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Why Validation Will Define the Future of HPC and AI
High-performance computing (HPC) and AI are coming together faster than ever. The combination is powerful, helping organizations move more quickly in areas like drug discovery, climate modelling, and complex engineering. But there is a growing issue not being talked about enough. How do we learn to trust the outputs that AI is producing inside these environments? To many, that question matters more than speed or scale, because if the outputs are wrong, everything built on top of them is at risk.
Dairsie Latimer | Data Center Knowledge
Dairsie Latimer, technology fellow at Red Oak Consulting, specializes in competitive analysis and system benchmarking. He has more than 13 years of experience in the HPC sector. His experience ranges from low-level software architectures to specialized computing accelerators. Working closely with Red Oak customers and stakeholders, he delivers technology assessments and recommendations, often in the form of studies and reports.
Federal Investment in Exascale - What It Really Means
Perspective — So, in the last week we have had the news that the EuroHPC JU (Joint Undertaking) has reached critical mass. It seems all EU and affiliated member states, bar the UK (unsurprisingly), have or will sign on.
Researchers Use Blue Waters to Study Interactions Between Musculoskeletal Systems and Environments
Sept. 21, 2018 — Take a dead fish, tie it to a string, and put it in a tank of water. Then, slowly start moving the water through the tank, swirling it faster and faster. No, it’s not a mysterious rising from the dead. Instead, this “zombie” fish is due to the interaction between the fish’s body and the water as it flows around him. Very similar to how wind can pick up and make a flag on a flagpole move, water can create movement in a fish, regardless of whether it is alive.
Maximizing Data Center Productivity with Application Workload Analysis
Improving productivity and increasing the number of simulation iterations can have a profound impact on the quantity and quality of your scientific breakthroughs. Learn how to profile your application workload and build a future high performance computing (HPC) data center with NVIDIA GPUs to maximize your scientific throughput.
Hybrid and Dedicated Clouds to Help Drive Growth for Machine Learning Over Coming Years
CHICAGO, Sept. 19, 2018 — Machine learning (ML) is poised for explosive growth over the next two years with an increasing number of projects moving into production by 2020, based on a recent survey of more than 344 technology and IT professionals titled “The Future of Machine Learning,” conducted by technology marketing organization, Dimensional Research.
Cadence Achieves AWS Industrial Software Competency Status for Its Cloud-Hosted Design Solution
MUNICH, Sept. 19, 2018 — Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) today announced that its Cloud-Hosted Design Solution has undergone rigorous technical validation and achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Industrial Software Competency status. This recognizes the Cadence solution has demonstrated technical proficiency and proven customer success with electronic systems and semiconductor companies.
Quobyte Outlines Keys to Building Scalable Storage
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 18, 2018 — Hyperscale data centers need enormous capacities for high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, big data analytics, containerized infrastructures, and other challenging modern workloads. Environments with billions of files and hundreds of petabytes delivering 24/7 applications all require large, complex, future-capable storage installations.
Kyoto University ACCMS Implements Fine-grained Power Management
Data center power management is a ubiquitous challenge and in few places is it more so than at Kyoto University Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies (ACCMS)) where power consumption limits were imposed following the devastating 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.
Japan’s Railway Technical Research Institute Boosts Research With New Cray XC50 Supercomputer
SEATTLE, Sept. 19, 2018 — Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. today announced that it has delivered and installed a Cray XC50 supercomputer and a ClusterStor L300 storage system at Railway Technical Research Institute (RTRI), the research and development arm for Japan Railways Group.
SUSE and University of Delaware Join the OpenMP Effort
AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 18, 2018 — SUSE and the University of Delaware have joined the OpenMP ARB, a group of leading hardware and software vendors and research organizations creating the standard for the most popular shared-memory parallel programming model in use today.
AXIS Capital and NCSA Partner to Reimagine Insurance Data
Sept. 18, 2018 — The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at Illinois has signed on a new partnership with AXIS Capital, a global provider of specialty lines insurance and treaty reinsurance. AXIS Capital, whose regional branch is located at the University of Illinois Research Park, is collaborating with NCSA Industry, a program at NCSA designed to solve industry’s most advanced technical challenges.
Hyperion Research Issues Call to Submit Applications for HPC Innovation Excellence Awards
ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 18 — Hyperion Research has issued a final call for submission for the HPC Innovation Excellence Awards that will be announced at the SC18 conference in November. The awards, given twice a year at the ISC and SC conferences, recognize outstanding scientific, engineering and business computing achievements made enabled by high performance computing.
AI Used to Detect Fetal Heart Problems
Sept. 18, 2018 — A research group led by scientists from the RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP) have developed a novel system that can automatically detect abnormalities in fetal hearts in real-time using artificial intelligence (AI).
