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In this video from ISC 2015, Mark O'Connor from Allinea demonstrates how the company's Performance Reports tool enables coders to speed up the Discovar bioinformatics code. "Allinea Performance Reports are the most effective way to characterize and understand the performance of HPC application runs. One single-page HTML report elegantly answers a range of vital questions for any HPC installation."The post Tuning Bioinformatics Codes with Allinea Performance Reports appeared first on insideHPC.

"With this delivery, the DEEP consortium can leverage a supercomputer with a peak performance of 505 TFlop/s and an efficiency of over 3 GFlop/s per Watt. The Eurotech hot water cooling solution allows for additional permanent gains in energy efficiency at data centre level as it guarantees year-round free cooling in all climate zones. The system includes a matching innovative software stack, and six carefully selected grand challenge simulation applications have been optimized to show the full performance potential of the system."The post DEEP Project Moves Towards Exascale at ISC 2015 appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, student participants in Research Experience for High School Students (REHS) program discuss their experiences using HPC resources at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego (SDSC).The post Video: Teens Apply HPC at SDSC Summer Program appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Tom Wilkie reports on two US initiatives for future supercomputers, announced at the ISC in Frankfurt in July.The post Advancing HPC with Collaboration & Co-design appeared first on insideHPC.

"Building on the success of the Intel Parallel Computing Centers, Intel is announcing the Intel Modern Code Developer Community to help HPC developers to code for maximum performance on current and future hardware. Targeting over 400,000 HPC-focused developers and partners, the program brings tools, training, knowledge and support to developers worldwide by offering access to a network of elite experts in parallelism and HPC. The broader developer community can now gain the skills needed to unlock the full potential of Intel hardware and enable the next decade of discovery."The post Introducing the Intel Modern Code Community appeared first on insideHPC.

Ryft in San Francisco is seeking a Director of Sales in our Job of the Week.The post Job of the Week: Director of Sales at Ryft appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from ISC 2015, Wolfgang Gentzsch from The UberCloud presents: HPC Workloads Using Docker. "The UberCloud Project provides an environment to run HPC workloads on a variety of cloud providers. Wolfgang elaborates on the projects and provides his experience about the roadblocks towards a more flexible cloud-backed HPC future."The post Video: HPC Workloads using Docker appeared first on insideHPC.

IDC has published the agenda for their next HPC User Forum. The event will take place Sept. 8-10 in Broomfield, CO.The post Agenda Posted for HPC User Forum, Sept. 8-10 in Broomfield appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the Intel booth at ISC 2015, Dr Juha Jäykkä, ‎COSMOS System Manager at University of Cambridge describes a cosmology demonstration running on prototype Intel Knights Landing and Omni-Path hardware. "At ISC 2015, unveiled new details for its future generation high performance computing products, including the first public “powered-on” demonstration of the Intel Omni-Path Architecture, a next-generation fabric technology optimized for HPC deployments."The post Knights Landing Prototype Powers Cosmology at ISC 2015 appeared first on insideHPC.

"HPC has reached an inflection point with the convergence of traditional high performance computing and the emerging world of Big Data analytics. Intel's HPC Scalable System Framework enables an unprecedented level of system balance, performance, and scalability necessary to meet the demands of bot compute- and data-intensive workloads, today and well into the future."The post Coral and Intel’s Scalable System Framework – The Path to Exascale appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Compute Canada announced funding to renew and consolidate the Canadian national platform for advanced research computing. Compute Canada and its regional partners ACENET, Calcul Quebec, Compute Ontario, and WestGrid will receive close to $75 million through the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s Cyberinfrastructure Initiative competition launched in 2014.The post Compute Canada to Renew National Research Computing Infrastructure appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) announced plans to collaborate on HPC research and technology innovation. Both organizations have signed an agreement to help promoting “a globally competitive HPC value chain and flagship industry”, echoing the European Union strategy in the domain.The post BSC and CEA to Collaborate on HPC Innovation appeared first on insideHPC.

The benefits of nested parallelism on highly threaded applications can be determined and quantified. With the number of cores in both the host CPU (Intel Xeon) and the coprocessor (Intel Xeon Phi) continues to increase, much thought must be given to minimizing the thread overhead when many threads need to be synchronized, as well as the memory access for each processor (core). Tasks that can be spread across an entire system to exploit the algorithm’s parallelism, should be mapped to the NUMA node to make them more efficient.The post Nested Parallelism appeared first on insideHPC.

"In April 2015, 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 Video: Argonne Presents HPC Plans at ISC 2015 appeared first on insideHPC.

"Exascale computers are going to deliver only one or two per cent of their theoretical peak performance when they run real applications; and both the people paying for, and the people using, such machines need to have realistic expectations about just how low a percentage of the peak performance they will obtain."The post Should Users Reset Performance Expectations for Exascale? appeared first on insideHPC.

