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"To achieve good scalability performance on the HPC scientific applications typically involves good understanding of the workload though performing profile analysis, and comparing behaviors of using different hardware which pinpoint bottlenecks in different areas of the HPC cluster. In this session, a selection of HPC applications will be shown to demonstrate various methods of profiling and analysis to determine the bottleneck, and the effectiveness of the tuning to improve on the application performance."The post Video: Applications Performance Optimizations – Best Practices appeared first on insideHPC.

The Open Compute Project partners with leading CPU vendors such as Intel, AMD and ARM-based vendors to create reference designs that may be used by board and system vendors. These designs are bare-bones systems, with expansion options designed in for other types of I/O and storage. The reference design from Intel (REF) is 6.5 inches wide and 20 inches deep. These dimensions allow for three servers to be placed side by side in a newly designed Open Compute rack, increasing density.The post Open Compute Solutions appeared first on insideHPC.

"Computers used as datacenter servers have usage patterns that differ substantially from those of desktop or laptop computers. We discuss four key differences in usage and their first-order implications for designing computers that are particularly well-suited as servers: data movement, thousands of transactions per second, program isolation, and measurement underpinnings. Maintaining high-bandwidth data movement requires coordinated design decisions throughout the memory system, instruction-issue system, and even instruction set."The post Video: Datacenter Computers – Modern Challenges in CPU Design appeared first on insideHPC.

Another year has passed and, with it, more growth for Lustre and the community around it. This year, as well as welcoming many new HPC sites to the community, we also delight in the evidence of activity from non-traditional Lustre sites and users.The post The State of the Lustre Community appeared first on insideHPC.

Over at Live Science, Shannon Hall writes that new global map of the world's oceans is so visually stunning that it could be mistaken for art. Computed on LANL supercomputers, the simulation is a component of the DOE's Accelerated Climate Model for Energy (ACME), which is expected to be the most complete climate and Earth system model once it is finished.The post Supercomputing Global Ocean Temperatures with ACME appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Vadim Karpusenko from Colfax International describes the software tools for developing applications for Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors. The session begins with software that is necessary to boot coprocessors and to run pre-compiled executables on them.The post Video: Software Tools for Intel Xeon Phi Co-processors appeared first on insideHPC.

"Cloud computing provides pay-per-use access to scalable compute resources. However, IaaS and HPC-on-demand offerings are still often complex. Instead, the CloudBroker Platform and AppCenter create a SaaS layer on top of the compute resources. In the CloudSME EU project, this is used to develop a simulation platform for manufacturing and engineering."The post Video: CloudBroker – Bringing HPC to the Cloud appeared first on insideHPC.

The University of Vermont is seeking an HPC Linux Systems Administrator in our Job of the Week.The post Job of the Week: HPC Linux Systems Administrator at University of Vermont appeared first on insideHPC.

Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are contributing to the BigNeuron project, a community effort to define and advance the state of the art of single neuron reconstruction and analysis and create a common platform for analyzing 3D neuronal structure.The post LBNL to Help Create Standard 3D Neuron Model appeared first on insideHPC.

Besides the obvious benefits to individuals, who will receive more targeted diagnosis and treatment, organizations that implement or contribute to personalized medicine can expect a number of benefits.The post Benefits HPC Brings to Genomics appeared first on insideHPC.

As part of PRACE Days15 next month, the Women in HPC Network will conduct a general introduction session on High Performance Computing.The post Women in HPC to Teach Supercomputing at PRACE Days15 appeared first on insideHPC.

It's me again--Dr. Lewey Anton. I’ve been commissioned by insideHPC to get the scoop on who’s jumping ship and moving on up in high performance computing. Find out what's up with familiar names like Adalio Sanchez and Thomas Zacharia.The post HPC People on the Move: Spring Break Edition appeared first on insideHPC.

The application of HPC in the automotive industry will be featured at this year’s ISC High Performance conference in Frankfurt. Both location and date have changed this year – previous conferences have been held most recently in Leipzig and have taken place a month earlier in June. The opening keynote by Jürgen Kohler will explore how Mercedes-Benz makes use of supercomputing to deliver competitive advantage.The post The Future of Cars and Computers On Deck at ISC High Performance appeared first on insideHPC.

