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While we're always on the lookout for HPC news, not everything makes it to the front page. Here are some notable items from this week.The post HPC News Bytes for May 15, 2015 appeared first on insideHPC.

"Rapid growth in the use cases and demands for extreme computing and huge data processing is leading to convergence of the two infrastructures. The trend towards convergence is not only strategic however but rather inevitable as the Moore's law ends such that sustained growth in data capabilities, not compute, will advance the capacity and thus the overall capacities towards accelerating research and ultimately the industry."The post Podcast: Satoshi Matsuoka on the Convergence of HPC and Big Data appeared first on insideHPC.

Engility is seeking a Computational Scientist in our Job of the Week. This position can be based in the following locations: AFRL (Ohio) , ARL (Maryland) , NRL (Washington DC) , ERDC (Mississippi), and Reston, Virginia.The post Job of the Week: Computational Scientist at Engility appeared first on insideHPC.

SC15 is now accepting applications for their Doctoral Showcase. As part of the Technical Program, the Doctoral Showcase provides an important opportunity for students near the end of their Ph.D. to present a summary of their dissertation research in the form of short talks and posters.The post Apply Now for SC15 Doctoral Showcase appeared first on insideHPC.

Have spinning disk drives joined the Grateful Dead? That is the contention here in this video, where industry analyst Mark Peters from ESG dons his tie-dyed shirt and declares that flash is the new storage of choice in the datacenter.The post Video: Have Hard Disks Joined the Grateful Dead? appeared first on insideHPC.

Gather and scatter operations are used in many domains. However, to use these types of functions on an SIMD architecture creates some programming challenges.The post Gather Scatter Operations appeared first on insideHPC.

"OpenACC was applied to the a global high-resolution atmosphere model named NICAM. We executed the dynamical core test without re-writing any specific kernel subroutines for GPU execution. Only 5% of the lines of source code were modified, demonstrating good portability. The results showed that the kernels generated by OpenACC achieved good performance, which was appropriate to the memory performance of GPU, as well as weak scalability. A large-scale simulation was carried out using 2560 GPUs, which achieved 60 TFLOPS."The post Simulating Global Atmosphere with NICAM on TSUBAME2.5 Using OpenACC appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast from the 2015 NCSA Blue Waters Symposium, Arden L. Bement discusses the Blue Waters supercomputer and the future of HPC. Formerly Director of the NSF, Bement keynoted the symposium and is currently the Davis A. Ross Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Adjunct Professor of the College of Technology at Purdue University.The post Podcast: Arden L. Bement on Blue Waters and the Future of HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

The 11th annual COMSOL Conference has issued its Call for Papers. As the world’s largest conference on multiphysics simulation, the event takes place Oct. 7-9 in Boston.The post Call for Papers: COMSOL Conference 2015 appeared first on insideHPC.

"The highly parallel molecular dynamics code NAMD was was one of the first codes to run on a GPU cluster when G80 and CUDA were introduced in 2007, and is now used to perform petascale biomolecular simulations, including a 64-million-atom model of the HIV virus capsid, on the GPU-accelerated Cray XK7 Blue Waters and ORNL Titan machines."The post Attacking HIV with Titan and Blue Waters appeared first on insideHPC.

"It's been nearly three years since Intel acquired Whamcloud and its Lustre engineering team. With Intel's recent announcement that Lustre will power the 2018 Aurora supercomputer at Argonne, we took the opportunity to catch up with Brent Gorda, general manager of Intel High Performance Data Division at Intel Corporation."The post Interview: Intel Taking Lustre into New Markets appeared first on insideHPC.

"Our workshop at ISC will bring together female early career researchers with a focus on European participation, providing them with the opportunity to showcase their work and network with role-models and peers in an environment designed to reduce the stereotype of men dominating the field of HPC. The workshop will open with an introduction on current research by the Women in HPC network, what the current demographics of the HPC community are and the differences experienced by men and women in the field."The post Women in HPC Workshop at ISC High Performance 2015 appeared first on insideHPC.

"E4 Computer Engineering has introduced ARKA, the first server solution based on ARM 64 bit SoC dedicated to HPC. The compute node is boosted by discrete GPU NVIDIA cards K20 with 10Gb ethernet and FDR InfiniBand networks implemented by default. In this presentation, the hardware configuration of the compute node is described in detail. The unique capabilities of the ARM+GPU+IB combination are described, including many synthetic benchmarks and application tests with particular attention to molecular dynamics software."The post E4-ARKA: ARM64+GPU+IB is Now Here appeared first on insideHPC.

"This demo will show the capability of IBM OpenPOWER that can be the foundation of the complicated High Performance Computing complete solution. From the HPC cluster deployment, job scheduling, system management, application management to the science computing workloads on top of them, all these components can be well constructed on top of IBM OpenPOWER platform with good usability and performance. Also this demo shows the simplicity of migrating a complete x86 based HPC stack to the OpenPOWER platform."The post Video: HPC Solution Stack on OpenPOWER appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Cray announced that the SERC Research Center in Bangalore has installed India's first Petaflop supercomputer. Called "SahasraT," the 1.4 Petaflop Cray XC40 supercomputer is a hybrid system with Intel Xeon processors, Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors, and Nvidia GPUs.The post SERC Installs India’s First Petaflop Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Super Micro Computer announced a new 3U 8-node MicroCloud solution supporting Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 optimized for data intensive analytics applications in Oil and Gas exploration and HPC environments.The post Supermicro Rolls Out X10 3U MicroCloud appeared first on insideHPC.

