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Lockheed Martin is seeking an R&D Operations and Maintenance Lead in our Job of the Week. "This position is the CSCF Program’s Operations and Maintenance Lead. This position is responsible for managing a small team of geographically diverse System Administrators in a Research and Development (R&D), Multi User High Performance Computer (HPC), Multi Level Secure (MLS) Data Center on a 5x12 schedule."The post Job of the Week: R&D Operations and Maintenance Lead at Lockheed Martin appeared first on insideHPC.

The OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) has opened registration for its OFA Virtual Workshop, taking place June 8-12, 2020. This virtual event will provide fabric developers and users an opportunity to discuss emerging fabric technologies, collaborate on future industry requirements, and address today’s challenges. "The OpenFabrics Alliance is committed to accelerating the development of high performance fabrics. This virtual event will provide fabric developers and users an opportunity to discuss emerging fabric technologies, collaborate on future industry requirements, and address challenges."The post Agenda Posted for OpenFabrics Virtual Workshop appeared first on insideHPC.

A team from Inspur ranked in the Top 3 at the recent Auto Deep Learning Finals. "Inspur’s leading core technology used in this competition has been applied to Inspur AutoML Suite, an automatic machine learning AI algorithm platform product. AutoML Suite realizes a one-stop automatic generation model based on GPU cluster visualization operations. It has three major automation engines: modeling AutoNAS, hyper-parameter adjustment AutoTune, and model compression AutoPrune, to provide powerful support for computing power."The post Inspur Takes 3rd Place in Auto Deep Learning Finals appeared first on insideHPC.

The Exascale Computing Project has selected Berkeley Lab’s Katie Antypas as its new Director for the project’s Hardware & Integration Focus Area. “Katie has more than 14 years of experience at Berkeley Lab and is a widely recognized speaker and presenter throughout the HPC community. We are thrilled to have her take on such a critical function of leading this group and ensuring the project’s success in interfacing with the DOE HPC facilities.”The post Katie Antypas Named Director of Hardware & Integration at Exascale Computing Project appeared first on insideHPC.

"ColdQuanta is headed by an old pal of ours Bo Ewald and has just come out of stealth mode into the glaring spotlight of RadioFreeHPC. When you freeze a gas of Bosons at low density to near zero you start to get macroscopic access to microscopic quantum mechanical effects, which is a pretty big deal. With the quantum mechanics start, you can control it, change it, and get computations out of it. The secret sauce for ColdQuanta is served cold, all the way down into the micro-kelvins and kept very locally, which makes it easier to get your condensate."The post Podcast: ColdQuanta Serves Up Some Bose-Einstein Condensate appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the Stanford HPC Conference, Dan Stanzione from the Texas Advanced Computing Center describes how their powerful supercomputers are helping to fight the coronavirus pandemic. "In times of global need like this, it's important not only that we bring all of our resources to bear, but that we do so in the most innovative ways possible," said TACC Executive Director Dan Stanzione. "We've pivoted many of our resources towards crucial research in the fight against COVID-19, but supporting the new AI methodologies in this project gives us the chance to use those resources even more effectively."The post Interview: Fighting the Coronavirus with TACC Supercomputers appeared first on insideHPC.

Researchers have developed hardware that can learn skills using a type of AI that currently runs on software platforms. Sharing intelligence features between hardware and software would offset the energy needed for using AI in more advanced applications such as self-driving cars or discovering drugs. "Through simulations of the properties discovered in this material, the team showed that the material is capable of learning the numbers 0 through 9. The ability to learn numbers is a baseline test of artificial intelligence."The post New material could make AI more energy efficient appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Lifebit Biotech announced the general release of Lifebit CloudOS. The fully federated, cloud-native system is designed for companies in the pharmaceutical, drug discovery, direct-to-consumer genetics, healthcare, and population genomics industries. "Because it is completely agnostic to the customer’s HPC and cloud infrastructure, workflows and data, Lifebit CloudOS is unlike any other genomics platforms in that it sits natively on one’s cloud/HPC and brings computation to the data instead of the other way around. This is a game-changer for organizations in genomics fields where data is too big to move and security and compliance are absolutely paramount.”The post Lifebit Launches Federated Genomics Cloud Operating System appeared first on insideHPC.