House Passes $1.275B National Quantum Initiative
Last Thursday the U.S. House of Representatives passed the National Quantum Initiative Act (NQIA) intended to accelerate quantum computing research and development. Among other things it would establish a National Quantum Coordination Office within the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to oversee a “whole-of-government” effort. A companion bill is under consideration in the U.S Senate.
KAUST Introduces 'Neser' Computing Cluster
Sept. 17, 2018 — KSL has introduced a brand-new service to its researchers. A computing cluster called “Neser” is offered to Shaheen users for pre- and post-processing data, allowing them to input data and process the output in a very fast manner. By providing a swift and efficient access to Shaheen storage, Neser distinguishes itself from a general-purpose cluster IBEX.
One Stop Systems Introduces World’s First Gen 4 PCIe Cable Adapter
ESCONDIDO, Calif., Sept. 17, 2018 — One Stop Systems, Inc., a leader in specialized high-performance computing, has introduced the world’s first PCIe Gen 4 cable adapter, the HIB68-x16. “OSS has consistently been the first-to-market with each generation of PCIe cable adapters and Gen 4 is no exception,” said Steve Cooper, CEO of OSS.
UCF, UCX and a Car Ride on the Road to Exascale
Until a few years ago, bringing a new network or new programming model onto the scene required an enormous amount of repetitious development that effectively shut out innovation opportunities. Then along came the UCF (Unified Communication Framework) Consortium, an active collaboration between industry, laboratories, and academia.
Fujifilm Adopts NVIDIA DGX-2 Supercomputer
Sept. 14, 2018 — FUJIFILM Corporation is the first company in Japan to adopt the NVIDIA DGX-2 AI supercomputer, which it will use to accelerate the development of AI technology for fields such as healthcare and medical imaging systems and its highly functional materials for displays and more. Fujifilm is implementing a new supercomputer cluster consisting of multiple DGX-2 systems.
Nvidia Accelerates AI Inference in the Datacenter with T4 GPU
Nvidia is bringing AI inference to the datacenter with a new platform consisting of an inference accelerator chip–the new Turing-based T4 GPU–and a refresh of its inference server software packaged as a container-based microservice. The GPU leader also this week announced a new robotics effort centered around an AI platform for autonomous machines along with rollout of a new AI-driven health care platform.
ORNL-Developed Technology Streamlines Computational Science Projects
Sept. 14, 2018 — Since designing and launching a specialized workflow management system in 2010, a research team from the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has continuously updated the technology to help computational scientists develop software, visualize data and solve problems. Workflow management systems allow users to prepare, produce and analyze scientific processes to help simplify complex simulations.
NCSA Collaborates to Scale Up Implicit Finite Element Analysis
Sept. 14, 2018 — Rolls-Royce has an engineering problem that needs a large-scale software solution. Solving that problem, however, requires a multi-team effort: Illinois’ National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) delivers the scale courtesy of Blue Waters, its Cray XC supercomputer; Livermore Software Technology Corporation (LSTC) provides the software, LS-DYNA; and Cray contributes additional expertise to help ensure the software setup is optimal for the machine.
NSF Highlights Expanded Efforts for Broadening Participation in Computing
Today, the Directorate of Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) of the NSF released a letter highlighting the expansion of its broadening participation in computing efforts. The letter was penned by James Kurose (assistant director) and Erwin Gianchandani (deputy assistant director) and is included in full below. As the 2018-2019 academic year begins, we wanted to take a moment to highlight an important expansion of our broadening participation in computing (BPC) efforts.
AlphaPoint to Launch Cryptocurrency Indexes and Technology to Create Smart Baskets of Cryptocurrencies
NEW YORK, Sept. 13, 2018 — AlphaPoint, a leading blockchain technology company that enables institutions to digitize assets and operate digital asset exchanges globally, today announced plans to launch AlphaPoint Indexes. AlphaPoint Indexes represent the statistical performance of the broadest sector of cryptocurrency markets while the AlphaPoint Smart Basket functionality further extends the company’s technology leadership in offering digitization and white-label digital asset exchange platforms.
DeepSense Combines HPC and AI to Bolster Canada’s Emerging Ocean Economy
We often hear scientists say that we know less than 10 percent of the life of the oceans. This week, IBM and a group of Canadian industry and government partners launched a public-private project intended to take on, from an economic perspective, our lack of oceanic insight. DeepSense, a high-performance computing and analytics platform aimed at spurring growth in the “blue” ocean economy, including development of new food sources and offshore energy, predicted to hit $3 trillion by 2030*.
