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Workshops Submissions Deadline Extended to February 14 - SC18
It is still not too late to get your submission into SC’s popular and engaging Workshops program. These full- and half-day sessions expand the knowledge base of practitioners and researchers in a particular area of interest. They provide a focused, in-depth venue for presentations, discussion, and interaction. Proposals are peer-reviewed and selected with a preference for submissions that inspire deep and interactive dialogue on important topics within the HPC community.
Watch Computing Pioneer Dr. Gordon Bell’s Entire Invited Talk on SC’s YouTube Channel - SC18
Computing Pioneer Gordon Bell Shared Insights at SC17 in this dynamic talk titled “Marking 30 Years of the ACM Gordon Bell Prize”. Everyone knows that computers have grown exponentially faster and more powerful.
Workshops Submissions Open – Deadline February 7 - SC18
Every year SC presents full- and half-day workshops with the goal of expanding the knowledge base of practitioners and researchers in a particular area of interest that may not otherwise be represented in the technical program. Workshops are truly an incubator for ideas and feature some of the most cutting-edge industry topics and SC18 will be no different. These workshops provide a focused, in-depth venue for presentations, discussion, and interaction.
TYAN Exhibits NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPU Powered Server Platforms
MUNICH, Oct. 10, 2017 — TYAN, a server platform design manufacturer and the subsidiary of MITAC Computing Technology Corporation, showcases their latest GPU-optimized platforms that target the high performance computing and artificial intelligence sectors at the GPU Technology Conference in Munich, Germany during Oct 10~12. “TYAN’s new GPU computing platforms are designed to provide efficient parallel computing for the analytics of vast amounts of data.
One Stop Systems Exhibits Two GPU Accelerators with NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs
MUNICH, Oct. 10, 2017 — One Stop Systems (OSS), the leading provider of high performance computing accelerators for a multitude of HPC applications, today will exhibit two of the most powerful GPU accelerators for data scientists and deep learning researchers, the CA16010 and SCA8000. Both expand the performance of typical GPU-accelerated compute nodes to new limits.
Telco Systems, NXP and Arm Introduce New uCPE Offering
MANSFIELD, Mass. and AUSTIN, TX, October 10, 2017 — Telco Systems, a provider of SDN/NFV, CE 2.0, MPLS and IP solutions, together with NXP Semiconductors (NASDAQ:NXPI), a worldwide leader in advanced secure connectivity solutions, today announced the industry’s first Arm-based uCPE solution available in the market.
Sandia Computing Researcher Wins DOE Early Career Research Program Award
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Oct. 9, 2017 — Sandia National Laboratories researcher Tim Wildey has received a 2017 Early Career Research Program award from the Department of Energy’s Office of Science. Wildey is Sandia’s first winner of the Advanced Scientific Computing Research branch of the prestigious program, said manager Daniel Turner. The national award, now in its eighth year, provides researchers a grant of $500,000 yearly for five years.
Argonne Training Program: Leaning into the Supercomputing Learning Curve
Oct. 9, 2017 — What would you do with a supercomputer that is at least 50 times faster than today’s fastest machines? For scientists and engineers, the emerging age of exascale computing opens a universe of possibilities to simulate experiments and analyze reams of data — potentially enabling, for example, models of atomic structures that lead to cures for disease.
Berkeley Lab Researchers Lead Development of Workflow to Predict Ground Movement
Oct. 9, 2017 — With emerging exascale supercomputers, researchers will soon be able to accurately simulate the ground motions of regional earthquakes quickly and in unprecedented detail, as well as predict how these movements will impact energy infrastructure—from the electric grid to local power plants—and scientific research facilities.
TACC Develops Multi-Factor Authentication Solution, Makes it Open-Source
Oct. 9, 2017 —Â How does a supercomputing center enable tens of thousands of researchers to securely access its high-performance computing systems while still allowing ease of use? And how can it be done affordably? These are questions that the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), asked themselves when they sought to upgrade their system security.
Ohio Supercomputer Center Holds SUG Autumn Conference
Oct. 9, 2017 —Â In a week marked by a 30-year milestone, researchers who are breaking new ground came face to face Thursday with the computational experts helping them explore uncharted territory. A day after the Ohio Supercomputer Center celebrated its 30th anniversary jointly with the Ohio Academic Recources Network (OARnet), the Center held its Statewide Users Group (SUG) Autumn Conference.
DoE Office of Science Celebrates 40th Anniversary
After 40 years of participating in landmark science, the Department of Energy’s Office of Science is celebrating DoE’s four decades with trip a down memory lane. DoE has just posted bite-size chunks of many of its achievements to mark the milestone. “To celebrate the Department of Energy’s 40th anniversary, the Office of Science has collected 40 major papers from the past 40 years that we’ve supported via research through our National Laboratories, user facilities, and grants programs,â€?
Great Lakes Consortium Issues Call for Supercomputer Research Proposals
The Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation (GLCPC) has been allocated 3.5 million node hours—equivalent to approximately 50 million core hours—annually as part of the Blue Waters project. This allocation provides the GLCPC member institutions—nearly 30 universities and labs spread across the Midwest—with an unprecedented opportunity to advance their programs in computation, data, and visualization intensive research and education.
ORNL Part of Two SciDAC Computational Nuclear Physics Projects
Oct. 9, 2017 — The Big Bang began the formation and organization of the matter that makes up ourselves and our world. Nearly 14 billion years later, nuclear physicists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and their partners are using America’s most powerful supercomputers to characterize the behavior of objects, from subatomic neutrons to neutron stars, that differ dramatically in size yet are closely connected by physics.
