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In this video from SC19, Trish Damkroger from Intel and Ian Colle from AWS describe how the two companies collaborate to deliver the best possible application performance in the Cloud. "HPC on AWS, powered by Intel Xeon Scalable processors, offers the most elastic, scalable cloud infrastructure to run HPC applications, and the range of services makes it easier than ever to get started quickly, securely, and cost-effectively."The post Intel and AWS Team for HPC Performance in the Cloud appeared first on insideHPC.

Venture-backed startup Formulus Black is showcasing its Forsa solution at SC19. Forsa enables memory to be provisioned and managed as a high-performance, low-latency storage media for the most-demanding workloads. "Formulus Black is disrupting the server market by elevating the role of memory on servers as both a caching layer and a tier 1 low latency storage media for I/O intensive processes” said Jing Xie, Chief Operating Officer at Formulus Black.The post Formulus Black Showcases High-Performance Memory-Based Storage and Virtualization at SC19 appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Bright Computing announced the latest version of their Bright Cluster Manager software for HPC, OpenStack, and Data Science. “Our development team has been hard at work implementing a host of features designed to better extend on-premise clusters to the public cloud and edge, improve ease of use, lower administrative costs, and increase standardization across the enterprise. The platform enhancements included in this latest update further our mission in offering a cluster management platform that reduces complexity and decreases the effort and risk when building and maintaining Linux clusters.”The post Bright Cluster Manager 9.0 Extends On-premise Clusters to the Public Cloud and Edge appeared first on insideHPC.

Today at SC19, AMD announced a set of new customer wins and new platforms supporting AMD EPYC processors and Radeon Instinct accelerators, as well as the release of ROCm 3.0 development environment. "HPC organizations are continuing to adopt the 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processor and Radeon Instinct accelerators for more powerful and efficient supercomputing systems. The 2nd Gen EPYC processors provide twice the manufacturing application performance and up to 60% faster Life Sciences simulations than competing solutions, while the Radeon Instinct GPU accelerator provides up to 6.6 peak theoretical TFLOPS Double Precision performance for HPC workloads."The post AMD Delivers Best-in-Class HPC Performance at SC19 appeared first on insideHPC.

At SC19 this week, Dell Technologies is introducing several new solutions, reference architectures and portfolio advancements all designed to simplify and accelerate customers’ HPC and AI efforts. "There’s a lot of value in the data that organizations collect, and HPC and AI are helping organizations get the most out of this data,” said Thierry Pellegrino, vice president of HPC at Dell Technologies. “We’re committed to building solutions that simplify the use and deployment of these technologies for organizations of all sizes and at all stages of deployment.”The post Dell Technologies Introduces New Solutions to Advance HPC and AI Innovation appeared first on insideHPC.

Today TMG unveiled OTTO, a completely automated, self-contained, two-phase liquid immersion-cooled data center platform that features a closed loop system, uses zero water and is a tenth of the size of a traditional data center. By using OTTO, clients can cut operational costs by 80 percent while receiving ten times more processing power per square foot. "Data center hardware manufacturers today are tasked with building technology capable of handling increasingly vast amounts of data processing while addressing challenges including uptime, environmental impact and operating costs associated with building and operating a large data center – namely space and power constraints,” said John-David Enright, CEO of TMGcore. “We designed OTTO to address these major issues facing the industry. OTTO provides companies with a solution that is scalable, quick to market, secure and extremely energy efficient while remaining cost effective.”The post TMGcore Unveils Immersion-cooled OTTO Data Center Platform at SC19 appeared first on insideHPC.

Today NVIDIA introduced NVIDIA Magnum IO, a suite of software to help data scientists and AI and high performance computing researchers process massive amounts of data in minutes, rather than hours. "Optimized to eliminate storage and input/output bottlenecks, Magnum IO delivers up to 20x faster data processing for multi-server, multi-GPU computing nodes when working with massive datasets to carry out complex financial analysis, climate modeling and other HPC workloads."The post Video: NVIDIA Magnum IO Moves Big Data Faster than Previously Possible appeared first on insideHPC.