Today TYAN launched their latest GPU server platforms that support the NVIDIA V100S Tensor Core and NVIDIA T4 GPUs for a wide variety of compute-intensive workloads including AI training, inference, and supercomputing applications. "An increase in the use of AI is infusing into data centers. More organizations plan to invest in AI infrastructure that supports the rapid business innovation,” said Danny Hsu, Vice President of MiTAC Computing Technology Corporation's TYAN Business Unit. “TYAN’s GPU server platforms with NVIDIA V100S GPUs as the compute building block enables enterprise to power their AI infrastructure deployment and helps to solve the most computationally-intensive problems.”The post TYAN Launches AI-Optimized Servers Powered by NVIDIA V100S GPUs appeared first on insideHPC.

Immersion cooling specialist Asperitas and Shell will launch Shell Immersion Cooling Fluid S5 X at the Open Compute Project (OCP) Virtual Summit, May 12-15. Asperitas has also added an additional immersion cooling solution to their current portfolio. The solution is making use of the same natural convection driven circulation concept as the solution introduced to the market in 2017, but with increased IT capacity. The solution is designed to address the demand for high density and performance compute across various markets including hyperscale cloud, enterprise class and telecom.The post Asperitas and Shell to showcase new immersion cooling solutions at OCP Virtual Summit appeared first on insideHPC.

In this Code Together podcast, Alice Chan from Intel and Hal Finkel from Argonne National Lab discuss how the industry is uniting to address the need for programming portability and performance across diverse architectures, particularly important with the rise of data-intensive workloads like artificial intelligence and machine learning. "We discuss the important shift to modern C++ programming models, and how the cross-industry oneAPI initiative, and DPC++, bring much-needed portable performance to today’s developers."The post Podcast: A Shift to Modern C++ Programming Models appeared first on insideHPC.

Alexandros Ziogas from ETH Zurich gave this talk at Supercomputing Frontiers Europe. "The computational efficiency of a state of the art ab initio #quantum transport (QT) solver, capable of revealing the coupled electro-thermal properties of atomically-resolved nano-transistors, has been improved by up to two orders of magnitude through a data centric reorganization of the application. The approach yields coarse-and fine-grained data-movement characteristics that can be used for performance and communication modeling, communication-avoidance, and dataflow transformations."The post A Data-Centric Approach to Extreme-Scale Ab initio Dissipative Quantum Transport Simulations appeared first on insideHPC.

At HPE, we believe in being a force for good, so when the COVID-19 pandemic struck, HPE quickly made available supercomputing resources, along with a dedicated technical staff, free of charge to help scientists tackle complex research. That’s when we met Dr. Baudry and set him and his team up on HPE’s Sentinel supercomputer, which can perform 147 trillion floating point operations per second and store 830 terabytes of data. Sentinel – which is as fast as the earth’s entire population performing 20,000 calculations per second – is significantly accelerating discovery and saving months of research time and hundreds of thousands of dollars.The post Video: Fighting COVID-19 with HPE’s Sentinel supercomputer through the cloud appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Dell Technologies launched Dell EMC PowerStore, a modern infrastructure platform built from the ground up with superior technology and expertise to address the challenges of the data era. "PowerStore is seven times faster and three times more responsive than previous Dell EMC midrange storage arrays, because of its end-to-end NVMe design and support for Storage Class Memory as persistent storage powered by dual port Intel Optane SSDs."The post Video: New Dell EMC PowerStore platform is performance-optimized with Intel Optane SSDs appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Robert Murphy from Panasas describes the current state of the HPC storage market and how Panasas is stepping up with high performance products that deliver economical performance without risk. "According to a recent study published by Hyperion Research, total cost of ownership (TCO) now rivals performance as a top criterion for purchasing HPC storage systems. Newly retooled with COTS hardware and a unique architecture, Panasas delivers surprising performance at a lower TCO than competitive solutions."The post Slidecast: The Sad State of Affairs in HPC Storage (But there is light at the end of the tunnel) appeared first on insideHPC.

