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Today Exxact Corporation announced that their Xilinx Alveo Accelerator Powered Workstations & Servers are now shipping worldwide. The Xilinx Alveo accelerator-powered workstations and servers from Exxact are designed to meet the constantly changing needs of the modern data center, providing up to 90X performance increase over CPUs for computationally intensive workloads and perform up to 90X higher than CPUs on key workloads at 1/3 the cost. “Alveo accelerators offers the hardware adaptability of the FPGA with simple high-level development tools as well as containerized deployment options you'll find with mainstream applications.”The post Exxact Shipping Xilinx Alveo Accelerator-Powered Servers & Workstations appeared first on insideHPC.

Since their beginnings, FPGA's have been notorious for being hard to program. That could be changing with the new Vitis Unified Software Platform from Xilinx.n“Xilinx has created a singular environment that enables programmers and engineers from all disciplines to co-develop and optimize both their hardware and software, using the tools and frameworks they already know and understand. This means that they can adapt their hardware architecture to their application without the need for new silicon.”The post Vitis Unified Software Platform to make FPGA Programming Accessible for All Developers appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Dell Technologies announced one of the first computational projects for The University of Queensland’s Dell HPC system may enable a non-invasive disease-modifying strategy for Alzheimer’s Disease. “With this supercomputer, the University of Queensland can harness machine learning to drive innovation, across a broad range of use cases, that previously wasn’t possible. We’re honored to play our part in the resulting discoveries that can change lives for the better.”The post Dell Powers Alzheimer’s Disease Breakthrough at The University of Queensland appeared first on insideHPC.

Recently launched in Barcelona, ENERXICO is a new project jointly funded by European Union and the government of Mexico to solve such real-world engineering problems. "Mexico through the ENERXICO project and the European collaboration aims to develop exascale-ready application codes, some of which Pemex plans to use as part of their production environment. This is a major effort that could boost HPC applications in Mexico in the energy sector.”The post ENERXICO to Empower Mexican Energy Sector with HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

Andrew Siegel from Argonne gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "The Exascale Computing Project is accelerating delivery of a capable exascale computing ecosystem for breakthroughs in scientific discovery, energy assurance, economic competitiveness, and national security. ECP is chartered with accelerating delivery of a capable exascale computing ecosystem to provide breakthrough modeling and simulation solutions to address the most critical challenges in scientific discovery, energy assurance, economic competitiveness, and national security."The post Video: Exascale Computing Project Application Development appeared first on insideHPC.

Today TMGcore announced it is teaming with the datacenter architects at Corgan to reenvision datacenter facilities that are a tenth of the size of data centers today. The groundbreaking technology from TMGcore combined with Corgan’s design and expertise is set to change the way data centers are designed and operated. “We are scaling down the size of the traditional data center without decreasing the processing power, and we’ve partnered with Corgan to offer clients a solution that can be significantly smaller for the same or greater compute capacity and still have the room within to scale up as the needs increase.”The post TMGcore to Demonstrate 10X Density Datacenter Technology at SC19 appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Micron Technology announced that it is working with Xilinx to boost the boot and dynamic configuration performance of Xilinx’s Versal platform, the industry’s first adaptive compute acceleration platform (ACAP). ACAP, a new category of heterogeneous compute devices, will use Micron Xccela flash and other Micron memory solutions to reduce system startup times and increase system responsiveness in automotive, industrial, networking and consumer applications that use artificial intelligence (AI).The post Xilinx Adopts Micron Xccela Flash to Accelerate AI appeared first on insideHPC.

Rob Farber gave this talk at the Perth HPC Conference. "Just as technology changes in the personal computer market brought about a revolution in the design and implementation of the systems and algorithms used in HPC, so are recent technology changes in machine learning bringing about an AI revolution in the HPC community. Expect new HPC analytic techniques including the use of GANs (Generative Adversarial Networks) in physics-based modeling and simulation, as well as reduced precision math libraries such as NLAFET and HiCMA to revolutionize many fields of research."The post Video: AI is Impacting HPC Everywhere appeared first on insideHPC.

In this guest article, our friends at Intel discuss how HPC as a Service (HPCaaS) reduces barriers to HPC and offers a cost-effective extension to on-premise solutions. High performance data analytics (HPDA), simulation and modeling, and artificial intelligence (AI) enable significant benefits like quicker business insights, the ability to design and bring products to market faster, or real-time monitoring of financial transactions for fraud.The post HPC in the Cloud Offers Flexible, Scalable Solutions for Enterprises and Research Institutions appeared first on insideHPC.