This whitepaper is an insideHPC Special Research Report sponsored by Univa. "Today many organizations solve their most difficult computational challenges by creating their own on-premises, compute-intensive, high performance data center. The latest hardware and software innovations have removed barriers that prevented many organizations from embracing HPC solutions. With more enterprises extending their own on-premises clusters into the cloud with hybrid configurations, finding the right tools for managing and scheduling workflows and automatically controlling cost remains a critical challenge."The post Cloud Adoption for HPC: Trends and Opportunities appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC teams looks at the newly released TOP500 list. "We talk about the changes in this version of the list (100 new systems, but none in the top 24), how the major countries stack up against each other, and vendor system share. We also discuss why this list is so, well, kind of not as exciting as we’ve got used to, and what we expect to see on future lists. There are some big things coming, but, like your birthday, they’re not here yet."The post Radio Free HPC Breaks Down the TOP500 appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Trish Damkroger from Intel and Scott Tease from Lenovo describe their collaboration on Project Everyscale. "With Project Everyscale, our goal is to democratize exascale technologies and bring leading Xeon scalable processors, accelerators, storage, fabrics, software and more to HPC customers of every scale or any workload.”The post Lenovo and Intel to Bring High-End HPC Capabilities to more users with Project Everyscale appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Bright Computing announced the launch of “Easy8” - a program designed to put their award-winning Bright Cluster Manager software in the hands of every organization working with high-performance Linux clusters. Easy8 offers the full-featured Bright Cluster Manager software for up to 8 nodes at no charge and is available immediately from the Bright Computing website. Bright also announced the launch of its new “BEACON” user community, which is designed to provide Bright customers and Easy8 users with a free forum where they can access technical content, share experiences, ask/answer questions, exchange ideas, and suggest product enhancements.The post Bright Cluster Manager now Free for Clusters up to 8 Nodes appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Fujitsu announced that a prototype of the Fugaku supercomputer being jointly developed by the two parties took No.1 in the Green500, a global ranking based on the energy efficiency of supercomputers. With Fugaku, we succeeded in developing a general-purpose Arm CPU with the world's highest energy efficiency, far exceeding our targets through Co-design," said Satoshi Matsuoka, Director, Riken-Center for Computational Science (R-CCS).The post Prototype of Fugaku Supercomputer reaches Number One on Green500 appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Aspen Systems announced that NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD has increased the computational power to their primary computing platform the Discover supercomputer by over an incredible 30%. The project Scalable Unit 15 (SCU15) was awarded to, built by and installed by Aspen Systems, Inc., in order to add a 25,600-core scalable compute unit onto the system for increased data analysis on our climate through visualized data modeling.The post Aspen Systems to boost performance of NASA NCCS Discover Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Lenovo announced the deployment of Cannon, Harvard University’s first liquid-Cooled supercomputer. Developed in cooperation with Intel, the new system's advanced supercomputing infrastructure will enable discoveries into areas such earthquake forecasting, predicting the spread of disease, and star formation. In related news, Lenovo and Intel announced the creation of an exascale visionary council called Project Everyscale. The project mission is to enable broad adoption of exascale-focused technologies for organizations of all sizes.The post Lenovo and Intel team up for Harvard Supercomputer and New Exascale Visionary Council appeared first on insideHPC.

Today HPE announced an AI Ops R&D collaboration with NREL to develop AI and Machine Learning technologies to automate and improve operational efficiency, including resiliency and energy usage, in data centers for the exascale era. The effort is part of NREL’s ongoing mission as a world leader in advancing energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies to create and implement new approaches that reduce energy consumption and lower operating costs.The post HPE Tackles AI Ops R&D for Energy Efficiency, Sustainability and Resiliency in Data Centers appeared first on insideHPC.

In this fireside chat from SC19, Dr. Eng Lim Goh from HPE describes how the convergence of HPC and AI is changing the way scientists and engineers do their simulations. He also cites a case study of “Swarm Learning” where hospitals were able to train AI diagnostic models without sharing private patient data. Transcript: insideHPC: […]The post Dr. Eng Lim Goh on Swarm Learning and Steering HPC Simulation with AI appeared first on insideHPC.

