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Tackling HPC’s Memory and I/O Bottlenecks with On-Node, Non-Volatile RAM
On-node, non-volatile memory (NVRAM) is a game-changing technology that can remove many I/O and memory bottlenecks and provide a key enabler for exascale. That’s the conclusion drawn by the scientists and researchers of Europe’s NEXTGenIO project, an initiative funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 program to explore this new technology’s potential impact for high-performance computing (HPC).
Building a Diverse Workforce for Next-Generation Analytics and AI
High-performance computing (HPC) has a well-known diversity problem, and groups such as Women in HPC are working to address it. But while the diversity challenge crosses the science and technology spectrum, it is especially acute in areas of HPC where breakthroughs are driven by extracting insights from data.
Accelerating the Shift to Software Defined Visualization
Advances in visualization are essential for managing—and maximizing value from—the rising flood of data, the growing sophistication of simulation codes, the convergence of machine learning (ML) and simulation workloads, and the development of extreme-scale computers. Software-defined visualization (SDVis) has emerged as one of the most promising and practical ways to deliver these advances.
Google Cloud Makes Good on Promise to Add Nvidia P100 GPUs
Google has taken down the notice on its cloud platform website that says Nvidia Tesla P100s are “coming soon.� The search giant announced Thursday (Sept. 21) the beta launch of the high-end P100 Nvidia Tesla GPUs on the Google Cloud Platform as well as general availability of Tesla P80s, which have been in public beta since February. Google also announced discounts for users running virtual machine instances for more than one week per month on Google Compute Engine.
Cray Wins $48M Supercomputer Contract from KISTI
It was a good day for Cray which won a $48 million contract from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) for a 128-rack CS500 cluster supercomputer. The new system, equipped with Intel Xeon Scalable processors and Intel Xeon Phi processors, will be the largest supercomputer in South Korea and will provide supercomputing services for universities, research institutes, and industries.
Avoiding the Storage Silo Trap; Best Practices for Data Storage in Scientific Research
Avoiding the Storage Silo Trap; Best Practices for Data Storage in Scientific Research From mismatches between compute and storage capabilities to colossal data volumes, data storage presents a number of challenges for scientific research. And as silos pop up and challenges expand, the pace of research often suffers.
Adolfy Hoisie to Lead Brookhaven’s Computing for National Security Effort
Brookhaven National Laboratory announced today that Adolfy Hoisie will chair its newly formed Computing for National Security department, which is part of Brookhaven’s new Computational Science Initiative (CSI). “We see a huge potential to make a positive impact on the nation’s security by bringing our unique extreme-scale data expertise to bear on challenges of national importance,� said CSI Director Kerstin Kleese van Dam in the announcement.
PNNL’s Center for Advanced Tech Evaluation Seeks Wider HPC Community Ties
Two years ago the Department of Energy established the Center for Advanced Technology Evaluation (CENATE) at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). CENATE’s ambitious mission was to be a proving ground for near-term and long-term technologies that could impact DoE workloads and HPC broadly. This month the leadership baton was passed from founding director Adolfy Hoise to Kevin Barker, a veteran PNNL researcher and member of the CENATE project since its start.
ALCF Simulations Aim to Reduce Jet Engine Noise
CHICAGO, Ill., Sept. 21, 2017 — Humans make a lot of noise. The riffs of heavy metal bands like Metallica and Kiss have soared to levels in the 130-decibel range, levels sure to lead to auditory damage. But try as they might, bands just can’t compete with the decibel ranges produced by jet engines. They are, said Joe Nichols, among the loudest sources of human-made noise that exist.
VoltDB Accelerates Access to Translytical Database with Enterprise Lab Program
BEDFORD, Mass. – Sep. 21, 2017 – VoltDB, the enterprise-class translytical database that powers business-critical applications, today announced an Enterprise Lab Program to accelerate the impact of real-time data analysis at large enterprise organizations.
NSF-funded 'SLATE' Platform to Stitch Together Global Science Efforts
Sept. 21, 2017 — Today’s most ambitious scientific quests — from the cosmic radiation measurements by the South Pole Telescope to the particle physics of the Large Hadron Collider — are multi-institutional research collaborations requiring computing environments that connect instrumentation, data, and computational resources.
