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Over at the ISC Blog, Luna Backes writes that her Mont-Blanc Climbers Team is looking forward to building the first ARM-based cluster ever at the upcoming ISC Student Cluster Competition.The post Bringing ARM to the Student Cluster Competition appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Green Revolution Cooling announced that VSC-3 Vienna Scientific Cluster has achieved a mechanical Power Utilization Effectiveness (mPUE) rating 1.02, making it one of the most efficient data center facilities in the world.The post VSC-3 Cluster Achieves 1.02 mPUE Rating with Green Revolution Cooling appeared first on insideHPC.

Today IBM announced the establishment of a new POWER Acceleration and Design Center in Montpellier, France. Launched in collaboration with Nvidia and Mellanox, the new center will advance the development of data-intensive research, industrial, and commercial applications.The post New OpenPOWER Acceleration Center Opens in France appeared first on insideHPC.

Today AMD unveiled innovation in heterogeneous HPC at the Centre of New Technologies at the University of Warsaw. In a new cluster deployment called Orion, the Next Generation Sequencing Centre in Warsaw is powering bioinformatics research with 1.5 petaFLOPS of AMD FirePro S9150 server GPU performance.The post AMD and Dell Power Bioinformatics at University of Warsaw appeared first on insideHPC.

At the Centre for High-Performance Computing (CHPC) in South Africa, the mission is to enable cutting-edge research by supporting the highest levels of HPC available. That means ensuring researchers – who often are not experienced with computers let alone HPC systems – to get their work done with the HPC getting in the way.The post South Africa’s CHPC Builds a Better Infrastructure with Altair PBS Works appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Intel CEO Brian Krzanich announced a series of leadership and organizational changes in a message to employees.The post Intel Shakes up Leadership appeared first on insideHPC.

At the National Institute of Computational Sciences (NICS), a joint venture by the University of Tennessee and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a joint team set out to learn how to integrate the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor into cluster configurations.The post Integrating an Intel Xeon Phi Cluster appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Nallatech announced the 510T FPGA co-processor. Designed to deliver ultimate performance per watt for compute-intensive datacenter applications, the 510T is a GPU-sized 16-lane PCIe 3.0 card featuring two of Altera’s new floating-point enabled Arria 10 FPGAs delivering up to sixteen times the performance of the previous generation. According to Nallatech, applications can achieve a total sustained performance of up to 3 TFlops.The post Nallatech Rolls Out 510T FPGA Accelerator appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Bright Computing announced it will be releasing Version 7.1 of Bright Cluster Manager for HPC at the ISC 2015 conference. The event takes place July 12-16 in Frankfurt, Germany.The post Bright Cluster Manager 7.1 Release Coming to ISC 2015 appeared first on insideHPC.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s ALCC challenge has awarded 24 projects a total of 1.7 billion core-hours at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility.The post ALCC Challenge Awards 1.7 Billion Core Hours to Science Projects appeared first on insideHPC.

Today CoolIT Systems announced that the U.S Patent and Trademark Office has granted the company three new patents in the space of liquid cooling.The post CoolIT Systems Lands New Patents for Liquid Cooling appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Altair published the agenda for their PBS Works User Group Meeting, which takes place Sept. 14-17 in Silicon Valley. At the event, engineers, IT administrators, cluster managers, and users of HPC systems will have the opportunity to learn from and collaborate with the best minds in supercomputing.The post Great Speakers Lined Up for PBS Works User Group appeared first on insideHPC.

Amazon is seeking an HPC Solutions Architect in our Job of the Week.The post Job of the Week: HPC Solutions Architect at Amazon appeared first on insideHPC.

On Monday, the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) celebrated the expansion of their SuperMUC cluster. Now in production mode, the 6.8 Petaflop "Phase 2" supercomputer is powered by over 241,000 Intel processor cores.The post SuperMUC Upgraded to 6.8 Petaflops appeared first on insideHPC.

"For more than a decade, DDN’s innovative, proven technology has been at the forefront of solving big data storage challenges in the world’s largest and most demanding environments,” said Molly Rector, CMO and EVP of Product Management at DDN. “Today, our vision and roadmap is being increasingly influenced by our enterprise and commercial HPC customers who are demanding new features in addition to the highest availability, reliability, scalability and best price/performance.”The post Slidecast: DDN Strategic Vision for High Performance Storage appeared first on insideHPC.

Today DataDirect Networks announced the latest release of its advanced WOS object storage platform. WOS 360 2.0 includes a new, low-cost capacity node, increased efficiency and an OpenStack Swift API.The post DDN Boosts Object Storage with WOS 360 2.0 appeared first on insideHPC.

