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NICE DCV 2014 Does Remote 3D Applications in the Cloud
Today NICE in Italy released the latest version of their DCV remote visualization technology.
Video: HPC to Transform Grad Student Careers at SC15
In this video, Tanzima Islam from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory discusses how her experiences as a graduate student at the SC conference propelled her career in HPC.
Clusters For Dummies
Clusters FOR DUMMIES is an excellent read for both experienced and novice administrators, users, purchasing departments, and developers who are considering purchasing or specifying a cluster.
HPC People on the Move: March Edition
Adaptive Computing has a new CEO. Get the scoop on who else is jumping ship and moving on up in high performance computing.
Radio Free HPC Polarizes Over Net Neutrality
In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team splits on the topic of Net Neutrality. The FCC will soon publish its new rules for ensuring an even playing field for Internet Bandwidth. "Dan doesn't like the idea one bit. Henry disagrees and thinks we need Net Neutrality to keep the Comcasts of the world from running amok. As for Rich, he just finds the whole argument rather amusing since it's pretty much a done deal."
Predictions for HPC in 2015 from Intersect360 Research
Intersect360 Research has published their Top Six Predictions for HPC in 2015.
ARM Joins OpenMP ARB
ARM has joined the OpenMP Architecture Review Board (ARB), a group of leading hardware and software vendors and research organizations creating the standard for the most popular shared-memory parallel programming model in use today.
Slidecast: John Gustafson Explains Energy Efficient Unum Computing
"Written by one of the foremost experts in high-performance computing and the inventor of Gustafson’s Law, The End of Error: Unum Computing explains a new approach to computer arithmetic: the universal number (unum). The unum encompasses all IEEE floating-point formats as well as fixed-point and exact integer arithmetic. This new number type obtains more accurate answers than floating-point arithmetic yet uses fewer bits in many cases, saving memory, bandwidth, energy, and power."
Big Energy Breaks New Ground in Supercomputing
"Today, energy companies mark the world leaders in commercial supercomputing. Companies like Total are utilizing high performance computing (HPC) to deliver an optimal combination of performance, price and efficiency. Supercomputers like Pangea deliver 10 times the computing capacity of the system it replaced, helping Total identify and exploit new reserves more effectively."
The Past, Present, and Future of OpenACC
In this video from the University of Houston CACDS HPC Workshop, Jeff Larkin from Nvidia presents: The Past, Present, and Future of OpenACC. "OpenACC is an open specification for programming accelerators with compiler directives. It aims to provide a simple path for accelerating existing applications for a wide range of devices in a performance portable way. This talk with discuss the history and goals of OpenACC, how it is being used today, and what challenges it will address in the future."
Video: Fujitsu HPC Gateway to Desktop Supercomputing
In this video, Fujitsu CTO Pierre Lagier describes how the company enables customers to access high performance computing capabilities on desktop PCs with the Fujitsu HPC Gateway and the Intel Cluster Ready program.
Saul Perlmutter presents: Data, Computation, and the Fate of the Universe
"I think it’s a very interesting period for human cosmology because it’s a golden age in which every ten years we learn breathtaking new parts of the story. We have never before been able to do that in human history – to have the chance we have now to look at and understand the universe we live in."
Job of the Week: HPC Systems Engineer at Radley James
Radley James in New York is seeking HPC Software and Systems Engineers in our Job of the Week.
Video: DEEP-ER Project Reaches for Exascale
In the video, the DEEP-ER project paves the way to energy-efficient Exascale computing.
Slidecast: Deep Learning – Unreasonably Effective
"Deep Learning is a new area of Machine Learning research, which has been introduced with the objective of moving Machine Learning closer to one of its original goals: Artificial Intelligence. At the 2015 GPU Technology Conference, you can join the experts who are making groundbreaking improvements in a variety of deep learning applications, including image classification, video analytics, speech recognition, and natural language processing."
HPC News Roundup for February 27, 2015
As we head into the busy event season we like to call HPC March Madness, the past week has had its share of notable news items that didn't make it to the Features page.
ISC High Performance Announces Hans Meuer Award
"We are pleased to announce that ISC is introducing the Hans Meuer Award to honor the most outstanding research paper submitted to the conference’s research paper committee. This award has been introduced in the memory of the late Dr. Hans Meuer, general chair of the ISC conference from 1986 through 2014, and co-founder of the TOP500 project."