Solving many scientific and technical applications entails the use of matrix multiplies somewhere in the algorithm and thus the computer code. With today's multicore CPUs, proper use of complier directives can speed up matrix multiplies significantly.The post Fast Matrix Multiply with OpenMP appeared first on insideHPC.

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team looks at some interesting industry developments from the past week. Samsung is reportedly looking at buying AMD, Intel may acquire Altera, and Micron has snapped up Convey Computer.The post Radio Free HPC Looks at Recent Trends of Chipmaker Consolidation appeared first on insideHPC.

"Building on 20+ years of experience in High Performance Computing, as well as more than a decade of involvement in open science developments (open data and e-infrastructures), ICM views Data Sciences as strategic direction for the ICM Centre’s future."The post Video: Addressing Challenges of Data-Intensive Research appeared first on insideHPC.

This is the 4th installment of a 6 article series on the trends and technologies impacting the application of HPC in Life Sciences. Here we explore how companies like SGI and Intel address computational and storage problems inherent in Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) applications.The post Removing Bottlenecks in Next Generation Sequencing appeared first on insideHPC.

We are sad to report that Bill Blake passed away on March 31 after suffering from a heart attack. While many of you will remember Bill from his work as CTO of Cray, Mr. Blake was most recently head of R&D at D-Wave Systems.The post Bill Blake of D-Wave & Cray Passes Away appeared first on insideHPC.

Jeff Squyres writes that the new “Supercomputer in your browser” (SiYB) project is designed to bring the rich High Performance Computing ecosystem to the world’s most popular software: web browsers.The post SiYB is a Supercomputer in your Browser appeared first on insideHPC.

In this April 1 video, Scalable Informatics announces the Si Tortoise Data Security Appliance.The post April 1 Video: Si Tortoise Data Security Appliance appeared first on insideHPC.

Ensuring a reproducible result of HPC workloads no matter the platform used is key to settle the battle between operations (update fast, due to compliance / security) and end- user (never touch a running system). By pushing his docker related HPC research further, Christian is showcasing his results on Immutable Application Containers.The post Reproducibility of CAE-computations through Immutable Application Containers appeared first on insideHPC.

The Convey Computer site reports that the company has been acquired by Micron. This is not an April Fools, guys. There just may be a hybrid-core server with an Automata processor available soon from a vendor near you.The post Micron Swallows up Convey Computer appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the 2015 HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference, Tor Skeie from Simula Laboratory presents: The InfiniBand Subnet Manager from Fabriscale.The post Video: The InfiniBand Subnet Manager from Fabriscale appeared first on insideHPC.

Processing complex genomic data sets requires massive compute power, storage and network capabilities. Getting the balance right is critical to success. The insideHPC Guide to Genomics looks at the benefits, challenges of applying HPC to Genomics as well as many success stories.The post InsideHPC Guide to Genomics appeared first on insideHPC.

"When we began our relationship with Total more than 15 years ago, our goal was to continually provide the capacity and power required for the company to pursue its oil and gas research throughout the world. We are proud to be part of what has become a continuing legacy of technological research at Total and with this system upgrade, SGI's innovative solutions will continue to help the company deliver sustainable production growth in the future."The post SGI to Boost Pangea Supercomputer to 6.7 Petaflops appeared first on insideHPC.

NVM Express is a specification for accessing solid-state drives (SSDs) attached through the PCI Express (PCIe) bus. "NVM" stands as an acronym for non-volatile memory, which is used in SSDs. As a logical device interface, NVM Express has been designed from the ground up, capitalizing on the low latency and parallelism of PCI Express SSDs, and mirroring the parallelism of contemporary CPUs, platforms and applications. By allowing parallelism levels offered by SSDs to be fully utilized by host's hardware and software, NVM Express brings various performance improvements.The post Video: NVM Express Introduction and Tutorial appeared first on insideHPC.

The Open Compute Project Foundation was created to design the most efficient server, storage and related designs for the next generation of data centers in an open and collaborative development model. By sharing designs that maximize density, minimize power consumption and deliver expected performance, completely new computing environments can be developed, free from the limitations of legacy thinking.The post Open Computing Drives Innovation and Efficiency appeared first on insideHPC.

Lenovo is now offering the UK’s first ANSYS CFD-ready HPC appliance designed to ease cluster deployment while boosting engineering productivity.The post OCF Builds CFD-ready Lenovo HPC Appliance appeared first on insideHPC.

