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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.

"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.