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Today WekaIO announced that Aiden Lab at the Baylor College of Medicine, a leading genome research facility, has selected the Weka File System (WekaFS) to accelerate its genomics research. "WekaFS has delivered a 3x improvement in performance at Aiden Lab and is enabling it to use its cloud infrastructure more effectively. WekaFS will improve overall productivity and empower researchers to become more efficient at analyzing results.”The post Aiden Lab Chooses WEKA to Accelerate Genomics Research appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Exxact Corporation announced that it has become a North America Gold Partner of ThinkParQ, the company behind the BeeGFS parallel file system. "BeeGFS offers the usability, flexibility, and performance that our HPC and deep learning customers expect and depend on in a storage solution from us,” said Andrew Nelson, VP of Technology at Exxact Corporation. “Exxact HPC and deep learning clusters with BeeGFS will realize dramatic improvements in managing storage workloads and will handle I/O bandwidth issues with ease."The post Exxact looks to BeeGFS Parallel Storage for HPC, AI, and Life Science Workloads appeared first on insideHPC.

Today AMD announced a new addition to the 2nd Generation AMD EPYC family, the AMD EPYC 7H12 processor. The 64 core/128 thread, 2.6Ghz base frequency, 3.3Ghz max boost frequency, 280W TDP processor is specifically built for HPC customers and workloads, using liquid cooling to deliver leadership supercomputing performance. "In an ATOS testing on their BullSequana XH2000, the new AMD EPYC 7H12 processor has set four new world-records in server performance. With a LINPACK score of ~ 4.2 TeraFLOPS, the new chip performs ~11% better than the AMD EPYC 7742 processor."The post New Liquid Cooled AMD EPYC 7H12 Processor Breaks Performance Records appeared first on insideHPC.

Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $60.7 million in funding to advance the development of quantum computing and networking. "We are on the threshold of a new era in Quantum Information Science and quantum computing and networking, with potentially great promise for science and society,” said Under Secretary of Science Paul Dabbar. “These projects will help ensure U.S. leadership in these important new areas of science and technology.”The post DOE Funds Quantum Computing and Networking Research appeared first on insideHPC.

Steve Conway from Hyperion Research gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "AI adds fourth branch to the scientific method, inferencing. Inferencing complements theory, experiments and established simulation methods. Essentially, inferencing is the ability to guess, based on incomplete information. At the same time, simulation is becoming much more data intensive with the rise of iterative methods. When inferencing is applied to data intensive simulation, the result is intelligent simulation."The post Research Findings: HPC-Enabled AI appeared first on insideHPC.

The National Science Foundation has awarded a $1.4 million grant to a team of experts led by Timothy Middelkoop, assistant teaching professor of industrial and manufacturing systems engineering in the University of Missouri’s College of Engineering. The researchers said the grant will fill an emerging need by providing training and resources in high-performance computer systems. "There is a critical need for building cyberinfrastructure across the nation, including the Midwest region,” said Middelkoop, who also serves as the director of Research Computing Support Services in the Division of Information Technology at MU. “It is our job as cyberinfrastructure professionals to facilitate research and work with researchers as a team to identify the best practices.”The post NSF Grant to help develop cyberinfrastructure across Midwest appeared first on insideHPC.

Today, NVIDIA released TensorRT 6, which includes new capabilities that dramatically accelerate conversational AI applications, speech recognition, 3D image segmentation for medical applications, as well as image-based applications in industrial automation. TensorRT is a high-performance deep learning inference optimizer and runtime that delivers low latency, high-throughput inference for AI applications. "With today’s release, TensorRT continues to expand its set of optimized layers, provides highly requested capabilities for conversational AI applications, delivering tighter integrations with frameworks to provide an easy path to deploy your applications on NVIDIA GPUs. In TensorRT 6, we’re also releasing new optimizations that deliver inference for BERT-Large in only 5.8 ms on T4 GPUs, making it practical for enterprises to deploy this model in production for the first time."The post NVIDIA TensorRT 6 Breaks 10 millisecond barrier for BERT-Large appeared first on insideHPC.

Dell EMC has launched new Ready Solutions for HPC with 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors, offer improved performance for workloads such as computational fluid dynamics, climate and weather modeling. In recent testing, the PowerEdge C6525 delivered weather modeling results in half the time as previous generation AMD EPYC processor-based servers for faster severe storm notification. "Engineered to unlock the full potential of 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors, the new servers offer customers improved performance and an easier to manage and secure platform."The post Dell EMC steps up with 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Oracle announced that it is incorporating the high performance capabilities of Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory into its next-generation Oracle Exadata X8M. "Oracle and Intel have integrated cutting-edge persistent memory technologies into the leading enterprise database machine to deliver real-time access to the most mission-critical data. This transcends the boundaries of conventional shared storage systems and servers that simply cannot keep pace with this level of innovation."The post Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory comes to Oracle Exadata X8M appeared first on insideHPC.

