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It's me again--Dr. Lewey Anton. I’ve been commissioned by insideHPC to get the scoop on who’s jumping ship and moving on up in high performance computing. Find out what's up with familiar names like Adalio Sanchez and Thomas Zacharia.The post HPC People on the Move: Spring Break Edition appeared first on insideHPC.

The application of HPC in the automotive industry will be featured at this year’s ISC High Performance conference in Frankfurt. Both location and date have changed this year – previous conferences have been held most recently in Leipzig and have taken place a month earlier in June. The opening keynote by Jürgen Kohler will explore how Mercedes-Benz makes use of supercomputing to deliver competitive advantage.The post The Future of Cars and Computers On Deck at ISC High Performance appeared first on insideHPC.

Solving many scientific and technical applications entails the use of matrix multiplies somewhere in the algorithm and thus the computer code. With today's multicore CPUs, proper use of complier directives can speed up matrix multiplies significantly.The post Fast Matrix Multiply with OpenMP appeared first on insideHPC.

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team looks at some interesting industry developments from the past week. Samsung is reportedly looking at buying AMD, Intel may acquire Altera, and Micron has snapped up Convey Computer.The post Radio Free HPC Looks at Recent Trends of Chipmaker Consolidation appeared first on insideHPC.

"Building on 20+ years of experience in High Performance Computing, as well as more than a decade of involvement in open science developments (open data and e-infrastructures), ICM views Data Sciences as strategic direction for the ICM Centre’s future."The post Video: Addressing Challenges of Data-Intensive Research appeared first on insideHPC.

This is the 4th installment of a 6 article series on the trends and technologies impacting the application of HPC in Life Sciences. Here we explore how companies like SGI and Intel address computational and storage problems inherent in Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) applications.The post Removing Bottlenecks in Next Generation Sequencing appeared first on insideHPC.

We are sad to report that Bill Blake passed away on March 31 after suffering from a heart attack. While many of you will remember Bill from his work as CTO of Cray, Mr. Blake was most recently head of R&D at D-Wave Systems.The post Bill Blake of D-Wave & Cray Passes Away appeared first on insideHPC.

Jeff Squyres writes that the new “Supercomputer in your browser” (SiYB) project is designed to bring the rich High Performance Computing ecosystem to the world’s most popular software: web browsers.The post SiYB is a Supercomputer in your Browser appeared first on insideHPC.

In this April 1 video, Scalable Informatics announces the Si Tortoise Data Security Appliance.The post April 1 Video: Si Tortoise Data Security Appliance appeared first on insideHPC.

Ensuring a reproducible result of HPC workloads no matter the platform used is key to settle the battle between operations (update fast, due to compliance / security) and end- user (never touch a running system). By pushing his docker related HPC research further, Christian is showcasing his results on Immutable Application Containers.The post Reproducibility of CAE-computations through Immutable Application Containers appeared first on insideHPC.

The Convey Computer site reports that the company has been acquired by Micron. This is not an April Fools, guys. There just may be a hybrid-core server with an Automata processor available soon from a vendor near you.The post Micron Swallows up Convey Computer appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the 2015 HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference, Tor Skeie from Simula Laboratory presents: The InfiniBand Subnet Manager from Fabriscale.The post Video: The InfiniBand Subnet Manager from Fabriscale appeared first on insideHPC.

Processing complex genomic data sets requires massive compute power, storage and network capabilities. Getting the balance right is critical to success. The insideHPC Guide to Genomics looks at the benefits, challenges of applying HPC to Genomics as well as many success stories.The post InsideHPC Guide to Genomics appeared first on insideHPC.

"When we began our relationship with Total more than 15 years ago, our goal was to continually provide the capacity and power required for the company to pursue its oil and gas research throughout the world. We are proud to be part of what has become a continuing legacy of technological research at Total and with this system upgrade, SGI's innovative solutions will continue to help the company deliver sustainable production growth in the future."The post SGI to Boost Pangea Supercomputer to 6.7 Petaflops appeared first on insideHPC.

NVM Express is a specification for accessing solid-state drives (SSDs) attached through the PCI Express (PCIe) bus. "NVM" stands as an acronym for non-volatile memory, which is used in SSDs. As a logical device interface, NVM Express has been designed from the ground up, capitalizing on the low latency and parallelism of PCI Express SSDs, and mirroring the parallelism of contemporary CPUs, platforms and applications. By allowing parallelism levels offered by SSDs to be fully utilized by host's hardware and software, NVM Express brings various performance improvements.The post Video: NVM Express Introduction and Tutorial appeared first on insideHPC.

