by staff on (#52EY7)
Today Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Penguin Computing, and AMD announced an agreement to upgrade the Lab’s unclassified Corona HPC cluster with AMD Instinct accelerators, expected to nearly double the peak performance of the machine. The system will be used by the COVID-19 HPC Consortium, a nationwide public-private partnership that is providing free computing time and resources to scientists around the country engaged in the fight against the coronavirus.The post AMD and Penguin Computing Upgrade Corona Supercomputer to fight COVID-19 appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#52EY9)
Today WekaIO introduced Weka AI, a transformative storage solution framework underpinned by the Weka File System (WekaFS) that enables accelerated edge-to-core-to-cloud data pipelines. Weka AI is a framework of customizable reference architectures (RAs) and software development kits (SDKs) with leading technology alliances like NVIDIA, Mellanox, and others in the Weka Innovation Network (WIN). "GPUDirect Storage eliminates IO bottlenecks and dramatically reduces latency, delivering full bandwidth to data-hungry applications," said Liran Zvibel, CEO and Co-Founder, WekaIO.The post New Weka AI framework to accelerate Edge to Core to Cloud Data Pipelines appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#52EMF)
In this video, Philip Harris from MIT presents: Heterogeneous Computing at the Large Hadron Collider. "Only a small fraction of the 40 million collisions per second at the Large Hadron Collider are stored and analyzed due to the huge volumes of data and the compute power required to process it. This project proposes a redesign of the algorithms using modern machine learning techniques that can be incorporated into heterogeneous computing systems, allowing more data to be processed and thus larger physics output and potentially foundational discoveries in the field."The post Video: Heterogeneous Computing at the Large Hadron Collider appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#52D5S)
Setting the stage for the Stanford HPC Conference this week, Gilad Shainer describes how the HPC AI Advisory Council fosters innovation in the high performance computing community. "The HPC-AI Advisory Council’s mission is to bridge the gap between high-performance computing and Artificial Intelligence use and its potential, bring the beneficial capabilities of HPC and AI to new users for better research, education, innovation and product manufacturing, bring users the expertise needed to operate HPC and AI systems, provide application designers with the tools needed to enable parallel computing, and to strengthen the qualification and integration of HPC and AI system products."The post Update on the HPC AI Advisory Council appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#52D5T)
The DOE Exascale Computing Project (ECP) has named Dan Martin, a computational scientist and group lead for the Applied Numerical Algorithms Group in Berkeley Lab’s Computational Research Division, as team lead for their Earth and Space Science portfolio within ECP Application Development focus area. Martin replaces Anshu Dubey, a computer scientist at Argonne National Laboratory. "I am confident that Dan’s technical expertise and deep experience with the codes that are relevant to the ECP portfolio make him a good fit to replace me at ECP. Not only is he highly respected for his work, but his management style will mesh very well with the leadership team,†said Dubey of Martin’s appointment.The post Dan Martin from Berkeley Lab takes on new role at Exascale Computing Project appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#52CWV)
In this time lapse video, technicians build the new Attaway supercomputer from Penguin Computing at Sandia National Labs. In November 2019, the Attaway was #94 on the TOP500 Supercomputers list. "On February 28, 2019, Sandians lost a long-time colleague and friend, Steve Attaway. Steve spent over thirty years at Sandia, and during that time he helped bring big, seemingly impossible ideas into realization. The Attaway supercomputer is named after him."The post Time Lapse Video: Building the Attaway Supercomputer at Sandia appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Daniel on (#52CWX)
Data—the gold that today’s organizations spend significant resources to acquire—is ever-growing and underpins significant innovation in technologies for storing and accessing it. In this technology guide, insideHPC Special Research Report: Modernizing and Future-Proofing Your Storage Infrastructure, we’ll see how in this environment, different applications and workflows will always have data storage and access requirements, making it critical for planning to understand that a heterogeneous storage infrastructure is needed for a fully functioning organization.The post Special Report: Modernizing and Future-Proofing Your Storage Infrastructure – Part 2 appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#52C0Y)
AMD has announced a COVID-19 HPC fund to provide research institutions with computing resources to accelerate medical research on COVID-19 and other diseases. The fund will include an initial donation of $15 million of high-performance systems powered by AMD EPYC CPUs and AMD Radeon Instinct GPUs to key research institutions. "I’m also proud that AMD last week joined the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium," writes AMD CEO Lisa Su.The post AMD Donates HPC Systems to fight COVID-19 appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#52C10)
