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"Large scale HPC IO is usually done either with a file per process or to a single shared file. Single shared file IO does not scale well in Lustre compared to file per process. This presentation from Cray's Patrick Farrell will give details, examine the reasons for this, and explore existing and potential solutions. Group locks and a new feature, lock ahead, will be discussed in the context of strided IO."The post Video: Shared File Performance in Lustre – Challenges and Solutions appeared first on insideHPC.

Dr. Lewey Anton brings us the scoop on who’s jumping ship and moving on up in high performance computing.The post HPC People on the Move – April Edition appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from LUG 2015 in Denver, Robert Triendl from DDN presents: Application-optimized Lustre Solutions for Big-Data Workflows.The post Video: Application-optimized Lustre Solutions for Big-Data Workflows appeared first on insideHPC.

The ISC High Performance Conference is seeking Student Volunteers. The event takes place July 12-16 in Frankfurt, Germany.The post Appy Now: ISC High Performance Conference Needs Student Volunteers appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Stan Ahalt from the National Consortium for Data Science discusses how and why the organization came into being.The post NCDS Takes Action on Big Data appeared first on insideHPC.

Today RSC Group announced the installation of a MVS-10P MP Petastream supercomputer at the Joint Supercomputer Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (JSCC RAS). As is the first project in the Commonwealth of Independent States based on the latest Intel Xeon Phi 7120D coprocessors, the supercomputer weighs in at #20 of the Top50 list of the most powerful computing systems in Russia and CIS.The post RSC PetaStream Powers Russian Academy of Sciences appeared first on insideHPC.

"Pleiades, one of the world's most powerful supercomputers, represents NASA's state-of-the-art technology for meeting the agency's supercomputing requirements, enabling NASA scientists and engineers to conduct modeling and simulation for NASA missions. Powered by Lustre, this distributed-memory SGI ICE cluster is connected with InfiniBand in a dual-plane hypercube technology."The post Video: Defending the Planet with Lustre appeared first on insideHPC.

As datasets and simulations continue to increase in size and complexity, interactivity with the data should be maintained. It is important to understand how SIMD parallelism can be used when evaluating large fault tree expressions on a large volume of input.The post Fault Trees appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from LUG 2015 in Denver, Peter Bojanic from Seagate presents: Seagate Lustre Update. "Seagate powers four of the five 1 TB/sec filesystems in the world today."The post Video: Seagate Lustre Update appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) announced a significant step forward in the delivery of Summit, the next-generation supercomputer IBM will deliver in 2017 to greatly advance the nation's energy and science agenda. Following a formal call for proposals and a review process, ORNL revealed 13 science application readiness projects selected as part of the Center for Accelerated Application Readiness (CAAR) program.The post OLCF Moves Forward on Application Readiness for Summit Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.

Universities and hospitals like TGen and NMTRC are seeing an entirely new reality in patient care leveraging HPC clusters. Here are some success stories on on advances in personalized medicine.The post Success Stories in Personalized Medicine appeared first on insideHPC.

articleIn this podcast, Michael Grabe from the University of California - San Francisco describes how scientists designed completely from scratch a protein molecule that behaves like a slice of life.The post Podcast: Supercomputing Synthetic Transporter Proteins appeared first on insideHPC.

"A little over a year ago LANL’s HPC Division purchased and fielded our first general purpose InfiniBand-based Lustre parallel file system. This new Lustre deployment, being the first of several similar planned deployments, gave us the opportunity to design a new storage backbone from the ground up and to gain in depth experience with and insight into Lustre technology in order to facilitate the installment and configuration of future systems."The post Video: There and Back Again – The Battle of Lustre at LANL appeared first on insideHPC.

"The second generation of SDSC’s Data Oasis Lustre storage is coming online to support Comet, a new XSEDE cluster targeted at the long tail of science. The servers have been designed with Lustre on ZFS in mind, and also update the network to use bonded 40GbE interfaces. The raw storage totals 7.7 PB and are again based on commodity hardware provided by Aeon Computing, maintaining our focus on cost."The post Video: SDSC’s Data Oasis Gen II: ZFS, 40GbE, and Replication appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the University of Oxford unveiled its new Arcus Phase B cluster. Integrated by OCF in the UK, the 5000 core Lenovo cluster will support research across all four Divisions at the University; Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences; Medical Sciences; Social Sciences; and Humanities.The post OCF Deploys Lenovo Arcus Cluster at University of Oxford appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from LUG 2015 in Denver, Jason Goodman from Cray presents: Cray’s Storage History and Outlook – Lustre+. "As a leader in open systems and parallel file systems, Cray builds on open source Lustre to unlock any industry-standard x86 Linux compute cluster using InfiniBand or 10/40 GbE utilizing proven Cray storage architectures."The post Video: Cray’s Storage History and Outlook – Lustre+ appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from LUG 2015, Charlie Carroll from Cray presents an OpenSFS update. "An important new trend is Lustre file system usage in the enterprise environment. Through community input and new or existing working groups, OpenSFS is moving to support this trend as required by the community."The post Video: OpenSFS Update appeared first on insideHPC.