The Open Compute Project Foundation was created to design the most efficient server, storage and related designs for the next generation of data centers in an open and collaborative development model. By sharing designs that maximize density, minimize power consumption and deliver expected performance, completely new computing environments can be developed, free from the limitations of legacy thinking.The post Open Computing Drives Innovation and Efficiency appeared first on insideHPC.

Lenovo is now offering the UK’s first ANSYS CFD-ready HPC appliance designed to ease cluster deployment while boosting engineering productivity.The post OCF Builds CFD-ready Lenovo HPC Appliance appeared first on insideHPC.

"Using the publicly available software packages in the High-Performance Big Data (HiBD) project, we will provide case studies of the new designs for several Hadoop/Spark/Memcached components and their associated benefits. Through these case studies, we will also examine the interplay between high performance interconnects, storage systems (HDD and SSD), and multi-core platforms to achieve the best solutions for these components."The post Video: Accelerating Big Data Processing with Hadoop, Spark and Memcached appeared first on insideHPC.

EPFL launches Denab: a scalable HPC architecture for researchers and students. "Working with ClusterVision and Intel has proved to be a wise and productive decision for EPFL as we continue to grow our computational capabilities to support our many researchers and students."The post EPFL Unleashes Deneb, a Scalable HPC Architecture for Researchers and Students appeared first on insideHPC.

The main motivation for Multipath RDMA is to support three types of features: Failovers and High Availability Support, Bandwidth Aggregation, and L3 datacenter support.The post Video: Multipath RDMA appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest feature, Tom Wilkie from Scientific Computing World reports how the launch of its HPC innovation centre in Stuttgart yesterday shows the company’s commitment to HPC.The post Lenovo Steps Up to HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

"The CMS detector at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN underwent a replacement of its data acquisition network to be able to process the increased data rate expected in the coming years. We will present the architecture of the system and discuss the design of its layers which are based on Infiniband as well as 10 and 40 GBit/s Ethernet."The post High Throughput Data Acquisition at the CMS experiment at CERN appeared first on insideHPC.

Researchers using the JUQUEEN supercomputer have computed the small mass difference between protons and neutrons. The fact that the neutron is slightly more massive than the proton is the reason why atomic nuclei have exactly those properties that make our world and ultimately our existence possible. The fact that the neutron is slightly more massive […]The post Supercomputing the Mass Difference of Neutron and Protons appeared first on insideHPC.

I'm on my way home from a series of Springtime HPC conferences with boatload of new videos and interviews on the latest in high performance computing. Here are some notable items that may have not made it to the front page.The post HPC News Roundup for March 27, 2015 appeared first on insideHPC.

"The drive toward exascale computing, a renewed emphasis on data-centric processing, energy efficiency concerns, and the limitations of memory and I/O performance are all working to reshape High Performance Computing platforms. Many-core accelerators, flash storage, 3D memory, integrated networking, and optical interconnects are just some of the technologies propelling these future architectures. In concert with those developments, the HPC vendor landscape has been churning in response to broader market forces, and these events are going to drive some interesting changes in the coming year."The post HPC Market Update from Intersect360 Research appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the 2015 HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference, Oded Paz presents: Special Training Session for HPC Systems Managers and Users: EDR InfiniBand, Multicast Operations (setup flow and diagnostic tools), Traffic Load Balancing, InfiniBand Quality Of Service, System Debugging, and open Q&A.The post Video: Special Training Session for HPC Systems Managers and Users appeared first on insideHPC.

Solving Navier-Sokes equations are popular because they describe the physics of in a number of areas of interest to scientists and engineers. By solving these equations, the flow velocity can be calculated, and then other quantities of interest, such as pressure or temperature may be determined.The post Optimizing Navier-Stokes Equations appeared first on insideHPC.

"The DDN Infinite Memory Engine (IME) unleashes a new I/O provisioning paradigm. This breakthrough, software defined storage application introduces a whole new new tier of transparent, extendable, non-volatile memory (NVM), that provides game-changing latency reduction and greater bandwidth and IOPS performance for the next generation of performance hungry scientific, analytic and big data applications – all while offering significantly greater economic and operational efficiency than today’s traditional disk-based and all flash array storage approaches that are currently used to scale performance."The post Video: Application Experiences on DDN’s IME Burst Buffer appeared first on insideHPC.

