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In this video from the GPU Technology Conference, Saber Feki from KAUST and Ahmed Al-Jarro from Fujitsu Labs in Europe present: Experiences in Porting Scientific Applications to GPUs Using OpenACC.The post Video: Porting Scientific Apps to GPUs with OpenACC appeared first on insideHPC.

Colfax Research has published a new whitepaper entitled: Multi-Threading and Parallel Reduction. As part 1 of a 3-part educational series, the paper authored by Ryo Asai and Andrey Vladimirov focuses on optimization of applications for the Intel Xeon processors and Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors.The post New Whitepaper: Multi-Threading and Parallel Reduction for Xeon Phi appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Asetek announced that it has been selected by CIARA, a leading supplier of enterprise servers, storage and services, to liquid cool its High Frequency server line. Based on customer expectations, Asetek expects the business to generate revenues in excess of $1,000,000 USD per year with delivery scheduled to begin in the third quarter 2015.The post CIARA to Cool High Frequency Servers with Asetek appeared first on insideHPC.

With the growth of big data, cloud and high performance computing, demands on data centers around the world are expanding every year. Unfortunately, these demands are coming up against significant opposition in the form of operating constraints, capital constraints, and sustainability goals. In this article, we look at 8 of these constraints and how direct-to-chip liquid cooling is solving them.The post Solving Eight Constraints of Today’s Data Center appeared first on insideHPC.

BG Brasil has unveiled the fastest supercomputer in Latin America at the Senai CIMATEC Supercomputing Center for Industrial Innovation in Salvador, Brazil.The post Senai CIMATEC Installs Latin America’s Fastest Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.

This week Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory broke ground on a modular and sustainable supercomputing facility that will provide a flexible infrastructure able to accommodate the Laboratory’s growing demand for HPC.The post LLNL Breaks Ground on New Supercomputing Facility appeared first on insideHPC.

Engility is seeking a PETTT Program Manager in our Job of the Week.The post Job of the Week: PETTT Program Manager at Engility appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Silicon Mechanics announced the recipients of its fourth annual Research Cluster Grant (RCG). Dordt College and The City College of New York will receive HPC Clusters with a combined value of over $175,000 to support growing research programs.The post Silicon Mechanics Awards Research Clusters appeared first on insideHPC.

Over at Argonne National Lab, John Spizzirri writes that GE researchers are using the Mira supercomputer to learn how noise propagates from jet propulsion and wind turbine systems. The team, lead by Umesh Paliath and Giridhar Jothiprasad, is studying the complex behavior of air as it passes through jet exhaust nozzles and over wind turbine blades.The post Reducing Jet Noise with Large Eddy Simulations appeared first on insideHPC.

As design challenges become more complex and time to product launches are reduced, it is important to understand how to use a cluster for simulation, as compared to just a single node. “HPC Clusters Drive Design Optimization” is an excellent introduction on how to get the most out of a compute cluster.The post Clusters Drive Design Simulation appeared first on insideHPC.

"Rescale's mission is to provide a highly powerful simulation platform that empowers the world's engineers and scientists to develop the most innovative products and perform groundbreaking research and development."The post Video: Rescale Powers Cloud HPC for Engineering Simulation appeared first on insideHPC.

In this slidecast, Pavel Shamis from ORNL and Gilad Shainer from Mellanox announce the UCX Unified Communication X Framework. "UCX is a collaboration between industry, laboratories, and academia to create an open-source production grade communication framework for data centric and HPC applications."The post Slidecast: UCX – Unified Communication X Framework appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from TechCrunch Disrupt 2015, Subbu Rama from Bitfusion describes how the company delivers powerful hardware acceleration technologies to boost application performance.The post Video: BitFusion Aims at Supercomputing for the Masses appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS) announced a $3 million award from the NSF to continue to provide advanced computing resources for researchers in science and engineering across the country through July 2016.The post Kraken Project Gets Kicker to Darter Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.

Today ISC Events announced that registration is now open for the inaugural ISC Cloud & Big Data conference. The event will take place Sept. 28-30 in Frankfurt, Germany.The post Registration Opens for ISC Cloud & Big Data appeared first on insideHPC.