Today marked the release of the 54th edition of the TOP500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers. In summary, the top of the list remains largely unchanged. In fact, the top 10 systems are unchanged from the previous list. "The latest TOP500 list saw China and the US maintaining their dominance of the list, albeit in different categories. Meanwhile, the aggregate performance of the 500 systems, based on the High Performance Linpack (HPL) benchmark, continues to rise and now sits at 1.66 exaflops. The entry level to the list has risen to 1.14 petaflops, up from 1.02 petaflops in the previous list in June 2019."The post World’s Fastest Supercomputers Look Familiar on November TOP500 List appeared first on insideHPC.

Today HPE announced it will deliver the industry’s most comprehensive HPC and AI portfolio for the exascale era, which is characterized by explosive data growth and new converged workloads such as HPC, AI, and analytics. "The addition of Cray, Inc., which HPE recently acquired, bolsters HPE’s HPC and AI solutions to now encompass an end-to-end supercomputing architecture across compute, interconnect, software, storage and services, delivered on premises, hybrid or as-a-Service. Now every enterprise can leverage the same foundational HPC technologies that power the world’s fastest systems, and integrate them into their data centers to unlock insights and fuel new discovery."The post HPE and Cray Unveil HPC and AI Solutions Optimized for the Exascale Era appeared first on insideHPC.

Today at SC19, Intel unveiled its new GPU architecture optimized for HPC and AI as well as an ambitious new software initiative called oneAPI that represents a paradigm shift from today’s single-architecture, single-vendor programming models. "HPC and AI workloads demand diverse architectures, ranging from CPUs, general-purpose GPUs and FPGAs, to more specialized deep learning NNPs which Intel demonstrated earlier this month,” said Raja Koduri, senior vice president, chief architect, and general manager of architecture, graphics and software at Intel. “Simplifying our customers’ ability to harness the power of diverse computing environments is paramount, and Intel is committed to taking a software-first approach that delivers unified and scalable abstraction for heterogeneous architectures.”The post Intel Unveils New GPU Architecture and oneAPI Software Stack for HPC and AI appeared first on insideHPC.

In this slidecast, Luke Wilson from Dell EMC describes a case study with McGill University using neural networks to read minds. "If you want to build a better neural network, there is no better model than the human brain. In this project, McGill University was running into bottlenecks using neural networks to reverse-map fMRI images. The team from the Dell EMC HPC & AI Innovation Lab was able to tune the code to run solely on Intel Xeon Scalable processors, rather than porting to the university's scarce GPU accelerators."The post Slidecast: Dell EMC Using Neural Networks to “Read Minds” appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team catches up with Jessi Lanum, a veteran of the SC19 Student Cluster Competition, for an insider peek on what it’s like to compete for cluster competition glory. "For the few of you who are not already fans of these events, here’s the lowdown: 16 student teams representing universities from around the world have been working their brains out designing, building, and tuning clusters provided by their sponsors. They can use as much hardware as they want, the only limitation is that their systems can’t use more than 3,000 watts during the competition."The post Podcast: SC19 Student Cluster Competition Preview appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Atos announced a new four-year contract with French national meteorological service, Météo-France, to supply two supercomputers based on its latest BullSequana XH2000 technology. "We’re really excited to be working again with Météo-France to boost its computing capacity with our BullSequana XH2000 supercomputers” said Pierre Barnabé, SVP, Head of Big Data & Security at Atos. “Equipped with the latest generation processors and accelerators, our BullSequana architechture offers Météo-France a combined peak performance of 20 petaflops to deliver even more precise results. It is also highly-energy efficient and minimizes global energy consumption.”The post Météo-France to Boost Weather Forecasting Capabilities with Atos Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.

"This cosmic simulation was made possible by the Hazel Hen supercomputer in Stuttgart, where 16,000 cores worked together for more than a year – the longest and most resource-intensive simulation to date. The simulation itself consists of a cube of space measuring more than 230 million light-years in diameter that contains more than 20 billion particles representing dark matter, stars, cosmic gas, magnetic fields, and supermassive black holes (SMBHs)."The post Video: TNG50 cosmic simulation depicts formation of a single massive galaxy appeared first on insideHPC.

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have achieved world record performance on the Summit supercomputer using a new algorithm for turbulence simulation. "The team identified the most time-intensive parts of a base CPU code and set out to design a new algorithm that would reduce the cost of these operations, push the limits of the largest problem size possible, and take advantage of the unique data-centric characteristics of Summit, the world’s most powerful and smartest supercomputer for open science."The post Tackling Turbulence on the Summit Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.

