High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC

"With the advent of massively parallel computing coprocessors, numerical optimization for deep-learning disciplines is now possible. Complex real-time pattern recognition, for example, that can be used for self driving cars and augmented reality can be developed and high performance achieved with the use of specialized, highly tuned libraries. By just using the Message Passing Interface (MPI) API, very high performance can be attained on hundreds to thousands of Intel Xeon Phi processors."The post Deep-Learning Numerical Optimization appeared first on insideHPC.

MEGWARE in Germany celebrated its 25th anniversary in February. With the company in the midst of a big cluster deployment at CERN, we caught up Jörg Heydemüller from MEGWARE to learn what they have in store for the upcoming ISC High Performance conference in July.The post Interview: MEGWARE Gears up for ISC High Performance appeared first on insideHPC.

Researchers are using the Mira supercomputer at Argonne to accelerate the discovery of new materials for improved biofuel and petroleum production.The post Supercomputing New Materials for Improved Fuel Production appeared first on insideHPC.

"Data caching can provide increased performance when using a mix of high and low performance storage, but traditional replacement algorithms like LRU may evict important data in multi-tenant environments, or in situations where the cache is “cold". By tagging and prioritizing data within the storage system, we can create a more intelligent mechanism that avoids many of the problems inherent to traditional caching. Methods for prioritizing data and passing this information through the filesystem will be discussed, as well as a performance analysis of small file IO in Lustre with cache hinting, and possible future enhancements."The post Video: Intelligent Cache Hinting in Lustre appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Optalysys announced that the company has successfully developed a demonstrable prototype that can process mathematical functions optically in a scaleable, lensless design. According to the company, Optalysys optical processing systems will “turbo-charge” existing computers by performing processor-intensive tasks at much faster rates and with a significant reduction in energy consumption.The post Optalysys Develops Prototype Optical Processing System appeared first on insideHPC.

The NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) is boosting supercomputer capacity to over 3 Petaflops to meet the exploding demands of NASA’s Earth science modeling efforts.The post NASA Triples Discover Supercomputer Capacity for Earth Science appeared first on insideHPC.

A memorial service for William C. Blake will be held on May 30, 2015, at 11:00 a.m. at the First United Methodist Church, 645 Main St. in Melrose, Massachusetts.The post Memorial Service for William C. Blake Set for May 30 appeared first on insideHPC.

Dr. David Rohr from the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) describes how he is using AMD FirePro to accelerate high energy physics.The post Interview with Dr. David Rohr on AMD FirePro for High Energy Physics appeared first on insideHPC.

At the recent Intel Developers Forum, the company announced that the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Supercomputing Department will be the first Intel Parallel Computing Center in China. The new Intel PCC will work to modernize software code for molecular dynamics models.The post Intel Launches First IPCC Parallel Computing Center in China appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Organization announced that it is teaming up with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to use cloud computing to explore ever-increasing amounts of astronomy data. To kick things off, they just issued a Call for Proposals for AstroCompute in the Cloud, a grant program to accelerate the development of innovative tools and techniques for processing, storing and analyzing the global astronomy community’s vast amounts of astronomic data.The post SKA & AWS Seeking Proposals for AstroCompute in the Cloud appeared first on insideHPC.

The Louisiana State University Center for Computation and Technology recently received a large grant from the National Science Foundation to begin updating the coastal modeling system known as Advanced Circulation, or ADCIRC. The project, known as STORM, began in October of 2014 and work on the program will continue for four more years.The post Supercomputing Tidal Models with the STORM Project at LSU appeared first on insideHPC.

"In this talk, Seagate presents details on its efforts and achievements around improving Hadoop performance on Lustre including a summary on why and how HDFS and Lustre are different and how those differences affect Hadoop performance on Lustre compared to HDFS, Hadoop ecosystem benchmarks and best practices on HDFS and Lustre, Seagate’s open-source efforts to enhance performance of Lustre within “diskless” compute nodes involving core Hadoop source code modification (and the unexpected results), and general takeaways ways on running Hadoop on Lustre more rapidly."The post Video: Understanding Hadoop Performance on Lustre appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Penguin Computing announced the Arctica 4804ip switch and a collaboration with Cumulus Networks.The post Penguin Computing Extends Open Networking with Artica Switches appeared first on insideHPC.

The Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program is now accepting proposals for high-impact, computationally intensive research campaigns.The post INCITE Seeking Proposals for U.S. Leadership Computing appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from LUG 2015 in Denver, James Simmons from ORNL presents: Lustre + Linux - Putting the House in Order. "In the last year great strides have been made to sync up the lustre Intel branch to what is upstream. We present what that current state is as well as what is left for the intel branch to bring this to completion."The post Video: Lustre + Linux – Putting the House in Order appeared first on insideHPC.

"For a period of time, it didn't look like flash drives were going to decrease in price very much. Flash cell technology is limited to around 20nm because of cost and complexity considerations, but manufacturers have found ways around the limitation. Rather than decrease the features size, they now store more bits per cell (TLC) and have started to create 3D flash chips. This combination, plus the growth in flash storage sales, has driven down the price per gigabyte."The post Jeff Layton on How 3D Flash is Changing the Market appeared first on insideHPC.

"Monitoring a large Lustre site, running multiple generations of Lustre filesystems can be a challenge. Some equipment offer vendor specific monitoring interfaces while others, built on open source Lustre, have minimal monitoring capabilities. This talk will report on our operational experience using a homegrown python module to collect data from each filesystem. We will discuss in detail how the data is visualized centrally in Splunk and cross-referenced with users workload to analyze and troubleshoot our environment."The post Video: Monitoring a Heterogeneous Lustre Environment with Splunk appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Niall Wilson describes how ICHEC delivers top-quality technology services and support to universities and enterprises. "Based on the solution’s superior price performance, ICHEC deployed Fionn, a supercomputer built on SGI ICE X hardware running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. On implementing Fionn, ICHEC was funded by Intel to work on its new many-core technology as an official Intel Parallel Computing Center."The post SGI Powers Fionn Supercomputer at ICHEC in Ireland appeared first on insideHPC.

NVlink will be the backbone of 150 Petaflop Coral supercomputers coming to ORNL and LLNL. As the world’s first high-speed GPU interconnect, NVLink will let data move between GPUs and CPUs 5-12 times faster than possible today.The post Steve Oberlin on How NVLink will Power Coral Supercomputers appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from LUG 2015 in Denver, J.Mario Gallegos from Dell presents: Deploying Hadoop on Lustre Storage: Lessons Learned and Best Practices. "Merging of strengths of both technologies to solve big data problems permits harvesting the power of HPC clusters on very fast storage."The post Deploying Hadoop on Lustre Storage: Lessons Learned and Best Practices appeared first on insideHPC.

The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center is using Comcast Business Ethernet for secure, private network connections to eight associated colleges.The post PSC Brings Big Bandwidth to Eight Pennsylvania Schools appeared first on insideHPC.

Louisiana State University is seeking an HPC User Services Analyst in our Job of the Week.The post Job of the Week: HPC User Services Analyst at LSU appeared first on insideHPC.

Today SGI announced that the Earthquake and Volcano Information Center of the Earthquake Research Institute (ERI) at the University of Tokyo, has deployed a large-scale parallel computing solution from SGI for leading-edge seismological and volcanological research.The post SGI Powers Earthquake Research in Japan appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Allinea Software released details on partnership that is helping scientists in research and industry to exploit Piz Daint - Europe's most powerful supercomputer.The post Accelerating the Piz Daint Supercomputer with Allinea appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the PRACE Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe celebrated its fifth anniversary. In the past five years, PRACE has come a long way, growing from a project-based consortium into a fully-fledged international association of 25 countries.The post PRACE Celebrates Fifth Anniversary appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Univa announced the Universal Resource Broker, an enterprise-class workload optimization solution for high performance, containerized and shared data centers.The post Univa Rolls Out Universal Resource Broker appeared first on insideHPC.

Dell has teamed with Intel to create innovative solutions that can accelerate the research, diagnosis and treatment of diseases through personalized medicine. The combination of leading-edge CPUs from Intel and the systems and storage expertise from Dell create a state-of-the-art solution that is easy to install, manage and expand as required.The post Dell’s GDAP Delivers an Integrated Genomic Processing Infrastructure appeared first on insideHPC.