"Using the publicly available software packages in the High-Performance Big Data (HiBD) project, we will provide case studies of the new designs for several Hadoop/Spark/Memcached components and their associated benefits. Through these case studies, we will also examine the interplay between high performance interconnects, storage systems (HDD and SSD), and multi-core platforms to achieve the best solutions for these components."The post Video: Accelerating Big Data Processing with Hadoop, Spark and Memcached appeared first on insideHPC.

EPFL launches Denab: a scalable HPC architecture for researchers and students. "Working with ClusterVision and Intel has proved to be a wise and productive decision for EPFL as we continue to grow our computational capabilities to support our many researchers and students."The post EPFL Unleashes Deneb, a Scalable HPC Architecture for Researchers and Students appeared first on insideHPC.

The main motivation for Multipath RDMA is to support three types of features: Failovers and High Availability Support, Bandwidth Aggregation, and L3 datacenter support.The post Video: Multipath RDMA appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest feature, Tom Wilkie from Scientific Computing World reports how the launch of its HPC innovation centre in Stuttgart yesterday shows the company’s commitment to HPC.The post Lenovo Steps Up to HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

"The CMS detector at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN underwent a replacement of its data acquisition network to be able to process the increased data rate expected in the coming years. We will present the architecture of the system and discuss the design of its layers which are based on Infiniband as well as 10 and 40 GBit/s Ethernet."The post High Throughput Data Acquisition at the CMS experiment at CERN appeared first on insideHPC.

Researchers using the JUQUEEN supercomputer have computed the small mass difference between protons and neutrons. The fact that the neutron is slightly more massive than the proton is the reason why atomic nuclei have exactly those properties that make our world and ultimately our existence possible. The fact that the neutron is slightly more massive […]The post Supercomputing the Mass Difference of Neutron and Protons appeared first on insideHPC.

I'm on my way home from a series of Springtime HPC conferences with boatload of new videos and interviews on the latest in high performance computing. Here are some notable items that may have not made it to the front page.The post HPC News Roundup for March 27, 2015 appeared first on insideHPC.

"The drive toward exascale computing, a renewed emphasis on data-centric processing, energy efficiency concerns, and the limitations of memory and I/O performance are all working to reshape High Performance Computing platforms. Many-core accelerators, flash storage, 3D memory, integrated networking, and optical interconnects are just some of the technologies propelling these future architectures. In concert with those developments, the HPC vendor landscape has been churning in response to broader market forces, and these events are going to drive some interesting changes in the coming year."The post HPC Market Update from Intersect360 Research appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the 2015 HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference, Oded Paz presents: Special Training Session for HPC Systems Managers and Users: EDR InfiniBand, Multicast Operations (setup flow and diagnostic tools), Traffic Load Balancing, InfiniBand Quality Of Service, System Debugging, and open Q&A.The post Video: Special Training Session for HPC Systems Managers and Users appeared first on insideHPC.

Solving Navier-Sokes equations are popular because they describe the physics of in a number of areas of interest to scientists and engineers. By solving these equations, the flow velocity can be calculated, and then other quantities of interest, such as pressure or temperature may be determined.The post Optimizing Navier-Stokes Equations appeared first on insideHPC.

"The DDN Infinite Memory Engine (IME) unleashes a new I/O provisioning paradigm. This breakthrough, software defined storage application introduces a whole new new tier of transparent, extendable, non-volatile memory (NVM), that provides game-changing latency reduction and greater bandwidth and IOPS performance for the next generation of performance hungry scientific, analytic and big data applications – all while offering significantly greater economic and operational efficiency than today’s traditional disk-based and all flash array storage approaches that are currently used to scale performance."The post Video: Application Experiences on DDN’s IME Burst Buffer appeared first on insideHPC.

"The use of GPUs to accelerate applications is mainstream nowadays, but their adoption in cur- rent clusters presents several drawbacks. In this talk we present the last developments of the rCUDA remote GPU virtualization framework, which is the only one supporting the most recent CUDA version, in addition to leverage the InfiniBand fabric for the sake of performance."The post Video: Increasing Cluster Throughput while Reducing Energy Consumption for GPU Workloads appeared first on insideHPC.