NVM Express, Inc. to Host NVMe over Fabrics Webcast on Sept. 20
WAKEFIELD, Mass., Sept. 20, 2017 — NVM Express, Inc., the organization that developed the NVM Express (NVMe) and NVMe Management Interface (NVMe-MI) specifications for accessing solid-state drives (SSDs) on a PCI Express (PCIe) bus as well over Fabrics, will lead an educational webcast titled “NVMe over Fabrics: Market Uptake, Benefits and Use Cases” on Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2017, at noon Eastern. There is no charge to attend, but advance registration is required.
DeepL Anchors Neural Machine Translator at Verne Global’s HPC-Optimised Data Center
LONDON & KEFLAVIK, Iceland, Sept. 20, 2017 — Verne Global, a provider of highly optimised, secure, and 100% renewably powered data center solutions, today announced that DeepL has deployed its 5.1 petaFLOPS supercomputer in its campus. Designed to support DeepL’s artificial intelligence (AI) driven, neural network translation service, this supercomputer is viewed by many as the world’s most accurate and natural-sounding machine translation service.
DataSite Deploys High Performance Computing Solution for Enterprise Customer in Orlando
ORLANDO, Fla., Sept. 20, 2017 — DataSite, a wholesale data center space and network service provider that owns and operates world-class colocation facilities in Atlanta, Boise and Orlando, announces it has deployed a high-performance compute (HPC) system, for a major hospitality corporation, from its Orlando data center. The mission critical environment will accommodate air cooled power densities of 20kW+ per rack.
Altair Extends Strategic Relationship with HPE
TROY, Mich., Sept. 19, 2017 — Altair announces today that it has entered into a multi-year original equipment manufacturing (OEM) agreement with HPE. This agreement represents an expansion of the long-term partnership between HPE and SGI (whom HPE recently acquired).
HSA and ROCm Architectures to be Highlighted at Next Week's CppCon
BEAVERTON, Ore., Sept. 20, 2017 — The HSA (Heterogeneous System Architecture) Foundation and Foundation member AMD will be providing a comprehensive session on HSA technologies and AMD’s ROCm architecture at next week’s CppCon. The conference will be held from Sept. 24-29 in Bellevue, WA at the Meydenbauer Conference Center. CppCon is an annual gathering for the worldwide C++ community and is geared to appeal to anyone from C++ novices to experts.
Exascale Computing Project Names Doug Kothe as Director
Editor’s note: Today, the Department of Energy announced that Doug Kothe would become the director of the Exascale Computing Project and that Paul Messina was returning to Argonne National Laboratory. The official announcement is below. HPCwire will have in-depth follow-up coverage soon.
Exascale Computing Project Names Doug Kothe as Director
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Sept. 20 — The Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) has named Doug Kothe as its new director effective October 1. He replaces Paul Messina, who is stepping down after two years to return to Argonne National Laboratory. Kothe is a 32-year veteran of DOE’s National Laboratory System. He most recently served in Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate and as the applications development lead for ECP.
Secretary of Energy Rick Perry Announces High Performance Computing for Materials Program
WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 19 – Today, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry (DOE) announced a new high-performance computing (HPC) initiative that will help U.S. industry accelerate the development of new or improved materials for use in severe environments.
Takeaways from the Milwaukee HPC User Forum
Milwaukee’s elegant Pfister Hotel hosted approximately 100 attendees for the 66th HPC User Forum (September 5-7, 2017). In the original home city of Pabst Blue Ribbon and Harley Davidson motorcycles the agenda addressed artificial intelligence, self-driving vehicles and drug repositioning. The printed agenda neglected to suggest that we would actually be served PBR and be accompanied by two HD cruisers complements of the House of Harley local dealership.
NSF Awards $10M to Extend Chameleon Cloud Testbed Project
The National Science Foundation has awarded a second phase, $10 million grant to the Chameleon cloud computing testbed project led by University of Chicago with partners at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI), and Northwestern University. The three-year grant will add hardware and expand access. Currently Chameleon is approximately 600-node cloud infrastructure with bare metal reconfiguration privileges.
ORNL Innovation Crossroads Program Opens Second Round of Energy Entrepreneurial Fellowships
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Sept. 19, 2017 — Entrepreneurs are invited to apply for the second round of Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Innovation Crossroads program. Up to five innovators will receive a two-year post-doctoral entrepreneurial fellowship that includes vouchers worth up to $350,000 for collaborative research and development at ORNL, startup business guidance and mentoring, and health and travel benefits.
Intel Custom Foundry Certifies ANSYS Simulation Tools for 22 nm FinFET Low-power Process Technology
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 19, 2017 — Intel Custom Foundry customers are delivering powerful, innovative products thanks to the certification of ANSYS (NASDAQ: ANSS) solutions for electromigration, power and electrostatic discharge reference flows for Intel 22nm FinFET low-power (22FFL) process technology. The supported tools from ANSYS and Intel Custom Foundry’s collaboration enable mutual customers to minimize design costs and risks while quickly bringing cutting-edge and reliable products to market.