A new high-resolution science documentary about the dynamics of the Sun will feature data-driven supercomputer visualizations produced by NCSA. Narrated by Benedict Cumberbach, Solar Superstorms debuts June 30 at the Louisiana Art & Science Museum in Baton Rouge before heading out to more than a dozen planetariums and science centers around the world.The post Solar Superstorms Documentary Powered by Blue Waters appeared first on insideHPC.

"This collaborative research between the University of Illinois, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and the University of Maryland is aimed at using the Blue Waters petascale resources to address key uncertainties associated with the numerical modeling of the Earth’s climate system and the ability to accurately analyze past and projected future changes in climate."The post Addressing Climate Change Uncertainties with Petascale Computing appeared first on insideHPC.

Over at the Altair Blog, Bill Nitzberg has started a series of posts looking at the road to Exascale. He starts by looking back at the trends that have lead us to this point, concluding that Exascale infrastructure will require advances in four areas: scale, speed, resilience, and power management.The post Trends in HPC Leading to Exascale appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the ISC Cloud & Big Data conference announced that Professor Peter V. Coveney from University College London will be their keynote speaker. Coveney will discuss the current state-of-the-art in the development of personalized medicine, at the event, which takes place Sept. 28-30 in Frankfurt, Germany.The post Peter V. Coveney to Keynote ISC Cloud & Big Data appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team previews the ISC 2015 conference, which takes place July 12-16 in Frankfurt, Germany. In addition to a great technical program, the conference will feature an exhibition, tutorials, workshops, and a Student Cluster Competition.The post Radio Free HPC Previews ISC 2015 appeared first on insideHPC.

How old is Saturn? Researchers are using Sandia's Z machine to find out.The post Sandia’s Z machine Helps Pinpoint Age of Saturn appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, officials from Cyfronet describe Prometheus, a new HP Apollo 8000 supercomputer with 1.68 Petaflops of peak performance.The post Video: 1.68 Petaflop Prometheus Supercomputer Comes to Cyfronet appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Prof. Dr. Dirk Pleiter from the Jülich Supercomputing Centre describes how Jülich is creating a 3D model of the human brain. "Jülich Supercomputing Centre, one of the largest research center in Germany, uses Lenovo Enterprise Systems to support research into a wide range of fields including neuroscience, fundamental physics, life sciences, climate change and energy."The post Video: Supercomputing the Human Brain at Jülich appeared first on insideHPC.

Open Systems Technologies in New York City is seeking an HPC Grid Engineer in our Job of the Week.The post Job of the Week: HPC Grid Engineer at Open Systems Technologies appeared first on insideHPC.

While we're always on the lookout for HPC news, not everything makes it to the front page. Notable items from this week include new benchmarks for 100GB Ethernet, the Open MPI roadmap, and Docker containers.The post HPC News Bytes for Friday, June 26 appeared first on insideHPC.

Astronomers Erika Nesvold (UMBC) and Marc Kuchner (NASA Goddard) essentially created a virtual Beta Pictoris in the computer and watched it evolve over millions of years. It is the first full 3-D model of a debris disk where scientists can watch the development of asymmetric features formed by planets, like warps and eccentric rings, and also track collisions among the particles at the same time.The post Video: Supercomputing Exoplanets appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Dan Reed from the University of Iowa describes the era of Exascale Computing and Big Data. In a recent paper co-authored with Jack Dongarra, Reed makes an impassioned plea for hardware and software integration and cultural convergence.The post Time to Unite Exascale and Big Data appeared first on insideHPC.

"We will describe recent progress and successes obtained in predicting properties of matter by quantum simulations, and discuss algorithmic challenges in connection with the use of evolving high-performance computing architectures. We will also discuss open issues related to the validation of the approximate, first principles theories used in large-scale quantum simulations."The post Materials Discovery by Computation – a Revolution Still in the Making appeared first on insideHPC.

Dr. Lewey reports on who’s jumping ship and moving on up in high performance computing.The post HPC People on the Move – Long, Hot Summer Edition appeared first on insideHPC.

"As the use of coprocessors increases to speedup HPC applications, it is important to understand how much additional power the coprocessors use. With various measurements and benchmarks arising to calculate the power used during the running of compute and data intensive applications, measuring the power draw from an Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor is important to understanding the best use of resources."The post Power Usage for Coprocessors appeared first on insideHPC.

