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by staff on (#AS8V)
Over at the Smarter Computing Blog, IBM's Sumit Gupta writes that newly published STAC-A2 benchmarks show that POWER8-based system server can deliver more than twice the performance of the best x86 server when running standard financial industry workloads.The post Power8 Sets World Records on STAC-A2 Benchmarks appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#AS6T)
Today, Cisco announced it is joining CERN openlab, CERN's platform for science and industry partnerships.The post Cisco Joins CERN openlab appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#AS3V)
Today Bright Computing announced a significant update to distribution-agnostic Bright Cluster Manager for Apache Hadoop at the Hadoop Summit North America 2015.The post Bright Cluster Manager Speeds Deployment of Apache Hadoop appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#ARYY)
"SCEC’s multi-disciplinary research team is using NCSA Blue Waters to develop physics-based computational models of earthquake processes. During the past year, we integrated more realistic physics into our computational software to model frequency dependent attenuation, small-scale heterogeneities, free-surface topography, and non-linear yielding effects, all of which become increasingly important when simulating high frequency ground motions."The post Petascale Research in Earthquake Science on Blue Waters appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#ART8)
The DDN User Group meeting will take place July 14 at ISC 2014 in Frankfurt.The post DDN User Group Comes to ISC 2015 July 14 appeared first on insideHPC.
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by MichaelS on (#ARNB)
There is big push for decreasing the complexity in setting up and managing HPC clusters in the data center. This IBM Webinar, “Bare Metal To Application Ready is Less Than a Day†provides excellent tips for preparing and managing the complexity of an HPC cluster.The post Bare Metal to Application Ready in Less Than a Day appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#AP1M)
The ISC 2015 conference will feature a day-long workshop on European/Latin American HPC Collaboration. To learn more, we caught up with workshop organizer Dr. Carlos Jaime Barrios Hernández from the Universidad Industrial de Santander.The post Interview: Workshop on Euro/Latin American HPC Collaboration Coming to ISC 2015 appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#AP6H)
"BlueTides has successfully used essentially the entire set of XE6 nodes on the Blue Waters. It follows the evolution of 0.7 trillion particles in a large volume of the universe (600 co-moving Mpc on a side) over the first billion years of the universe’s evolution with a dynamic range of 6 (12) orders of magnitude in space (mass). This makes BlueTides by far the largest cosmological hydrodynamic simulation ever run."The post Video: First Galaxies and Quasars in the BlueTides Simulation appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#ANZA)
In the first report from last week’s PRACEdays15 conference in Dublin, Tom Wilkie from Scientific Computing World considers why so much Exascale software will be open source and why engineers are not using parallel programs.The post Why Hardware is Leaving Software Behind appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#ANDH)
In this video, Dan Olds from Gabriel Consulting and Brian Sparks from the HPC Advisory Council discuss the competitors in the upcoming ISC 2015 Student Cluster Competition. Located on the exhibit floor at ISC 2015, the competition kicks off July 13 in Frankfurt.The post Video Preview of the ISC 2015 Student Cluster Competition appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#AKP7)
"This annual meeting aims to accelerate data-driven discovery and innovation by bringing together researchers, developers and end-users from academia, industry, utilities and state and federal governments. Jointly organized by Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Stony Brook University (SBU), and New York University (NYU) the theme of this year's conference is "Frontiers in Scientific Data."The post Call for Posters: New York Scientific Data Summit appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#AKJ9)
"Parallel algorithms have been a subject of intensive algorithmic research in the 1980s. This research almost died out in the mid 1990s. In this paper we argue that it is high time to reconsider this subject since a lot of things have changed. First and foremost, parallel processing has moved from a niche application to something mandatory for any performance critical computer applications. We will also point out that even very fundamental results can still be obtained. We give examples and also formulate some open problems."The post Video: Parallel Algorithms Reconsidered appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#AJDM)
Entrepreneurs got a potential boost this week with the announcement of the SimScale for Startups Program. Described as a way for startup companies to develop their products better, faster and cheaper, the program provides an easy on-ramp to Computer Aided Engineering (CAE).The post Announcing the SimScale for Startups Program appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#AHXP)
Louisiana State University is seeking an HPC Systems Project Manager in our Job of the Week.The post Job of the Week: HPC Systems Project Manager at LSU appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#AGF1)
Today Intelligent Light announced breakthrough CFD scalability running the AVF-Leslie combustion simulation code on up to 64,000 cores on NERSC supercomputers.The post Intelligent Light Scales CFD Code to 64,000 Cores appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#AGDN)
While we're always on the lookout for HPC news, not everything makes it to the front page. In notable items from this week, MPI 3.1 is out, India launches a new weather forecasting supercomputer, and Baidu is banned from an image recognition contest.The post HPC News Bytes for Friday, June 5, 2015 appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#AG95)
"Using Blue Waters, we are for the first time running highly detailed, global simulations of the Earth-ionosphere waveguide under the effect of a geomagnetic storm. Disturbed ionospheric currents are modeled in a three-dimensional Maxwell’s equations finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) model extending from -400 km to an altitude of 400 km."The post Simulating Geomagnetic Storm Effects on Power Grids appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#AFSM)