Total cost of ownership (TCO) now rivals performance as a top criterion for purchasing HPC storage systems, according to a new study published by Hyperion Research. "While performance still ranked first (57%), TCO tied with purchase price at 37% as the second most important consideration cited by users. This points to an important shift, as HPC storage buyers have historically given less credence to ongoing operating costs, particularly millions of dollars lost due to downtime. Almost half of the surveyed respondents experience storage system failures once a month or more, with some outages leading to downtimes that can last as long as a week. A single day of downtime costs can range from $100,000 to more than $1 million."The post New Study Exposes Hidden Costs of HPC Storage including Downtime and Labor Costs appeared first on insideHPC.

Quantum Computing Inc has released version 1.1 of its Mukai middleware with new capabilities delivering higher performance and greater ease of use for subject-matter experts developing quantum-ready applications needing superior performance today. "Mukai enables developers to create and execute quantum-ready applications on classical computers, while being ready to run on quantum computers when those systems can achieve performance advantages. QCI has already demonstrated superior performance today for some applications built on Mukai and running on classical computers."The post Quantum Computing Inc. releases version 1.1 of Mukai middleware appeared first on insideHPC.

Today HPC announced that HPE GreenLake Central is now generally available. This advanced software platform provides customers with a consistent cloud experience for all their applications and data, through an online portal and operations console that runs, manages and optimizes their entire hybrid cloud estate. In addition, HPE is introducing enhancements to its as-a-Service portfolio with support for data management and file storage, and an enhanced co-location offering through partnerships with Cohesity, Qumulo, and CyrusOne, respectively.The post HPE GreenLake Central brings self-service experience on-prem appeared first on insideHPC.

NERSC has moved another step closer to making Perlmutter — its next-generation GPU-accelerated supercomputer — available to the science community in 2020. In mid-April, NERSC finalized its contract with Cray — which was acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) in September 2019 — for the new system, a Cray Shasta supercomputer that will feature 24 […]The post NERSC Finalizes Contract for Perlmutter Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.

Katie Lewis from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory gave this talk at the Stanford HPC Conference. "Today, data science, including machine learning, is one of the fastest growing areas of computing, and LLNL is investing in hardware, applications, and algorithms in this space. While the use of simulations to focus and understand experiments is well accepted in our community, machine learning brings new challenges that need to be addressed. I will explore applications for machine learning in scientific simulations that are showing promising results and further investigation that is needed to better understand its usefulness."The post The Incorporation of Machine Learning into Scientific Simulations at LLNL appeared first on insideHPC.

"We will build novel, experimental FPGA-centric compute systems and develop domain-specific compilers and system tools targeting high-performance computing. We will focus on several important application domains, including AI with deep learning, large-scale graph processing, and computational genomics."The post Xilinx Establishes FPGA Adaptive Compute Clusters at Leading Universities appeared first on insideHPC.

KAUST has opened a call for proposals for COVID-19 research to be run on the Shaheen II supercomputer and related resources. Shaheen II joins many supercomputers around the world that have recently reallocated a portion of their resources to campaigns to model the pandemic. "In related news, "COVID-19 and High Performance Computing" is the subject of a special session of the now virtualized ISC 2020 conference, according to Professor David Keyes, Director of KAUST's Extreme Computing Research Center, who is the Program Chair of the event."The post Shaheen II Supercomputer to power COVID-19 research appeared first on insideHPC.

The University of Hawaiʻi has been awarded a four-year contract valued at up to $75 million by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to operate the Maui High Performance Computing Center (MHPCC) via the Applied Research Laboratory at the University of Hawaii (ARL at UH). "The contract calls for UH to provide essential engineering, research and development capabilities in emerging computer technology and is intended to lower barriers to a modern High Performance Computing ecosystem and high-performance computing-backed solutions."The post ARL Awards Maui High Performance Computing Center contract valued up to $75M appeared first on insideHPC.

Canadian startup Tenstorrent has launched its new Grayskull high performance AI processor. According to the company, Grayskull provides a substantial performance and power efficiency advantage over all existing inference solutions to date, and enables machine learning platforms that offer multiple levels of inference performance compared to all other inference solutions, in a cost effective manner. "Grayskull delivers significant baseline performance improvements on today's most widely used machine learning models, like BERT, ResNet-50 and others, while opening up orders of magnitude gains using conditional execution on both current models and future ones optimized for this approach."The post Tenstorrent ships Grayskull high performance AI processor appeared first on insideHPC.

