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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.

Today Nortek Air Solutions rolled out its new CDU1200, a 1,200-kW coolant distribution unit (CDU). As the single most powerful, compact CDU on the planet, the CDU1200 is the newest addition to its ServerCool data center liquid cooling product line. "The CDU1200 is a perfect new construction or retrofit liquid cooling solution for high performance computing and enterprise data centers, as well co-location, corporate network edge, government, research and other data center formats. In an age where liquid cooling is required to support growing chip power densities, the CDU1200’s kW/ft2 capacity is unrivalled when directly compared to competitor products."The post Nortek Unveils World’s Most Powerful CDU for Data Center Liquid Cooling appeared first on insideHPC.

"OSC is seeking an HPC Operations Manager, a new position inside the HPC Systems Team. The operations manager will manage a team of three systems administrators and two student employees. The person who fills this role will be responsible for both supervising operations staff as well as providing technical and organizational expertise for all aspects of the HPC operations."The post Job of the Week: HPC Operations Manager at Ohio Supercomputer Center appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Cray announced that the High-Performance Computing Center of the University of Stuttgart (HLRS) in Germany has selected a new Cray CS-Storm GPU-accelerated supercomputer to advance its computing infrastructure in response to user demand for processing-intensive applications like machine learning and deep learning. "The Cray CS-Storm combined with the unique Cray-CS AI and Analytics suite will allow HLRS to better tackle converged AI and simulation workloads in the exascale era.”The post Cray CS-Storm Supercomputer coming to HLRS in Germany appeared first on insideHPC.

This timely article from our friends over at Univa takes a look at how often the popular HPC workload manager Slurm (Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management) is used in the cloud. In a recent InsideHPC survey sponsored by Univa, all Slurm users surveyed reported using public cloud services to at least some degree.The post Getting Smart About Slurm in the Cloud appeared first on insideHPC.

Today D-Wave Systems announced that it will house its first European Leap quantum cloud-based system outside of North America at the Jülich Supercomputing Center in Germany. The system marks the cornerstone of the new Jülich UNified Infrastructure for Quantum computing (JUNIQ) lab designed to offer practically usable quantum computers to researchers in Germany and throughout Europe.The post D-Wave Announces First European Leap Quantum Cloud Site at Jülich appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Micron Technology announced a breakthrough in nonvolatile memory technology with the introduction of the world’s fastest SSD, the Micron X100 SSD. "Micron’s innovative X100 product brings the disruptive potential of 3D XPoint technology to the data center, driving breakthrough performance improvements for applications and enabling entirely new use cases,” said Micron Executive Vice President and Chief Business Officer Sumit Sadana.The post Micron Unveils World’s Fastest Datacenter SSD appeared first on insideHPC.

Hyperion Research report that their business tracking the worldwide HPC market has grown rapidly since the company was spun out of IDC in 2017, and the company is actively seeking qualified candidates for four additional positions, CEO Earl Joseph said. "Thanks to the extraordinary talent and dedication of our current staff of seven full-time professionals and others who help us in Japan and China, our business has substantially expanded in all three global geographies—the Americas, EMEA and the Asia-Pacific region," Joseph said. "Existing staff can handle the business we have today, but we need additional talented people to support new opportunities."The post Hyperion Research Growth Spurs Search for New Hires appeared first on insideHPC.

In this KPBS video, firefighters in the field tap an SDSC supercomputer to battle wild fires. Fire officials started using the supercomputer's WIFIRE tool in September. WIFIRE is a sophisticated fire modeling software that uses real-time data to run rapid simulations of a fire's progress. It helps to see where the fire is likely going to go,” said Raymond De Callafon, a UCSD engineer who worked on the project. “So, a fire department can use this for planning purposes with their limited resources. It can also be used to plan, maybe their aircraft that will go over. Where to put the fire out.”The post Supercomputing the Future Path of Wlldfires appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Gina Tourassi from ORNL explains how data and computing is changing medicine. "Exascale computing infrastructure such as Frontier will be the paradigm shift because we can bring all of the data together and analyze it in a time efficient way,” said Tourassi.The post How Data and Computing Can Change Medicine in the Exascale Era appeared first on insideHPC.

Today ACM/IEEE named Geoffrey C. Fox of Indiana University Bloomington as the recipient of the 2019 ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award. "Fox was cited for foundational contributions to parallel computing methodology, algorithms and software, and data analysis, and their interfaces with broad classes of applications. The award will be presented at SC19 in Denver."The post Geoffrey C. Fox to receive Ken Kennedy Award at SC19 appeared first on insideHPC.

