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Celgene in San Diego is seeking a Lead Specialist for HPC in our Job of the Week.The post Job of the Week: Lead Specialist for HPC at Celgene appeared first on insideHPC.

Lewey Anton reports on who’s jumping ship and moving on up in high performance computing. Familiar names this month include Ron Blessing, Rick Friedman, Karl Freund, and Mark Woodyard.The post HPC People on the Move: Halloween Edition appeared first on insideHPC.

Work began recently on the Agave Platform, an open ‘Science-as-a-Service’ (ScaaS) cloud platform for reproducible science. Funded by a $4 Million NSF grant, the Agave Platform will leverage the success of what originated in 2011 as a set of hosted, web-based application programming interfaces (APIs) for plant biologists under the NSF iPlant project.The post Agave Platform Provides Science as a Service appeared first on insideHPC.

The PASC16 Conference in Switzerland has issued its Call for Papers. The event takes place June 8-10 in Laussane.The post PASC16 Conference in Switzerland Issues Call for Papers appeared first on insideHPC.

Today SGI Japan announced that the Institute for Chemical Research (ICR) at Kyoto University has ordered an SGI UV 2000 supercomputer. "The large-scale hybrid supercomputer system will combine two of the SGI UV 2000, 16 terabyte shared-memory servers with Intel Xeon Processor E5-4600 v2 Product Family and SGI Rackable Standard Depth cluster servers with total 3,000 cores of Intel Xeon Processor E5-2600 v3."The post Kyoto University Orders SGI UV Supercomputer for Life Sciences appeared first on insideHPC.

"Deep neural networks are increasingly important for powering AI-based applications like speech recognition. Baidu's research shows that adding GPUs to the data center makes deploying big deep neural networks practical at scale. Deep learning based technologies benefit from batching user requests in the data center, which requires a different software architecture than traditional web applications."The post Interview: Baidu Speeds Deep Learning with GPU Clusters appeared first on insideHPC.

David Lecomber from Allinea Software presented this talk at the Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing. "From climate modeling to astrophysics, from financial modeling to engine design, the power of clusters and supercomputers advances the frontiers of knowledge and delivers results for industry. Writing and deploying software that exploits that computing power is a demanding challenge - it needs to run fast, and run right. That's where Allinea comes in."The post Video: Debugging and Profiling Your HPC Applications appeared first on insideHPC.

Today CoolIT Systems announced that the Poznan Supercomputing Center has ordered its second deployment of Rack DCLC data center liquid cooling systems. Building on the success of their existing liquid cooled deployment with CoolIT built in partnership with Huawei and Itprojekt, PSNC has purchased an additional 17 racks of liquid cooled Huawei servers for a project total of 20 racks. A new feature of this expanded deployment will see the server energy captured in the liquid being re-used for heating buildings on campus, making this installation one of the most efficient HPC clusters in EMEA.The post Poznan Supercomputing Center Expands CoolIT Systems Liquid Cooling to 1160 Nodes appeared first on insideHPC.

The Smith-Waterman algorithm is widely used for pairwise DNA sequence alignment. The computation, consisting of looking for pattern in very long strings of the DNA alphabet, is very demanding. Using the Intel Xeon Phi, tremendous performance gains can be obtained, as long as the algorithms have been modified to take advantage of parallelism.The post Pairwise DNA Optimization using Intel Xeon Phi appeared first on insideHPC.

A recent IDC survey indicated that about 25 percent of sites that ran HPC workloads are using some sort of cloud computing, and that just over 30 percent of the HPC workloads were being performed at cloud sites. There are a number of reasons to consider HPC in the cloud. Here are 5 good ones.The post Why HPC in a Cloud Environment appeared first on insideHPC.

“Our goal is to enable HPC developers to easily port applications across all major CPU and accelerator platforms with uniformly high performance using a common source code base,” said Douglas Miles, director of PGI Compilers & Tools at NVIDIA. “This capability will be particularly important in the race towards exascale computing in which there will be a variety of system architectures requiring a more flexible application programming approach.”The post PGI Accelerator Compilers Add OpenACC Support for x86 appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest feature, Tom Wilkie from Scientific Computing World reports that the European Commission is funding research projects and centers of excellence as part of its strategy to coordinate European HPC efforts. In October, the EC made a series of announcements on how it is going to invest some of the €700 million allocated to its Public-Private Partnership on high performance computing.The post European Commission Steps Up Funding of HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

A new EU research project called "ExaHyPE" is developing open-source software for exascale-class supercomputers. As an international project coordinated at TUM in Munich, ExaHyPE ("An Exascale Hyperbolic PDE Engine") seeks to develop novel software, initially for simulations in geophysics and astrophysics.The post ExaHyPE Project to Develop Exascale Software for Geophysics and Astrophysics appeared first on insideHPC.