In this Let's Talk Exascale podcast, researchers from LBNL discuss how the WarpX project are developing an exascale application for plasma accelerator research. "The new breeds of virtual experiments that the WarpX team is developing are not possible with current technologies and will bring huge savings in research costs, according to the project’s summary information available on ECP’s website. The summary also states that more affordable research will lead to the design of a plasma-based collider, and even bigger savings by enabling the characterization of the accelerator before it is built."The post Podcast: WarpX exascale application to accelerate plasma accelerator research appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#52AXD)
The most powerful supercomputer in the world for academic research has established its mission for the coming year. "The NSF has approved allocations of supercomputing time on Frontera to 49 science projects for 2020-2021. Time on the TACC supercomputer is awarded based on a project's need for very large scale computing to make science and engineering discoveries, and the ability to efficiently use a supercomputer on the scale of Frontera."The post NSF awards compute time on Frontera Supercomputer for 49 projects appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#527MY)
In this special guest feature, Tim Miller, VP of Product Marketing at One Stop Systems (OSS), writes that his company is addressing the common requirements for video analytic applications with its AI on the Fly® building blocks. AI on the Fly is defined as moving datacenter levels of HPC and AI compute capabilities to the edge.The post Intelligent Video Analytics Pushes Demand for High Performance Computing at the Edge appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#52ASN)
The Center for Gravitation, Cosmology and Astrophysics (CGCA) at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee is seeking a Scientific Data Application Developer in our Job of the Week. "Successful candidates will be part of a large and diverse team in the CGCA that works on a wide variety of computing infrastructure for astronomical and astrophysics problems. Team members interact daily with the physicists, astrophysicists and astronomers in the CGCA and at partner institutions. The CGCA at UW-Milwaukee also offers an exciting and friendly environment in which to work and play. With almost forty faculty, staff, postdocs, and students, the Center is a fun and vibrant place to work."The post Job of the Week: Scientific Data Application Developer at CGSA in Milwaukee appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#529S1)
Today quantum startup Q-CTRL announced a strategic investment by In-Q-Tel (IQT), the not-for-profit strategic investor that identifies innovative technology solutions to support the national security communities of the U.S. and its allies. "The company’s practice in quantum computing solves the Achilles heel of this new technology – hardware error and instability – by delivering a set of techniques that allow quantum computations to be executed with greater success."The post Q-CTRL to Accelerate Quantum Technology Solutions for National Security Applications appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#529G0)
Today NVIDIA announced that it has received approval from all necessary authorities to proceed with its planned acquisition of Mellanox, as announced in March 2019. "This exciting transaction would unite two HPC industry leaders and strengthen the combined company’s ability to create data-centric system architectures for the convergence of the HPC and hyperscale markets around AI and other HPDA tasks,†said Steve Conway from Hyperion Research.The post NVIDIA Receives Approval to Proceed with Mellanox Acquisition appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#529G1)
With the U.S. and many other countries working ‘round the clock to mitigate the devastating effects of the COVID-19 disease, SDSC is providing priority access to its high-performance computer systems and other resources to researchers working to develop an effective vaccine in as short a time as possible. “For us, it absolutely crystalizes SDSC’s mission, which is to deliver lasting impact across the greater scientific community by creating innovative end-to-end computational and data solutions to meet the biggest research challenges of our time. That time is here.â€The post SDSC makes Comet Supercomputer available for COVID-19 research appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#529G2)
Today Supermicro announced that line of servers optimized for 2nd Gen AMD EPYC Processors have achieved 27 world record performance benchmarks and counting. In addition to the industry's first blade platform, Supermicro's entire portfolio of new H12 A+ Servers fully supports the newly announced high-frequency AMD EPYC 7Fx2 Series processors. "By leveraging the significant performance boost of our new high-frequency AMD EPYC 7Fx2 processors, Supermicro can help drive better results in critical enterprise workloads for their broad customer base."The post Supermicro Sets World Record Performance with AMD EPYC Processors appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#529G3)