The PASC20 conference has issued its Call for Submissions. The event takes place June 29 - July 1, 2020 in Geneva, Switzerland. "PASC20 is an international and interdisciplinary platform for the exchange of competences in scientific computing and computational science, with a strong focus on methods, tools, algorithms, application challenges, and novel techniques and usage of high performance computing."The post Call for Submissions: PASC20 in Geneva appeared first on insideHPC.

Werner Scholz from XENON Systems gave this talk at the Perth HPC Conference. "Today, Intel’s highest performing CPUs (e.g. Intel Cascade Lake-AP 9282 processor) have a thermal design envelope of 400 watts. There really is no end in sight, and accommodating more power is critical to advancing performance. The ability to dissipate the resulting heat is the hard ceiling that systems face in terms of performance – giving greater importance to liquid cooling breakthroughs. With liquid cooling, less energy is expended to cool systems – a significant savings in HPC deployments with arrays of servers drawing energy and generating heat."The post Liquid Cooling: Unlock Greater Potential in HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Google officially announced that it has achieved a major computing milestone. In partnership with NASA and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the company has demonstrated the ability to compute in seconds what would take even the largest and most advanced supercomputers thousands of years, achieving a milestone known as quantum supremacy. "Achieving quantum supremacy means we’ve been able to do one thing faster, not everything faster,” said Eleanor Rieffel, co-author on the paper.The post Google and NASA Achieve Quantum Supremacy appeared first on insideHPC.

Today TYAN announced support for the new NVIDIA EGX platform on TYAN’s NGC-Ready Thunder SX TN76-B7102 server, providing AI computing for the edge networks. "AI has transformed every industry by enabling more accurate decisions to be made based on the massive amounts of streaming data being processed. Now we see the next opportunity for AI is erupting at the edge, “said Danny Hsu, Vice President of MiTAC Computing Technology Corporation's TYAN Business Unit. “TYAN’s NVIDIA GPU server platforms are now NGC-Ready for Edge validated and with NVIDIA’s EGX stack and hybrid cloud partners, enables enterprises to securely and rapidly deploy and manage AI workloads from the edge to the cloud.”The post TYAN GPU Servers with NVIDIA EGX Bring AI to the Edge appeared first on insideHPC.

In this new whitepaper from our friends over at Exxact Corporation we take a look at the important topic of deep learning for Natural Language Processing (NLP) and choosing the right GPU for the job. Focus is given to the latest developments in neural networks and deep learning systems, in particular a neural network architecture called transformers. Researchers have shown that transformer networks are particularly well suited for parallelization on GPU-based systems.The post Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing – Choosing the Right GPU for the Job appeared first on insideHPC.

Advanced Clustering Technologies will unveil ClusterVisor, the company's new HPC cluster management tool, at SC19. ClusterVisor enables you to easily deploy your HPC cluster and manage everything from the hardware and operating system to software and networking using a single GUI. "ClusterVisor is highly customizable to ensure you can manage your cluster and organize your data in a way that makes the most sense for you. This powerful cluster management tool enables you to provision hardware, configure the nodes, update the operating system and analyze all of the statistics."The post Check out the ClusterVisor HPC Management Tool at SC19 appeared first on insideHPC.

In a sport that hangs in the complex balance of speed, aerodynamics and the ever-present data, SportPesa Racing Point deserves the best from its computation, which is capped at 25 teraflops. For SportPesa Racing Point, the best is Univa Grid Engine, which manages its CFD cluster up into the 97 percent range at a sustained level. “Univa help us with bringing developments and CFD developments to reality faster. So they help with efficiency with our compute power.”The post Podcast: Univa Speeds CFD with SportPesa Racing Point F1 Team appeared first on insideHPC.

SC19 will feature a new SC Theater on the exhibit floor this year. The SC Theater will showcase live presentations that advance modern data-driven scientific applications. "The SC Theater, with seating for 20 and standing room as well, is located next to SCinet on the exhibit floor. It will showcase presentations by students and technologists from the HPC community who are focused on data-driven scientific applications."The post New SC Theater at SC19 to Showcase Data-Driven Scientific Applications appeared first on insideHPC.