Allan Williams from NCI gave this talk at the Perth HPC Conference. "With 3,200 nodes, Gadi will power some of Australia’s most crucial research, seeking to solve some of the most complex and pressing challenges facing the world currently. Researchers from organizations including the CSIRO, Geosciences Australia, and the Bureau of Meteorology will benefit from faster speeds and higher capacity compared to the existing supercomputer."The post Gadi – Australia’s Newest Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at an interesting presentation on Power and Cooling by Stuart Midgley from DownUnder Geosolutions. Their 250 Petaflop “Bubba” supercomputer uses immersive cooling for extreme density and power efficiency.The post Podcast: Extreme Power and Cooling Efficiency at DownUnder Geosolutions appeared first on insideHPC.

ISC 2020 has issued it Call for Submissions for its Contributed Program. The conference takes place June 21-25, 2020, in Frankfurt, Germany and will be attended by over 3,700 attendees and 160 exhibitors. The event will continue its long-standing tradition as the largest networking platform for vendors and users involved in supercomputing, machine learning, big data, cloud computing, networking and storage.The post Call for Submissions: ISC 2020 Contributed Program appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, researchers describe the results from the ExaNeSt project. "The prototype is now successfully built, demonstrating energy efficiency in a High-Performance Computing (HPC) testbed: the energy consumed for solving a given problem on this new platform is 3 to 10 times lower than what traditional HPC processors of the same time generation consume for solving the same problem. The substantial prototype has been validated through the execution of full HPC applications from materials science, climate forecasting, computational fluid dynamics, astrophysics, neuroscience, and a database."The post ExaNeSt Project Successfully Builds Prototype for Exascale appeared first on insideHPC.

Deepak Pathania from NEC gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "The NEC Vector Engine Processor was developed using 16 nm FinFET process technology for extreme high performance and low power consumption. The Vecor Engine Processor has the world's first implementation of one processor with six HBM2 memory modules using Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate technology, leading to the world-record memory bandwidth of 1.2 TB/s."The post Video: The SX Aurora TSUBASA (Vector Engine) appeared first on insideHPC.

A team of scientists is now applying the power of artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance supercomputers to accelerate efforts to analyze the increasingly massive datasets produced by ongoing and future cosmological surveys. "Deep learning research has rapidly become a booming enterprise across multiple disciplines. Our findings show that the convergence of deep learning and HPC can address big-data challenges of large-scale electromagnetic surveys."The post Deep Learning at scale for the construction of galaxy catalogs appeared first on insideHPC.

Daniel Arevalo from DeVine Consulting gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "Prompted by DoD priorities for modernization, cost savings, and redundancy, this project compared the performance of the NAVGEM on an in-house Cray system against the follow cloud offerings: AWS c4.8xlarge, Penguin B30 queue, Azure H16r, and AWS c5n.18xlarge."The post Computational Evaluation of Cloud HPC with a Global Atmospheric Model appeared first on insideHPC.

An NVIDIA GPU-powered supercomputer named "Rosie" is at the heart of a new computational science facility at the Milwaukee School of Engineering. "Housed in a glass-walled area within the newly constructed four-story Diercks Hall, the new NVIDIA-powered AI supercomputer includes three NVIDIA DGX-1 pods, each with eight NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPUs, and 20 servers each with four NVIDIA T4 GPUs. The nodes are joined together by Mellanox networking fabric and share 200TB of network-attached storage. Rare among supercomputers in higher education, the system —which provides 8.2 petaflops of deep learning performance — will be used for teaching undergrad classes."The post NVIDIA Powers Rosie Supercomputer at MSOE appeared first on insideHPC.

Adaptive Computing is seeking a Software Developer/SLURM System Administrator in our Job of the Week. The position is located in the Naples, Florida. "This is an excellent opportunity to be part of the core team in a rapidly growing company. The company enjoys a rock-solidindustry reputation in HPC Workload Scheduling and Cloud Management Solutions.Adaptive Computing works with some of the largest commercial enterprises,government agencies, and academic institutions in the world."The post Job of the Week: Software Developer/SLURM System Administrator at Adaptive Computing appeared first on insideHPC.