Today DDN announced the highest bookings quarter in the company’s history with double-digit year-over-year growth.The post DDN Reports Growing Momentum Leading into SC15 appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the SC15 Energy Efficient HPC Workshop announced that parallel supercomputing pioneer Justin Rattner will deliver the keynote address at their event in Austin on Monday, November 16th, 2015. Formerly head of Intel Labs, Rattner directed Intel’s global research efforts in microprocessors, systems and communications including the company’s disruptive research activity.The post Justin Rattner to Keynote SC15 Energy Efficient HPC Workshop appeared first on insideHPC.

Submissions are now open for the ISC 2016 conference including workshops, tutorials, birds-of-a-feather (BoF) sessions, research papers, research posters, and the student volunteer program. The event takes place June 19-23 in Frankfurt, Germany.The post Submissions Open for ISC 2016 in Frankfurt appeared first on insideHPC.

Seagate will hosts its annual HPC User Group at SC15 on Monday, Nov 16 from 4:00pm – 7:00pm at the JW Marriott in Austin. "You don’t want to miss what our speakers have to say – it could change the way you do things (not to mention the fact that you’ll walk away with the most talked-about consumer hard drive on the market – the Seagate Seven)."The post Seagate HPC User Group Returns to SC15 in Austin appeared first on insideHPC.

In HPC news from CEA in France, the EoCoE (Oriented Energy Center of Excellence) project officially launched earlier this month. Pronounced "Echo," the EoCoE has a mission to create a new, long lasting and sustainable community around computational energy science.The post EoCoE Center of Excellence Using HPC to Accelerate Transition to Low Carbon Energy appeared first on insideHPC.

At insideHPC, are very pleased to publish the Print ‘n Fly Guide to SC15 in Austin. We designed this Guide to be an in-flight magazine custom tailored for your journey to SC15 — the world’s largest gathering of high performance computing professionals.The post It’s Here: The Print ‘n Fly Guide to SC15 in Austin appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Rogue Wave Software announced CodeDynamics, the next generation of dynamic analysis for data-intensive commercial applications. CodeDynamics expands the reach of multithreaded debugging from high performance computing environment into the commercial market.The post Rogue Wave Software CodeDynamics Expands the Reach of Multithreaded Debugging appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Mellanox announced that Monash University in Australia has selected the company's CloudX platform based on Mellanox’s Spectrum SN2700 Open Ethernet™ switches, ConnectX-4 NICs and Mellanox’s LinkX cables to provide the network for the world’s first 100Gb/s end-to-end OpenStack cloud.The post Mellanox Powers World’s First 100G End-to-End Cloud at Monash University appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Scality announced that company's software-based storage for has been selected by the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) to power its HPC storage needs. Scality and CEA will work together to advance their ongoing research and development projects, as well as CEA’s own HPC contributions, including the “Lustre”, “RobinHood” and “Ganesha” software solutions, and to collaborate on an exascale project environment.The post CEA in France Selects Scality for HPC Storage appeared first on insideHPC.

It’s a different kind of computing world out there. The demand for more compute performance for applications used by engineering, risk modeling, or life sciences is relentless. So, how are you keeping up with modern HPC demands? Meet Apollo - creating next-gen HPC and super-computing.The post Meet Apollo – Revolutionizing HPC and the Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.

In this RCE podcast, Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres discuss Conduit with Cyrus Harriston from LLNL. Conduit is an open source project from Lawrence Livermore that provides an intuitive model for describing hierarchical scientific data in C++, C, Fortran, and Python and is used for data coupling between packages in-core, serialization, and I/O tasks.The post RCE Podcast on the Conduit Model for Hierarchical Scientific Data appeared first on insideHPC.