Recently, insideHPC featured an interview with IBM's Jay Muelhoefer on the topic of software defined infrastructure. To learn more about the storage sign of that coin, we caught up with Jim Gutowski and Scott Fadden from IBM.The post Interview: Software Defined Storage for Bridging HPC and Big Data Analytics appeared first on insideHPC.

Full paper submissions for SC15 Technical Papers are due by Friday, April 17.The post Final SC15 Technical Papers due Friday, April 17 appeared first on insideHPC.

Lustre Development UpdateThe post Video: Lustre Development Update from LUG 2015 appeared first on insideHPC.

The clock is ticking down for teams to submit their applications for the SC15 Student Cluster Competition. The deadline to apply for a spot in this year’s competition is Friday, April 17.The post Hurry! Enter SC15 Student Cluster Competition by April 17 appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from LUG 2015, Hugo Falter presents an EOFS Update. "The EOFS (European Open File System) was founded in 2010 too promote the establishment and adoption of open source parallel file systems, sustain and enhance its quality, capabilities and functionality and ensure that specific requirements of European organizations, institutions and companies are upheld."The post Video: EOFS Update from LUG 2015 appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Teracala announced that San Diego State University is using a Terascala-powered HPC storage solution to study the DNA of viruses and bacteria.The post Terascala Powers Bioinformatics at SDSU appeared first on insideHPC.

The Open Compute Project is a way for organization to increase computing power while lowering associated costs with hyper-scale computing. This article is the 4th in a series from insideHPC that showcases the benefits of open computing to specific industries.The post Open Computing Benefits Many Industry Segments appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Steve Simms from Indiana University kicks off LUG 2015 with a talk on Lustre 101. "Lustre is a mature and stable file system that through its developers has consistently been able to respond to the needs of organizations that require high performance throughput and expanding capacity."The post Video: Steve Simms Teaches Lustre 101 at LUG 2015 appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the 180 Aurora supercomputer coming to Argonne in 2018. "As the third of three Coral supercomputer procurements, the deal will comprise an 8.5 Petaflop “Theta” system based on Knights Landing in 2016 and a much larger 180 Petaflop “Aurora” supercomputer in 2018. Intel will be the prime contractor on the deal, with sub-contractor Cray building the actual supercomputers."The post Radio Free HPC Looks at the Aurora Supercomputer Coming to Argonne in 2018 appeared first on insideHPC.

Intel has been banned by the US Government from selling any more Xeon processors for use in the world's fastest supercomputer, the Tiahane-2 'Milky Way' machine at the Guangzhou Supercomputer Centre in China.The post Feds Restrict Intel Processors in China appeared first on insideHPC.

According to the latest edition of the local Top50 list of the most powerful supercomputers in Russia and CIS region, RSC has increased its share by 80%.The post RSC Leads Russian Supercomputer Market appeared first on insideHPC.

"The selection of Intel to deliver the Aurora supercomputer is validation of our unique position to lead a new era in HPC,” said Raj Hazra, vice president, Data Center Group and general manager, Technical Computing Group at Intel. “Intel’s HPC scalable system framework enables balanced, scalable and efficient systems while extending the ecosystem’s decades of software investment to future generations. We look forward to the numerous scientific discoveries and the far-reaching impacts on society that Aurora will enable.”The post Video: How Aurora Will Usher in a New Era for HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

In this Tech Shift podcast, Michael Papka and Susan Coghlan from Argonne National Laboratory discuss the 180 Petaflop Aurora supercomputer scheduled for deployment in 2018.The post Podcast: Michael Papka and Susan Coghlan on the 180 Petaflop Aurora Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.