Spanish Meteorological Procures 168 Teraflop Bull Supercomputer
A new supercomputer, provided by the French company Bull, will be predicting accurately whether or not the rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain.
DownUnder GeoSolutions Dives Into Liquid Submersion Cooling
Today Green Revolution Cooling announced the latest installation of its CarnotJet System at the Australian geosciences company DownUnder GeoSolutions.
Interview: E4 Computer Engineering Gears Up for ISC High Performance
The E4 Computer Engineering team has garnered a solid reputation in Europe with high performance computing solutions for customers like CERN. To learn more, we caught up with Simone Tinti, who heads up the E4 HPC Team.
HP Sports AMD FirePro GPUs in ProLiant DL380 Gen9 Servers
"Featuring the first AMD Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture specifically with compute workloads in mind, the AMD FirePro S9150 server GPU supports enhanced double precision floating point computation and breaks the 2.0 TFLOPS double precision barrier. With 16GB of GDDR5 memory and maximum power consumption of 235 watts, AMD FirePro S9150 server GPUs provide massive compute performance while helping maximize available power budgets."
Call for Papers: ISC Cloud & Big Data
The inaugural ISC Cloud & Big Data conference has announced its Call for Research Papers. The event takes place Sept. 28-30 in Frankfurt, Germany. The organizers are looking forward to welcoming international attendees – IT professionals, consultants and managers from organizations seeking information about the latest cloud and big data developments. Researchers in these two […]
Performance Challenges Using OpenACC to Port O&G Apps
"John Levesque is the Director of the Cray’s Supercomputer Center of Excellence based at Oakridge National Laboratory. He is responsible for the group performing application porting and optimization for break-through science projects. Levesque has been in High Performance computing for 40 years. Recently Levesque was promoted to Cray’s Chief Technology Office, heading the companies efforts in application performance."
Mellanox Shows Record Performance with ConnectX-4 100Gb/s Interconnect Adapters
Today Mellanox announced world-record performance on its ConnectX-4 EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand adapters.
DDN Powers Fight Against Ebola at VBI
Today DDN announced that the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute is using the company's GRIScaler storage solutions to perform rapid, accurate Ebola outbreak modeling for the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency.
NERSC Honors HPC Achievement Award Winners
This week NERSC announced the winners of its third annual HPC Achievement Awards. The awards recognize NERSC users who have demonstrated an innovative use of HPC resources to solve a scientific problem or whose work has had an exceptional impact on scientific understanding or society.
Penguin Computing Launches Scyld ClusterWare for Hadoop
Today Penguin Computing announced Scyld ClusterWare for Hadoop, adding greater capability to the company’s existing Scyld ClusterWare high performance computing cluster management solution.
Video: Assisting User’s Transition to Titan’s Accelerated Architecture
In this video from the University of Houston CACDS HPC Workshop, Fernanda Foertter from ORNL presents: Leveraging Leadership Computing Facilities: Assisting User's Transition to Titan's Accelerated Architecture.
Three GPU Hackathons Going Global with OpenACC
NCSA, ORNL, and CSCS will host a series of GPU Hackathons in 2015.
CoolIT Systems Cites Growing Demand for Liquid Cooling
Today CoolIT Systems announced 2014 financials and growing demand for the company's Direct Contact Liquid Cooling technologies.
Cray XC30 Powers LS-DYNA at Stalprodukt
Today Cray announced that Stalprodukt S.A., a leading global steel processor, purchased a Cray XC30 supercomputer for structural analysis modeling used in the testing of steel designs.
Seagate ClusterStor Secure Data Appliance
The Seagate ClusterStor Secure Data Appliance (SDA) is the HPC industry’s first scale-out secure storage system officially ICD-503 certified to consolidate multiple previously isolated systems, maintain data security, enforce security access controls, segregate data at different security levels, and provide audit trails, all in a single scale-out file system with proven linear performance and storage scalability.
Open Fabrics Workshop to Focus on Application Performance, NVM, and SoCs
Today the Open Fabrics Alliance announced that their upcoming International OFS Developers’ Workshop will center around three major themes: Applications Performance, Non-Volatile Memory, and Systems-on-a-Chip (SoCs).
Video: Inside the Raijin Supercomputer Down Under
In this video, Questacon visits NCI to take a look at Raijin, the southern hemisphere's first petaflop super computer. "Raijin, named after the Shinto God of thunder, lightning and storms, is a Fujitsu Primergy high-performance, distributed-memory cluster, procured with funding from the Australian Government."