Supercomputers in the USA, Europe, and Japan have proved indispensable for research into the effects of quantum mechanics at hugely different length scales.The post Supercomputing Quantum Mechanics appeared first on insideHPC.

"Lustre's original feature set targeted the workflows of the leading DOE labs who funded and supported its development. As the Lustre ecosystem grows, the workflows Lustre must support are becoming increasingly diverse, demanding corresponding expansion of its core feature set and the subsystems that operate around it. This talk describes how Lustre is maturing and growing to support the sometimes conflicting demands imposed by this diversity and outlines some significant areas for future development with a view to promoting ongoing discussion in the community."The post Video: From Lab to Enterprise – Growing the Lustre Ecosystem appeared first on insideHPC.

It can be tough to keep up with all that's happening in HPC these days. Here are some notable items that may have not made it to the front page.The post HPC News Roundup for Friday, May 8 appeared first on insideHPC.

"ConnectX-4 EDR 100Gb/s with CAPI support tightly integrates with the POWER CPU at the local bus level and provides faster access between the POWER CPU and the network device. We will discuss the latest interconnect advancements that maximize application performance and scalability on OpenPOWER architecture, including enhanced flexible connectivity with the latest Mellanox ConnectX-3 Pro Programmable Network Adapter."The post Video: The Future of Interconnect with OpenPOWER appeared first on insideHPC.

Today CoolIT Systems announced that it has been named as one of four "Cool Vendors in Data Center Management, Power and Cooling" in a new analyst report by Gartner. As part of an annual series, the report offers insight on a variety of innovative and impactful IT solutions and evaluate “Cool Vendors” in key areas of technology.The post Gartner Recognizes CoolIT Systems in New Datacenter Report appeared first on insideHPC.

Today ANSYS announced that the company is making its flagship engineering simulation software available on the cloud via Amazon Web Services. The new ANSYS Enterprise Cloud running on AWS enables customers to scale their simulation capacity – including infrastructure and software assets – on demand, in response to changing business requirements, optimizing efficiency and cost while responding to the growing demand for wider use of the technology.The post New ANSYS Enterprise Cloud Scales Simulation appeared first on insideHPC.

The SC15 conference is now seeking nominations for the Cray, Fernbach, and Kennedy awards. The submission deadline is Wednesday, July 1, 2015.The post SC15 Seeking Nominations for Cray, Fernbach and Kennedy Awards appeared first on insideHPC.

"Learn how to program NVIDIA GPUs using Fortran with OpenACC directives. The first half of this presentation will introduce OpenACC to new GPU and OpenACC programmers, providing the basic material necessary to start successfully using GPUs for your Fortran programs. The second half will be intermediate material, with more advanced hints and tips for Fortran programmers with larger applications that they want to accelerate with a GPU. Among the topics to be covered will be dynamic device data lifetimes, global data, procedure calls, derived type support, and much more."The post Video: OpenACC for Fortran Programmers appeared first on insideHPC.

The OpenMP Architecture Review Board today announced the Call for Submissions for OpenMPCon 2015, its annual gathering focused on the practical application of the OpenMP API. The event takes place Sept. 28-30 in Aachen, Germany.The post Call for Submissions: OpenMPCon 2015 appeared first on insideHPC.

As the Large Hadron Collider restarts at Cern, data storage has become as important to scientists as compute power. But, as Tom Wilkie from Scientific Computing World reports, the innovative technologies being developed have much wider applications.The post Why Storage Matters to Scientists appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Penguin Computing announced that Oracle Team USA is using Penguin Computing on Demand (POD) in conjunction with NUMECA’s FINE/Marine CFD software for hydrodynamic modeling.The post Penguin On Demand Powers Oracle Team USA for America’s Cup appeared first on insideHPC.

Researchers are using supercomputer automated surface mapping technology to help with disaster relief and longer-term stabilization planning efforts related to the recent earthquake in Nepal.The post Oakley Cluster Powers Satellite Surface Mapping for Disaster Relief in Nepal appeared first on insideHPC.

"The mathematics involved in simulating these events is very sophisticated because one has to solve the equations of Einstein’s general relativity and magneto-hydrodynamics all together. The problem also requires very advanced supercomputers running programs on tens of thousands of CPUs simultaneously, and the use of sophisticated techniques for data extraction and visualization. Petascale numerical simulation is therefore the only tool available to accurately model these systems."The post Supercomputing Black Hole Mergers with Blue Waters appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Intel announced the new Xeon processor E7-8800/4800 v3 product families, delivering accelerated business insight through real-time analytics.The post New Intel Xeons Target Realtime Analytics appeared first on insideHPC.