Appentra Releases Parallelware Trainer 1.0 for HPC Training Access
A CORUÑA, Spain, Sept. 13, 2018 — Appentra Solutions releases the newest HPC training assistance tool, 1.0. helping to address the company’s mission of bringing High Performance Computing (HPC) and parallel programming to everyone. Appentra’s goal has always been to minimize and eventually remove the parallel software development barrier, democratizing access to HPC and making parallel computing easier for everyone. With the release of Parallelware Trainer 1.0 we bring this one step closer.
Arista Acquires Metamako
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 13, 2018 — Arista Networks (NYSE:ANET), an industry leader in software driven cloud networking solutions for large datacenter and campus environments, has announced that it has acquired Metamako, a leader in low-latency, FPGA-enabled network solutions. Arista achieved early success in the financial services market with low-latency cloud networking.
Explore How to Deploy the Unruly Power of Machine, Platform, and Crowd in the SC18 Keynote Address by MIT's Erik Brynjolfsson
DALLAS, Sept. 13, 2018 — Your organizational playbook is being rewritten by radically shifting environments. The only question: Will you be the disruptor or the disrupted? The SC18 Keynote promises help.
Broadcom Samples Thor, First 200G Ethernet Controller with 50G PAM-4 and PCIe 4.0
SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 13, 2018 — Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ:AVGO) has announced Thor, a new 200G Ethernet controller with 50G PAM-4 and PCIe 4.0, designed for high performance computing, networking and storage applications including machine learning, storage disaggregation, and data analytics.
Increase HPC Throughput Computing Performance with VMware vSphere
HPC workloads have traditionally been run on bare-metal, unvirtualized hardware. However, over the last several years organizations have come to realize that the benefits virtualization offers to the enterprise (operational flexibility, reduced complexity, data security) can also add value in HPC environments. This paper explores the application of virtualization to HPC and evaluates the performance of HPC workloads in a virtualized, multi-tenant computing environment.
Equus Compute Solutions Introduces WHITEBOX OPEN M2660 and M2760 Servers
Sept. 12, 2018 — Equus Compute Solutions announces the release of its WHITEBOX OPEN M2660 and M2760 servers, part of the Equus portfolio of custom, cost-optimized open-hardware server and storage platforms. Incorporating dual Intel Xeon Scalable CPUs and new open-hardware features, the M2660 and M2760 are multi-node solutions for demanding applications such as content delivery, cloud services, business applications, and virtualization.
SC18 Papers Program is Live and Awards Finalists are Posted
Sept. 12, 2018 — The final decisions have been made on technical papers for SC18, and the entire program is now online. This year, the committee adopted a new review process, in which some papers were selected for major and minor revisions. The new process combines the timeliness of traditional SC conference submissions with the rigor of journal review. Further details can be found by clicking here and by clicking here. Overall, 68 papers out of 288 submissions were accepted.
TACC Podcast Discusses Frontera Supercomputer with NSF's Manish Parashar
On August 29, the NSF and TACC announced that Stampede 2 would be replaced with a new system called Frontera, which will become the new fastest university supercomputer in the United States. The NSF awarded TACC $60 million for acquisition and deployment of Frontera, which has an anticipated peak performance between 35-40 petaflops and is expected to begin operations in 2019.
High Performance Computing with AWS and Intel
AWS and Intel allow your engineers and scientists to innovate and accelerate results on virtually unlimited HPC infrastructure. With a flexible, scalable platform, global availability, and a large catalog of cloud-optimized software libraries, AWS and Intel help your teams collaborate securely so they can unleash their creativity and productivity.
Innovation Without Limits - Your Guide to High Performance Computing
With flexible, unhindered access to Intel® Xeon®-powered compute instances and an array of Intel®-optimized software libraries available through the AWS Marketplace, your engineers and researchers can rapidly produce high-value answers to complex questions. In this eBook, you’ll discover how enterprises and research institutions are maximizing productivity and saving on costs by moving their HPC workloads to AWS.
Google Releases Machine Learning "What-If" Analysis Tool
Training machine learning models has long been time-consuming process. Yesterday, Google released a “What-If Tool” for probing how data point changes affect a model’s prediction. “Building effective machine learning (ML) systems means asking a lot of questions. It’s not enough to train a model and walk away. Instead, good practitioners act as detectives, probing to understand their model better: How would changes to a datapoint affect my model’s prediction?
Purdue Develops Platform to Help Survive Hurricanes, Natural Disasters
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Sept. 12, 2018 — Just a few minutes of warning during a natural disaster can mean the difference between life and death. Imagine being stuck underneath rubble after a hurricane slams landward, knocking out the emergency phone lines. What if social media could save your life? What if an online platform gave you a more accurate, detailed route of a hurricane?