NERSC Simulations Shed Light on Fusion Reaction Turbulence
Understanding fusion reactions in detail – particularly plasma turbulence – is critical to the effort to bring fusion power to reality. Recent work including roughly 70 million hours of compute time at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) is helping clarify turbulence behavior characteristics.
JAIST Puts Cray XC40 Supercomputer into Production
SEATTLE, Sept. 18, 2017 — Supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (Nasdaq: CRAY) today announced the Japan Advanced Institute for Science and Technology (JAIST) has put a Cray XC40 supercomputer into production. JAIST, a postgraduate university located in Nomi, Ishikawa, Japan and one of the country’s premier academic research centers, is using its new Cray XC40 system as it primary supercomputing resource supporting computational research across the University.
High Schoolers Sharpen Civil Engineering and Computation Skills at Code@TACC Summer Camp
Sept. 19, 2017 — What if high school kids could make a building stand up to an earthquake? A summer camp at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) smoothed the way for students to learn about the science behind building design for earthquakes. Thirty high school students from Texas and Louisiana sharpened their skills in civil engineering and computation at a 2017 summer camp called Code@TACC DesignSafe.
Bright Computing Announces Support for Ubuntu
SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 19, 2017 –Bright Computing, a global leader in cluster and cloud infrastructure automation software, today announced the general availability of Bright Cluster Manager 8.0 with Ubuntu. With this integration, organizations can run Bright Cluster Manager Version 8.0 on top of Ubuntu, to easily build, provision, monitor and manage Ubuntu high performance clusters from a single point of control, in both on-premises and cloud-based environments.
Mellanox Appoints Shlomit Weiss to Senior Vice President of Silicon Engineering
SUNNYVALE, Calif. & YOKNEAM, Israel, Sept. 18, 2017 — Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ:MLNX), a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end smart interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, today announced the appointment of Shlomit Weiss to senior vice president of silicon engineering. Ms. Weiss will report to Eyal Waldman, Mellanox’s president and CEO.
AI: Deeper Learning with Intel® Omni-Path Architecture
Deep learning is a powerful tool that identifies patterns, extracts meaning from large, diverse datasets, and solves complex problems. However, integrating neural networks into existing compute environments is a challenge that often requires specialized and costly infrastructure. New software and hardware options will simplify the complexity. A key focus of deep learning implementations is to reduce the time to train the model and to ensure a high level of accuracy.
Kathy Yelick Charts the Promise and Progress of Exascale Science
On Friday, Sept. 8, Kathy Yelick of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley, delivered the keynote address on “Breakthrough Science at the Exascale” at the ACM Europe Conference in Barcelona. In conjunction with her presentation, Yelick agreed to a short Q&A discussion with HPCwire. The timing of Yelick’s talk is timely as one year ago, on Sept.
Super Micro Computer, Inc. Receives Non-Compliance Letter From Nasdaq
SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 15, 2017 — Super Micro Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ:SMCI), a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server, storage technology and green computing, today announced that the Company received a notification letter from Nasdaq stating that the Company is not in compliance with Nasdaq listing rule 5250(c)(1), which requires timely filing of reports with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
U of Illinois, NCSA Launch First US Nanomanufacturing Node
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign together with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) have launched the United States’s first computational node aimed at the development of nanomanufacturing simulation tools. NanoMFG node, as it’s called, was launched on September 1, 2017 and funded with a five-year, $4 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellows Begin Studies
Sept. 14 — A new class of 20 future HPC leaders is enrolled at U.S. universities this fall with support from the Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF). More than 425 students have participated in the program since it was established in 1991. Each is an advocate for computing’s capacity to advance science across a variety of disciplines.
IBM Breaks Ground for Complex Quantum Chemistry
IBM yesterday reported in Nature Communications the use of a novel algorithm to simulate BeH2 (beryllium-hydride) on a quantum computer. This is the largest molecule so far simulated on a quantum computer. The technique, which used six qubits of a seven-qubit system, is an important step forward and may suggest an approach to simulating ever larger molecules.
PGI Rolls Out Support for Volta 100 in its 2017 Compilers and Tools Suite
PGI today announced a fairly lengthy list of new features to version 17.7 of its 2017 Compilers and Tools. The centerpiece of the additions is support for the Tesla Volta 100 GPU, Nvidia’s newest flagship silicon announced in April and now shipping to customers.
