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2013 Event Coverage:
SC12 Videos (Alphabetical by Vendor Name):
Adaptive Computing
- Big Data Debate at SC12. In this video, Adaptive Computing hosts a Big Data Debate at SC12 in Salt Lake City.
- Interview: Adaptive Computing CEO on HPC, Clouds and Big Data. Robert A.Clyde describes how the company’s system management software helps customers manage the world’s largest HPC clusters and private Clouds.
- Moab HPC Suite Remote Visualization Software Speeds Innovation at SC12. Moab HPC Suite Remote Visualization Edition enables you to create easy, centralized access to shared visualization compute, application and data resources.
- Adaptive Computing Enhances Moab Cloud Suite 7.2. Brady Kimball from Adaptive Computing describes enhancements to the Moab Cloud Suite, an intelligent cloud management end-to-end platform. The suite provides touchless cloud service optimization across the full cloud service life cycle including agility, cost savings and service performance.
- Adaptive Computing Leverages Torque to Manage Intel Xeon Phi Resources. Nick Ihli from Adaptive Computing demonstrates how the company’s Torque resource manager works with Intel Xeon Phi. By relaying Intel Xeon Phi instrumentation such as memory availability to the company’s Moab workload manager, the system is able to schedule coprocessor resources efficiently.
- Adaptive Computing Enhances Moab HPC Suite at SC12. Brady Kimball describes enhancements to the Moab Compute Manager 7.2 suite.
Adaptive Computing SC12 Booth Theater
- Overview of Warewulf Node Health Check Software. Michael Jennings Jackie Scoggins from LBNL describe Warewulf Node Health Check software.
- Community HPC Clusters at Purdue University. Andrew Howard from Purdue discuss has the community cluster program has moved forward with the help of Moab software at the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing.
- What’s New in Moab HPC Suite 7.2? Brady Kimball describes enhancements to the company’s resource management software.
- COSMOS – Fundamental Cosmology, Dark Energy, and the Cosmic Microwave Sky. The COSMOS Supercomputer Consortium, founded by Stephen Hawking and part of the Science and Technology Facilities Council DiRAC High Performance Computing facility, has chosen Moab HPC Suite 7.2 to manage its groundbreaking scientific computing workloads.
- Moab/TORQUE Support for Intel Xeon Phi. The latest version of Moab was designed to recognize and work with the new Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors, including the ability to automatically detect coprocessors and determine their location and availability.
- Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor Overview at SC12. Mike Haedrich from Intel presents an overview of the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor.
- HPC Cloud ROI and Opportunities Cloud Brings to HPC. Brady Kimball from Adaptive Computing presents on the Moab Cloud Suite.
- Moab HPC Suite – Remote Visualization Edition at SC12. With Moab HPC Suite — Remote Visualization Edition, you can improve the productivity, collaboration and security of the design and research process by only transferring pixels instead of data to users to do their simulations and analysis.
- Using Moab Node-sets to Improve Job Scheduling. Gabriel Mateescu from Virginia Tech presents how Node-sets work to improve scheduling efficiency.
- Configuring Moab to Fairly Share a Supercomputer while Preventing Starvation in a University Setting. Jenett Tillotson from Indiana University presents this talk on Moab.
- Demo: Adaptive Computing All-Spark Cube at SC12. Ian Nate from Adaptive demonstrates the company’s resource management software through a custom-built All Spark cube.
- Realizing Energy Efficient Scheduling in a Network of Datacenters. Dr. Bastian Koller from the HPC Center in Stuttgart presents this talk on Moab at HLRS.
- The Technical Cloud: When Remote 3D Visualization Meets HPC. Andrea Rodolico from NICE Software presents on remote visualization.
- HPC at ACC Cyfronet. Lukasz Fils from Cyfronet presents a talk on Moab at Cyfronet in Poland.
- NCRC Scheduling Environment. Frank Indiviglio from NOAA describes how Moab software is used for job scheduling.