Altair Introduces Open Source and Free Basic Editions for Model-Based Development Offerings
TROY, Mich., Sept. 12, 2018 — (Nasdaq: ALTR) announces the release and immediate availability of free Basic Editions of its Model-Based Development suite and its open matrix language (OML) source code.
Steve Litster Joins Markley Group as Chief Technology Officer
BOSTON, Sept. 12, 2018 – Markley Group, a premier provider of mission-critical data center facilities, cloud computing, and network services, today announced that Steve Litster Ph.D. has joined the team as Chief Technology Officer.
Ace Computers Develops Direct-to-Chip Hot Water Liquid Cooling System
CHICAGO, Sept. 12, 2018 — Ace Computers continues to innovate. The most recent breakthrough was an HPC cluster with a direct-to-chip hot water liquid cooling system for a long-term client. Ace Computers worked closely with Intel on this 176-node HPC cluster for CFD. This is one of the first implementations using this cooling technology. It involved installing dry coolers to circulate hot air from the servers and instead of cooling hot air, the system exchanges it.
Globus Announces Support for Protected Data
CHICAGO, Sept. 11, 2018 — Globus, a leading research data management service, today announced support for management of protected data, including data regulated by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI). With higher assurance levels for protected data, researchers can now easily manage Protected Health Information (PHI), for example, and share it securely with collaborators.
Update from Greg Kurtzer on Singularity’s Push into FS and the Enterprise
HPCwire: Greg, maybe provide a quick refresher snapshot of container technology and distinguish it from VMs, and touch on the important characteristics of HPC/advanced scale containers. HPC and what we call EPC (Enterprise Performance Compute) focused applications require direct integration with the host operating system and underlying hardware. In contrast, services require isolation from each other and from the host’s resources.
Report: Financial Services Sector in $14B Analytics Binge
The phrase “big data” has come to mean different things to different people, morphing from the huge data volumes too big for traditional databases to handle to the infrastructure required to ingest, store and analyze varieties of structured and, increasingly, unstructured data.
Georgia Tech Announces HPC Resource for Coda Building
Sept. 11, 2018 — Georgia Tech has received an award for $3.7 million from the National Science Foundation to cover 70 percent of the cost of a new high-performance computing (HPC) resource that will be established at the Coda building at Tech Square, which is set to open next spring. The new $5.3 million HPC system will support data-driven research in astrophysics, computational biology, health sciences, computational chemistry, materials and manufacturing, and other disciplines.
NSF Funds New Integrative Approaches to Cognitive Science, Neuroscience
Sept. 11, 2018 — The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded funding to 18 cross-disciplinary projects to conduct innovative research on neural and cognitive systems. The awards contribute to NSF’s investments in support of Understanding the Brain and the BRAIN Initiative, a coordinated research effort that seeks to accelerate the development of new neurotechnologies.
Baidu Cloud Works with Intel AI to Advance Financial Services, Shipping and Video
SHANGHAI, Sept. 11, 2018 — At the Baidu 2018 ABC Summit in Shanghai, Baidu and Intel outlined new artificial intelligence (AI) collaborations showcasing applications ranging from financial services and shipping to video content detection.
Bright Computing Announces Partnership with Japanese Firm Towa Electric
AMSTERDAM, Sept. 11, 2018 — Today, Bright Computing, a global leader in cluster and cloud infrastructure automation software, announced that it has signed a reseller agreement with Japan-based Towa Electric. Headquartered in Sendai city and with offices in Tokyo and Osaka, Towa Electric has been operating since 1978, offering a broad range of products including workstations and servers, high-speed interconnects, storage systems, and HPC Solutions.
Rigetti (and Others) Pursuit of Quantum Advantage
Remember ‘quantum supremacy’, the much-touted but little-loved idea that the age of quantum computing would be signaled when quantum computers could tackle tasks that classical computers couldn’t. It was always a fuzzy idea and a moving target; classical computers keep advancing too. Today, ‘quantum advantage’ has supplanted quantum supremacy as the milestone of choice.
NSF Funds Powerful New Supercomputer for UC Santa Cruz Researchers
Sept. 11th, 2018 — A $1.547 million grant from the National Science Foundation will fund a powerful new supercomputer for UC Santa Cruz researchers in fields ranging from astrophysics to climate science. Principal investigator Brant Robertson, an associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics, said he hopes to have the new high-performance computer system up and running by the end of the calendar year.
University of Oklahoma Team Receives NSF Instrumentation Grant for Data Archiving
NORMAN, Okla., Sept. 11, 2018 — A University of Oklahoma team, led by Henry Neeman, is the recipient of a National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation grant in the amount of $967,755 for a new academic research data storage instrument–a massive tape archive known as the OU and Regional Research Store, which will serve as a national model for affordable, large-scale, multi-institutional storage.
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