Today NVIDIA announced plans to acquire Cumulus Networks, a pioneer of hyperscale networking. According to the company, the move will bolster NVIDIA's networking software capabilities and usher in a new era of the accelerated, software-defined data center. "With Cumulus, NVIDIA can innovate and optimize across the entire networking stack from chips and systems to software including analytics like Cumulus NetQ, delivering great performance and value to customers. This open networking platform is extensible and allows enterprise and cloud-scale data centers full control over their operations."The post NVIDIA to acquire Cumulus Networks appeared first on insideHPC.

With help from DOE supercomputers, a USC-led team expands models of the fault system beneath its feet, aiming to predict its outbursts. For their 2020 INCITE work, SCEC scientists and programmers will have access to 500,000 node hours on Argonne's Theta supercomputer, delivering as much as 11.69 petaflops. "The team is using Theta “mostly for dynamic earthquake ruptures,” Goulet says. “That is using physics-based models to simulate and understand details of the earthquake as it ruptures along a fault, including how the rupture speed and the stress along the fault plane changes.”The post Supercomputing the San Andreas Fault with CyberShake appeared first on insideHPC.

Data—the gold that today’s organizations spend significant resources to acquire—is ever-growing and underpins significant innovation in technologies for storing and accessing it. In this technology guide, we’ll show why different applications and workflows will always have data storage and access requirements, making it critical for planning to understand that a heterogeneous storage infrastructure is needed for a fully functioning organization.The post Modernizing and Future-Proofing Your Storage Infrastructure – Part 4 appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team catches up with special guest today, David Barkai, a 50-year veteran of HPC. David has worked in a wide variety of positions at NASA, Intel, Cray, SGI and others. His current project is writing a book to chronicle the last 50 years in HPC told from the perspective of those who were there. "The main emphasis in the book is examining the good that HPC has done in the world, which is quite the story."The post Podcast: David Barkai book to chronicle the History of HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

DK Panda from Ohio State University gave this talk at the Stanford HPC Conference. "This talk will focus on a range of solutions being carried out in my group to address these challenges. The solutions will include: 1) MPI-driven Deep Learning, 2) Co-designing Deep Learning Stacks with High-Performance MPI, 3) Out-of- core DNN training, and 4) Hybrid (Data and Model) parallelism. Case studies to accelerate DNN training with popular frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, MXNet and Caffe on modern HPC systems will be presented."The post How to Achieve High-Performance, Scalable and Distributed DNN Training on Modern HPC Systems appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Mark Wade from Ayar Labs explains how the company's optical I/O solution will address the critical computing challenges of efficiency, density, and distance for next-gen system architectures. "Our patented approach uses industry standard cost-effective silicon processing techniques to develop high speed, high density, low power optical based interconnect “chiplets” and multi-wavelength lasers to replace traditional electrical based I/O."The post Video: Ayar Labs pushes Moore’s Law through Optical I/O technology appeared first on insideHPC.

DE Shaw Research is seeking System Administrators for Servers, Clusters and Supercomputers in our Job of the Week. "Exceptional sysadmins sought to manage systems, storage, and network infrastructure for a New York–based interdisciplinary research group. Ideal candidates should have strong fundamental knowledge of Linux concepts such as file systems, networking, and processes in addition to practical experience administering Linux systems."The post Job of the Week: System Administrator at DE Shaw Research appeared first on insideHPC.

Bethany L. Goldblum, a nuclear scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, is the 2020 recipient of the Krell Institute’s James Corones Award in Leadership, Community Building and Communication. "Goldblum is a Department of Nuclear Engineering associate research engineer and executive director of the Nuclear Science and Security Consortium, a UC Berkeley-led collaboration of seven universities and five Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories. The consortium, established with a $25 million grant from the DOE National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE NNSA), focuses on nuclear security and nonproliferation research and on training future nuclear experts. Goldblum was instrumental in the program’s renewal in 2016."The post Bethany Goldblum from UC Berkeley to Receive James Corones Award appeared first on insideHPC.