"Pharmacokinetic (PK) and Pharmacodynamic(PD) parameters determine the develop-ability of a drug candidate and estimation of them are time consuming and there is an urgent need for time efficient approaches. In the present talk, we showcase the parallel implementation of Grid search method on Xeon Phi using stepwise optimization techniques as a promising approach for the robust estimation of PK-PD parameters. The solution described herein, is of great importance in decision making in Pharmaceutical Industry."The post Parallel Implementation of PK-PD Parameter Estimation on Intel Xeon Phi appeared first on insideHPC.

A number of challenges exist for both the wider adoption of technologies that can impede personalized medicine workflows and the implementation of such systems. Learn more on how companies like Dell and Intel are delivering complete integrated genomic processing infrastructure.The post HPC Helps Solve Challenges of Personalized Medicine appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the Ohio Supercomputer Center unveiled their new 144 Teraflop Ruby supercomputer. Powered by Intel Xeon Phi, the 144 Teraflop HP system is named after Cleveland-born activist Ruby Dee.The post New OSC Supercomputer Named After Civil Rights Activist Ruby Dee appeared first on insideHPC.

This morning Intel and the U.S. Department of Energy announced a $200 million supercomputing investment coming to Argonne National Laboratory. As the third of three Coral supercomputer procurements, the deal will comprise an 8.5 Petaflop "Theta" system based on Knights Landing in 2016 and a much larger 180 Petaflop "Aurora" supercomputer in 2018. Intel will be the prime contractor on the deal, with sub-contractor Cray building the actual supercomputers.The post A Closer Look at Intel’s Coral Supercomputers Coming to Argonne appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Intel announced that the company will deliver two next-generation supercomputers to Argonne National Laboratory. "The contract is part of the DOE’s multimillion dollar initiative to build state-of-the-art supercomputers at Argonne, Lawrence Livermore and Oak Ridge National Laboratories that will be five to seven times more powerful than today’s top supercomputers."The post Intel to Deliver Nation’s Most Powerful Supercomputer at Argonne appeared first on insideHPC.

In many large threaded applications, synchronizing all of the threads by use of barriers can results in significant wasted processing time. If the application lends itself, loosely synchronous barriers instead of strictly synchronous barriers should be used and can recover lost time.The post Phasing Barriers for Performance appeared first on insideHPC.

"Metadata, or data about data, lets scientists find the valuable data they are looking for. Metadata especially helps find value in data that’s been created by others, no matter when or where. Without rich metadata, scientists increasingly risk spending their time just looking for data, or worse, losing it – instead of exploiting that data for analysis and discovery."The post Keeping Up with the Growth of Scientific Data appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the 2015 OFS Developer's Workshop, Dave Dunning from Intel presents: Fabrics - Why We Love Them and Why We Hate Them.The post Video: Fabrics – Why We Love Them and Why We Hate Them appeared first on insideHPC.

The SGI UV system allows computational biologists to take a different, far more effective approach to dealing with the huge data sets generated by contemporary Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) and analytic applications.The post SGI Solutions for Next Generation Sequencing appeared first on insideHPC.

Staff members at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are evaluating how supercomputers can be cooled more efficiently.The post Optimizing Chilled Water Systems at ORNL appeared first on insideHPC.

"IBM Spectrum Scale is a proven, scalable, high-performance data and file management solution (based upon IBM General Parallel File System or GPFS, also formerly known as code name Elastic Storage). IBM Spectrum Scale provides world-class storage management with extreme scalability, flash accelerated performance, and automatic policy-based storage tiering from flash through disk to tape. IBM Spectrum Scale reduces storage costs up to 90% while improving security and management efficiency in cloud, big data & analytics environments."The post Slidecast: Bridging HPC and Big Data Analytics with Software Defined Storage appeared first on insideHPC.

This week NCSA celebrated two years of Blue Waters supercomputing in an event convened by U.S. Senator Mark Kirk. The powerful Cray supercomputer is used by scientists and engineers across the country to tackle challenging research for the benefit of science and society.The post Celebrating Two Years of Blue Waters Supercomputing at NCSA appeared first on insideHPC.

Google’s investment in artificial intelligence does more than just create better search results; it allows Google’s engineers to make constant algorithm changes right under our noses.The post Radio Free HPC on the Silence of the Google appeared first on insideHPC.

"This talk will give an overview of training and graduate education initiatives in Sweden in the eScience and high performance computing areas and show why these are important but also different. Lessons learned from giving courses at six super computer centers and current and future courses will be discussed."The post Video: eScience Training and Education in Sweden appeared first on insideHPC.