Aeon
- Aeon Computing Showcases Award-Winning Data Oasis at SC12. Doug Johnson from Aeon Computing describes the company’s innovative Data Oasis technology powered by the Lustre file system.
Allinea
- Allinea Helps Scientists Run their Applications Faster and Better. Allinea CTO David Lecomber describes the company’s powerful tools for debugging at scale.
- Demo: Allinea MAP Profiling Tool. Mark O’Connor from Allinea demonstrates the company’s new MAP performance profiler tool, a unique offering with extremely low overheard.
Altair
- Interview: SGI Teams with Altair on the Road to Exascale. Paul Kinyon from SGI’s product management team describes how the company is working with partners like Altair to solve customer’s toughest computational challenges. The company is looking at a range of technologies that could enbable Exascale computing capabilities at a practical level of power consumption.
- Altair Speeds RADIOSS at SC12 Using Intel Xeon Phi. James Reinders and Paresh Pattani from Intel discuss how the new Intel Xeon Phi is already powering engineering applications like RADIOSS. Altair was able to port both the explicit and implicit versions of the RADIOSS code in short order.
- Altair PBS Pro Steps up with Support for Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessors. Altair’s Mary Bass describes the company’s PBS Pro system management software, now with support for the new Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor.
- Demo: Altair RADIOSS Finite Element Analysis on Intel Xeon Phi at SC12. Eric Lequiniou, Director of High Performance Computing at Altair demonstrates a port of RADIOSS to the new Intel Xeon Phi that uses both explicit and implicit solvers.
AMD
- AMD Powers Penguin Computing at SC12. Penguin Computing CTO Phil Pokorney describes the company’s full range of power-efficient integrated cluster solutions for HPC.
- Supermicro Showcases AMD Opteron Solutions for HPC. Don Clegg from Supermicro describes the company’s wide array of HPC solutions powered by AMD Opteron.
Asetek
- Asetek Reinvents the Datacenter with Innovative Hot Water Cooling at SC12. Asetek founder & CEO André Eriksen describes how CPUs are liquid cooled with the company’s proprietary liquid cooling while a liquid-to-air heat exchanger inside the server cools the inside server air.
Bull
- New Bull Supercomputer Blades Featuring Intel Xeon Phi. Pascale Bernier-Bruna from Bull describes the company’s new hpc blade offerings with the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor.
- French Supercomputer Vendor Bull Optimizes Apps for Intel Xeon Phi. In this video from SC12, Mathieu Dubois from Bull discusses the company’s application optimization efforts on the new Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor.
CAPS-Enterprise
- Caps-Enterprise Steps up with Support for Intel Xeon Phi. Caps-Enterprise CTO François Bodin describes the company’s programming tools for new Intel Xeon Phi.
- CAPS-Enterprise Tops Off Accelerators for Accelerators with OpenACC. Caps-Enterprise CTO François Bodin describes the company’s tools with support for programming Directives with OpenACC.
Colfax International
- Colfax Offers Powerhouse Xeon Phi Server and Code Optimization Course at SC12. Mike Fay from Colfax International describes the company’s new CXP9000 server with up to eight Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors. After that, Vardim Karpusenko provides an overview of the company’s new training courses on optimizing code for Xeon Phi.
Cycle Computing
- Cycle Computing Spins up HPC in the Cloud. Jason Stowe from Cycle Computing describes how the company helps customers maximize the utilization of existing supercomputing infrastructure and bridge the gap between traditional data centers and on-demand utility supercomputing.
- Demo: Cycle Computing Spins Up Big AWS Clusters on-the-fly at SC12. Cycle Computing CEO Jason Stowe demonstrates how easy it is to use the company’s software to provision large compute instances on the AWS cloud.
DDN
- DDN Powers Genomics at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute. Dr. Harold (Skip) Garner from the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute describes how Big Data I/O is required to crunch Genomics data in the fight against cancer.
- DDN Ramps Up for Exascale at SC12. Jeff Denworth from Data Direct Networks describes the company’s high performance storage solutions for HPC. Used by 60 percent of the TOP100 supercomputers in the works, DDN recently announced a $100 Million dollar investment in Exascale technologies.