Los Alamos National Laboratory and Arm are teaming up to make efficient, workload-optimized processors tailored to the extreme-scale computing requirements of the Laboratory’s national-security mission. The collaboration addresses the challenges of connecting more and more processors as high performance computers become larger and more powerful. “This close collaboration with EMC3, is expected to start bearing performance results in near term systems as well some of our future systems in design,” said Gary Grider, division leader for HPC at Los Alamos National Laboratory.The post LANL teams with Arm for Extreme-scale Computing appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast, Lee Carter from Bright Computing and Carlo Ruiz from NVIDIA discuss building datacenters with NVIDIA DGX Reference Architectures. "NVIDIA DGX servers managed by Bright Cluster Manager deliver the perfect balance of increased concurrency for handling data science workloads, the massive compute requirements associated with those workloads, and the seamless management of all resources across the HPC cluster. Join this podcast to learn more about the power behind this partnership."The post Podcast: Building AI Datacenters with NVIDIA DGX Reference Architectures appeared first on insideHPC.

DARPA is looking to create new networking approaches to accelerate distributed application performance by 100x with the FastNICs program. "FastNICs seeks to improve network stack performance by a factor of 100 through the creation of clean-slate networking approaches. Enabling this significant performance gain will require a rework of the entire network stack – from the application layer through the system software layer, down to the hardware."The post DARPA FastNICs Program Looks to Accelerate Application Performance by 100x appeared first on insideHPC.

RedLine is seeking a a Scientific Programmer/Analyst – MRMS candidate(s) to support the Implementation and Data Services Branch (IDSB) in the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Central Operations (NCO). The IDSB supports the implementation, maintenance, and Tier-2 support of the operational production suite on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) HPC systems and of the applications on NOAA's Integrated Dissemination Program (IDP) systems.The post Job of the Week: Scientific Programmer at Redline Performance Solutions appeared first on insideHPC.

Brent Gorda from Arm gave this talk at the Linaro Connect conference. "Arm-based systems are showing up in the HPC community and new silicon is coming. The architecture has also been selected for several of the exascale projects worldwide. Brent will talk about the aspects of Arm that are attractive to the HPC community, updates on projects and what we as a community can do to help accelerate adoption in this space."The post An Update on ARM in HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Appentra announced the company is offering developers the opportunity to join the Early Access Program for Parallelware Analyzer. "While Appentra's Parallelware Trainer provides an interactive learning environment where users can learn how to parallelize, Parallelware Analyzer provides the appropriate tools for the key stages of the parallel development workflow, aiding developers with code analysis that would otherwise be error-prone, time-consuming and completed manually."The post Appentra announces Early Access Program for Parallelware Analyzer appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Inspur announced a pair of AI-technology driven open computing systems designed to improve the flexibility in customer deployments. "The OAI specification—led by Baidu, Facebook, and Microsoft in the OCP (Open Compute Project) community—unifies the technical specifications of the accelerator module and simplifies the design complexity of the AI accelerator system, thereby shortening time to market for the hardware system."The post Inspur Launches Open AI Computing Solution appeared first on insideHPC.

Today The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) announced that Adrian Tate is the company's new CEO. An established leader in the numerical libraries and HPC industries, Tate will replace Rob Meyer, who is standing down after 15 years of leading NAG. "It’s a real honor to be chosen to lead the Numerical Algorithms Group – a company I’ve known and respected for my entire career. I share NAG’s passion for the role of mathematics in technology and believe this remains highly relevant in the new era of computing. I look forward to working with such a talented team to continue providing quality to NAG’s many customers whilst innovating for future growth.”The post Adrian Tate named CEO of Numerical Algorithms Group appeared first on insideHPC.

Today HPE announced announced the deployment of a new supercomputer at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center for compute-intensive AI applications and bolstering research across engineering, science, and medicine. "The new supercomputer has a measured performance of 4.725 petaFLOPS and will be used to support research projects that will fuel innovation in weather forecasting, medical data analysis, autonomous systems, synthetic DNA design, and new materials and devices."The post HPE Deploys TX-GAIA Supercomputer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory appeared first on insideHPC.

