High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team reviews the full list of events leading up to SC19 in Denver. "There's a lot that happens before the exhibit floor opens on Monday night. Our old pal Rich Brueckner from insideHPC joins us to give us the full rundown. We even have a few parties to tell you about."The post Podcast: Full Rundown of SC19 Events in Denver appeared first on insideHPC.

The QCT Platform on Demand (QCT POD) combines advanced technology with a unique user experience to help enterprises reach better performance and gain more insights. "With flexibility and scalability, QCT POD enables enterprises to address a broader range of HPC, Deep Learning, and Data Analytic demands that fulfill various applications."The post Data Center Transformation: Why a Workload-Driven and Scalable Architecture Matters appeared first on insideHPC.

Today NVIDIA posted the fastest results on new benchmarks measuring the performance of AI inference workloads in data centers and at the edge — building on the company’s equally strong position in recent benchmarks measuring AI training. "NVIDIA topped all five benchmarks for both data center-focused scenarios (server and offline), with Turing GPUs providing the highest performance per processor among commercially available entries."The post NVIDIA Tops MLPerf AI Inference Benchmarks appeared first on insideHPC.

Today NVIDIA introduced Jetson Xavier NX, "the world’s smallest, most powerful AI supercomputer for robotic and embedded computing devices at the edge. "With a compact form factor smaller than the size of a credit card, the energy-efficient Jetson Xavier NX module delivers server-class performance up to 21 TOPS for running modern AI workloads, and consumes as little as 10 watts of power."The post NVIDIA Launches $399 Jetson Xavier NX for AI at the Edge appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the MLPerf consortium released over 500 inference benchmark results from 14 organizations. "Having independent benchmarks help customers understand and evaluate hardware products in a comparable light. MLPerf is helping drive transparency and oversight into machine learning performance that will enable vendors to mature and build out the AI ecosystem. Intel is excited to be part of the MLPerf effort to realize the vision of AI Everywhere,” stated Dr Naveen Rao, Corp VP Intel, GM AI Products.The post MLPerf Releases Over 500 Inference Benchmarks appeared first on insideHPC.

Advania and Stockholm Exergi have joined in partnership for the construction of a new HPC data center in Stockholm, Sweden. ADC will lease land in Stockholm Data Parks to build the data center, and the heat generated by computing equipment in the data center will be used for local house-heating in Stockholm. This arrangement ensures a dramatic increase in the energy efficiency of the data center, making it environmentally friendly, and will utilize heat that is traditionally wasted for the benefit of the local community.The post Advania to build sustainable HPC datacenter in Sweden appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest feature, Robert Roe from Scientific Computing World interviews Mark Parsons on the strategy for HPC in the UK. "We are not part of EuroHPC, so we are not going to have access to the exascale systems that appear in Europe in 2023, they will also have some very large systems in 2021, around 150 to 200 Pflop systems, and we will not have access to that which will have a detrimental effect on our scientific and industrial communities ability to use the largest scale of supercomputing."The post Interview: Advancing HPC in the UK in the Age of Brexit appeared first on insideHPC.

Today datacenter solution provider TMGcore announced it has developed a first-of-its-kind data center platform that utilizes immersion cooling and is ready to house ​Dell EMC​ PowerEdge C4140 servers. "Traditionally, data center platforms run in air-cooled environments​ that require a significant amount of power and air conditioning within the facility,” said John-David Enright, CEO of TMGcore. “However, companies are looking to be more environmentally friendly and reduce the amount of power consumption within their data center operations. ​We have developed a line of data center platforms that feature an immersion environment for the servers, and we are proud to introduce the products to the market with one customized for Dell Technologies servers.”The post TMGcore Teams with Dell EMC on Immersion Cooled Datacenter Platform appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Taylor Newill from Oracle describes how the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure delivers high performance for HPC applications. "From the beginning, Oracle built their bare-metal cloud with a simple goal in mind: deliver the same performance in the cloud that clients are seeing on-prem."The post Building Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with Bare-Metal appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Cray announced that the United Kingdom’s Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) has selected the Cray Shasta supercomputer to support security and defence of the U.K. Called Vulcan, AWE’s new machine powered by AMD EPYC processors will deliver approximately 7 petaflops of performance and play an integral role in maintaining the U.K.’s nuclear deterrent. “Shasta will bring Exascale Era technologies to bear on AWE’s challenging modeling and simulation data-intensive workload and enable the convergence of AI and analytics into this same workload, on a single system.”The post AMD to Power Cray Shasta Supercomputer coming to AWE in the UK appeared first on insideHPC.