DARPA Pledges Another $300 Million for Post-Moore’s Readiness
Yesterday, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced a massive funding effort to ensure the United States can sustain the pace of electronical innovation necessary vital to both a flourishing economy and a secure military.
Scientists Using Intel-Cray 'Theta' Supercomputer to Map Brain Function
Sept. 11, 2017 — A neuroscientist and a computational scientist walk into a synchrotron facility to study a mouse brain… Sounds like a great set-up for a comedy bit, but there is no punchline. The result is cutting-edge science that can only be accomplished in a facility as scientifically integrated as the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory. At a casual, or even a more attentive glance, Doga Gursoy and Bobby Kasthuri would seem at opposite ends of the research spectrum.
Lustre Enhances Flexibility for Big Data Era
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Intel Corporation have wrapped up a three year project aimed at giving users of Lustre, the Department of Energy’s preferred parallel file system, more flexibility. And the results are impressive.
Chelsio Demonstrates 100 Gigabit iSCSI Performance
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept. 13, 2017 — Chelsio Communications, Inc., a leading provider of high performance (10Gb/25Gb/40Gb/50Gb/100Gb) Ethernet adapters for storage networking, virtualized enterprise datacenters, cloud service installations, and cluster computing environments, today announced the ultra-performance iSCSI Ethernet storage offload capabilities of its line of T6 100GbE Unified Wire adapters at this year’s Storage Developer Conference.
Panasas Appoints Rob Berman Vice President of Sales for the Americas
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept. 12, 2017 — Panasas, the leader in performance scale-out network-attached storage (NAS), today announced the appointment of Rob Berman as the company’s vice president of sales for the Americas. Berman will oversee all direct and VAR channel sales for the Americas and play a key role in driving sales strategies for accelerating growth.
CPC Makes Liquid Cooling More Secure
ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 12, 2017 – CPC (Colder Products Company), maker of quick disconnects (QDs) designed specifically for liquid cooling use, has enhanced its LQ Series with easier to connect, more robust non-spill connectors for high-performance computing and data center applications.
Cubes, Culture, and a New Challenge: Trish Damkroger Talks about Life at Intel-and Why HPC Matters More Than Ever
Trish Damkroger wasn’t looking to change jobs when she attended SC15 in Austin, Texas. Capping a 15-year career within Department of Energy (DOE) laboratories, she was acting Associate Director for Computation at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). Her mission was to equip the lab’s scientists and research partners with resources that would advance their cutting-edge work in stockpile science and other critical fields.
HPC Accelerates Precision Medicine Toward Life-Saving Impacts
Product developers talk about time to market. Web service providers measure time to first byte. For James Lowey, the key metric is time to life. Lowey is CIO at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), a nonprofit focused on turning genomics insights into faster diagnostics and treatments that are more effective. TGen’s genetics research is being applied to rare childhood diseases, cancer, neurological disorders, diabetes and others.
HPC Accelerates Precision Medicine Toward Life-saving Impacts
Digital imaging is another area where HPC-enabled speedups are advancing clinical care. Panelist Simon K. Warfield described innovative imaging techniques his team is applying to increase understanding of the brain’s complex circuitry. Dr. Warfield is the Thorne Griscom Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School and the founder and director of the Computational Radiology Lab (CRL) at Boston Children's Hospital.
PRACE Proceeds into Second Phase of Partnership
AMSTERDAM, March 20, 2017 — At the occasion of the 25th PRACE Council Meeting in Amsterdam, the PRACE Members ratified a Resolution to proceed with the second phase of their Partnership: PRACE 2. The PRACE 2 programme defines the second period of PRACE from 2017 to 2020.
US Moves Exascale Goalpost, Targets 2021 Delivery
During SC16, Exascale Computing Project Director Paul Messina hinted at an accelerated timeline for reaching exascale in the US and now we have official confirmation from Dr. Messina that the US is contracting its exascale timeline by one year. Under the updated plan, the US will still be fielding at least two exascale machines in the next seven years. One of those machines remains on the original timeline – targeting delivery for 2022 and acceptance in 2023.
Enlisting Deep Learning in the War on Cancer
Sometime in Q2 2017 the first ‘results’ of the Joint Design of Advanced Computing Solutions for Cancer (JDACS4C) will become publicly available according to Rick Stevens. He leads one of three JDACS4C pilot projects pressing deep learning (DL) into service in the War on Cancer.
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