In this video, Torsten Hoefler from ETH Zurich interviews David Keyes from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology about the PASC15 Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing Conference. Keyes discusses his favorite sessions from the event as well as future computational trends.The post Video: David Keyes on the PASC15 Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#AEGX)
Today the UK government announced a £313 million partnership with information technology leader IBM to boost Big Data research in the UK.The post UK Hartree Center Partners with IBM on Big Data appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#AE3E)
"This talk will introduce these three debugging techniques and provide some suggestions on selecting the optimal approach for a variety of debugging scenarios such as hangs, numerical errors, and crashes. Specific examples will be given using the TotalView debugger but the concepts covered may apply to other debugging tools such as GDB and the NVIDIA NSIGHT debugger."The post Video: Three Ways to Debug Parallel CUDA Applications appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#AE0S)
NCSA recently announced a new world record by scaling CD-adapco’s flagship simulation tool STAR-CCM+ to 102,000 cores on the Blue Waters supercomputer.The post STAR-CCM+ Scales to 102,000 Cores on Blue Waters appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#ADZX)
The Fortissimo Consortium will host their Fortissimo Forum on HPC Cloud Computing on July 8 in Amsterdam.The post Fortissimo Forum 2015 Comes to Amsterdam July 8 appeared first on insideHPC.
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by MichaelS on (#ADWE)
OpenMP 4.0 standard now allows for the offloading of portions of the application, in order to take more advantage of many-core accelerators such as the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor.The post Load Balancing Using OpenMP 4.0 appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#ADGN)
Today the HPC Advisory Council announced that the 2nd Annual HPCAC Brazil Conference 2015 will take place Aug. 26 at Laboratório Nacional de Computação in Rio de Janeiro.The post HPCAC Brazil Conference Comes Rio Aug. 26 appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#ABRT)
Today the University of California Merced announced that it has selected Advanced Clustering Technologies to build a cluster supercomputer that will support research at the institution.The post Advanced Clustering to Build UC Merced Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#ABQV)
There is still time to enjoy early bird registration rates the 30th annual ISC High Performance conference. Reduced rates end June 10 for the conference, which takes place July 12-16 in Frankfurt, Germany.The post ISC 2015 Early Bird Rates end June 10 appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#ABN2)
Today the HPC Advisory Council announced the HPCAC Spain Conference 2015. The event takes place Sept. 22 at the Campus Diagonal Nord in Barcelona, Spain.The post HPCAC Spain Conference Returns to Barcelona Sept. 22 appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#ABM0)
In this video, Rick Leinecker from Slashdot Media reviews the beta version of Intel Parallel Studio XE 2016. Leinecker describes several of the notable features and updates, including OpenMP enhancements, vastly improved computer vision and image processing, and the Data Analytics Acceleration Library.The post Video: Beta Review of Intel Parallel Studio XE 2016 appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#ABHS)
Today ArrayFire announced the release of Version 3.0 of their high-speed software library for GPU computing. The new version features major changes to ArrayFire’s visualization library, a new CPU backend, and dense linear algebra for OpenCL devices. It also includes improvements across the board for ArrayFire’s OpenCL backend.The post ArrayFire Updates GPU Software Library appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#AB9J)
Software defined storage (SDS) is a concept that can cut costs and improve efficiency in many organizations. The ebook, Software Defined Storage for Dummies, is a great introduction to how SDS can benefit organizations and reduce TCO.The post Software Defined Storage Improves Efficiency appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#AB1P)
One of Lenovo's first HPC clusters has been installed at the University of Oxford in the UK.The post Oxford Installs New Lenovo Cluster appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#A9MM)
"This radical new approach will fuse memory and storage, flatten data hierarchies, bring processing closer to data, embed security throughout the hardware and software stacks and enable management of the system at scale. Learn more by joining a panel of senior HP Labs researchers working on The Machine as they offer a closer look at what it takes to make it happen."The post HP Labs Reveals Progress on The Machine appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#A9GJ)
In this video, Chris Dagdigian from Bioteam delivers his annual assessment of the best, the worthwhile, and the most overhyped information technologies for life sciences at the 2015 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo in Boston.The post Video: HPC Trends in the Trenches from Bio-IT World appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#A94E)
Intel announced plans to buy Altera, a maker of programmable logic semiconductors, for $16.7 billion, strengthening its presence in the datacenter market.The post Intel to Purchase Altera for $16.7 Billion appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#A94G)
Today Cray announced the establishment of its European, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) headquarters at the Company's new office in Bristol, United Kingdom. The office will serve as a regional base for Cray EMEA sales, service, training and operations, and as an important development site for worldwide R&D initiatives.The post Cray Opens EMEA Headquarters in Bristol appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#A8N4)
In this Tech Shift podcast, Argonne’s Deputy Director for its leadership computing facility, Susan Coghlan, discusses high performance computing and STEM careers for women.The post Podcast: Argonne’s Susan Coghlan Discusses HPC appeared first on insideHPC.