Rich Graham from Mellanox gave this talk at the UK HPC Conference. "In-Network Computing transforms the data center interconnect to become a "distributed CPU", and "distributed memory", enables to overcome performance barriers and to enable faster and more scalable data analysis. HDR 200G InfiniBand In-Network Computing technology includes several elements - Scalable Hierarchical Aggregation and Reduction Protocol (SHARP), smart Tag Matching and rendezvoused protocol, and more. This session will discuss the InfiniBand In-Network Computing technology and performance results, as well as view to future roadmap."The post Video: InfiniBand In-Network Computing Technology and Roadmap appeared first on insideHPC.

"The NVIDIA Jarvis SDK offers a complete workflow to build, train and deploy GPU-accelerated AI systems that can use visual cues such as gestures and gaze along with speech in context. For example lip movement can be fused with speech input to identify the active speaker. Gaze can be used to understand if the speaker is engaging the AI agent or other people in the scene. Such multi-modal fusion enables simultaneous multi-user, multi-context conversations with the AI agent that need deeper understanding of the context."The post NVIDIA Jarvis AI SDK Fuses Vision, Speech, and other Sensors into One System appeared first on insideHPC.

Today NVIDIA announced the NVIDIA EGX Edge Supercomputing Platform – a high-performance, cloud-native platform that lets organizations harness rapidly streaming data from factory floors, manufacturing inspection lines and city streets to securely deliver next-generation AI, IoT and 5G-based services at scale, with low latency. “We’ve created the NVIDIA EGX Edge Supercomputing Platform for this world, where computing moves beyond personal and beyond the cloud to operate at planetary scale.”The post Video: NVIDIA EGX Edge Supercomputing Platform Accelerates AI appeared first on insideHPC.

"The new ARCHER2 supercomputer will be the first Shasta system announced in EMEA and the second system worldwide used for academic research. ARCHER2 will be the UK’s most powerful supercomputer and will be equipped with the revolutionary Slingshot interconnect, Cray ClusterStor high-performance storage, the Cray Shasta Software platform, and 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors."The post ARCHER2 to be first Cray Shasta System in Europe appeared first on insideHPC.

The Beowulf Bash is returning to Denver for SC19. With a theme based on the Stranger Things TV show, the annual party takes place 9:00 pm to midnight on Monday Nov. 18 at the Pinnacle Club. "There will be 80s-style entertainment, games, the best 80s tribute band, and as always, a quiet place to sit and reflect on why you keep coming to these vapid affairs. Food, beverages, entertainment, and Eggo Waffles provided thanks to our wonderful sponsors."The post Beowulf Bash returns to Denver Nov. 18 for SC19 appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Ian Foster from Argonne accepts his award naming him as one of the DOE Office of Science Distinguished Scientists Fellows. "Foster was honored “for trailblazing work in distributed and high performance computing with fundamental and long-lasting impacts on both computer science as a discipline and the practice of computing across the Office of Science.”The post Ian Foster named DOE Distinguished Scientist Fellow appeared first on insideHPC.

Dr. Brett Bode from NCSA gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "Blue Waters is one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world and is one of the fastest supercomputers on a university campus. Scientists and engineers across the country use the computing and data power of Blue Waters to tackle a wide range of challenging problems, from predicting the behavior of complex biological systems to simulating the evolution of the cosmos."The post Video: Research on Blue Waters appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Fujitsu launched of the Digital Platform Experimentation Project in Singapore. In cooperation with A*STAR and SMU, the Project marks the world’s 1st on-premises installation of the Fujitsu Quantum-Inspired Computing Digital Annealer. "The Digital Annealer will play an important role in this initiative by allowing the partners to explore novel problem-solving approaches and methodologies for a wide variety of potential real-world applications. Use cases to date include portfolio optimization, drug discovery, factory optimization, inventory management, and digital marketing."The post Fujitsu installs Quantum-Inspired Computing Digital Annealer in Singapore appeared first on insideHPC.

This timely article from our friends over at HPE provides the following key takeaways: HPE Hybrid HPC provides you choice to meet demanding workload needs; HPE is committed to your success by offering their Early Access Program (EAP); Take advantage of HPE’s strategically assembled partner ecosystem to maximize success.The post HPE Hybrid HPC Early Access Program for your Hybrid HPC Journey appeared first on insideHPC.