Video: OpenACC Interoperability with CUDA C and Fortran
"Developed by PGI, Cray, and NVIDIA, the OpenACC directives are a shared vision of how directives can simplify the programming model for accelerators, where each vendor is committed to support a common programming standard."
UMBC Powers Climate Research with Dell | Terascala HPC Storage
Today Terascala announced that the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) HPC Facility is using the company's software to manage Lustre-based parallel storage.
Pearl Hacks Event to Promotes Women Programmers
RENCI is sponsoring this year's Pearl Hacks, a two-day event designed to encourage college and high-school age women to develop their interest in technology.
Radio Free HPC on Lenovo’s Slipup with Superfish
While Lenovo now scrambles into Damage Control mode in the wake of the Superfish scandal, the question for our readers is: how will this affect Lenovo's ability to sell to the U.S. Federal supercomputing market?
LBNL Joins OpenMP ARB
This week Berkeley Lab joined the OpenMP Architecture Review Board (ARB), a group of leading hardware and software vendors and research organizations creating the standard for the most popular shared-memory parallel programming model in use today.
Students: Apply Now for Summer of HPC in Europe
PRACE is seeking students interested in spending the summer working abroad at a European High Performance Computing (HPC) Centre.
New Algorithm for Real-Time Simulations in Materials Research
Researchers at LBNL have have developed a new algorithm that opens the door for real-time simulations in atomic-level materials research. "By eliminating higher energy terms, you significantly reduce the dimension of your problem, and you can also use a bigger time step,” explained Wang, describing the key to the algorithm’s success: Solving the equations in bigger time steps reduces the computational cost and increases the speed of the simulations.
Job of the Week: Principal HPC Architect at Aberdeen Proving Ground
The Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland is seeking a Principal HPC Architect in our Job of the Week. The candidate will performs studies and develops new HPC technology architecture recommendations for the DSRC enterprise in support of DoD research programs.
Video: HPC Transforms Students with Mentorships at SC15
In this video, Ken Kraft from Intel describes his experiences as a participant in SC Conference Mentor-Protege program. "The SC15 conference is broadening its mission to build a strong and diverse HPC student community at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, through professional development programs, opportunities to learn from mentors, and engagement with SC’s technical sessions."
OpenPOWER Summit Announces Speaker Lineupfor March Conference
This week the OpenPOWER Foundation announced their lineup of speakers for the inaugural OpenPOWER Summit at the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, March 17-19.
Nearly 200 Years after Ada, Women Becoming More Visible in Scientific Computing
In this special guest perspective from Scientific Computing World, Tom Wilkie considers some initiatives to counter the widespread impression that scientific computing is solely the preserve of nerdy men.
Video: Introduction to Bridges Supercomputer at PSC
Bridges is a uniquely capable supercomputer designed to help researchers facing challenges in Big Data to work more intuitively. Called Bridges, the new system will consist of tiered, large-shared-memory resources with nodes having 12TB, 3TB, and 128GB each, dedicated nodes for database, web, and data transfer, high-performance shared and distributed data storage, Hadoop acceleration, powerful new CPUs and GPUs, and a new, uniquely powerful interconnection network.
Optalysys to Power Genomics with Optical Computing
Today the TGAC Genome Analysis Centre and Optalysys announced a collaboration to develop and implement an energy-efficient optical processing device for large-scale DNA sequence searches.
Inside Lustre Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM)
There is always different levels of importance assigned to various data files in a computer system, specifically a very large system that is storing petabytes of data. In order to maximize the use of the highest speed storage, Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) was developed to move and store data within easy use of users, yet at the appropriate speed and price.
ARCHER Scales 118K Cores with Allinea MAP
Today the ARCHER national supercomputing service in the U.K. announced that it has deployed the Allinea MAP profiling tool to enable computational scientists and developers to tackle scalability and performance in key scientific applications that run on their 2.5 Petaflop Cray XC30 system.
Video: SGI UV Finds the Needle in the Big Data Haystack
According to IDC, SGI has shipped approximately 8 percent of of all the Hadoop servers in production today. In fact, did you know that SGI introduced the word "Big Data" to supercomputing in 1996? Jorge Titinger, SGI President and CEO, shares SGI's history in helping to design, develop, and deploy Hadoop clusters. (NOTE: Straw was substituted for actual hay to avoid any potential allergic reactions.)
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