, intended to develop supercomputers that will leapfrog the international competition and open up the way to an Exascale machine."The post Will Europe be First to Exascale? appeared first on insideHPC.

Over the past year the insideHPC editorial team have put together a series of special reports on a variety of HPC topics. These reports can be read online in an article fashion or you can download these reports from the insideHPC White Paper Library.The post InsideHPC Special Reports appeared first on insideHPC.

"Over the three decades supercomputer throughput rates have increased dramatically from 100s of MFLOPs in 1985 to tens of PFLOPS today, making U.S. universities pre-eminent in the world in computational S&E, which is a tribute to both NSF and Centers’ dedication and leadership. Looking ahead to the impacts of synaptic computing, high-performance computing coupled with data analysis, and cloud computing coupled with the Internet of Things (IOT), the challenges and opportunities in computational S&E in all sectors of U.S. Society is projected to advance dramatically."The post Video: From Megaflop to Petaflop and Beyond appeared first on insideHPC.

While we're always on the lookout for HPC news, not everything makes it to the front page. Global HPC news items from this week include updates from Cray, Dell, DSRC, Oak Ridge, and Sentient Technologies.The post HPC News Bytes for June 11, 2015 appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Ciena announced that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is building a private optical network powered by the company's converged packet optical platforms. As part of its ongoing mission to connect researchers to the data and resources needed to advance environmental science, the new 100G network will connect four geographically dispersed facilities in the Washington, D.C. metro areaThe post Ciena Builds Advanced Network for NOAA Environmental Research appeared first on insideHPC.

"Exascale computing will enable combustion simulations in parameter regimes relevant to next-generation combustors burning alternative fuels. The first principles direct numerical simulations (DNS) are needed to provide the underlying science base required to develop vastly more accurate predictive combustion models used ultimately to design fuel efficient, clean burning vehicles, planes, and power plants for electricity generation."The post Video: Towards Exascale Simulation of Turbulent Combustion appeared first on insideHPC.

During last month’s PRACE Days in Dublin – where I enjoyed talks on improvements in codes and methods in areas as diverse as CFD, RTM in geophysics, and in genomics – I saw once again that “hero” performance improvements happen and happen regularly.The post Hero Performance is about the Applications appeared first on insideHPC.

Today IBM announced SuperVessel, a first-of-its-kind initiative that enables business partners, application developers and university students to conduct innovation, development, and learning for the growing OpenPOWER ecosystem.The post SuperVessel Cloud to Boost OpenPOWER Ecosystem appeared first on insideHPC.

"Modern macroeconomic theory has provided many qualitative insights into the functioning of financial and labor markets in our complex modern economies. But determining the quantitative importance of frequently countervailing forces requires much more than the pencil and paper methods used by economic theorists. My talk will describe some new economic ideas brought by economic theory and how efforts to develop computational tools promise to help macroeconomists perform quantitative analyses that can inform policy choices."The post Video: Computational Challenges in Macroeconomics appeared first on insideHPC.

The University of Sydney in Australia has deployed a new Dell supercomputer. Known as "Artemis," the 1512-core system is powered by Intel Haswell processors, 10 Terabytes of DDR4 memory, Mellanox FDR InfiniBand, and 480 Terabytes of Lustre file storage.The post Artemis Cluster Powers Research at University of Sydney appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Idaho National Laboratory (INL) announced that the lab has deployed an SGI ICE X supercomputer to power nuclear reactor simulations. Supplied through SGI's partner ComnetCo, the 511 Teraflop SGI ICE X cluster comprises 611 water-cooled nodes using Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 processors.The post Idaho National Lab Deploys SGI ICE X Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.

In this report from PRACEdays15 conference in Dublin last week, Robert Roe from Scientific Computing World looks at the role of HPC in the host country, Ireland.The post PRACEdays15 Puts the Spotlight on Irish HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

Satoshi Matsuoka from the Tokyo Institute of Technology discusses Big Data at the NCSA Blue Waters Symposium. "The trend towards convergence is not only strategic however but rather inevitable as the Moore’s law ends such that sustained growth in data capabilities, not compute, will advance the capacity and thus the overall capacities towards accelerating research and ultimately the industry."The post Video: Towards Inevitable Convergence of HPC and Big Data appeared first on insideHPC.