In this video from the HPE Conference, Bastian Koller from HLRS discusses Competence Centres in HPC and their role in European innovation. "The Centres of Excellence (CoE) develop leading edge technologies to promote the adoption of advanced HPC in industry and public administration, and increase competitiveness for European companies and SMEs through access to CoE expertise and services."The post Video: Competence Centres in HPC – their Role in European Innovation appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#529G5)
Researchers at the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have found a way to make the new generation of smart computers more energy efficient. "Traditionally, silicon chips have formed the building blocks of the infrastructure that powers computers. But this research uses magnetic components instead of silicon and discovers new information about how the physics of the magnetic components can cut energy costs and requirements of training algorithms — neural networks that can think like humans and do things like recognize images and patterns."The post Using Magnetic Circuits for Energy Efficient Big Data Processing appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#527WH)
As part of the worldwide effort to understand and contain the COVID-19 pandemic, Indiana University’s Jetstream, which offers cloud-based, on-demand computing and data analysis resources within the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), is fast-tracking projects that respond to the crisis. "Through the COVID-19 HPC Consortium, Jetstream will provide vital high-performance computing resources. Specifically, priority use of IU’s Jetstream cloud system for analysis of the virus and searches for cures and vaccines. Jetstream offers cloud-based, on-demand computing and data analysis resources, in support of research related to COVID-19."The post Jetstream and XSEDE resources available for pandemic research appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#527WK)
In this Let's Talk Exascale podcast, Peter Lindstrom from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory describes how the ZFP project will help reduce the memory footrprint and data movement in Exascale systems. “To perfom those computations, we oftentimes need random access to individual array elements,†Lindstrom said. “Doing that, coupled with data compression, is extremely challenging.â€The post Podcast: ZFP Project looks to Reduce Memory Footprint and Data Movement on Exascale Systems appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#527WN)
The DOE INCITE program has issued its Call for Proposals. "Open to researchers from academia, industry and government agencies, the INCITE program is aimed at large-scale scientific computing projects that require the power and scale of DOE’s leadership-class supercomputers. The program will award up to 60 percent of the allocable time on Summit, the OLCF’s 200-petaflop IBM AC922 machine, and Theta, the ALCF’s 12-petaflop Cray XC40 system."The post DOE INCITE program seeks proposals for 2021 appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#527WQ)
Researchers are using TACC supercomputers to map out a path towards growing wind power as an energy source in the United States. "This research is the first detailed study designed to develop scenarios for how wind energy can expand from the current levels of seven percent of U.S. electricity supply to achieve the 20 percent by 2030 goal outlined by the U.S. Department of Energy National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in 2014."The post Supercomputing the Expansion of Wind Power appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#526GY)
Today TYAN announced support for high frequency AMD EPYC 7F32 (8 cores), EPYC 7F52 (16 cores) and EPYC 7F72 (24 cores) processor-based server motherboards and server systems to the market. TYAN's HPC and storage server platforms continue to offer exceptional performance to datacenter customers. "Leveraging AMD’s innovation in 7nm process technology, PCIe 4.0 I/O, and an embedded security architecture, TYAN’s 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processor-based platforms are designed to address the most demanding challenges facing the datacenterâ€, said Danny Hsu, Vice President of MiTAC Computing Technology Corporation's TYAN Business Unit. “Adding the new AMD EPYC 7002 Series processors with TYAN server platforms enable us to provide new capabilities to our customers and partners.â€The post TYAN Boosts HPC and Storage Servers with New AMD EPYC 7002 Series Processors appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#5266Z)
Today Intel and QuTech published a paper in Nature demonstrating the successful control of “hot†qubits, the fundamental unit of quantum computing, at temperatures greater than 1 kelvin. "Our demonstration of hot qubits that can operate at higher temperatures while maintaining high fidelity paves the way to allow a variety of local qubit control options without impacting qubit performance.â€The post Intel and QuTech Demonstrate High-Fidelity ‘Hot’ Qubits for Practical Quantum Systems appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#52671)
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the AI for Science program coming out of Argonne National Laboratory. "This is one of the biggest potential changes in our industry and well worth the investigation. But figuring out where AI fits into the traditional world of research and simulation is a difficult problem. Henry points out that nearly every grant proposal needs to include 'AI' in order to get serious consideration."The post Podcast: AI for Science appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#52672)