The Open Compute Project got a major endorsement in the HPC space news of NNSA's pending deployment of Tundra clusters from Penguin Computing. To learn more, we caught up with Dan Dowling, Penguin's VP of Engineering Services.The post Interview: Penguin Computing Lands Biggest Open Compute Contract Ever for HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

Today 3M announced that the world’s most powerful two-phase immersion cooling project will be deployed in a 40+ MW data center in the Republic of Georgia. Designed and built by the Hong Kong-based engineering company, Allied Control, the 2PIC project will use 3M Novec 7100 Engineered Fluid, an immersion coolant with a low global warming potential. Allied Control is a pioneer in 2PIC, a field showing great promise in boosting data center efficiency.The post World’s Largest Two-Phase Immersion Cooling Project to Use 3M Novec Fluid appeared first on insideHPC.

"The FASTMathSciDAC Institute develops and deploys scalable mathematical algorithms and software tools for reliable simulation of complex physical phenomena and collaborates with application scientists to ensure the usefulness and applicability of FASTMath technologies. Our current research efforts are focused on developing a full range of technologies to improve the reliability, accuracy, and robustness of application simulation codes."The post Panel Discussion: Extreme-Scale Numerical Algorithms and Software appeared first on insideHPC.

Today SGI introduced the SGI UV 300RL for big data in-memory analytics. As a new model in the SGI UV server line certified and supported with Oracle Linux, the SGI UV 300RL provides up to 32 sockets and 24 terabytes of shared memory. The solution enables enterprises that have standardized on Intel-based servers to run Oracle Database In-Memory on a single system to help achieve real-time operations and accelerate data analytics at unprecedented scale.The post SGI UV 300RL Enables Real-time Analytics with Oracle Database In-Memory appeared first on insideHPC.

Intel will host a Lustre Vision Update in Austin at SC15. "Lustre is a key component of the Scalable System Framework which offers performance, scalability and balance for both compute and data-intensive applications - smoothing the path to Exascale and the HPC/Big Data convergence. Our vision for the future is very exciting! Join Intel’s High Performance Data Division team as we talk about where we have been and the future: where we are going, together."The post Intel to Host Lustre Vision Update at SC15 appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Patrick Nichols from the Computational and Informational Systems Laboratory presents: Introduction to the Yellowstone Supercomputer. Yellowstone is NCAR's 1.5-petaflops high-performance IBM iDataPlex cluster, which features 72,576 Intel Sandy Bridge processors and 144.6 TB of memory.The post Video: Introduction to the Yellowstone Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the Council on Competitiveness published a new report from the National Digital Engineering Manufacturing Consortium (NDEMC). Entitled “Modeling, Simulation and Analysis, and High Performance Computing: Force Multiplier for American Innovation,” the 88 age report explores how HPC transforms manufacturing.The post Council on Competitiveness Report: HPC Transforms Manufacturing appeared first on insideHPC.

George Washinton University is seeking a Senior HPC Systems Administrator at in our Job of the Week.The post Job of the Week: Senior HPC Systems Administrator at George Washinton University appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the recent Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing, William Scullin from Argonne National Labs presents: Python for High Performance Computing.The post Video: Python for High Performance Computing appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the Hartree Centre announced plans for the UK's first POWER Acceleration and Design Center (PADC) designed to help UK businesses exploit high performance computing on OpenPOWER systems for Modeling & Simulation and Big Data Analytics.The post Hartree Centre to Assist Industry with OpenPOWER Acceleration appeared first on insideHPC.

Nimbix CTO Leo Reiter will present a featured Founder Story at the StartupHPC Summit, Monday Nov 16 at the Capital Factory in Austin. We sat down with him to get his perspectives on the challenges, risks, and rewards of startups in HPC.The post Leo Reiter from Nimbix on the Keys to HPC Startup Innovation appeared first on insideHPC.

This article describes the challenges that users face and the solutions available to make running cloud based HPC applications a reality. You'll learn about different cloud computing models, potential economic savings and factors to consider when comparing an on-site data center with a cloud-based provider.The post Cloud Computing Models for HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast, Intel Software Evangelist James Reinders describes the upcoming Intel HPC Developer Conference. Featuring a keynote by Jack Dongarra from the University of Tennessee, the event takes place Nov. 14-15 in Austin, just prior to SC15. “Modernizing your code on Intel architecture can help you achieve breakthrough performance for highly parallel applications. And, you won’t have to recode your entire problem, or master new tools and programming models.”The post Podcast: Intel HPC Developer Conference Coming to Austin for SC15 appeared first on insideHPC.