- Steve Simms on the Data Capacitor II at Indiana University. Steve Simms from Indiana University describes a recent upgrade to the Data Capacitor project, a high-speed, high-capacity storage facility for very large data sets. With 5 PB of storage, Data Capacitor II will support big data applications used in computational research. IU partnered with DDN to develop Data Capacitor II, which is scheduled to be installed in the IU Data Center in spring 2013.
Dell
- Dell Powers Genomics Research Computing and Personalized Medicine at SC12. Glen Otero from Dell discusses his Birds of Feather session on Personalized Medicine at SC12. The company is working with researchers to enable faster, more cost-effective genome sequencing to enable better healthcare for us all.
- Dell HPC Keeps Focus on Helping Researchers. Tim Carroll from Dell discusses the company’s recent Stampede supercomputer installation at the Texas Advanced Computing Center and how the company focuses on helping researchers.
Gnodal
- Gnodal Showcases Fully Adaptive Load Balancing Ethernet Fabric at SC12. Fred Homewood from Gnodal describes escribes the company’s high bandwidth, low latency 40 GigE Ethernet switch solutions for HPC and the Enterprise.
HPC Advisory Council
- HPC Advisory Council Announces Student Cluster Teams for ISC’12. Gilad Shainer, Tong Liu, and Pak Lui from the HPC Advisory Council revue the organization’s outreach efforts for the past year and look forward to 2013. The council is an active sponsor of international Student Cluster Competitions that encourage young people to learn parallel programming skills.
IBM
- IBM Platform HPC Speeds Applications with Intel Xeon Phi. Jie Wu from IBM Platform Computing describes how the company’s Platform HPC software manages computing resources from the new Intel Xeon Phi.
IDC
- IDC HPC Market Update from SC12. Did you know that 3Q2012 was the biggest quarter of revenue in the history of HPC? In this video from SC12, Earl Joseph from IDC presents the latest on the supercomputing market.
Inktank
- Inktank Boosts Open Source Ceph File System. Neil Levine from Inktank describes the company’s efforts to commercialize and support the Ceph open source file system. With high reliability and nearly unlimited scalability, Ceph has great potential for Big Data applications as well as an enabling technology for Exascale computing.
Intel
- TACC Stampede Supercomputer Comes in at #7 on the TOP500 with Intel Xeon Phi. Lars Koesterke from the Texas Advanced Computing Center describes how hundreds of science applications are being ported to the the new Stampede supercomputer powered by the Intel Xeon Phi.
- Altair Speeds RADIOSS at SC12 Using Intel Xeon Phi. James Reinders and Paresh Pattani from Intel discuss how the new Intel Xeon Phi is already powering engineering applications like RADIOSS. Altair was able to port both the explicit and implicit versions of the RADIOSS code in short order.
- Colfax Offers Powerhouse Xeon Phi Server and Code Optimization Course at SC12. Mike Fay from Colfax International describes the company’s new CXP9000 server with up to eight Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors. After that, Vardim Karpusenko provides an overview of the company’s new training courses on optimizing code for Xeon Phi.
- Intel Xeon Phi Adds Smarts to SGI UV. SGI’s Chief Marketing Office Franz Aman describes the company’s full range of solutions featuring the new Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor for HPC.
- Intel Xeon Phi at the University of Tokyo. Professor Kei Hiraki from the University of Tokyo discusses the historical development of accelerator technology that has culminated in the new Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor.
- Rogue Wave Steps up with HPC Programming Tools for Intel Xeon Phi. Scott Lasica from Rogue Wave software describes the company’s Totalview debugger for the new Intel Xeon Phi.
- IBM Platform HPC Speeds Applications with Intel Xeon Phi. Jie Wu from IBM Platform Computing describes how the company’s Platform HPC software manages computing resources from the new Intel Xeon Phi.
- Caps-Enterprise Steps up with Support for Intel Xeon Phi. Caps-Enterprise CTO François Bodin describes the company’s programming tools for new Intel Xeon Phi.