Today Atos announced that a BullSequana X1000 at the STFC Hartree Centre is providing supercomputing power to assist in global computational drug discovery efforts to help combat COVID-19. "By using some of the capability of the Hartree Centre’s Atos BullSequana X1000, the team are accelerating this process and creating new drug structures to be simulated fully across Folding@home’s distributed compute power."The post Atos Supercomputer at Hartree Centre powers Coronavirus research appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#52674)
Igor Sfiligoi from SDSC gave this talk at the ECSS Symposium. "I have recently helped IceCube expand their resource pool by a few orders of magnitude, first to 380 PFLOP32s for a few hours and later to 170 PFLOP32s for a whole workday. In this session I will explain what was done and how, alongside an overview of why IceCube needs so much compute."The post Bursting into the public Cloud: Experiences at large scale for IceCube appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#522PC)
Data—the gold that today’s organizations spend significant resources to acquire—is ever-growing and underpins significant innovation in technologies for storing and accessing it. In this technology guide, insideHPC Special Research Report: Modernizing and Future-Proofing Your Storage Infrastructure, we’ll see how in this environment, different applications and workflows will always have data storage and access requirements, making it critical for planning to understand that a heterogeneous storage infrastructure is needed for a fully functioning organization.The post insideHPC Special Research Report: Modernizing and Future-Proofing Your Storage Infrastructure appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#524K7)
NERSC recently unveiled their new Community File System (CFS), a long-term data storage tier developed in collaboration with IBM that is optimized for capacity and manageability. "In the next few years, the explosive growth in data coming from exascale simulations and next-generation experimental detectors will enable new data-driven science across virtually every domain. At the same time, new nonvolatile storage technologies are entering the market in volume and upending long-held principles used to design the storage hierarchy."The post NERSC Rolls Out New Community File System for Next-Gen HPC appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#524K9)
OnScale and LEXMA have partnered to create patient-specific digital twins that may accurately predict oxygen and blood flow in a patient’s lungs, helping doctors make critical decisions about ventilator and intubation requirements for COVID-19 patients. Each digital twin is patient-specific and built from a combination of medical images (for example from CT scans and X-rays) and thousands of simulations of lung airflow and blood flow using the LEXMA Moebius fluid dynamics solver running on OnScale’s Cloud Simulation platform.The post Project BreathEasy using Digital Twins of Lungs to Improve COVID-19 Patient Outcomes appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#524KB)
Today AMD added three new processors to its 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processor family. Targeted at HPC workloads, the new processors combine the balanced and efficient AMD Infinity architecture with higher speed “Zen 2†cores for optimal performance. “With our trusted partners, together we are pushing the limits of per core performance and value in hyperconverged infrastructure, commercial HPC and relational database workloads.â€The post New 2nd Gen AMD EPYC Processors Target HPC Workloads appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#524KC)
In this video, Michele Taufer from the University of Tennessee describes how AI enabled by HPC allows researchers to study wildfire propagation which enhances predictions and mitigation. "One of the projects her team is working on looks at how to integrate aspects of soil moisture with wildfire simulations. HPC today and machine learning/AI enable us to identify those patterns and extract the knowledge. The data are generated, analyzed at the same time, and then the knowledge extracted by the data is re-injected into the simulation. Our POWER9 system that allow us exactly to do that."The post Video: Fighting Wildfires with AI and IBM Systems appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#524B3)
Researchers are using XSEDE supercomputers to help develop ocean waves into a sustainable energy source. "We primarily used our simulation techniques to investigate inertial sea wave energy converters, which are renewable energy devices developed by our collaborators at the Polytechnic University of Turin that convert wave energy from large bodies of water into electrical energy," explained study co-author Amneet Pal Bhalla from SDSU.The post Supercomputing Ocean Wave Energy appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#5234Z)
The PASC20 conference in Geneva has been postponed to 2021. The new dates for the conference – PASC21 – are July 5-7, 2021, at the same location – the University of Geneva in Switzerland. "We hope that you will be able to join us next year for an engaging in-person event. We are pleased to announce that our plenary speakers have confirmed their availability for PASC21. Contributors whose submissions have been accepted for presentation at PASC20 will be given the opportunity to provide updated abstracts. Presenters and minisymposia organizers will be contacted separately to confirm their participation and the content of their presentations. Additionally, we foresee a call for new contributions in late 2020."The post PASC20 Conference postponed to 2021 appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#522WG)
The Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) is using its supercomputing resources to support the federal response to the COVID-19 pandemic. "For the High-Performance Computing COVID-19 Consortium, the HPCMP offers access and technical expert support for the program's open research system, a Cray supercomputer with 15,000 cores. The platform is set up outside of the sensitive “official use only†environment and can easily support academics on short notice."The post HPCMP Supports the Fight Against COVID-19 appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#522WH)
The eX3 infrastructure allows Norwegian HPC researchers and their international collaborators to explore bleeding-edge hardware and software that will be instrumental to the coming generation of supercomputers. "Simula chose Bright Cluster Manager to provide comprehensive management of eX3, enabling the organization to administer its HPC platform as a single entity; provisioning the hardware, operating systems and workload managers from a unified interface."The post Podcast: Bright Computing forges eX3 at Simula Research Laboratory appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#522WK)
The European Programming Environment for Programming Productivity of Heterogeneous Supercomputers (EPEEC) is a project that aims to combine European made tools for programming models and performance tools that could help to relieve the burden of targeting highly-heterogeneous supercomputers. It is hoped that this project will make researchers jobs easier as they can more effectively use large scale HPC systems.The post EPEEC Project Fosters Heterogeneous HPC Programming in Europe appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#521YP)
This week the EU launched a new portal for PHIDIAS, a Horizon 2020 project for creating sustainable HPC data-powered services for the earth, atmospheric and marine data towards researchers, industry and public sectors. "The PHIDIAS site offers unique access point for any updates about the project, the future of HPC and any big data findings related to Earth Observation, Intelligent Screening of Satellite data and Ocean data management."The post Video: PHIDIAS project creates HPC data-powered services for earth science data appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#521YR)
Australian researchers working with Oracle Cloud and vaccine technology developed by local company Vaxine Pty Ltd are testing a vaccine candidate against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. "The team is headed by Nikolai Petrovsky, Flinders University Professor and Research Director at Vaxine. His team has tapped Oracle for technical collaboration, access to an expanded research community, and cloud infrastructure that helped enable the rapid design of the novel COVID-19 vaccine candidate."The post Flinders University targets COVID-19 vaccine with Oracle Cloud appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#5212A)
A joint project carried out by four Finnish research organisations has studied the transport and spread of coronavirus through the air. Preliminary results indicate that aerosol particles carrying the virus can remain in the air longer than was originally thought, so it is important to avoid busy public indoor spaces. This also reduces the risk of droplet infection, which remains the main path of transmission for coronavirus.The post Supercomputing the spread of the coronavirus in busy indoor spaces appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#520Y9)
Lockheed Martin Space is seeking a Senior Level Unix/Linux Systems Engineer in our Job of the Week. "The coolest jobs on this planet… or any other… are with Lockheed Martin Space. We are seeking a Multi-Level Security Subject Matter Expert for Unix/Linux/SE Linux/HPC System Engineers-Developers-Administrators and Research and Development HPC program team."The post Job of the Week: Senior Level Unix/Linux Systems Engineer at Lockheed Martin Space Systems appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#51ZQG)
Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Efficient Mission Centric Computing Consortium (EMC3) recently welcomed its first international partner, the South African National Integrated Cyberinfrastructure System (NICIS). "We are pleased to collaborate with NICIS on experiences in deploying a scalable cool data storage tier. Sharing requirements, solutions and experiences on challenges in providing an efficient computing environment is an important part of EMC3,†said Gary Grider, division leader for High Performance Computing at Los Alamos.The post South Africa’s National Integrated Cyberinfrastructure System joins EMC3 Consortium appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#51ZQH)