High Performance Computing and Big Data analytics touch us every day. We each rely on daily weather forecasts, banking and financial information, scientific and health analyses, and thousands of other activities that involve HPC and Big Data analysis.The post New HP Apollo 4000 Systems Fulfill Booming Big Data Analytics & Object Storage Requirements appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Caterpillar Inc. announced it will expand its collaboration with NCSA to develop more realistic simulations that can lead to improved product designs.The post Caterpillar & NCSA Expand Collaboration for Realistic Simulations appeared first on insideHPC.

"We have made substantial progress towards three transformative contributions: (1) we are the first team to formally link high-resolution astrodynamics design and coordination of space assets with their Earth science impacts within a Petascale “many-objective” global optimization framework, (2) we have successfully completed the largest Monte Carlo simulation experiment for evaluating the required satellite frequencies and coverage to maintain acceptable global forecasts of terrestrial hydrology (especially in poorer countries), and (3) we have evaluated the limitations and vulnerabilities of the full suite of current satellite precipitation missions including the recently approved Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission. This work illustrates the tradeoffs and consequences of a collapse in the current portfolio of rainfall missions.The post Video: Petascale Supercomputing for Space-Based Earth Science appeared first on insideHPC.

A new computer model developed by scientists at LANL increases global climate simulation accuracy through a better representation of the vast eddies that swirl across hundreds of miles of open ocean.The post Supercomputing Flow of Carbon Emissions in Deep Oceans appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from PASC15, Torsten Hoefler from ETH Zurich discusses HPC trends with Satoshi Matsuoka from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Along the way, Matsuoka describes lessons learned during this multi-disciplinary conference about application requirements on the road to exascale.The post Video: Satoshi Matsuoka on HPC Trends from PASC15 appeared first on insideHPC.

With ISC 2015 coming up in July, a number of ancillary events have been scheduled in Frankfurt to take advantage of this annual gathering of over 2500 supercomputing professionals. On deck are special events from DDN, HP, IDC, Intel, and Mellanox.The post Ancillary Events Line up for ISC 2015 in Frankfurt appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Asetek announced that the company has joined the OpenPOWER Foundation, an open development community based on the POWER microprocessor architecture.The post Asetek’s Liquid Cooling to Enable Highest Performance on POWER Based Systems appeared first on insideHPC.

Today GE announced a multi-year joint development agreement with Cascade Technologies to improve combustion simulation software. With new visualaztion capabilities, engineers can virtually look inside a gas turbine as it operates and gain a better understanding of the turbulent fluid, chemical and acoustic processes occurring within advanced, low-emissions gas-turbine combustion systems.The post GE and Cascade Optimize Gas Turbine Simulation appeared first on insideHPC.

"The industry needs to accomplish a lot in the coming years to deliver a working, useful exascale machine. PBS Pro is only one piece of the puzzle… but it’s an important piece. Job scheduling and workload management are core capabilities – a “must have” for every HPC system – ensuring HPC goals are met by enforcing site-specific use policies, enabling users to focus on science and engineering rather than IT, and optimizing utilization (of hardware, licenses, and power) to minimize waste."The post Interview: PBS Pro 13 is Biggest Release Ever for Altair appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Altair announced the general availability of PBS Professional 13.0, the latest version of the market-leading software product for high-performance computing workload management and job scheduling on clusters and supercomputers.The post Altair Launches PBS Pro 13 appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) announced the launch of the RoCE Initiative to further the advancement of RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) technology and promote RoCE awareness.The post IBTA Launches the RoCE Initiative appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Dell announced the PowerEdge C6320 server for HPC and Big Data. With twice the performance of its predecessor on the LINPACK benchmark, the PowerEdge C6320 delivers extreme performance with four compute nodes in a compact, 2U chassis.The post Dell Ups its HPC Game with New PowerEdge C-Series appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Mellanox launches their new 100G end-to-end Ethernet solutions in New York City.The post Video: Mellanox Launches Spectrum 25/100 Gigabit Open Ethernet Switch appeared first on insideHPC.

With the launch of Univa Small Jobs add-on for Univa Grid Engine, the company, the company offers "the world’s most efficient processing and lowest latency available for important tasks like real-time trading, transactions, and other critical applications.” To learn more, we caught up with Univa President & CEO Gary Tyreman.The post Interview: How Univa Short Jobs Brings Low Latency to Financial Services appeared first on insideHPC.

This presentation will briefly review XSEDE, its past mission and accomplishments, and give insight into the direction and vision for the second round of XSEDE.The post Video: Introduction to XSEDE 2.0 and Beyond appeared first on insideHPC.