Satoshi Matsuoka from Riken gave this talk at Linaro Connect 2019. "Fugaku is the flagship next generation national supercomputer being developed by Riken R-CCS and Fujitsu in collaboration. Fugaku will have hyperscale datacenter class resource in a single exascale machine, with more than 150,000 nodes of sever-class Fujitsu A64fx many-core Arm CPUs with the new SVE (Scalable Vector Extension) with low precision math for the first time in the world, accelerating both HPC and AI workloads, augmented with HBM2 memory paired with each CPU, exhibiting nearly a Terabyte/s memory bandwidth for both HPC and AI rapid data movements."The post A64fx: A Game Changing, HPC / AI Optimized Arm CPU for Exascale appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast, Katrina Feliciano-Stoddard joins Intel's Conversations in the Cloud. "Katrina talks about simulation and visualization, its role in innovation, and how the technology is being used across industries such as manufacturing, oil & gas, aerospace and defense, media and entertainment, and health and life sciences. Scientists search for new discoveries, engineers are looking at new ways to do things, to design and develop new products – but everyone is looking to do achieve innovations in less time and at reduced costs."The post Podcast: Simulation & Visualization Drive New Discoveries and Insights appeared first on insideHPC.

Paul Calleja from the University of Cambridge gave this talk at the UK HPC Conference. "With unprecedented access to increasing volumes of data, our research ranges from the underlying fundamentals in mathematics and computer science, to data science applications across all six University Schools of Arts and Humanities, Biological Sciences, Clinical Medicine, Humanities and Social Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Technology."The post Video: The Cambridge Research Computing Service appeared first on insideHPC.

Quantlab in Houston is seeking an HPC Engineer in our Job of the Week. "We seek to fill the role of an HPC Engineer within our research group in Houston, TX. The highly skilled and experienced individual will be responsible for maintaining the daily throughput of Research jobs in the HPC cluster. This includes all processes related to building the software, executing it and monitoring HPC jobs."The post Job of the Week: HPC Engineer at Quantlab in Houston appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Codeplay announced the world's first fully-conformant SYCL 1.2.1 Solution. "As a non-proprietary alternative to the incumbent CUDA, SYCL is an open standard developed by the Khronos Group that enables developers to write code for heterogeneous systems using standard C++. Developers are looking at how they can accelerate their applications without having to write optimized processor specific code. SYCL is the industry standard for C++ acceleration, giving developers a platform to write high-performance code in standard C++, unlocking the performance of accelerators and specialized processors from companies such as AMD, Intel, Renesas and Arm."The post Codeplay SYCL 1.2.1 Solution offers an Open Alternative to CUDA appeared first on insideHPC.

"The goal of this BoF is to discuss the landscape for advanced scientific computing after the United States achieves the exascale milestone. What are possible future breakthroughs? What are promising computing and mathematics research directions? How do we organize people and resources to move forward? How do we sustain and broaden the impact of exascale technology? These questions will be introduced by members of a task force that is studying beyond the Exascale Computing Project."The post SC19 Session Preview: Whither Advanced Scientific Computing After Exascale Is Achieved? appeared first on insideHPC.

DK Panda from Ohio State University gave this talk at the UK HPC Conference. "This talk will focus on challenges in designing HPC, Deep Learning, Big Data and HPC Cloud middleware for Exascale systems with millions of processors and accelerators. For the HPC domain, we will discuss about the challenges in designing runtime environments for MPI+X (PGAS - OpenSHMEM/UPC/CAF/UPC++, OpenMP, and CUDA) programming models by taking into account support for multi-core systems (Xeon, ARM and OpenPower), high-performance networks, and GPGPUs (including GPUDirect RDMA)."The post Designing Scalable HPC, Deep Learning, Big Data, and Cloud Middleware for Exascale Systems appeared first on insideHPC.

As one of the Grand Challenges of our time, climate modeling typically requires long run times and huge computational resources. Sandia National Laboratories has awarded Kelsey DiPietro a Jill Hruby Fellowship to tackle this issue. As an applied mathematician, DiPietro has proposed a way to make computer models more efficient — improving accuracy without increasing time or resources to run them.The post Energy Exascale Earth System Model to Accelerate Climate Research appeared first on insideHPC.

Nominations are now open for the James Corones Award, honoring a scientist or engineer who demonstrates integrity and engagement in their field. "The James Corones Award in Leadership, Community Building and Communication recognizes mid-career science professionals who influence their fields and research in general. The recipient will be someone who encourages and mentors young people to participate in the science community, to communicate their work effectively and to make a difference in their discipline."The post Nominations Open for James Corones Award Recognizing Science Leadership appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Christian Marcazzo, VP and general manager at IDBS highlights trends in life sciences research and development. "As can be seen across most industries, organizations are increasingly moving systems and services to the cloud. For R&D firms, cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms that integrate all systems are the most effective way of overcoming legacy."The post Advancing Progress in Life Sciences appeared first on insideHPC.