Over at the Smarter Computing Blog, IBM's Sumit Gupta writes that newly published STAC-A2 benchmarks show that POWER8-based system server can deliver more than twice the performance of the best x86 server when running standard financial industry workloads.The post Power8 Sets World Records on STAC-A2 Benchmarks appeared first on insideHPC.

Today, Cisco announced it is joining CERN openlab, CERN's platform for science and industry partnerships.The post Cisco Joins CERN openlab appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Bright Computing announced a significant update to distribution-agnostic Bright Cluster Manager for Apache Hadoop at the Hadoop Summit North America 2015.The post Bright Cluster Manager Speeds Deployment of Apache Hadoop appeared first on insideHPC.

"SCEC’s multi-disciplinary research team is using NCSA Blue Waters to develop physics-based computational models of earthquake processes. During the past year, we integrated more realistic physics into our computational software to model frequency dependent attenuation, small-scale heterogeneities, free-surface topography, and non-linear yielding effects, all of which become increasingly important when simulating high frequency ground motions."The post Petascale Research in Earthquake Science on Blue Waters appeared first on insideHPC.

There is big push for decreasing the complexity in setting up and managing HPC clusters in the data center. This IBM Webinar, “Bare Metal To Application Ready is Less Than a Day” provides excellent tips for preparing and managing the complexity of an HPC cluster.The post Bare Metal to Application Ready in Less Than a Day appeared first on insideHPC.

The ISC 2015 conference will feature a day-long workshop on European/Latin American HPC Collaboration. To learn more, we caught up with workshop organizer Dr. Carlos Jaime Barrios Hernández from the Universidad Industrial de Santander.The post Interview: Workshop on Euro/Latin American HPC Collaboration Coming to ISC 2015 appeared first on insideHPC.

"BlueTides has successfully used essentially the entire set of XE6 nodes on the Blue Waters. It follows the evolution of 0.7 trillion particles in a large volume of the universe (600 co-moving Mpc on a side) over the first billion years of the universe’s evolution with a dynamic range of 6 (12) orders of magnitude in space (mass). This makes BlueTides by far the largest cosmological hydrodynamic simulation ever run."The post Video: First Galaxies and Quasars in the BlueTides Simulation appeared first on insideHPC.

In the first report from last week’s PRACEdays15 conference in Dublin, Tom Wilkie from Scientific Computing World considers why so much Exascale software will be open source and why engineers are not using parallel programs.The post Why Hardware is Leaving Software Behind appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Dan Olds from Gabriel Consulting and Brian Sparks from the HPC Advisory Council discuss the competitors in the upcoming ISC 2015 Student Cluster Competition. Located on the exhibit floor at ISC 2015, the competition kicks off July 13 in Frankfurt.The post Video Preview of the ISC 2015 Student Cluster Competition appeared first on insideHPC.

"This annual meeting aims to accelerate data-driven discovery and innovation by bringing together researchers, developers and end-users from academia, industry, utilities and state and federal governments. Jointly organized by Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Stony Brook University (SBU), and New York University (NYU) the theme of this year's conference is "Frontiers in Scientific Data."The post Call for Posters: New York Scientific Data Summit appeared first on insideHPC.

Entrepreneurs got a potential boost this week with the announcement of the SimScale for Startups Program. Described as a way for startup companies to develop their products better, faster and cheaper, the program provides an easy on-ramp to Computer Aided Engineering (CAE).The post Announcing the SimScale for Startups Program appeared first on insideHPC.

Louisiana State University is seeking an HPC Systems Project Manager in our Job of the Week.The post Job of the Week: HPC Systems Project Manager at LSU appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Intelligent Light announced breakthrough CFD scalability running the AVF-Leslie combustion simulation code on up to 64,000 cores on NERSC supercomputers.The post Intelligent Light Scales CFD Code to 64,000 Cores appeared first on insideHPC.

While we're always on the lookout for HPC news, not everything makes it to the front page. In notable items from this week, MPI 3.1 is out, India launches a new weather forecasting supercomputer, and Baidu is banned from an image recognition contest.The post HPC News Bytes for Friday, June 5, 2015 appeared first on insideHPC.