Today quantum startup QC Ware launched the public beta of its Forge cloud service. QC Ware developed Forge to enable large enterprises and public-sector organizations to start building quantum skills and prepare for the potential disruption that quantum computing will bring to the market. “To assist our customers in that exploration, we are spending all of our cycles working on ways to squeeze as much power as possible out of near-term quantum computers, and to bake those methods into Forge.”The post Run Quantum Codes today with QC Ware Public Beta of Forge appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest feature, Bob Fletcher from Verne Global reflects on the recent HPC and AI on Wall Street conference. "Almost every organization at the event talked about their use of machine learning and some indicated what would make them extend it into full-scale deep learning. The most important criteria were the appropriateness of the DNN training techniques."The post Reflections on Deep Learning, DNNs, and AI on Wall Street appeared first on insideHPC.

Jean-Marc Denis from EPI gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "The EPI project aims to deliver a high-performance, low-power processor, implementing vector instructions and specific accelerators with high bandwidth memory access. The EPI processor will also meet high security and safety requirements. This will be achieved through intensive use of simulation, development of a complete software stack and tape-out in the most advanced semiconductor process node."The post An Update on the European Processor Initiative appeared first on insideHPC.

The "quest" for improved performance is never over, if you want to remain competitive in your respective market. Your end users will undoubtedly call for more speed in the future, and the models your clients are building are likely bigger and more complex than ever. Enter the Performance Optimisation and Productivity (PoP) project.The post Exploring the Performance Optimization and Productivity Project appeared first on insideHPC.

In a collaborative effort with Airbus, Submer Technologies and 2CRSi are providing supercomputer-speed processing in high-density clusters to support real-time workloads for advanced Artificial Intelligence (AR) cybersecurity research applications at the JRC campus. "This is one of our most important installations yet. It’s a mission-critical, high-density compute environment where physical space and energy compliance are important considerations,” said Daniel Pope, CEO of Submer. “We designed the SmartPod to address all of these issues – making this project a perfect use-case for our liquid immersion cooling platform.”The post Immersive Cooling from Submer Technologies coming to EU Joint Research Center in Italy appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Mellanox announced ASIC-to-Protocol (A2P) customer support solutions for the SONiC Network Operating System (NOS) on Mellanox Spectrum switches. “Every week we hear from more customers who want to combine the power of SONiC with the best-in-class switch silicon in Mellanox Spectrum. Our unique support offering and vast SONiC experience make this easy for new and existing SONiC customers.”The post Mellanox Announces Support for SONiC Open Source Network Operating System appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Cray released the findings of its industry report on the State of Enterprise AI Adoption 2019, which reveals that performance, data locality and security are the top considerations for choosing an AI infrastructure. "The survey assessed whether organizations and individuals are prepared to run AI effectively and to take advantage of the capabilities it offers."The post Study finds On-Premise Systems Critical to Enterprise AI appeared first on insideHPC.

The Ohio Supercomputer Center is working with IBM to expand the center’s HPC storage capacity by 8.6 petabytes. Slated for completion in December, the new storage system will expand capacity for scratch and project storage, but also allow OSC to offer data encryption and full file-system audit capabilities that can support secure storage of sensitive data, such as medical data or other personally identifiable information.The post OSC Doubles Down on IBM HPC Storage appeared first on insideHPC.

Today HPE today announced it has completed the acquisition of supercomputing leader Cray Inc., earlier than the original target date. “Cray and HPE have a shared vision for the new exascale era, and by joining forces, we’re offering the promise of Cray’s technology to an expanded market with the opportunity to leverage HPE’s breadth, scale and innovation to bring supercomputing to the enterprise."The post HPE Completes Acquisition of Cray appeared first on insideHPC.

Al Geist from ORNL gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "Two DOE national laboratories are now home to the fastest supercomputers in the world, according to the TOP500 List, a semiannual ranking of the world’s fastest computing systems. The IBM Summit system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is currently ranked number one, while Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s IBM Sierra system has climbed to the number two spot."The post How the Results of Summit and Sierra are Influencing Exascale appeared first on insideHPC.

Today D-Wave Systems announced that Los Alamos National Laboratory has signed a contract to upgrade to the company's next-generation "Advantage" quantum system. Available in 2020, the Advantage platform will deliver significant performance gains and greater solution precision. "With the Advantage quantum system, we are building the first ever quantum computer designed to deliver business benefit."The post LANL to Acquire Next-Gen D-Wave Quantum Computer with Lower Noise appeared first on insideHPC.