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by lewey on (#A6TH)
Dr. Lewey Anton reports on who’s jumping ship and moving on up in high performance computing. The spotlight is on HP this week, as Dr. Stephen Wheat has joined the company in Houston.The post HPC People on the Move: June Edition appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#A6PB)
In this video from the GPU Technology Conference, Saber Feki from KAUST and Ahmed Al-Jarro from Fujitsu Labs in Europe present: Experiences in Porting Scientific Applications to GPUs Using OpenACC.The post Video: Porting Scientific Apps to GPUs with OpenACC appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#A6FE)
Colfax Research has published a new whitepaper entitled: Multi-Threading and Parallel Reduction. As part 1 of a 3-part educational series, the paper authored by Ryo Asai and Andrey Vladimirov focuses on optimization of applications for the Intel Xeon processors and Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors.The post New Whitepaper: Multi-Threading and Parallel Reduction for Xeon Phi appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#A6EF)
Today Asetek announced that it has been selected by CIARA, a leading supplier of enterprise servers, storage and services, to liquid cool its High Frequency server line. Based on customer expectations, Asetek expects the business to generate revenues in excess of $1,000,000 USD per year with delivery scheduled to begin in the third quarter 2015.The post CIARA to Cool High Frequency Servers with Asetek appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#9S8B)
With the growth of big data, cloud and high performance computing, demands on data centers around the world are expanding every year. Unfortunately, these demands are coming up against significant opposition in the form of operating constraints, capital constraints, and sustainability goals. In this article, we look at 8 of these constraints and how direct-to-chip liquid cooling is solving them.The post Solving Eight Constraints of Today’s Data Center appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#A41P)
BG Brasil has unveiled the fastest supercomputer in Latin America at the Senai CIMATEC Supercomputing Center for Industrial Innovation in Salvador, Brazil.The post Senai CIMATEC Installs Latin America’s Fastest Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#A3ZA)
"Named in honor of Professor Emeritus John R. Rice, the Rice supercomputer will be used by researchers to develop new treatments for cancer, improve crop yields to better feed the planet, engineer quieter aircraft, study global climate change and probe the origins of the universe."Built with HP compute nodes, the Rice supercomputer is powered by 10-core Intel Xeon-E5 processors, 64 GB of memory, and 56 Gb FDR InfiniBand from Mellanox. Rice nodes are now running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 with Moab and TORQUE for job management.The post Video: Building the Rice Cluster at Purdue appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#A2QV)
This week Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory broke ground on a modular and sustainable supercomputing facility that will provide a flexible infrastructure able to accommodate the Laboratory’s growing demand for HPC.The post LLNL Breaks Ground on New Supercomputing Facility appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#A2BV)
Engility is seeking a PETTT Program Manager in our Job of the Week.The post Job of the Week: PETTT Program Manager at Engility appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#A0WK)
Today Silicon Mechanics announced the recipients of its fourth annual Research Cluster Grant (RCG). Dordt College and The City College of New York will receive HPC Clusters with a combined value of over $175,000 to support growing research programs.The post Silicon Mechanics Awards Research Clusters appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#A0QG)
Over at Argonne National Lab, John Spizzirri writes that GE researchers are using the Mira supercomputer to learn how noise propagates from jet propulsion and wind turbine systems. The team, lead by Umesh Paliath and Giridhar Jothiprasad, is studying the complex behavior of air as it passes through jet exhaust nozzles and over wind turbine blades.The post Reducing Jet Noise with Large Eddy Simulations appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Kevin Normandeau on (#A0GA)
As design challenges become more complex and time to product launches are reduced, it is important to understand how to use a cluster for simulation, as compared to just a single node. “HPC Clusters Drive Design Optimization†is an excellent introduction on how to get the most out of a compute cluster.The post Clusters Drive Design Simulation appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#A123)
"Rescale's mission is to provide a highly powerful simulation platform that empowers the world's engineers and scientists to develop the most innovative products and perform groundbreaking research and development."The post Video: Rescale Powers Cloud HPC for Engineering Simulation appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#A124)
In this slidecast, Pavel Shamis from ORNL and Gilad Shainer from Mellanox announce the UCX Unified Communication X Framework. "UCX is a collaboration between industry, laboratories, and academia to create an open-source production grade communication framework for data centric and HPC applications."The post Slidecast: UCX – Unified Communication X Framework appeared first on insideHPC.
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