Registration is now open for the SC20 conference. The event is scheduled to take place Nov. 15-20 in Atlanta. "SC20 has room blocks reserved at hotels in the vicinity of the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta. A range of prices and hotel types are available. Hotel reservations can be made online using onPeak’s Compass reservation system. Established in 1988, the annual SC conference continues to grow steadily in size and impact each year. Approximately 5,000 people participate in the technical program, with about 11,000 people overall."The post Registration Opens for SC20 Housing appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Appentra announced that the company has raised €1.8M in new funding in a round led by Armilar Venture Partners and K Fund. Appentra is a Deep Tech global company that delivers products based on the Parallelware technology, a unique approach to static code analysis specialized in parallelism. Our aim is to make parallel programming easier, enabling everyone to make the best use of parallel computing hardware from the multi-cores in a laptop to the fastest supercomputers. "During the last months we have been working hand in hand with the new investors, and we are proud to say that they will definitely bring in a strong expertise as international VCs specialized in B2B software companies, which will help us to fully realize Appentra’s vision."The post Appentra raises €1.8M for its Parallelware Analyzer software appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest feature, Peter Ungaro from HPE writes that HPC is playing a leading role in our fight against COVID-19 to support the urgent need to find a vaccine that will save lives and reduce suffering worldwide. "At HPE, we are committed to advancing the way we live and work. As a world leader in HPC and AI, we recognize the impact we can make by applying modeling, simulation, machine learning and analytics capabilities to data to accelerate insights and discoveries that were never before possible."The post Accelerating vaccine research for COVID-19 with HPC and AI appeared first on insideHPC.

The LUMI pre--exascale supercomputer will be the one of the most powerful and advanced computing systems on the planet at the time of its installation. The vast consortium of countries with an established tradition in scientific computing and strong national computing centers will be a key asset for the successful infrastructure. In this talk we will discuss the LUMI infrastructure and its great value and potential for the research community."The post LUMI: the EuroHPC pre-exascale system of the North appeared first on insideHPC.

Today, AMD announced that 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors are powering the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute E3 platform, bringing a new level of high-performance computing to Oracle Cloud. "The Oracle Cloud E3 Platform enables customers to run HPC workloads such as risk simulations, molecular modeling, and contextual search. Customers will have access to virtual machines that support higher core counts, increased memory bandwidth, and the highest core count for any bare metal instance on any public cloud to run any workload.”The post 2nd Gen AMD EPYC Processors Power Oracle Cloud E3 Platform appeared first on insideHPC.

Nor-Tech is collaborating with Intel to offer HPC technology for healthcare organizations. This technology delivers powerful performance and fast results. Nor-Tech’s HPC clusters and workstations integrated with Intel Xeon Scalable Processors and Intel Scalable System Framework deliver powerful performance and fast results. "The Nor-Tech/Intel partnership ensures peak performance and cost control," said Nor-Tech Executive Vice President Jeff Olson. "There are many companies that offer technology integrated with these incredible Intel products, but there are no other companies I know of with the engineering expertise and personalized support that define our brand.”The post Nor-Tech Collaborates with Intel on HPC for Healthcare appeared first on insideHPC.

Hal Finkel from Argonne gave this talk at IWOCL / SYCLcon 2020. "Argonne National Laboratory’s Leadership Computing Facility will be home to Aurora, our first exascale supercomputer. This presentation will summarize the experiences of our team as we prepare for Aurora, exploring how to port applications to Aurora’s architecture and programming models, and distilling the challenges and best practices we’ve developed to date."The post Video: Preparing to program Aurora at Exascale – Early experiences and future directions appeared first on insideHPC.

Two of the most powerful supercomputers in France, Joliot-Curie at CEA and Occigen at CINES are providing urgent computing access to large computer resources to European research teams involved in the fight against COVID-19. The aim is to perform epidemiological studies of COVID-19 virus spread, understand its molecular structure and behavior and massively screen and […]The post French supercomputers help European scientists fight COVID19 appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Rambus announced its 800G MACsec (Media Access Control security) solution for next-generation networking infrastructure. The 800G MACsec solution delivers hardware-based, point-to-point security for 800 Gigabit Ethernet links and is a critical element of end-to-end network security. “Our 800G MACsec protocol engine leverages a scalable architecture that supports configurations of one to many ports with an aggregate bandwidth of up to 800 Gbps. This flexibility provides the benefit of limiting the silicon cost for security, while safeguarding required data communications.”The post Rambus Launches 800G MACsec Multi-Channel Engine appeared first on insideHPC.