"Using Blue Waters, we are for the first time running highly detailed, global simulations of the Earth-ionosphere waveguide under the effect of a geomagnetic storm. Disturbed ionospheric currents are modeled in a three-dimensional Maxwell’s equations finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) model extending from -400 km to an altitude of 400 km."The post Simulating Geomagnetic Storm Effects on Power Grids appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the UK government announced a £313 million partnership with information technology leader IBM to boost Big Data research in the UK.The post UK Hartree Center Partners with IBM on Big Data appeared first on insideHPC.

"This talk will introduce these three debugging techniques and provide some suggestions on selecting the optimal approach for a variety of debugging scenarios such as hangs, numerical errors, and crashes. Specific examples will be given using the TotalView debugger but the concepts covered may apply to other debugging tools such as GDB and the NVIDIA NSIGHT debugger."The post Video: Three Ways to Debug Parallel CUDA Applications appeared first on insideHPC.

NCSA recently announced a new world record by scaling CD-adapco’s flagship simulation tool STAR-CCM+ to 102,000 cores on the Blue Waters supercomputer.The post STAR-CCM+ Scales to 102,000 Cores on Blue Waters appeared first on insideHPC.

The Fortissimo Consortium will host their Fortissimo Forum on HPC Cloud Computing on July 8 in Amsterdam.The post Fortissimo Forum 2015 Comes to Amsterdam July 8 appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the HPC Advisory Council announced that the 2nd Annual HPCAC Brazil Conference 2015 will take place Aug. 26 at Laboratório Nacional de Computação in Rio de Janeiro.The post HPCAC Brazil Conference Comes Rio Aug. 26 appeared first on insideHPC.

There is still time to enjoy early bird registration rates the 30th annual ISC High Performance conference. Reduced rates end June 10 for the conference, which takes place July 12-16 in Frankfurt, Germany.The post ISC 2015 Early Bird Rates end June 10 appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the HPC Advisory Council announced the HPCAC Spain Conference 2015. The event takes place Sept. 22 at the Campus Diagonal Nord in Barcelona, Spain.The post HPCAC Spain Conference Returns to Barcelona Sept. 22 appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Rick Leinecker from Slashdot Media reviews the beta version of Intel Parallel Studio XE 2016. Leinecker describes several of the notable features and updates, including OpenMP enhancements, vastly improved computer vision and image processing, and the Data Analytics Acceleration Library.The post Video: Beta Review of Intel Parallel Studio XE 2016 appeared first on insideHPC.

Today ArrayFire announced the release of Version 3.0 of their high-speed software library for GPU computing. The new version features major changes to ArrayFire’s visualization library, a new CPU backend, and dense linear algebra for OpenCL devices. It also includes improvements across the board for ArrayFire’s OpenCL backend.The post ArrayFire Updates GPU Software Library appeared first on insideHPC.

Software defined storage (SDS) is a concept that can cut costs and improve efficiency in many organizations. The ebook, Software Defined Storage for Dummies, is a great introduction to how SDS can benefit organizations and reduce TCO.The post Software Defined Storage Improves Efficiency appeared first on insideHPC.

One of Lenovo's first HPC clusters has been installed at the University of Oxford in the UK.The post Oxford Installs New Lenovo Cluster appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Chris Dagdigian from Bioteam delivers his annual assessment of the best, the worthwhile, and the most overhyped information technologies for life sciences at the 2015 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo in Boston.The post Video: HPC Trends in the Trenches from Bio-IT World appeared first on insideHPC.

Intel announced plans to buy Altera, a maker of programmable logic semiconductors, for $16.7 billion, strengthening its presence in the datacenter market.The post Intel to Purchase Altera for $16.7 Billion appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Cray announced the establishment of its European, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) headquarters at the Company's new office in Bristol, United Kingdom. The office will serve as a regional base for Cray EMEA sales, service, training and operations, and as an important development site for worldwide R&D initiatives.The post Cray Opens EMEA Headquarters in Bristol appeared first on insideHPC.

In this Tech Shift podcast, Argonne’s Deputy Director for its leadership computing facility, Susan Coghlan, discusses high performance computing and STEM careers for women.The post Podcast: Argonne’s Susan Coghlan Discusses HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

Dr. Lewey Anton reports on who’s jumping ship and moving on up in high performance computing. The spotlight is on HP this week, as Dr. Stephen Wheat has joined the company in Houston.The post HPC People on the Move: June Edition appeared first on insideHPC.