Today ANSYS announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Livermore Software Technology Corporation (LSTC), the premier provider of explicit dynamics and other advanced finite element analysis technology. Once closed, the acquisition will empower ANSYS customers to solve a new class of engineering challenges, including developing safer automobiles, aircraft and trains while reducing or even eliminating the need for costly physical testing.The post ANSYS to Acquire LSTC appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Supermicro Computer launched a new server-grade high-end workstation to its broad portfolio of fully configurable SuperWorkstation systems. The SYS-5049A-T joins a robust range of solutions supporting dynamic computational workloads for demanding requirements found in scientific research, deep learning (DL), artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality (AR), and 3-D modeling with real-time simulation.The post Supermicro Enhances SuperWorkstations for Desktop HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

Today MemComputing announced it has been selected as one of eight startups nationwide to join the Catalyst Space Accelerator, centered around space-based Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR). "The type of complex computations faced by space-based Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance programs are perfectly suited to benefit by the acceleration that our MemCPU technology provides. Compute problems taking hours, days, and weeks are reduced to minutes and seconds using MemComputing."The post MemComputing Selected by Air Force Research Lab Space Accelerator appeared first on insideHPC.

Arno Kolster from Providentia Worldwide gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "OLCF and technology consulting company Providentia Worldwide recently collaborated to develop an intelligence system that combines real-time updates from the IBM AC922 Summit supercomputer with local weather and operational data from its adjacent cooling plant, with the goal of optimizing Summit’s energy efficiency. The OLCF proposed the idea and provided facility data, and Providentia developed a scalable platform to integrate and analyze the data."The post Applying Cloud Techniques to Address Complexity in HPC System Integrations appeared first on insideHPC.

CSCS will host the HPC User Forum October 7-8 in Lugano, Switzerland. "It is the first time that CSCS has the pleasure to host the HPC User Forum. The meeting will offer a review of key trends in high-performance computing, with representation of Swiss, European and U.S. perspectives. Special focus will be given to the positioning of Switzerland in the (European) HPC landscape with a presentation by Peter Brönnimann (State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation) and by the Director of CSCS, Thomas Schulthess."The post CSCS to Host HPC User Forum in October appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Exxact Corporation, a leading provider of High Performance Computing (HPC) and GPU-accelerated deep learning solutions, announced that their new, comprehensive eBook: "Getting Started with Deep Learning" is now available globally for free digital download. "We've condensed everything we’ve learned from building state of the art deep learning systems for some of the top research institutes and fortune 500 companies, so that whoever reads this can plan strategically and avoid costly errors."The post Exxact Releases New eBook “Getting Started with Deep Learning” appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Panasas announced the release of a case study featuring the marine survey activities of Panasas customer Magseis Fairfield, a Norway-based geophysics firm that provides ocean bottom seismic acquisition services for exploration and production (E&P) companies. Magseis Fairfield deploys the Panasas ActiveStor appliance for remote storage support in rugged off-shore environments around the world, where it acquires and stores large amounts of seismic 3D and 4D data used to create highly accurate reservoir models that help reduce the risk of drilling errors, avoid unnecessary disruption of natural sites, and streamline resource extraction.The post Panasas Powers Energy Exploration at Magseis Fairfield appeared first on insideHPC.

Jean-Marc Denis from EPI gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking is a 1 billion Euro joint initiative between the EU and European countries to develop a World Class Supercomputing Ecosystem in Europe. EuroHPC will permit the EU and participating countries to coordinate their efforts and share resources with the objective of deploying in Europe a world-class supercomputing infrastructure and a competitive innovation ecosystem in supercomputing technologies, applications and skills."The post EuroHPC – The European Strategy for Supercomputing appeared first on insideHPC.

According to Intel, its new 2nd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processor family includes Intel Deep Learning Boost for AI deep learning inference acceleration, fresh features and support for Intel Octane DC (data center) persistent memory, and more. Learn more about the offerings in a new issue of Parallel Universe Magazine.The post Leadership Performance with 2nd-Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Mellanox announced it is on track to ship over one million ConnectX and BlueField Ethernet network adapters in Q3 2019, a new quarterly record. "Leading data centers worldwide select the award-winning ConnectX and BlueField SmartNICs, to leverage networking speeds of 25, 50, 100, and 200 Gb/s, and take advantage of advanced offload capabilities to accelerate networking, virtualization, storage and security tasks alike -- freeing up server CPUs for money-making applications."The post Mellanox to Ship 1 Million ConnectX Adapters in Q3 2019 appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Univa announced enhancements to its powerful Navops Launch HPC cloud-automation platform to support the widely-used Slurm workload scheduler. "Univa's support for open-source Slurm - installed at approximately 60% of the leading HPC centers - is an important milestone in the evolution of HPC cloud-automation," said Srini Chari, founder and managing partner of Cabot Partners. "Navops Launch is one of the few HPC management tools that is both multi-cloud and multi-scheduler."The post Univa Brings Navops Launch Multi-Cloud Automation to the Slurm Community appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Univa announced the newest release of its popular Navops Launch cloud-automation platform. Navops Launch 2.0 delivers new capabilities to help simplify the migration of enterprise HPC workloads to the cloud, enabling enterprises to transition HPC workloads to the cloud while reducing costs by 30-40 percent. To learn more, we caught up with Univa CEO Gary Tyreman.The post Interview: Univa Steps Up with NAVOPS 2.0 for moving HPC Workloads to the Cloud appeared first on insideHPC.