There's one party you don't want to miss at SC15, an that's the Beowulf Bash. This year, the Bash is returning to SC15 with a bullriding contest. The event takes place at Austin's Fair Market on Monday, Nov 16 at 9:00pm after the SC15 exhibit floor closes. At insideHPC, we are proud sponsors of the Beowulf Bash, so we hope to see you there.The post Beowulf Bash Returns to SC15 in Austin with Bullriding Contest appeared first on insideHPC.

A successful example of how a well-managed GPU cluster allowed scientist to focus on obtaining results comes from the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT) results. A research group lead by Dr. Akinori Yamanaka develops computation models and simulates engineering materials, for a variety of applications, using HPC. Using Bright Cluster Manager, Dr. Yamanaka and his team were able to immediately focus on algorithm development and not burden the team with cluster administration issues.The post Accelerated Science: GPU Cluster Case Study appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Asetek announced an OEM purchase agreement with HPC vendor Penguin Computing. As a part of the agreement, Penguin will incorporate Asetek’s RackCDU D2C liquid cooling technology into its Tundra Extreme Scale (ES) HPC server product line. RackCDU direct-to-chip hot water liquid cooling enhances Penguin’s ability to provide HPC solutions with extreme energy efficiency and higher rack cluster densities. The agreement has already resulted in an order by Penguin described in a previously anonymous announcement.The post Asetek Enters OEM Purchase Agreement with Penguin Computing appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the World Economic Forum, Santiago Badia from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona introduces some of the challenges of working to make safe, efficient nuclear fusion a reality by 2040.The post Video: Supercomputing for Nuclear Fusion appeared first on insideHPC.

On Oct. 16, the U.S. Army introduced Excalibur, its newest supercomputer. Currently ranked at #26 on the TOP500, the Cray XC40 system will help ensure Soldiers have the technological advantage on the battlefield, officials said.The post Army Unveils Excalibur Cray XC40 Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.

Today DataDirect Networks announced DDN Omni-Connect, the industry’s first custom Intel Omni-Path enabled storage architecture. DDN Omni-Connect enabled storage platforms deliver best in breed cost and performance for the next generation of Web, Cloud and HPC data intensive environments with the need for Omni-Path connectivity.The post DDN Accelerates Intel Omni-Path Fabric for HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

"Microphysics provides atmospheric heat and moisture tendencies. This module has been optimized to take advantage of the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor. However, some manual optimization can lead to even greater performance gains. By using manual optimizations, the overall speedup on a host CPU (Intel Xeon E5-2670) was 2.8 X, while the performance of running on the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor was 3.5 X."The post WRF Microphysics Optimization appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Dell announced its first DSS-branded servers. Formally announced in August 2015, Dell Datacenter Scalable Solutions (DSS) is a new line of business within Dell’s Enterprise Solutions organization designed to meet the specific needs of web tech, telecommunications service providers, hosting companies, oil and gas, and research organizations.The post Dell Rolls Out DSS-branded Servers appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Western Digital announced plans to acquire SanDisk for a combination of cash and stock worth approximately $19 billion. The transaction has been approved by the boards of directors of both companies.The post Western Digital to Acquire SanDisk appeared first on insideHPC.

DataDirect Networks will host its annual DDN User Group Meeting on Monday, Nov. 16 at SC15 in Austin, Texas.The post DDN User Group Coming to SC15 appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Cray announced the achievement of a new performance benchmark for reservoir simulations using Stone Ridge Technology's ECHELON reservoir simulation software and the Cray CS-Storm cluster supercomputer.The post GPUs Speed Reservoir Simulation with Cray CS-Storm Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.

Today StartupHPC announced its second annual summit will be held in Austin on Nov 16 at the Capital Factory. Held in conjunction with SC15, the conference features prominent speakers from TechStars and Inside-Startups.com, among others, who have in-depth experience with entrepreneurship and the startup culture. The StartupHPC community caters to students and young entrepreneurs, corporations, venture capital firms, academia, government agencies, and support organizations.The post StartupHPC Summit to Inspire Entrepreneurs at SC15 appeared first on insideHPC.

"The Cognitive Era is the next step in the application of science to understand nature and improve the human condition. In that sense, it is a new chapter of a familiar story, and the controversy surrounding Artificial Intelligence is merely the latest example of the age-old debate between those who believe in progress and those who fear it. Within the scientific community —as opposed to the media and popular entertainment —the verdict is in. There is broad agreement on the importance of pursuing a cognitive future, along with recognition of the need to develop the technology responsibly."The post Video: Cognitive Computing – Past and Present appeared first on insideHPC.