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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.

Quantum computing has taken a step closer with two recent announcements demonstrating methods for error correction in addition to a new scalable design for quantum circuits based on a lattice structure.The post Two More Steps Towards Quantum Computing appeared first on insideHPC.

We don't normally report on pricing, but a free Intel Xeon Phi from ThinkMate sure sounds like a great deal. "Now through June, Thinkmate is installing Intel Xeon Phi 5110P Coprocessors (a $2,500 value each) for Free with any compatible server."The post Thinkmate Offers Free Xeon Phis with Your Server appeared first on insideHPC.

A team of six undergraduate students from Barcelona School of Informatics involved in the Mont-Blanc project have been selected to take part in the 4th HPCAC-ISC Student Cluster Competition.The post Barcelona Team to Build ARM Cluster at ISC Student Cluster Competition appeared first on insideHPC.

"We present a state-of-the-art image recognition system, Deep Image, developed using end-to-end deep learning. The key components are a custom-built supercomputer dedicated to deep learning, a highly optimized parallel algorithm using new strategies for data partitioning and communication, larger deep neural network models, novel data augmentation approaches, and usage of multi-scale high-resolution images."The post Deep Learning at Scale appeared first on insideHPC.

"Our computing systems continue to evolve, providing significant challenges to the programming teams managing large, long-lived projects. Issues include rapidly increasing on-node parallelism, varying forms of heterogeneity, deepening memory hierarchies, growing concerns around resiliency and silent data corruption, and worsening storage bottlenecks."The post Podcast: Cray’s Steve Scott on Programming for the Next Decade appeared first on insideHPC.

Dr. Lewey Anton reports on who’s jumping ship and moving on up in HPC. In this edition, Sumit Gupta leaves Nvidia for a new post as VP of HPC & OpenPOWER Operations at IBM.The post HPC People on the Move: May Edition appeared first on insideHPC.

"We present results for a platform consisting of an NVM Express SSD, a CAPI accelerator card and a software stack running on a Power8 system. We show how the threading of the Power8 CPU can be used to move data from the SSD to the CAPI card at very high speeds and implement accelerator functions inside the CAPI card that can process the data at these speeds."The post Video: Accelerating OpenPOWER Using NVM Express SSDs and CAPI appeared first on insideHPC.

With a BoF session and a special workshop on Women in HPC, the issue of gender diversity will be front and center at ISC High Performance in Frankfurt. "Improving diversity in the workforce is generally recognized as essential to meet the needs of a growing industry, improve European competitiveness, and improve productivity."The post ISC to Showcase Women in HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

While we're always on the lookout for HPC news, not everything makes it to the front page. Here are some notable items from this week.The post HPC News Bytes for May 15, 2015 appeared first on insideHPC.

"Rapid growth in the use cases and demands for extreme computing and huge data processing is leading to convergence of the two infrastructures. 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 Podcast: Satoshi Matsuoka on the Convergence of HPC and Big Data appeared first on insideHPC.

Engility is seeking a Computational Scientist in our Job of the Week. This position can be based in the following locations: AFRL (Ohio) , ARL (Maryland) , NRL (Washington DC) , ERDC (Mississippi), and Reston, Virginia.The post Job of the Week: Computational Scientist at Engility appeared first on insideHPC.

SC15 is now accepting applications for their Doctoral Showcase. As part of the Technical Program, the Doctoral Showcase provides an important opportunity for students near the end of their Ph.D. to present a summary of their dissertation research in the form of short talks and posters.The post Apply Now for SC15 Doctoral Showcase appeared first on insideHPC.

Have spinning disk drives joined the Grateful Dead? That is the contention here in this video, where industry analyst Mark Peters from ESG dons his tie-dyed shirt and declares that flash is the new storage of choice in the datacenter.The post Video: Have Hard Disks Joined the Grateful Dead? appeared first on insideHPC.

Gather and scatter operations are used in many domains. However, to use these types of functions on an SIMD architecture creates some programming challenges.The post Gather Scatter Operations appeared first on insideHPC.

"OpenACC was applied to the a global high-resolution atmosphere model named NICAM. We executed the dynamical core test without re-writing any specific kernel subroutines for GPU execution. Only 5% of the lines of source code were modified, demonstrating good portability. The results showed that the kernels generated by OpenACC achieved good performance, which was appropriate to the memory performance of GPU, as well as weak scalability. A large-scale simulation was carried out using 2560 GPUs, which achieved 60 TFLOPS."The post Simulating Global Atmosphere with NICAM on TSUBAME2.5 Using OpenACC appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast from the 2015 NCSA Blue Waters Symposium, Arden L. Bement discusses the Blue Waters supercomputer and the future of HPC. Formerly Director of the NSF, Bement keynoted the symposium and is currently the Davis A. Ross Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Adjunct Professor of the College of Technology at Purdue University.The post Podcast: Arden L. Bement on Blue Waters and the Future of HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

The 11th annual COMSOL Conference has issued its Call for Papers. As the world’s largest conference on multiphysics simulation, the event takes place Oct. 7-9 in Boston.The post Call for Papers: COMSOL Conference 2015 appeared first on insideHPC.

"The highly parallel molecular dynamics code NAMD was was one of the first codes to run on a GPU cluster when G80 and CUDA were introduced in 2007, and is now used to perform petascale biomolecular simulations, including a 64-million-atom model of the HIV virus capsid, on the GPU-accelerated Cray XK7 Blue Waters and ORNL Titan machines."The post Attacking HIV with Titan and Blue Waters appeared first on insideHPC.

"It's been nearly three years since Intel acquired Whamcloud and its Lustre engineering team. With Intel's recent announcement that Lustre will power the 2018 Aurora supercomputer at Argonne, we took the opportunity to catch up with Brent Gorda, general manager of Intel High Performance Data Division at Intel Corporation."The post Interview: Intel Taking Lustre into New Markets appeared first on insideHPC.

"Our workshop at ISC will bring together female early career researchers with a focus on European participation, providing them with the opportunity to showcase their work and network with role-models and peers in an environment designed to reduce the stereotype of men dominating the field of HPC. The workshop will open with an introduction on current research by the Women in HPC network, what the current demographics of the HPC community are and the differences experienced by men and women in the field."The post Women in HPC Workshop at ISC High Performance 2015 appeared first on insideHPC.

"E4 Computer Engineering has introduced ARKA, the first server solution based on ARM 64 bit SoC dedicated to HPC. The compute node is boosted by discrete GPU NVIDIA cards K20 with 10Gb ethernet and FDR InfiniBand networks implemented by default. In this presentation, the hardware configuration of the compute node is described in detail. The unique capabilities of the ARM+GPU+IB combination are described, including many synthetic benchmarks and application tests with particular attention to molecular dynamics software."The post E4-ARKA: ARM64+GPU+IB is Now Here appeared first on insideHPC.

"This demo will show the capability of IBM OpenPOWER that can be the foundation of the complicated High Performance Computing complete solution. From the HPC cluster deployment, job scheduling, system management, application management to the science computing workloads on top of them, all these components can be well constructed on top of IBM OpenPOWER platform with good usability and performance. Also this demo shows the simplicity of migrating a complete x86 based HPC stack to the OpenPOWER platform."The post Video: HPC Solution Stack on OpenPOWER appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Cray announced that the SERC Research Center in Bangalore has installed India's first Petaflop supercomputer. Called "SahasraT," the 1.4 Petaflop Cray XC40 supercomputer is a hybrid system with Intel Xeon processors, Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors, and Nvidia GPUs.The post SERC Installs India’s First Petaflop Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.