"N-Body problems compare the interaction of N-bodies against N-bodies, which results in calculations of the order of N2. As this can be computationally very expensive, but a well understood process, techniques and optimizations can be performed on application code using compiler directives and easy to understand techniques."The post N-Body Methods Optimization appeared first on insideHPC.

In this slidecast, David Eaton and Mark Tellez from SRC Computer describe the company's new Saturn 1 server, a dynamically reconfigurable modular system for hyperscale data centers and Web operations.The post Slidecast: SRC Saturn 1 Server Taps FPGAs on HP Moonshot Platform appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the 2015 ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge (ASC15) announced the winners of what they're calling "the largest supercomputer contest in the world." In total, 16 teams battled it out in the final round of the event, which took place last week at Taiyuan University of Technology in China.The post Tsinghua University Wins ASC15 Student Cluster Challenge appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Aaron Vose from Cray presents: Porting Computational Physics Applications to the Titan Supercomputer with OpenACC and OpenMP.The post Video: Porting Physics Apps to Titan with OpenACC appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the Pawsey Supercomputing Center announced $21.6 million of funding from the Australian government. The operational funding, which runs until 2020-21, allows the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre to continue providing world-class resources and expertise in supercomputing, data and visualization and recognizes the WA Government’s significant commitment to cementing the State’s place as a scientific computing hub.The post Pawsey Supercomputer Center Receives $21.6M Funding appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, researchers describes the Lattice-CSC cluster in Darmstadt, Germany. Currently the most energy-efficient supercomputer on the Green500 list, the Lattice-CSC is powered by 640 AMD FirePro S9150 GPUs to achieve 5.27 GFLOPS/Watt.The post Video: L-CSC Cluster Tops Green500 with AMD Firepro appeared first on insideHPC.

A new paper from ORNL's Sparsh Mittal and Jeffrey Vetter seeks to change the mindset of researchers using GPUs. Entitled, "A Survey of CPU-GPU Heterogeneous Computing Techniques,” the paper contends that merely offloading computational tasks to GPUs is not optimal, instead, using both CPU and GPU can lead to potentially higher speedup.The post New Report Surveys CPU-GPU Heterogeneous Computing Techniques appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks ahead to the ISC 2015 Student Cluster Competition. This year, 11 teams from around the globe will face off to build the fastest HPC cluster.The post Radio Free HPC Previews the ISC 2015 Student Cluster Competition appeared first on insideHPC.

Over at Parallella.org, Adapteva Founder & CEO Andreas Olofsson writes that the organization is seeking help from its user community to "help build the most efficient virtual supercomputer in the world this week."The post Seeking Volunteer Parallella Boards for Virtual Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Docker Founder and CTO Soloman Hykes explains what Docker is and why developers like it. "Docker is an open-source engine that automates the deployment of any application as a lightweight, portable, self-sufficient container that will run virtually anywhere."The post Video: Introduction to Docker appeared first on insideHPC.

Today CoolIT Systems announced that the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center has successfully deployed Rack DCLC liquid cooling. Through a collaboration with Huawei and Itprojektof, the company described the new installation as the most energy efficient HPC cluster in Poland.The post Poznan in Poland Goes Green with CoolIT Systems appeared first on insideHPC.

PNNL researchers are using supercomputers to take on two of the main challenges of exascale: energy efficiency and resiliency. Their simulations show that dynamic voltage scaling, also known as undervolting, can reduce power consumption and leverage existing mainstream resilience techniques at scale for improving system failure rates.The post PNNL Looks at Undervolting to Meet Exascale Goals appeared first on insideHPC.

"Kerberos is the most famous way to allow safe communications over a non-secure network, by providing authentication and encryption. This presentation will show how far Lustre can go in Kerberos security, and what kind of authentication and encryption we can get to work. We will also take an interest in the impact of various Kerberos flavors over performance."The post Lustre & Kerberos: In Theory and In Practice appeared first on insideHPC.

Caltech researchers are using NERSC supercomputers to search for newly born supernovas. The details of their findings appear May 20 in an advance online issue of Nature.The post Hunting Supernovas with Supercomputers appeared first on insideHPC.