Today President Obama issued an Executive Order establishing the National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI) to ensure the United States continues leading high performance computing over the coming decades.The post Obama Establishes National Strategic Computing Initiative appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from ISC 2015, Intel's Raj Hazra explores how new innovations and Intel’s Scalable System Framework approach can maximize the potential in the new HPC era. Raj also shares details of upcoming Intel technologies, products and ecosystem collaborations that are powering these breakthroughs and ensuring technical computing continues to fulfill its potential as a scientific and industrial tool for discovery and innovation.The post Intel’s Raj Hazra on the Convergence of HPC & Big Data at ISC 2015 appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from ISC 2015, Michele De Lorenzi sits down with Rich Brueckner from insideHPC to discuss the latest updates from the conference and how the CSCS booth is constructed to reflect Switzerland's focus on sustainability.The post Video: CSCS Focuses on Sustainability at ISC 2015 appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the newly announced 3D XPoint technology from Intel and Micron. "3D XPoint ushers in a new class of non-volatile memory that significantly reduces latencies, allowing much more data to be stored close to the processor and accessed at speeds previously impossible for non-volatile storage."The post Radio Free HPC Looks at 3D XPoint Non-Volatile Memory appeared first on insideHPC.

Today SGI announced that its SGI UV 300H is now SAP-certified to run the SAP HANA platform in controlled availability at 20-sockets— delivering up to 15 terabytes (TB) of in-memory computing capacity in a single node.The post SGI UV 300H 20-Socket Appliance Now SAP HANA Certified appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) announced that its new Chameleon testbed is in full production for researchers across the country. Designed to help investigate and develop the promising future of cloud-based science, the NSF-funded Chameleon is a configurable, large-scale environment for testing and demonstrate new concepts.The post TACC Puts Chameleon Cloud Testbed into Production appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from ISC 2015, Earl Joseph and Bob Sorensen from IDC provide an HPC Market Update. Additional topics include: the HPC Market in Europe, the upcoming HPC User Forum, and an HPDA Update: Where Big Data Meets HPC.The post HPC Market Update from IDC appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Intel Corporation and Micron Technology unveiled 3D XPoint technology, a non-volatile memory that has the potential to revolutionize any device, application or service that benefits from fast access to large sets of data. Now in production, 3D XPoint technology is a major breakthrough in memory process technology and the first new memory category since the introduction of NAND flash in 1989.The post Intel and Micron Announce 3D XPoint Non-Volatile Memory appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Savage IO announced the SavageStor open storage platform. According to the company, SavageStor is the highest-performing, most-densely populated Open Storage Platform server available today.The post Savage IO Rolls Out High Performance Open Storage appeared first on insideHPC.

Marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of Ada Lovelace, the woman widely regarded as the first computer programmer, a competition aims to inspire female students by asking what they would most like to communicate to Lovelace about 21st century technology.The post Ada Lovelace Competition to Inspire Female Programmers appeared first on insideHPC.

"TotalView breaks down barriers to understanding what's going on with your HPC and supercomputing applications. Purpose-built for multicore and parallel computing, TotalView provides a set of tools providing unprecedented control over processes and thread execution, along with deep visibility into program states and data."The post Video: TotalView Parallelizes Code at ISC 2015 appeared first on insideHPC.

Today DDN announced record performance on the Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC) benchmark. Using the company's EXAScaler storage solution, DDN set new public records for multiple workload types and sizes, including large and small workloads as well as I/O and compute-intensive workloads.The post DDN Sets World Record STAC Performance appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from ISC 2015, Scott Misage from HP describes the company's new strategy for High Performance Computing. With a new business unit centered around HPC and Big Data, the company is poised to grow its market leadership with purpose-built systems like the liquid-cooled Apollo 8000 system.The post HP Doubles Down on HPC & Big Data at ISC 2015 appeared first on insideHPC.

Lustre* is not just for the national labs any longer. It was born out of serving up data extremely fast to the world’s most powerful HPC clusters using parallel I/O to improve performance and scalability. Here are five reasons why Lustre is enterprise-ready.The post Lustre* For the Enterprise appeared first on insideHPC.

The submissions deadline for portions of the SC15 Technical Program has been extended to Friday, Aug. 7. The SC15 conference will take place Nov. 15-20 in Austin, Texas.The post Last Call for SC15 Tech Program Submissions appeared first on insideHPC.

In this slidecast, Chris Porter and Jeff Kamiol from IBM describe how IBM High Performance Services deliver versatile, application-ready clusters in the cloud for organizations that need to quickly and economically add computing capacity for high performance application workloads.The post Slidecast: IBM High Performance Services for Technical Computing in the Cloud appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the ISC Cloud & Big Data conference announced that their pre-conference program will center around eight engaging workshops. The event takes place Sept. 28-30 in Frankfurt, Germany.The post ISC Cloud & Big Data Conference Announces Workshops appeared first on insideHPC.

In the ISC opening keynote, the conference was told that Europe is failing to persuade enough small and medium companies to take advantage of high performance computing and engineering simulation, even though HPC and CAE are essential tools in modern industry.The post Smaller Companies Shun HPC in Europe appeared first on insideHPC.