Juniors and seniors throughout the United States seeking a transformative high school experience and the chance to win thousands of dollars in scholarships for college are invited to register for the MathWorks Math Modeling (M3) Challenge, the nation’s most prestigious high school math modeling competition. “In order to ensure a robust pipeline of students for future STEM careers, it is vital that we encourage students to deepen their interest in science, technology, engineering, and math. M3 Challenge has perfected the recipe for making math fun and accessible, while also encouraging students to hone their interpersonal skills and consider the possibility of a career in math and computation.”The post Students Encouraged to Enter Math Modeling Challenge for Scholarships appeared first on insideHPC.

Today GRC and Asperitas launched ImmersionFAQ.com, a new website with FAQs and facts about immersion cooling. “The newly developed vendor agnostic website is a key tool for operators looking to educate themselves on immersion and get answers to technical questions about liquid cooling.”The post New ImmersionFAQ site to Dispel Misconceptions about Datacenter Immersive Cooling appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Xilinx announced that SK Telecom has adopted Xilinx Alveo Datacenter Accelerator cards to power a real-time AI-based physical intrusion and theft detection service. SK Telecom’s AI inference accelerator (AIX) implemented on Xilinx Alveo cards provides efficient and accurate physical intrusion detection using deep neural networks. "In the era of Artificial Intelligence where new services are being deployed at unprecedented rates, we keep pursuing to innovate our cloud systems to deliver more value to our customers with more reliable and efficient services across diverse segments.”The post Xilinx Alveo Accelerators Power Real-Time AI-based Intrusion Detection Service appeared first on insideHPC.

Gunter Roeth from NVIDIA gave this talk at the UK HPC Conference. "Today, NVIDIA’s tensor core GPU sits at the core of most AI, ML and HPC applications, and NVIDIA software surrounds every level of such a modern application, from CUDA and libraries like cuDNN and NCCL embedded in every deep learning framework and optimized and delivered via the NVIDIA GPU Cloud to reference architectures designed to streamline the deployment of large scale infrastructures."The post Hardware & Software Platforms for HPC, AI and ML appeared first on insideHPC.

It is with tremendous sadness that we share the news of the death of our dear friend and colleague Steve Tuecke on November 2, 2019. "Steve was also a consummate architect of organizations. Argonne’s Distributed Systems Lab, the international Globus Alliance, the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago, the Globus team – each of these organizations was shaped by Steve’s vision, his often iconoclastic approach, and his talent for recruiting exceptional people."The post Steve Tuecke from Globus passes away appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Vinay Kumar from Oracle describes how the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure delivers high performance for HPC applications. "Oracle offers on-demand HPC infrastructure, suitable for any HPC workload, based on the most advanced compute, storage, networking, and software technologies—at a fraction of the cost of building it yourself."The post Video: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

Researchers at Predictive Science, Inc. are using the the Comet Supercomputer at SDSC for Flu Forecasting Models. "These calculations fall under the category of ‘embarrassingly parallel’, which means we can run each model, for each week and each season on a single core,” explained Ben-Nun. “We received a lot of support and help when we installed our codes on Comet and in writing the scripts that launched hundreds of calculations at once – our retrospective studies of past influenza seasons would not have been possible without access to a supercomputer like Comet.”The post PSI Researchers Using Comet Supercomputer for Flu Forecasting Models appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Penguin Computing announced plans for showcasing its innovative HPC solutions at SC19 in Denver. After a year of growth, Penguin Computing is bringing innovative technology demos and presentations to the show to offer expertise on a range of topics across HPC, AI, storage, cloud and more. Visit the Penguin Computing Theater and Booth #1343 […]The post Penguin Computing to Showcase HPC Solutions at SC19 appeared first on insideHPC.