"Learn how we achieve great GPU performance with an auto-tuned sparse matrix multiplication library, enabling quantum simulation of millions of electrons."The post Video: Accelerated Quantum Chemistry with CP2K appeared first on insideHPC.

"This talk will discuss various strategies to make a serial Python code faster, for example using libraries like NumPy, or tools like Cython which compile Python code. The talk will also discuss the available tools for running Python in parallel, focusing on the mpi4py module which implements MPI (Message Passing Interface) in Python."The post Video: High Performance Computing with Python appeared first on insideHPC.

The HiPEAC 2016 Conference has issued its Call for Papers. HiPEAC is the European Network of Excellence on High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation.The post Call for Papers: HiPEAC 2016 in Prague appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Sandia National Laboratories announced that researcher Mark Taylor has received the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) 2014 Secretary’s Honor Award — the department’s highest non-monetary employee recognition — for his work as chief computational scientist for DOE’s Accelerated Climate Modeling for Energy (ACME) executive council team.The post Sandia’s Mark Taylor Receives DOE Secretary’s Honor Award appeared first on insideHPC.

The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe in Europe has published the first edition of PRACE Women in HPC Magazine, a collection of success stories celebrating the contribution women make to HPC and computational science. Designed to put the spotlight on the scientific advances made in the past year, the magazine tells the story of women who help make PRACE a world-leading force in HPC-enabled science and the march towards Exascale computing.The post New Magazine Celebrates PRACE Women in HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

"Have you simplified your HPC environment or improved productivity with the use of PBS Works products? If so, Altair invites you to share your experiences, tips and tricks and practical lessons through case study style presentations that highlight the effective use of high performance computing. The PBS Works User Group encourages input and participation from a wide range of organizations, large and small, across all sectors."The post Call for Presentations: PBS Works User Group appeared first on insideHPC.

Today SC15 announced the winners of their annual Test of Time Award. The Award recognizes an outstanding paper that has deeply influenced the HPC discipline.The post SC15 Announces Test of Time Award Winners appeared first on insideHPC.

This week Rescale announced their new cloud HPC and simulation solution called ScaleXTM Enterprise. "ScaleX Enterprise is Rescale’s secure and flexible solution for enterprise companies, combining its award-winning engineering simulation platform with a powerful administrative portal and comprehensive developer toolkit."The post Rescale Rolls Out Cloud HPC and Simulation Platform appeared first on insideHPC.

In some domains, an N-Body simulation is key to solving for the movement and forces of a dynamic system of particles. At each time step, the force that one body exacts on each other, and then the velocity can be computed. The simulation can continue up to a desired number of time steps.The post Direct N-Body Simulation appeared first on insideHPC.

"OpenACC and OpenMP provide programmers with two good options for portable, high-level parallel programming for GPUs. This talk will discuss similarities and differences between the two specifications in terms of programmability, portability, and performance."The post Comparing OpenACC and OpenMP Performance and Programmability appeared first on insideHPC.

Altair’s HyperWorks Unlimited Virtual Appliance goes fully into the cloud with an Amazon-hosted option that lets users get started with HPC in just minutes.The post HPC Appliance Computing Goes Virtual appeared first on insideHPC.

With more and more enterprises moving to the cloud, there is a growing demand for developers, information technology professionals, and forward-thinking business leaders with demonstrated knowledge of cloud computing. To meet this need, Amazon Web Services has announced AWS Educate, a major initiative designed to fundamentally transform how cloud computing is taught and how best practices are shared in higher education.The post Announcing AWS Educate: a Free Resource for Cloud Learning appeared first on insideHPC.

"Learn about extensions that enable efficient use of Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) Models like OpenSHMEM and UPC on supercomputing clusters with NVIDIA GPUs. PGAS models are gaining attention for providing shared memory abstractions that make it easy to develop applications with dynamic and irregular communication patterns. However, the existing UPC and OpenSHMEM standards do not allow communication calls to be made directly on GPU device memory. This talk discusses simple extensions to the OpenSHMEM and UPC models to address this issue."The post UPC and OpenSHMEM PGAS Models on GPU Clusters appeared first on insideHPC.