"The use of GPUs to accelerate applications is mainstream nowadays, but their adoption in cur- rent clusters presents several drawbacks. In this talk we present the last developments of the rCUDA remote GPU virtualization framework, which is the only one supporting the most recent CUDA version, in addition to leverage the InfiniBand fabric for the sake of performance."The post Video: Increasing Cluster Throughput while Reducing Energy Consumption for GPU Workloads appeared first on insideHPC.

The PDT team – a proprietary quantitative investment manager – is seeking a highly-talented senior HPC engineer. The Senior GRID Engineer will be a primary point of contact for the research teams using the GRID and will interface closely with the entire UNIX engineering group, senior software developers, vendors and the in-house monitoring team.The post Job of the Week: Senior HPC GRID Engineer at PDT Partners appeared first on insideHPC.

"As we see Moore’s Law alive and well, more and more parallelism is introduced into all computing platforms and on all levels of integration and programming to achieve higher performance and energy efficiency. We will discuss Multi- and Many-Core solutions for highly parallel workloads with general purpose and energy efficient technologies. We will also touch on the challenges and opportunities for parallel programming models, methodologies and software tools to achieve highly efficient and highly productive parallel applications. At the end we will a brief look towards Exascale computing."The post HPC and Software Modernization appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Lenovo announced the opening of the company’s first global HPC innovation center, offering a permanent R&D and application benchmarking site as well as a new ecosystem of partners that will collaborate on projects to bring the commercial benefits of HPC to a broader spectrum of clients and workloads.The post Lenovo Opens HPC Innovation Center in Stuttgart, Readies SuperMUC Phase 2 appeared first on insideHPC.

In the late 1980s, genomic sequencing began to shift from wet lab work to a computationally intensive science; by end of the 1990s this trend was in full swing. The application of computer science and high performance computing (HPC) to these biological problems became the normal mode of operation for many molecular biologists.The post Going from the Lab to the Data Center appeared first on insideHPC.

"We introduce a high-performance cost-effective network topology called Slim Fly that approaches the theoretically optimal network diameter. Slim Fly is based on graphs that approximate the solution to the degree-diameter problem. We analyze Slim Fly and compare it to both traditional and state-of-the-art networks. Our analysis shows that Slim Fly has significant advantages over other topologies in latency, bandwidth, resiliency, cost, and power consumption."The post Video: Slim Fly – A Cost Effective Low-Diameter Network Topology appeared first on insideHPC.

In an NSF-funded study, a Clemson University team found that universities with locally available supercomputers were more efficient in producing research in critical fields than universities that lacked supercomputers.The post How Supercomputers Give Universities a Competitive Edge appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the 2015 OFS Developer’s Workshop, Guy Ailee from Intel presents: Internet of Things & What it Means to Fabrics.The post Internet of Things & What it Means to Fabrics appeared first on insideHPC.

"This talk will focus on programming models and their designs for upcoming exascale systems with millions of processors and accelerators. Current status and future trends of MPI and PGAS (UPC and OpenSHMEM) programming models will be presented. We will discuss challenges in designing runtime environments for these programming models by taking into account support for multi-core, high-performance networks, GPGPUs, Intel MIC, scalable collectives (multi-core-aware, topology-aware, and power-aware), non-blocking collectives using Offload framework, one-sided RMA operations, schemes and architectures for fault-tolerance/fault-resilience.”The post Video: High-Performance and Scalable Designs of Programming Models for Exascale Systems appeared first on insideHPC.

The Open Compute Project, initiated by Facebook as a way to increase computing power while lowering associated costs with hyper-scale computing, has gained a significant industry following. This guide to Open Computing is design to help organizations optimize their HPC environment to achieve higher performance at a lower operating cost.The post insideHPC Guide to Open Computing appeared first on insideHPC.

"The architecture of the ClusterStor product line builds on 25 years of experience with storage systems, Seagate (formerly Xyratex) and Lustre on a parallel open source high performance storage system that is commonly used for scalable computing."The post Video: Lustre Based Enterprise Storage – Tuning Clients for Optimal Performance appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the 2015 OFS Developer’s Workshop, Tom Talpey from Microsoft presents: Microsoft Update on RDMA.The post Microsoft Update on RDMA appeared first on insideHPC.

Europe is notorious for its high energy costs. In the first of three articles on energy efficiency in high-performance computing, Tom Wilkie from Scientific Computing World asks if that’s why so much of the initiative appears to be coming from Europe.The post Is Europe Leading the Energy Efficiency Race? appeared first on insideHPC.