PRACE Awards 1.7 Thousand Million Core Hours to 46 Projects
Oct. 9, 2017 — The 15th PRACE Call for Proposals yielded 76 eligible proposals of which 46 were awarded a total of close to 1.7 thousand million core hours. This brings the total number of projects awarded by PRACE to 570. Taking into account the two multi-year projects from the 13th Call that were renewed and the 8.6 million core hours reserved for Centres of Excellence, the total amount of computing time awarded by PRACE to date is nearly 16 thousand million core hours.
U.S. DOE Awards Multi-Institution Grants for Nuclear Physics Computing
Oct. 6, 2017 —Â Three nuclear physics research projects involving Michigan State University researchers have won grants from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC). The five-year awards are part of the Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC4) program supported by the DOE-SC Offices of Nuclear Physics and Advanced Scientific Computing Research.
OpenACC Offers Free Online Course, Starting Oct. 19
Oct. 6, 2017 —Â Join OpenACC for the free Introduction to OpenACC course to learn how to start accelerating your code with OpenACC. The course is comprised of three instructor-led classes that include interactive lectures with dedicated Q&A sections and hands-on exercises. The course covers analyzing performance, parallelizing and optimizing your code.
Researchers Eye Papermaking Improvements Through HPC
Oct. 6, 2017 —Â With the naked eye, a roll of paper towels doesn’t seem too complicated. But look closely enough, and you’ll see it’s made up of layers of fibers with thousands of intricate structures and contact points. These fluffy fibers are squeezed together before they are printed in patterns, and this resulting texture is key to the paper’s performance.
University of South Dakota Gets HPC Cluster for Research Computing
Oct. 6, 2017 —Â The University of South Dakota has acquired a high performance computing cluster as a campus-wide resource available to faculty, staff and students as well as researchers across the state. Made possible by a $504,000 grant from the National Science Foundation and a $200,000 grant from the South Dakota Board of Regents, the new cluster is named Lawrence after Nobel Laureate and University of South Dakota alumnus E. O. Lawrence.
Strategic Value of High-Performance Computing for Research and Innovation
High-performance computing (HPC) is an enormous part of the present and future of engineering simulation. HPC enables engineers and researchers to gain high-fidelity insight into product behavior — insight that cannot be obtained without detailed simulation models. When applied to design exploration, HPC can lead to robust product performance and reduced warranty and maintenance costs.
Intel Debuts Programmable Acceleration Card
With a view toward supporting complex, data-intensive applications, such as AI inference, video streaming analytics, database acceleration and high-performance computing, Intel is making a push on the FPGA accessibility front. The company announced this week the Intel Programmable Acceleration Card (PAC), a hardware/software platform designed to enable customized FPGA-based acceleration of networking, storage and computing workloads.
Former NERSC PI Wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Cryo-EM
Oct. 5 —Â The 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded October 4 to three scientists central to the development of cryo-electron microscopy (Cryo-EM), a technique used to reveal the structures of large organic molecules at high resolution.
Clemson Palmetto Cluster on Track for $1 Million Upgrade
CLEMSON, Oct. 5 — A $1-million upgrade to Clemson University’s acclaimed supercomputer, the Palmetto Cluster, is expected to help researchers quicken the pace of scientific discovery and technological innovation in a broad range of fields, from developing new medicines to creating advanced materials. New hardware that could be in place as early as spring will add even more power to the Palmetto Cluster.
IEEE Awards Recognize Early Career Researchers in HPC
LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., Oct. 1 – IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS) selects Antonio J. Pe??a of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Amanda Randles of Duke University, and Shuaiwen Leon Song of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, as 2017 winners of the IEEE-CS Technical Consortium on High Performance Computing (TCHPC) Award for Excellence for Early Career Researchers in High Performance Computing. Dr. Antonio J.
Delays, Smoke, Records & Markets - A Candid Conversation with Cray CEO Peter Ungaro
Earlier this month, Tom Tabor, publisher of HPCwire and I had a very personal conversation with Cray CEO Peter Ungaro. Cray has been on something of a Cinderella journey the last three years. It closed out 2015 with record revenue of $725 million and went into 2016 with even higher expectations. However, market sluggishness, chip delays and a mid-year smoke event led Cray to lower 2016 guidance from around $825 million to the $650 million range.
Scientists Enlist Supercomputers, Machine Learning to Automatically Identify Brain Tumors
Biros’ team tested their new method in the Multimodal Brain Tumor Segmentation Challenge 2017 (BRaTS’17), an annual competition where research groups from around the world present methods and results for computer-aided identification and classification of brain tumors, as well as different types of cancerous regions, using pre-operative MR scans. Their system scored in the top 25 percent in the challenge and were near the top for whole tumor segmentation.
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Extends HPC Environment with Unicloud
From regressions and optimizations, to Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning, The Wharton School’s High Performance Computing (HPC) and Big Data Analytics workloads cover a broad spectrum of uses. As researchers’ needs grew beyond desktops and departmental servers, Wharton’s HPC cluster had to be extended – economically and without impacting its large roster of users.
Call Now Open for ISC 2018 Research Papers
FRANKFURT, Oct. 5, 2017 — Submissions are now open for the ISC 2018 conference research paper sessions, which aim to provide first-class opportunities for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government to present and discuss issues, trends, and results that will shape the future of high performance computing (HPC). Submissions will be accepted through December 22, 2017. The research paper sessions will be held from Monday, June 25, through Wednesday, June 27, 2018.
HPC Advisory Council and ISC Group Announce 2018 Student Cluster Competition
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept.
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