"Cyfronet recently celebrated the launch of Poland’s fastest supercomputer. As the world’s largest deployment of the HP Apollo 8000 platform, the 1.68 Petaflop Prometheus system is powered by 41,472 Intel Haswell cores, 216 Terabytes of memory, and 10 Petabytes of storage."The post Video: Data Storage Infrastructure at Cyfronet appeared first on insideHPC.

Researchers at the University of Lincoln in the U.K. are using the BlueBEAR HPC service to simulate the use of protons for CT imaging. Generally reliant on X-rays to image the body’s composition and healthy tissue location before treatment, doctors are looking to the the project to build a device capable of delivering protons in a clinical setting.The post BlueBEAR HPC Service Supports Proton Therapy Research appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the OpenMPCon Developer Conference published their abstracts of papers and tutorials.The post OpenMPCon Lists Abstracts and Tutorials appeared first on insideHPC.

"At ISC 2015, Numascale announced record-breaking results from a shared memory system running the McCalpin STREAM Benchmark, a synthetic benchmark program that measures sustainable memory bandwidth and the corresponding computation rate for simple vector kernels. Numascale’s cache coherent shared memory system, which was targeted for big data analytics, reached 10.06 TBytes/second for the Scale function."The post Numascale Powers Big Data Analytics with Transtec appeared first on insideHPC.

In what could be one of the biggest acquisitions of a US company by a Chinese firm, China’s state owned Tsinghua Unigroup has made an bid to acquire US semiconductor manufacturer Micron Technology for $23 billion.The post Tsinghua in China Makes $23 billion Bid for Micron appeared first on insideHPC.

Training on Allinea Software will be a featured segment at the XSEDE15 conference in St. Louis next week. The event is designed to help scientists and developers make more efficient use of their time and system allocations.The post Allinea Training Coming to XSEDE15 Conference appeared first on insideHPC.

Today SGI announced that Inova Translational Medicine Institute (ITMI) has selected the company's supercomputing solutions to enable researchers to obtain insights from its premier genomic databases. With the ability to diagnose patients with more accuracy and speed, ITMI will enable a higher level of treatment and care for the diverse population it serves.The post Inova Powers Genomics with SGI appeared first on insideHPC.

In case you didn't know, insideHPC President Rich Brueckner has his roots in Wisconsin, and it was great to see this news today that the Milwaukee Institute has received $750K grant to greatly expand its HPC offerings for use by area tech enterprises.The post HPC Gets Boost in Milwaukee with $750,000 WEDC Grant appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Fujitsu announced plans to make HPC more accessible to a wider customer base with the FUJITSU Software HPC Gateway. The company said it wants to simplify High Performance Computing with this new approach to web-enabling access to HPC clusters and servers.The post Fujitsu Launches HPC Gateway Web Software appeared first on insideHPC.

The Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) in Germany writes that the most recent TOP500 list reflects its status of a global heavyweight in HPC.The post Gauss Centre in Germany Shows Strong in TOP500 appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Dan Olds and Rich Brueckner from Radio Free HPC discuss the latest news in High Performance Computing from the ISC 2015 conference in Frankfurt, Germany.The post Radio Free HPC Looks Back at ISC 2015 appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from ISC 2015, Mark O'Connor demonstrates how the Allinea Performance Reports tool enables coders to speed up hydro, a real-world CFD code. "Allinea Performance Reports are the most effective way to characterize and understand the performance of HPC application runs. One single-page HTML report elegantly answers a range of vital questions for any HPC site."The post Speeding Up CFD Codes with Allinea Performance Reports appeared first on insideHPC.

"This year we have a specific focus on the latest advances in different areas of networks, showcasing some of the latest and greatest next generation networking hardware. Our focus on Data Center vs. HPC networks will allow for an exchange that will benefit both communities."The post Interview: Hot Interconnects Conference Returns to Santa Clara Aug 26-28 appeared first on insideHPC.

Daniel Ahlin from KTH (Sweden's Royal Institute of Technology) presented this talk at the DDN User Group at ISC 2015. "The PDC Center for High Performance Computing at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology provides leading HPC services to Swedish academia as part of the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC) as well as internationally via the PRACE infrastructure."The post KTH Presents: Building Virtual Product Modeling for Scania appeared first on insideHPC.

"By adopting 8 terabyte drive technology, ActiveStor 18 increases scalability to more than 20 petabytes and 200 gigabytes per second. According to Panasas, ActiveStor 18 also offers increased CPU power and twice the storage cache capacity to further accelerate mixed workload performance. ActiveStor offers a true scale-out architecture incorporating hybrid storage hardware, file system and protocols in a fully integrated solution. Its architecture combines high-capacity hard drives and fast flash devices for superior mixed-workload performance with rapid access to small and large files alike."The post Panasas Moves Forward with ActiveStor 18 Hybrid Scale-out NAS Appliance appeared first on insideHPC.

"Despite what the name “EuroHack” may lead people to believe, no external systems were hacked during the EuroHack workshop in Lugano. In actual fact, the aim of the event was for experts to design computer codes that would exploit computer architectures more efficiently."The post Users Accelerate their Own Code at EuroHack appeared first on insideHPC.