Microway recently deployed an NVIDIA DGX POD-based supercomputer for education and applied research at the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE). Called "Rosie," the supercomputer forms the centerpiece of the university’s new computer science program and will support an expansion of deep learning and AI education designed to permeate across the institution. "It features three racks of NVIDIA DGX-1 AI systems with NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPU accelerators; twenty Microway NumberSmasher Xeon + NVIDIA T4 GPU teaching compute nodes; and access to NGC."The post Microway Deploys NVIDIA DGX POD-based AI Supercomputer at MSOE appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Gemma Church writes that the Oil and Gas market aims to use more simulation to ensure sound decision making s the world makes better use of renewable energy. "Oil and gas companies are increasingly relying on digital technology to improve their operational efficiency, reduce manpower through automation and developing autonomous systems for drilling, offshore platforms and increasing use of remotely operated systems and equipment for inspection."The post A New World of Simulation for Oil & Gas appeared first on insideHPC.

Today GRC announced an OEM partnership agreement with Hewlett Packard Enterprise to integrate its ICEraQ liquid-immersion cooling system with HPE servers. “You can easily support the high-density HPE equipment with a GRC system such as the ICEraQ Micro which can handle over 2000 watts of heat load per U of rack space, enabling the creation of a high-density zone in any existing data center while removing the thermal constraints that exist with legacy air-cooled data centers."The post HPE Teams with GRC for Immersion Cooling appeared first on insideHPC.

Andy Parma from AMD gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors are a new breed of server processors which sets a higher standard for data centers. Groundbreaking design makes AMD EPYC #1 in performance across industry standard benchmarks1, holding 80 world records to date.9. Performance you can count on to propel your modern data center workloads."The post 2nd Generation AMD EPYC Processors: The New Standard for the Modern Data Center appeared first on insideHPC.

Finnish scientific computing took a big step recently with the launch of Puhti, a new Atos supercomputer at CSC's Kajaani Data Center. "With these new acquisitions, we are looking to the future and aiming to meet the needs of the Finnish research community so that the investment would benefit the entire Finnish society. We are able to serve an ever-growing clientele from computing-intensive industries to projects that require more efficient data management," says Kimmo Koski, CEO of CSC.The post CSC Deploys Puhti Supercomputer from Atos appeared first on insideHPC.

Today AWS announced the general availability of G4 instances, a new GPU-powered Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance designed to help accelerate machine learning inference and graphics-intensive workloads, both of which are computationally demanding tasks that benefit from additional GPU acceleration. “With new G4 instances, we’re making it more affordable to put machine learning in the hands of every developer. And with support for the latest video decode protocols, customers running graphics applications on G4 instances get superior graphics performance over G3 instances at the same cost.”The post AWS Launches EC2 G4 Instances powered by NVIDIA GPUs appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast, reviews a presentation on Benchmarks in HPC Procurement Tenders by Tricia Balle of Cray. She gave the talk at the recent Perth HPC Conference. "We discuss how benchmarks should and shouldn’t be used in RFPs, and the relevant best practices; important stuff whether you are on the customer side or the vendor side."The post Podcast: The Dos and Don’ts of RFP Benchmarks appeared first on insideHPC.

Jim Keller from Intel gave this talk at the EECS Colloquium. "While it is true that certain vectors like transistor performance and power are showing diminishing returns, other vectors like transistor architecture, microprocessor architecture, software and new materials are showing increasing returns. The combination of these will continue to make life interesting and challenging for hardware and software designers alike."The post Video: Moore’s Law is Not Dead appeared first on insideHPC.

Today HPE announced it gained 1.5 percentage points in global market share, and attained a tie for the number one position in the server market during the second quarter of 2019, according to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker. In addition, HPE/New H3C outperformed all competitors in worldwide revenue for blade, 4-socket x86, and modular servers.The post HPE takes lead in Global Server Market appeared first on insideHPC.

Rick Stevens from Argonne gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "Argonne has launched an “AI for Science” initiative aimed at accelerating the development and adoption of AI approaches in scientific and engineering domains with the goal to accelerate research and development breakthroughs in energy, basic science, medicine, and national security, especially where we have significant volumes of data and relatively less developed theory. AI methods allow us to discover patterns in data that can lead to experimental hypotheses and thus link data driven methods to new experiments and new understanding."The post Video: AI for Science appeared first on insideHPC.

"In this talk, the capabilities of a state-of-the-art quantum mechanical device simulator will be briefly reviewed, insisting on the developed multi-level parallelization scheme and highlighting the fact that physics can lead to wrong assumptions regarding the best-suited distribution of the workload. This problem will be addressed through a data-centric transformation of the code."The post Massively Parallel Computer Aided Design of Nano-Transistors: When Physics Lets You Down appeared first on insideHPC.