Washington State University is seeking an HPC Systems Administrator in our Job of the Week. "The Center for Institutional Research Computing at Washington State University seeks exceptional applicants for the position of High-Performance Computing Systems Administrator. This position will play a vital role in the administration of HPC clusters used by the research community at Washington State University."The post Job of the Week: HPC Systems Administrator at Washington State University appeared first on insideHPC.

As we head into the biggest supercomputing event of the year, all eyes are on exascale. The frontrunners in the race to exascale, including our friends over at Altair, will convene at SC19 in Denver this November to share updates, address challenges, and help paint the picture of an exascale-fueled future for HPC.The post Are You Ready for the Exascale Era? Find Out at SC19 appeared first on insideHPC.

"Altair and Oracle have teamed up to help customers quickly expand their engineering and high performance computing (HPC) capacity in Oracle's cloud. Altair HyperWorks Unlimited Virtual Appliance is a fully managed engineering service that provides modeling and visualization software, solvers, and post-processing tools—all on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The solution offers simplified administration, unlimited use of Altair HyperWorks™ applications, and full global support from Altair's team. Plus, it’s pre-configured and ready to use on day one."The post Altair Teams with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

In this visualization, LRZ presents the largest interstellar turbulence simulations ever performed, unravelling key astrophysical processes concerning the formation of stars and the relative role of magnetic fields. "Besides revealing features of turbulence with an unprecedented resolution, the visualizations brilliantly showcase the stretching-and-folding mechanisms through which astrophysical processes such as supernova explosions drive turbulence and amplify the magnetic field in the interstellar gas, and how the first structures, the seeds of newborn stars are shaped by this process."The post Visualizing the World’s Largest Turbulence Simulation appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Mellanox introduced the Mellanox Quantum LongReach series of long-distance InfiniBand switches. Mellanox Quantum LongReach systems provide the ability to seamlessly connect remote InfiniBand data centers together, or to provide high-speed and full RDMA (remote direct memory access) connectivity between remote compute and storage infrastructures. Based on the 200 gigabit HDR Mellanox Quantum InfiniBand switch, the LongReach solution provides up to two long-reach InfiniBand ports and eight local InfiniBand ports. The long reach ports can deliver up to 100Gb/s data throughput for distances of 10 and 40 kilometers.The post Mellanox LongReach Appliance Extends InfiniBand Connectivity up to 40 Kilometers appeared first on insideHPC.

Today DDN announced new infrastructure and multicloud solutions ahead of its return to SC19 in Denver. "We are adding serious data management, collaboration and security capabilities to the most scalable file solution in the world. EXA5 gives you mission critical availability whilst consistently performing at scale” said James Coomer, senior vice president of product, DDN. “Our 20 years’ experience in delivering the most powerful at-scale data platforms is all baked into EXA5. We outperform everything on the market and now we do so with unmatched capability.”The post DDN Launches New Data Management Capabilities and Platforms for AI and HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

"Polymer components in liquid cooling systems are attractive for several reasons: they are lightweight, typically less expensive than metal counterparts, and are impervious to corrosion that can render parts inoperable or introduce debris into flow paths. The challenges with many polymers used to date, however, are their abilities to handle high temperatures and physical stressors without deforming, cracking or creeping. These shortcomings become significant when leaks occur, leading to downtime or damage to equipment."The post The Use of High-Performance Polymers in HPC and Data Center Applications appeared first on insideHPC.

The OpenMP Architecture Review Board (ARB) has released Technical Report 8, the first preview for the future OpenMP API, version 5.1. "We are excited about this first public step towards OpenMP 5.1," said OpenMP Language Committee Chair Bronis R. de Supinski. "While 5.1 will include only a small set of new features, TR8 demonstrates that those additions, such as the assume directive, will provide important usability enhancements."The post OpenMP ARB Releases Technical Report 8 with New Usability Enhancements appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Mellanox introduced Mellanox Skyway, a 200 gigabit HDR InfiniBand to Ethernet gateway appliance. Mellanox Skyway enables a scalable and efficient way to connect the high-performance, low-latency InfiniBand data center to external Ethernet infrastructures or connectivity. Mellanox Skyway is the next generation of the existing 56 gigabit FDR InfiniBand to 40 gigabit Ethernet gateway system, deployed in multiple data centers around the world.The post Mellanox Announces HDR InfiniBand-to-Ethernet Gateway Appliance for High Performance Data Centers appeared first on insideHPC.