The European Processor Initiative (EPI) has announced the completion of important milestones in its first year. "The first-generation chip family, named Rhea, will include Arm ZEUS architecture general purpose cores and prototypes of high energy-efficient accelerator tiles: RISC-V based (EPAC), Multi-Purpose Processing Array (MPPA), embedded FPGA (eFPGA) and cryptography HW engine. First Rhea chips will be fabricated in N6 technology aiming at the highest processing capabilities and energy efficiency."The post European Processor Initiative Reaches Important Milestones in First Year appeared first on insideHPC.

The Arm HPC team invites you to our 5th Annual Arm HPC User Group (AHUG) session at SC19. The all-day event takes place on Monday, Nov. 18 at the Curtis Hotel in Denver. "We have a full day agenda of strategic partners and end-users from all regions of the world sharing their experiences, best practices, plans, ecosystem advances, and results on Arm-based platforms for HPC applications. The goal of this event is, as always, to candidly share and network among the growing number of users and sites that are deploying Arm for HPC and to highlight the work of the many leaders in this area."The post Arm HPC User Group Returns to Denver Nov. 18 appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team celebrates their 251st episode. "Not enamored with round numbers, the team notes that 251 is a prime number and round enough for celebration. This is not quite a “highlights” show, but a look back at how RadioFreeHPC came about, who came up with the name RadioFreeHPC, how the show has evolved, a bit of “remember when”, a few notable episodes, and the meteoric rise of its listenership!"The post Radio Free HPC Celebrates 251st Episode appeared first on insideHPC.

Sandia National Laboratories, PNNL, and the Georgia Institute of Technology are launching a research center that combines hardware design and software development to improve artificial intelligence technologies that will ultimately benefit the public. "The center will focus on the most challenging basic problems facing the young field, with the intention of speeding advances in cybersecurity, electric grid resilience, physics and chemistry simulations and other DOE priorities."The post DOE Funds Center for Artificial Intelligence-focused Architectures and Algorithms appeared first on insideHPC.

Howard Pritchard from LANL and Simon Hammond from Sandia gave this talk at the Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing 2019. "Sandia National Laboratories has been an active partner in leveraging our Arm-based platform since its early design, and featuring it in the deployment of the world’s largest Arm-based supercomputer, is a strategic investment for the DOE and the industry as a whole as we race toward achieving exascale computing.”The post NNSA Explorations: ARM for Supercomputing appeared first on insideHPC.

"As a critical member of the HPC Program leadership team, you will work collaboratively to provide secure HPC systems, systems support and related HPC technology required to meet researcher needs. In the first instance, you will assist Defence achieve the architecture, design and deployment of world-class Computational and Data Science infrastructure providing critical sovereign capability in Defence and National Security research."The post Job of the Week: Discipline Leader for HPC Services for DST Group in Australia appeared first on insideHPC.

Peter Dueben from ECMWF gave this talk at the UK HPC Conference. "I will present recent studies that use deep learning to learn the equations of motion of the atmosphere, to emulate model components of weather forecast models and to enhance usability of weather forecasts. I will then talk about the main challenges for the application of deep learning in cutting-edge weather forecasts and suggest approaches to improve usability in the future."The post Progress and Challenges for the Use of Deep Learning to Improve Weather Forecasts appeared first on insideHPC.