PRACE has announced that following the 9th Call for applications to SHAPE, five more SMEs will be able to start working with PRACE to gain access to HPC expertise and resources, expand their HPC experience and ultimately enhance their business. "So far, SHAPE has helped 45 companies to use HPC, allowing them to benefit from using HPC in their business."The post PRACE SHAPE Programme to Support Five new SMEs with HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the HPC User Forum at Argonne, Steve Scott from Cray presents: The Cray Shasta Architecture. The DOE has selected the Shasta architecture to power all three of their planned Exascale systems coming to Argonne, ORNL, and LLNL. "Shasta allows for multiple processor and accelerator architectures and a choice of system interconnect technologies, including our new Cray-designed and developed interconnect we call Slingshot."The post Video: The Cray Shasta Architecture appeared first on insideHPC.

Argonne is one of five national laboratories and fourteen universities awarded three-year grants under a DOE Funding Opportunity titled ​“Data Science for Discovery in Chemical and Materials Sciences.” Argonne was awarded funding for two research projects. Total funding will be nearly $4.75 million over three years.The post DOE Funds Argonne for better materials and chemistry through data science appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Spectra Logic introduced StorCycle, a new storage management software solution designed for data-driven organizations that need a modern storage lifecycle management workflow. StorCycle allows organizations to create a new Perpetual Tier of storage, reducing the overall cost of storing data by up to 70 percent, while giving users full access to their data. StorCycle can be implemented as standalone software using public cloud storage or existing network-attached storage, or combined with Spectra storage hardware to create a complete storage solution.The post Spectra Logic Unveils StorCycle Storage Management Software appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the HPC User Forum at Argonne, Earl Joseph from Hyperion Research presents and HPC Market Update. The company helps IT professionals, business executives, and the investment community make fact-based decisions on technology purchases and business strategy.The post HPC Market Update from Hyperion Research appeared first on insideHPC.

Today HPE announced a container-based software solution, HPE ML Ops, to support the entire machine learning model lifecycle for on-premises, public cloud and hybrid cloud environments. “HPE is closing this gap by addressing the entire ML lifecycle with its container-based, platform-agnostic offering – to support a range of ML operational requirements, accelerate the overall time to insights, and drive superior business outcomes.”The post HPE Accelerates Machine Learning Operationalization appeared first on insideHPC.

According to a new edition of Parallel Universe Magazine, from Intel, Python has several pathways to vectorization. These range from just-intime (JIT) compilation with Numba 1 to C-like code with Cython. A chapter from a recent edition of Parallel Universe Magazine, explores parallelism in Python.The post Parallelism in Python: Directing Vectorization with NumExpr appeared first on insideHPC.

Dr. Dayna Baumeister will keynote the 2019 Global Altair Technology Conference (ATC) October 10-11 in Detroit. Baumeister, is co-founder of Biomimicry 3.8, a B-Corp social enterprise that helps clients find innovation inspired by nature and offers the highest level of biomimicry training to professionals worldwide. "Our Global ATC event has become an atmosphere that inspires others who seek inspiration and new ideas to accelerate their organizations as they compete in an increasingly connected world.”The post Dr. Dayna Baumeister from Biomimicry to Keynote Altair Technology Conference appeared first on insideHPC.

Researchers are using XSEDE supercomputers and artificial intelligence to predict breast cancer. "Our local GPUs did not have enough memory to accommodate such a scale of data for AI modeling. It could take weeks to run one experiment without the support of powerful GPUs. Using the GPUs from XSEDE, with larger memory, reduced that to a couple of hours."The post AI on XSEDE Systems Promises Early Prediction of Breast Cancer appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast, Radio Free HPC hosts the IO500 Steering Committee. "Storage is complicated and benchmarking it has too many complexities for the traditional kernel-like or application-specific approaches. Thanks to a few experienced and tenacious researchers, and the community that supports them, the IO500 has managed to put a credible stake in the ground, and is getting traction, with 101 entries on the current list and expecting many more by SC19."The post Podcast: IO500 Benchmark Gains Traction appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast, Dr. Greg Fenves, President, the University of Texas at Austin describes how the new Frontera supercomputer at TACC will drive academic research. "The University of Texas at Austin has claimed a leadership role in supercomputing with the top academic system in the world, Frontera, located at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). The National Science Foundation awarded TACC $60 million for building and operating Frontera, the #5 fastest computer in the world according to the June 2019 Top500 rankings."The post Podcast: How the Frontera Supercomputer will power research at UT Austin appeared first on insideHPC.