Today datacenter cooling vendor Iceotope announced that it ranked number 14 and were Midlands Regional Winners in the 2019 Deloitte UK Technology Fast 50, a ranking of the 50 fastest-growing technology companies in the UK. Rankings are based on percentage revenue growth over the last four years. Iceotope grew 2,331% during this period.The post Rapid Growth lands Iceotope on 2019 Deloitte Fast 50 appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest feature, Dr. Rosemary Francis gives her perspective on what to look for at SC19 conference next week in Denver. "There are always many questions circling the HPC market in the run up to Supercomputing. In 2019, the focus is even more focused on the cloud in previous years. Here are a few of the topics that could occupy your coffee queue conversations in Denver this year."The post What to expect at SC19 appeared first on insideHPC.

The Jülich Supercomputing Centre is adding a high-powered booster module to their JUWELS supercomputer. Designed in cooperation with Atos, ParTec, Mellanox, and NVIDIA, the booster module is equipped with several thousand GPUs designed for extreme computing power and artificial intelligence tasks. "With the launch of the booster in 2020, the computing power of JUWELS will be increased from currently 12 to over 70 petaflops."The post GPU-Powered Turbocharger coming to JUWELS Supercomputer at Jülich appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Award-winning Japanese HPC Cloud company XTREME-D today announced that its flagship product, XTREME-Stargate, will be available in the US in Q1. "XTREME-Stargate is a fully automated service for deploying, monitoring, and managing a virtual supercomputer on public or private cloud, and includes managed services via Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), system software for automation, high performance storage, and specialized professional services provided by XTREME-D’s HPC architecture team."The post XTREME-D Now Accepting US Orders for Unique HPC Cloud Platform appeared first on insideHPC.

"The next generation of PanFS on ActiveStor Ultra offers unlimited performance scaling in 4 GB/s building blocks, utilizing multi-tier intelligent data placement to maximize storage performance by placing metadata on low-latency NVMe SSDs, small files on high IOPS SSDs and large files on high-bandwidth HDDs. The system’s balanced node architecture optimizes networking, CPU, memory and storage capacity to prevent hot spots and bottlenecks, ensuring consistently high performance regardless of workload."The post Panasas to Showcase “Fastest HPC Parallel File System at any Price-Point” at SC19 appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Cortical.io announced the debut of a new class of high-performance enterprise applications based on “Semantic Supercomputing.” Semantic Supercomputing combines Cortical.io AI-based NLU software inspired by neuroscience with hardware acceleration to create new solutions to understand and process streams of natural language content at massive scale in real time. "We are taking the concept of supercomputing to the next level with the introduction of Semantic Supercomputing and the ability to deliver real-time processing of semantic content.”The post Cortical.io Demonstrates Real-time Semantic Supercomputing for NLU appeared first on insideHPC.

The OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) has published a Call for Sessions for its 16th annual OFA Workshop. "The OFA Workshop 2020 Call for Sessions encourages industry experts and thought leaders to help shape this year’s discussions by presenting or leading discussions on critical high-performance networking issues. Session proposals are being solicited in any area related to high performance networks and networking software, with a special emphasis on the topics for this year’s Workshop. In keeping with the Workshop’s emphasis on collaboration, proposals for Birds of a Feather sessions and panels are particularly encouraged."The post Call for Sessions: OpenFabrics Alliance Workshop in March appeared first on insideHPC.