Today TYAN announced support for new Intel Xeon E-2200 processor-based server motherboards and systems to the market. TYAN’s Intel Xeon E-2200 processor-based product line continues to offer professional-grade performance, security, reliability and affordability of entry server solutions. "Small and medium-sized businesses need to maintain their competitiveness by deploying a powerful server platform,” said Danny Hsu, Vice President of MiTAC Computing Technology Corporation's TYAN Business Unit. “TYAN’s Intel Xeon E-2200 processor-based platforms are optimized for cloud computing and embedded environment applications. By utilizing Intel’s features of real-time analytics with large memory capacity, enhanced IO capabilities, and latest SSD storage technology, TYAN enables our customers to enjoy professional-grade performance in large file processing, storage and virtualization.”The post New Intel Xeon E-2200 Processors come to TYAN’s Entry Server Platforms appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Atos announced a contract to supply a BullSequana X supercomputer to the Institute of Interdisciplinary Physics and Complex Systems (IFISC) in Spain. The new computational cluster will be used for Big Data analysis and intensive digital simulations and substantially enhance the institute’s research capacity, enabling it to face new challenges.The post Atos to Deploy AMD-powered BullSequana X Supercomputer at UIB in Spain appeared first on insideHPC.

French startup OpenIO recently announced record performance with Criteo, the advertising platform for the open Internet. OpenIO demonstrated the performance and scalability of their object storage solution by deploying their technology on a cluster of more than 350 physica.l servers provided by Criteo. The benchmark made it possible to cross the symbolic threshold of writing up to one terabit of data per secondThe post OpenIO Achieves Record 1 Tbps Write Speed appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Spectra Logic announced that the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation has chosen the Spectra NAS solution for management of its extensive library of research data. "The IT group set out to procure a solution that could backup 100TB of high performance computing (HPC) data and 450TB of Commvault secondary backup data supporting OMRF’s sequencing and genome research. OMRF chose the Spectra NAS solution to provide faster access without an increased burden on the staff for administrative support to their data storage systems."The post Spectra Logic Protects Genome Data for Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Eni announced plans to deploy the world's largest industrial supercomputer at its Green Data Center in Italy. Called "HPC5," the new system from Dell EMC will triple the computing power of their existing HPC4 system. The combined machines will have a total peak power of 70 Petaflops. "HPC5 will be made up of 1,820 Dell EMC PowerEdge C4140 servers, each with two Intel Gold 6252 24-core processors and four NVIDIA V100 GPU accelerators. The servers will be connected through an InfiniBand Mellanox HDR ultra-high-performance network."The post Dell EMC to Deploy World’s Largest Industrial Supercomputer at Eni appeared first on insideHPC.

Jonathan Baker from the University of Chicago gave this talk at the Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing. "Jonathan is studying quantum architectures, specifically how to map quantum algorithms more efficiently to near term devices. Additionally, he is interested in multivalued logic and taking advantage of quantum computing’s natural access to higher order states and using these states to make computation more efficient."The post Quantum Computing: The Why and How appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest feature, Robert Roe from Scientific Computing World speaks with Lee Margetts, chair of PRACE’s industrial advisory committee, about its work to increase the engagement of industrial HPC users. "When we started in 2013, PRACE set up an IAC to give advice about improving engagement with industry, and the impression that I get is that this was motivated by the European Commission wanting to see their investment have a benefit to job creation and technology transfer."The post How PRACE Brings HPC to Industry appeared first on insideHPC.

Accelerated computing have been viewed as revolutionary breakthrough technologies for AI and HPC workloads. Significant accelerated computing power from GPUs paired with CPUs is the major contributor. Our friends over at Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT) provide QuantaGrid D52G-4U 8 NVLink GPUs servers with a liquid cooling platform successfully adopted by the National Center of High-performance Computing (NCHC) in Taiwan) for their Taiwania-II project. Rank 23rd on the Top500 as of June 2019.The post A Liquid Cooling Petascale Supercomputing Site and GROMACS Workload Optimization Benchmark appeared first on insideHPC.

The Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) will once again sponsor some of Germany’s brightest collegiate minds at the SC19 Student Cluster Competition. Team “deFAUlt" is one of four European teams entering the student competition. In total, 16 teams qualified to participate in this year’s student challenge, with six other teams representing hosting country USA, five teams coming from China and one Singaporean team rounding out the group of competitors.The post GCS Student Team preps for SC19 Student Cluster Competition appeared first on insideHPC.

Parker Hannifin will showcase their latest quick connect couplings for liquid cooling at SC19 in Denver. "Recognized as the largest manufacturer of quick couplings in the world, Parker couplings incorporate non-spill valving, meaning no spills during connection and disconnection. At the core is a flat-sealing design that prevents any type of fluid loss against sensitive electronics and all electrical connections. This ensures the highest level of compatibility with the broadest range of liquids and the application environment."The post Parker Hannifin to Showcase Liquid Cooling Solutions at SC19 appeared first on insideHPC.

Today TMGcore announced today a partnership with Vertiv to help develop its new self-contained data center platform that requires an average of 80 percent less power to cool than traditional infrastructure. Vertiv’s critical infrastructure experience and expertise combined with TMGcore’s innovative technology will help drive the future of data center platforms and create a new standard of operability for applications from edge through hyperscale in capacity.The post TMGcore and Vertiv Collaborate on Self-Contained Data Center Platform appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Cray unveiled its Cray ClusterStor E1000 system, an entirely new parallel storage platform for the Exascale Era. "As the external high performance storage system for the first three U.S. exascale systems, Cray ClusterStor E1000 will total over 1.3 exabytes of storage for all three systems combined. ClusterStor E1000 systems can deliver up to 1.6 terabytes per second and up to 50 million I/O operations per second per rack – more than double compared to other parallel storage systems in the market today."The post New Cray ClusterStor E1000 to Power Exascale Workloads appeared first on insideHPC.

In this Sound of Science podcast, researchers from ORNL dispel some of those myths and discuss how AI is transforming cancer research, manufacturing and plant biology. "Artificial intelligence is no longer just a subject of science fiction. From personal assistants to self-driving cars, AI is revolutionizing everyday life. While AI may be more prevalent these days, there are still a lot of misconceptions about what it is and what it isn't."The post Podcast: Inventing the Future with AI for Science appeared first on insideHPC.

Today BittWare announced its new S7t-VG6 PCIe accelerator product—a feature-rich PCIe card sporting the new Achronix 7nm Speedster7t FPGA. Developed in cooperation with Achronix Semiconductor Corporation, this next generation product offers a range of breakthrough capabilities including low-cost and highly flexible GDDR6 memories that offer HBM-class memory bandwidth, high-performance machine learning processors and a revolutionary 2D network-on-chip for high bandwidth and energy-efficient data movement.The post BittWare Unveils 7nm Speedster7t FPGA Accelerator appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team catches up with Calista Redmond, CEO of RISC-V. "RISC-V can be used for light weight tasks such as embedded processing but, on the other hand, is also going to be utilized as the system accelerator for the European Exascale initiative boxes. That’s some serious flexibility."The post Podcast: RISC-V CEO Sees Bright Global Future for Open Source CPUs appeared first on insideHPC.

Hyperion Research will host their HPC Market Briefing Breakfast at SC19. The event takes place Tuesday, November 19, 2019, 7:00-9:00 AM Denver time at the Brown Palace Hotel near the convention center. "You are cordially invited to attend this popular session, but we encourage you to register soon because space is limited and in past years, we haven't been able to accommodate everyone wanting to attend."The post Hyperion Research to host HPC Market Briefing Breakfast at SC19 appeared first on insideHPC.