"Intel supports users, system integrators, and OEMs using ZFS with Intel Lustre. In this presentation, we summarize the results of proof-of-concept (PoC) on a variety of the ZFS configurations. We cover sequential and metadata performance, data Integrity, manageability, availability and reliability. The work identifies the areas where development should be focused in order to fill gap in performance or functionality and encourage system administrator to integrate this technology with the existing high availability framework like Pacemaker/Corosync. We also cover the most important tunables for ZFS in combination with Lustre and the most notable metrics for Lustre and ZFS."The post Video: Current Status of ZFS as Backend File System for Lustre appeared first on insideHPC.

Asetek has announced its first production order for its RackCDU Direct-to-Chip data center liquid cooling system under the previously announced OEM purchase agreement with Fujitsu.The post Asetek Lands Largest Order Yet for RackCDU with Fujitsu appeared first on insideHPC.

How does a woman break through the glass ceiling? In this video from the Re/Code Conference, Intel's Diane Bryant discusses the pathway to diversity in the tech sector.The post Intel’s Diane Bryant on Bringing Diversity to the Tech Sector appeared first on insideHPC.

"n this session, Seagate covers configuration guidelines and tuning of LNET Routing from InfiniBand to Ethernet using Lustre 2.1 through 2.6 server/clients as well demonstrating performance results by means of a synthetic benchmark called IOR. In addition, this presentation includes the topic of LNET Router failure and recovery during I/O as well as what environments can expect during these failure events."The post Video: Lustre Network (LNET) Router Configuration and Tuning appeared first on insideHPC.

Today NERSC announced that their Cori Phase 1 system will be the first supercomputer installed in the new Computational Research and Theory Facility, which is now in the final stages of construction at LBNL. Expected to be delivered this summer, the Cray XC40 supercomputer will be powered by Intel Haswell processors and Cray's DataWarp burst buffer technology.The post NERSC to Install Cori Phase 1 Supercomputer this Summer appeared first on insideHPC.

Although there are a number of truly huge implementations of Lustre today, the community is still far from reaching the maximum configurations that the Lustre architecture is designed for. Inside the Lustre File System describes the basics of how the Lustre File System operates with descriptions of the newest features.The post Introduction to the Lustre File System appeared first on insideHPC.

In this RCE Podcast, Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres speak with Mike Place about SaltStack, a fast and scalable systems and configuration management software for predictive orchestration, cloud and data center automation, server provisioning, application deployment and more.The post RCE Podcast Looks at SaltStack Scalable System Configuration Manager appeared first on insideHPC.

This week LANL announced that high school students Meghan Hill and Katelynn James took the top prize in the 25th New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge. Their research project, “Using Concentrated Heat Systems to Shock the P53 Protein to Direct Cancer into Apoptosis.” posited that using nanotechnology robots can kill cancer cells without damaging healthy cells.The post Supercomputing Challenge Winners Examine Nanotech for Fighting Cancer appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the Texas Advanced Computing Center announced that the Wrangler data analysis and management supercomputing system is now in early operations for the open science community. Supported by a grant from the NSF, Wrangler uses innovative DSSD technology for data-intensive computing.The post TACC’s “Wrangler” Uses DSSD Technology for Data-Intensive Computing appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast, Rich Brueckner reports back from the LUG 2015 Lustre User Group Meeting. With something like 188 attendees this year, LUG reflects a user community that has come together to foster the world’s fastest parallel file system.The post Radio Free HPC Field Report from LUG2014 appeared first on insideHPC.

Over at NICS, Scott Gibson writes that researchers are using supercomputers to model the spread of wildfires.The post Supercomputing Sudden Firestorms appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Bright Computing announced a partnership with CVIS, a Dutch-based company that delivers innovative HPC solutions to organizations in the Benelux region.The post Bright Partners with CVIS for Benelux HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

As data analytics becomes more mission critical, hardware and software need to evolve to handle both historical data (batch) and real time streaming data. This combined ability to manage different types of data is critical for a wide range of organizations.The post The High Performance Data Analytics Market appeared first on insideHPC.