GigaIO is seeking an HPC Framework Software Engineer in our Job of the Week. "GigaIO is a new start-up working on the leading edge of high performance networking, compute and storage infrastructure space. We continually experiment, learn, adapt and extend because we are on the leading edge of our markets. We are looking for HPC Framework Software Engineers to help build our software platform and focus on the network, storage and virtualization layers of our applications. High-Performance Linux drivers and libraries are central to our mission."The post Job of the Week: HPC Framework Software Engineer at GigaIO appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Atos opened its German Artificial Intelligence (AI) Laboratory in Munich. In this innovative environment, Atos is developing for its clients business solutions using AI and other cutting-edge technologies. “Our AI Lab is the right platform for the collaborative development of tangible digital use cases that deliver long-term value as quickly as possible.“The post Atos opens AI Lab in Germany appeared first on insideHPC.

Intel today announced shipments of new Intel Stratix 10 DX field programmable gate arrays (FPGA). "Stratix 10 DX FPGAs with the new interfaces include the option to support select Intel Optane DC persistent memory dual in-line memory modules (DIMMs). They dramatically increase bandwidth and provide coherent memory expansion and hardware acceleration for upcoming select Intel Xeon Scalable processors."The post Intel Ships Stratix 10 DX FPGAs appeared first on insideHPC.

Today DDN announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with Western Digital Corp. that includes an agreement to acquire Western Digital’s IntelliFlash business. Additionally, the companies will expand their existing relationship through a mutual global strategic sourcing agreement. DDN and Western Digital are committed to executing a smooth transition for customers and key stakeholders.The post DDN to acquire IntelliFlash Business Unit from Western Digital appeared first on insideHPC.

Researchers from ETH Zurich have developed a method that can simulate nanoelectronics devices and their properties realistically, quickly and efficiently. This offers a ray of hope for the industry and data centre operators alike, both of which are struggling with the (over)heating that comes with increasingly small and powerful transistors – and with the high resulting electricity costs for cooling.The post A Simulation Booster for Nanoelectronics appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Atos inaugurated its new global HPC Test Lab in Angers, France. The new 2,000 square meter test center, which has the capacity to host the equivalent of approximately 48 BullSequana supercomputers, provides Atos’ HPC customers worldwide with the unique opportunity to thoroughly test their supercomputing equipment under real conditions, to ensure it meets stringent benchmarking criteria, prior to receiving delivery on-premise. "This reaffirms the presence of Atos and its role in the region, and also strengthens the Group’s unique positioning as the European leader in supercomputing, by supporting both its own and its clients’ work to develop ‘exascale’ supercomputers."The post Atos on the Road to Exascale with new Test Lab in Angers, France appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Aliro Technologies emerged from stealth with the closing of its $2.7 million seed round, led by Flybridge Capital Partners. "Aliro’s vision is to commercialize new software technologies that make today’s quantum hardware more accessible and useful for any coder, making hybrid classical-quantum programs the new standard. The company was spun out of Harvard’s quantum computing lab, co-founded by Prof. Prineha Narang, a luminary in quantum computing."The post Aliro to make Quantum Computing accessible to any Developer appeared first on insideHPC.

Today ScaleMP announced that it has partnered with Liqid Inc. to enable users of in-memory workloads to break beyond the server memory limitations and expand total system memory by order of magnitude over the DRAM installed, without any operating system or application modifications. “All types of businesses for which data performance translates directly to operational success can now leverage non-volatile memory at scale backed by strong economics.”The post Liqid Partners With ScaleMP to Introduce Liqid Memory appeared first on insideHPC.

Doug Kothe from the Exascale Computing Project gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "The Exascale Computing Project (ECP) is focused on accelerating the delivery of a capable exascale computing ecosystem that delivers 50 times more computational science and data analytic application power than possible with DOE HPC systems such as Titan (ORNL) and Sequoia (LLNL). With the goal to launch a US exascale ecosystem by 2021, the ECP will have profound effects on the American people and the world."The post Exascale Computing Project Update appeared first on insideHPC.

Today, IBM announced the opening of the IBM Quantum Computation Center in New York State. "To meet growing demand for access to real quantum hardware, ten quantum computing systems are now online through IBM's Quantum Computation Center. The fleet is now composed of five 20-qubit systems, one 14-qubit system, and four 5-qubit systems. Five of the systems now have a Quantum Volume of 16 – a measure of the power of a quantum computer – demonstrating a new sustained performance milestone."The post IBM Brings World’s Largest Fleet of Quantum Computing Systems Online appeared first on insideHPC.