Today MemComputing announced that its Xtreme Performance Computing (XPC) Software as a Service (SaaS) will be made free for evaluation to all researchers and developers working in response to the COVID-19 crisis. This initiative comes from MemComputing’s ambition to identify opportunities where its technology may aid the fight against the global pandemic. "MemComputing harnesses the power of physics to dramatically reduce compute times for today’s most complex computational problems associated with optimization, big data analytics, and machine learning. By providing a free evaluation of the MemCPU XPC SaaS, MemComputing hopes to accelerate the process of finding solutions to the COVID-19 crisis on a global scale."The post MemCPU XPC SaaS Platform available free for COVID-19 Research appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#51ZQJ)
In this special guest feature, Janet Morss at Dell Technologies writes that the company will soon deploy a new flagship supercomputer at SDSC. "Expanse will deliver the power of 728 dual-socket Dell EMC PowerEdge C6525 servers with 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors connected with Mellanox HDR InfiniBand. The system will have 93,000 compute cores and is projected to have a peak speed of 5 petaflops. That will almost double the performance of SDSC’s current Comet supercomputer, also from Dell Technologies."The post SDSC Expanse Supercomputer from Dell Technologies to serve 50,000 Users appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#51ZQK)
In this Let’s Talk Exascale podcast, Andrew Younge from Sandia National Laboratories describes the new SuperContainers project, which aims to deliver containers and virtualization technologies for productivity, portability, and performance on the first exascale computing machines are planned for 2021. "Essentially, containers allow you to encompass your entire environment in a simple and reproducible way," says Younge. "So not only do I have my container image that has my application and my entire software stack with it, I also have a manifest for how I got there. That’s a really important notion for many people.â€The post Podcast: Accelerating the Adoption of Container Technologies for Exascale Computing appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#51ZQN)
Lubomir Riha from IT4Innovations gave this talk as part of the POP HPC webinar series. "This webinar focused on tools designed to improve the energy-efficiency of HPC applications using a methodology of dynamic tuning of HPC applications, developed under the H2020 READEX project. The READEX methodology has been designed for exploiting the dynamic behaviour of software. At design time, different runtime situations (RTS) are detected and optimized system configurations are determined. RTSs with the same configuration are grouped into scenarios, forming the tuning model. At runtime, the tuning model is used to switch system configurations dynamically."The post Video: Energy Efficient Computing using Dynamic Tuning appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#51Y8Y)
Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a plan to provide up to $30 million for advanced research in machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) for both scientific investigation and the management of complex systems. “This foundational research will help keep the United States in the forefront as applications for ML and AI rapidly expand, and as we utilize this evolving technology to solve the world’s toughest challenges such as COVID-19.â€The post DOE Announces $30 Million for Machine Learning and AI Research appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#51Y8Z)
Today ACM named Maria Florina Balcan of Carnegie Mellon University the recipient of the 2019 ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award for foundational and breakthrough contributions to minimally-supervised learning. “Although she is still in the early stages of her career, she has already established herself as the world leader in the theory of how AI systems can learn with limited supervision. More broadly, her work has realigned the foundations of machine learning, and consequently ushered in many new applications that have brought about leapfrog advances in this exciting area of artificial intelligence.â€The post Maria Balcan to Receive Grace Murray Hopper Award for Significant Contributions to Machine Learning appeared first on insideHPC.
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by Rich Brueckner on (#51Y91)
The SC20 WINS program offers a terrific opportunity for women in networking help build the SCinet at the conference, working side-by-side with the world’s leading network and software engineers and top network technology vendors. "WINS provides selected candidates with travel support, per diem and full access to the SC conference as part of SCinet, SC’s dedicated high-capacity network infrastructure. They join SCinet teams that coincide with their field of interest, where they work side by side with world-leading network and software engineers from diverse labs and universities, as well as top technology manufacturers, to create an incredibly fast, ephemeral network system."The post Why WINS Is an Ideal Opportunity for Women in IT Networking appeared first on insideHPC.
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by staff on (#51Y92)
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at how supercomputers are being used to battle the coronavirus. "We discuss how the supercomputing community has joined the fight and the impact on the battle against the virus. We do our best to keep the conversation light, knowing that everyone out there is suffering from the virus – it’s the one thing we all have in common these days."The post Podcast: Supercomputers Battle Coronavirus appeared first on insideHPC.
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