Oracle Cloud Services built on Intel technology offers best-in-class services across software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and infrastructure as a service (IaaS), and even lets you put Oracle Cloud in your own data center. "With optimized Intel processors, solid state drives, and other Intel-based technologies such as Intel Resource Director, Oracle Cloud offers solutions that enable enterprises to architect long-term strategies and solutions to meet their unique business requirements. Intel technologies utilized by Oracle Cloud support the broadest set of workloads, including media processing, machine learning, data analytics, high-performance computing, and artificial intelligence."The post Enabling HPC with Intel on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Cray and Fujitsu announced a partnership to offer high performance technologies for the exascale era. Under the alliance agreement, Cray is developing the first-ever commercial supercomputer powered by the Fujitsu A64FX Arm-based processor with high-memory bandwidth (HBM) and supported on the proven Cray CS500 supercomputer architecture and programming environment.The post Cray and Fujitsu to bring Game-Changing Arm A64FX Processor to Global HPC Market appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Intel unveiled new products designed to accelerate AI system development and deployment from cloud to edge. "In its key announcement, Intel demonstrated its Intel Nervana Neural Network Processors (NNP) for training (NNP-T1000) and inference (NNP-I1000) — Intel’s first purpose-built ASICs for complex deep learning with incredible scale and efficiency for cloud and data center customers. Intel also revealed its next-generation Intel Movidius Myriad Vision Processing Unit (VPU) for edge media, computer vision and inference applications."The post Intel showcases New Class of AI Hardware from Cloud to Edge appeared first on insideHPC.

The DOE’s national laboratories will be showcased at SC19 next week in Denver, CO. "Computational scientists from DOE laboratories have been involved in the conference since it began in 1988 and this year’s event is no different. Experts from the 17 national laboratories will be sharing a booth featuring speakers, presentations, demonstrations, discussions, and simulations. DOE booth #925 will also feature a display of high performance computing artifacts from past, present and future systems. Lab experts will also contribute to the SC19 conference program by leading tutorials, presenting technical papers, speaking at workshops, leading birds-of-a-feather discussions, and sharing ideas in panel discussions."The post Department of Energy to Showcase World-Leading Science at SC19 appeared first on insideHPC.

A team of researchers at ETH Zurich are working on a novel approach to solving increasingly large graph problems. "As the size of graph datasets grows larger, a question arises: Does one need to store and process the exact input graph datasets to ensure precise outcomes of important graph algorithms? After an extensive investigation into this question, the ETH researchers have been nominated for the Best Paper and Best Student Paper Awards at SC19."The post ETH Zurich up for Best Paper at SC19 with Lossy Compression for Large Graphs appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Dell rolled out Dell Technologies On Demand, a set of consumption-based and as-a-service offerings. “Dell Technologies On Demand makes it possible for organizations to plan, deploy and manage their entire IT footprint.They can choose how they consume and pay for IT solutions that meet their needs with the freedom and flexibility to evolve as their needs change over time.”The post Get Infrastructure As-a-Service with new Dell Technologies On Demand appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest feature, Dan Olds from OrionX continues his Epic HPC Road Trip series with a stop at NERSC. "NERSC is unusual in that they receive more data than they send out. Client agencies process their raw data on NERSC systems and then export the results to their own organizations. This puts a lot of pressure on storage and network I/O, making them top priority at NERSC."The post Epic HPC Road Trip stops at NERSC for a look at Big Network and Storage Challenges appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Robert Roe interviews Loren Dean from Mathworks on the use of AI in modeling and simulation. "If you just focus on AI algorithms, you generally don’t succeed. It is more than just developing your intelligent algorithms, and it’s more than just adding AI - you really need to look at it in the context of the broader system being built and how to intelligently improve it."The post Keys to Success for AI in Modeling and Simulation appeared first on insideHPC.

In early November, A*CRC, ICM, and Zettar conducted a production trial over the newly built Collaboration Asia Europe-1 (CAE-1) 100Gbps link connecting Europe and Singapore. "The project has established a historical first," said Zettar CEO Chin Fang. "For the first time over the newly built CAE-1 link, with a production setup at ICM end, it has shown that moving data at great speed and scale between Poland (and thus Eastern Europe) and Singapore is a reality. Furthermore, although the project was initiated only in mid-October, all goals have been reached and a few new grounds have also been broken as well. It is also a true international collaboration."The post Production Trial Shows Global Science Possible with CAE-1 100Gbps link appeared first on insideHPC.

Today InAccel annnounced that it has integrated JupyterHub into the company's adaptive acceleration platform for FPGAs. InAccel provides an FPGA resource manager that allows the instant deployment, scaling and virtualization of FPGAs making easier than ever the utilization of FPGA clusters for applications like machine learning, data processing, data analytics and many more HPC workloads.The post Accelerate Big Data and HPC applications with FPGAs using JupyterHub appeared first on insideHPC.