Gene Cooperman from Northeastern University gave this talk at the MVAPICH User Group. "This talk presents an efficient, new software architecture: split processes. The "MANA for MPI" software demonstrates this split-process architecture. The MPI application code resides in "upper-half memory", and the MPI/network libraries reside in "lower-half memory".The post Checkpointing the Un-checkpointable: MANA and the Split-Process Approach appeared first on insideHPC.

Jordi Blasco from HPC Now! gave this talk at HPCKP'19. "Jordi Blasco has developed a new open source monitoring tool which allows the HPC user support teams to identify new opportunities to improve the efficiency of the codes being executed on HPC resources. Earlier adopters of this new tool, and through the continuous monitoring of jobs efficiency, have been able to improve the scalability and performance of several codes and workflows."The post Identifying Opportunities to Improve Efficiency in HPC Clusters appeared first on insideHPC.

NREL in Golden, Colorado is seeking a Visualization Scientist in our Job of the Week. "The Visualization and Analysis group in NREL’s Computational Science Center has an immediate opening for a Scientist to pursue cross-disciplinary research projects in scientific visualization with an emphasis in visual analytics and knowledge discovery in large-scale computational data."The post Job of the Week: Visualization Scientist at NREL appeared first on insideHPC.

As liquid cooling becomes more and more prevalent, new technology and types of connectors are becoming water cooler topics for those in the data and computing industries. According to a new report from CPC, long-term, leak-free performance in fluid management systems requires robust connectors. And advanced materials are growing the range of available QD options.The post Thermoplastic Connectors Grow in Popularity Along with Liquid Cooling appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Guardicore announced that it has partnered with Mellanox to deliver the first agentless and high-performance, low latency micro-segmentation solution for high speed 10G-100G networks. The solution leverages both the Guardicore Centra security platform and Mellanox BlueField SmartNIC solutions to provide customers with hardware-embedded micro-segmentation security. This integration allows customers using BlueField SmartNICs to support micro-segmentation requirements for high speed networks or when other agent-based solutions cannot be used. The new solution is fully integrated and managed centrally by Guardicore Centra.The post Guardicore and Mellanox to Deliver Agentless and High-Performance Micro-Segmentation in Data Centers appeared first on insideHPC.

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing provides a parallel computing platform for high performance data analytics workloads such as artificial intelligence and machine learning. Fueled by the need for more compute power and scale, businesses around the world today are recognizing that a high performance computing infrastructure is vital to supporting the analytics applications of tomorrow.The post How SUSE Powers High Performance Computing appeared first on insideHPC.

Insilico Medicine has developed GENTRL, a new artificial intelligence system for drug discovery that dramatically accelerates the process from years to days. “By enabling the rapid discovery of novel molecules and by making GENTRL’s source code open source, we are ushering in new possibilities for the creation and discovery of new life-saving medicine for incurable diseases — and making such powerful technology more broadly accessible for the first time to the public.”The post Insilico Medicine Brings GENTRL AI System to Open Source for Drug Discovery appeared first on insideHPC.

Dr. Lisa Su from AMD gave this talk at the recent DARPA Electronics Resurgence Initiative Summit. "Optimum system performance requires co-design of silicon chips, system architecture, and software. She presented the example of the Frontier exascale computer system being developed for Oak Ridge National Lab, which should exhibit 1.5 exaflops by 2021. While the highest-performance chips and systems will initially be limited to the most expensive machines, it is expected that similar technology will become available within a few years in data centers, edge computers, and even mobile devices."The post AMD: Delivering the Future of High-Performance Computing appeared first on insideHPC.

ThinkParQ is expanding its global reach of BeeGFS by partnering with NetApp. The new partnership will provide an easy to deploy, cost effective and easy-to-manage high performance turnkey solution, that incorporates the NetApp’s E-Series storage (including the new EF600 system) powered by BeeGFS, with enhanced technical support from NetApp. The NetApp E-Series storage with BeeGFS will accelerate workloads and provide customers with consistent, near-real-time access to their data whilst lowering TCO.The post NetApp looks to BeeGFS for High Speed Storage appeared first on insideHPC.