The speaker agenda is now posted for the Dell EMC HPC Community Meeting at SC19. The meeting takes place Monday, Nov. 18 in Denver. "The Dell EMC HPC Community is a worldwide technical forum that facilitates the exchange of ideas among researchers, computer scientists, executives, developers, and engineers and promotes the advancement of innovative, powerful HPC solutions. Members work together to help advance the industry, enable end users’ impact, and help in the design, delivery, and deployment of new technologies."The post Agenda Posted: Dell EMC HPC Community Meeting at SC19 appeared first on insideHPC.

Leigh Lapworth from Rolls-Royce gave this talk at m Computing Systems Week Edinburgh 2019. "Simulation and modeling, enabled by high performance computing, have transformed the way Rolls-Royce designs and engineers its products. Every advance in computing power unlocks the power to do more with simulation and modeling whether this is larger models to give higher fidelity; or, higher throughput of models to explore a larger part of the design space."The post Video: Large scale industrial simulations using HPC at Rolls-Royce appeared first on insideHPC.

Today HPE announced advancements to HPE SimpliVity, the company’s flagship hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) platform, ushering in a new generation of HCI powered with artificial intelligence to simplify virtual machine (VM) management and free IT staff to focus on innovation. "The future of HCI is AI-driven, and HPE has the most advanced intelligence” said McLeod Glass, VP & General Manager, SimpliVity and Composable Software, Hewlett Packard Enterprise.The post HPE Unveils AI-driven Hyperconverged Infrastructure appeared first on insideHPC.

Scientists looking to reduce their complexity to research and add a new computational tool to their tool belt can explore the Tapis Project. Newly funded with a $2.9 million grant from NSF, the Tapis software platform aims to help researchers more easily leverage powerful supercomputers and integrate and manage data from different and distant sources. "The easiest way to describe Tapis is that it's a web-based application that provides all the tools a modern scientist needs to do data-intensive, computationally-intensive research."The post NSF funds Tapis Project for Data-intensive Research appeared first on insideHPC.

Alan Real from Durham University gave this talk at the UK HPC Conference. "This talk will discuss how advances in instrumentation have caused many new areas to embrace HPC and AI in order to successfully conduct and understand their experiments."The post Convergence for Scientific Method: HPC, AI, Simulation and Experiment appeared first on insideHPC.

“The promise of multi-messenger astrophysics, however, can be realized only if sufficient cyberinfrastructure is available to rapidly handle, combine and analyze the very large-scale distributed data from all types of astronomical measurements. The conceptualization phase of SCIMMA will balance rapid prototyping, novel algorithm development and software sustainability to accelerate scientific discovery over the next decade and more.”The post NSF Invests in Multi-Messenger Astrophysics appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at problems in the scientific software world. "There’s a bug in Python scripts that caused different results in identical routines run on different operating systems. As the guys discuss, it’s not a Python thing but a problem with the order in which files got read according to the operating system’s protocols. This impacts the sort order and thus the end results. The gang speculates on other causes of these types of problems and the fixes that should be employed."The post Podcast: When a Different OS Gets Different Results appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Flexential announced it is the first data center globally to host ONTAP AI Test Drive, a fully optimized and tested infrastructure solution for AI workloads. "Our data centers are ready to provide the power, cooling, resiliency, security, and connectivity to support these high-density AI workloads. Plus, through our professional services practice, we are able to help customers seamlessly migrate data, integrate to hyper-scale or private cloud, and provide services to secure their platforms."The post Flexential Data Center hosts ONTAP AI Test Drive Platform appeared first on insideHPC.

Researchers are beginning a three-year cross-institute project that aims to lower the barrier to entry for software engineers developing new high-performance applications on large scale parallel systems. "The team of researchers plan to combine user insights, new compiler optimizations, and advanced runtime support to create the PAbB framework which will ultimately create building blocks of parallel code for heterogeneous environments to use across a number of applications from computational science and data science."The post HPC Framework Blocks to Ease Programming of Exascale Supercomputers appeared first on insideHPC.