- NAG Programming Tools for Intel Xeon Phi. David Cassell from NAG describes the company’s programming environment for the new Intel Xeon Phi.
- New Bull Supercomputer Blades Featuring Intel Xeon Phi. Pascale Bernier-Bruna from Bull describes the company’s new hpc blade offerings with the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor.
- James Reinders on Exploiting Parallelism with the Intel Xeon Phi. Intel’s James Reinders describes the new Intel Xeon Phi and how scientists can exploit parallelism in its many cores to speed their HPC applications.
- Seneca Accelerates HPC Apps with Intel Xeon Phi and Nvidia Kepler K20X Side by Side. Bret Stouder from Seneca describes the company’s latest contract with Jefferson Labs for the first-ever hybrid servers with Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors and Nvidia Kepler K20X accelerators running side by side.
- Intel Parallel Studio XE Demo at SC12. Steve Lionel from Intel demonstrates the Intel Parallel Studio XE. Available for Linux and Windows, the studio suite eases application development for Xeon CPUs and Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors.
- Intel Cluster Studio XE Demo at SC12. Gergana Slavova from Intel demonstrates the Intel Cluster Studio XE, an integrated tool suite for HPC development.
- Demo: Intel Advisor XE 2013 Transforms Serial Code for Intel Xeon Phi at SC12. In this video from SC12, David R. Mackay from Intel demonstrates the Intel Advisor XE 2013, a design tool that helps you to transform serial code to run well on multicore hardware (such as the Intel Xeon Phi) by forecasting what might happen if the code executes in parallel.
Intersect360 Research
- The Effect of HPC on Everyday Lives. Addison Snell from Intersect360 Research presents at the SC12 Opening Press Conference.
NAG
- NAG Programming Tools for Intel Xeon Phi. David Cassell from NAG describes the company’s programming environment for the new Intel Xeon Phi.
Nirvana
- Nirvana Large-scale Data Federation Technology at SC12. As a division of General Atomics, Nirvana commercializes data grid technology originally developed at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC)
Numascale
- Numascale Aggregates Big Memory SMPs from Commodity Servers at SC12. Einar Rustad from Numascale describes the company’s hardware-based server aggregation platform that enables large shared-memory systems to be built from commodity servers.
Nvidia
- Nvidia GPU Technology Theater at SC12. Livestreamed from the show, the complete theater shedule from SC12 features terrific talks on science and engineering.
- Introducing Nvidia Kepler K20X – the GPU that Powers the World’s Fastest Supercomputer. Nvidia’s Sumit Gupta describes the 64-bit Kepler K20 architecture for HPC applications.
- Buddy Bland on How the #1 Titan Supercomputer will Power Science. As a hybrid system, Titan derived 100 percent of its LINPACK performance from NVIDIA K20X accelerators.
Mellanox
- Mellanox Breaks Performance Records, Dominates TOP500 at SC12. Todd Wilde from Mellanox describes the company’s recent advancements in high speed InfiniBand interconnects. Infiniband recently InfiniBand has become the leading interconnect on the TOP500 with 224 clusters and the Connect-IB dual-port 56Gb/s FDR InfiniBand adapter recently achieved the industry’s highest throughput of more than 100Gb/s utilizing PCI Express 3.0 x16 and over 135 million messages per second, 4.5X higher than previous or competing solutions.
OpenSFS & EOFS
- OpenSFS and EOFS Foster the Lustre Community at SC12. Norm Morse from OpenSFS and Hugo Falter from the European EOFS discuss the latest developments in the Lustre community.
Panasas
- Panasas Showcases ActiveStor 14 at SC12. By accelerating small file and metadata performance with Solid State Drive (SSD) technology, ActiveStor 14 delivers extreme performance, for the technical computing and big data workloads commonly found in HPC environments.
- Panasas Chief Scientist on Where HPC Meets Big Data and Hadoop. Panasas ActiveStor not only accelerates product design and scientific discovery applications, but will perform seamless Hadoop analyses, ensuring that customers can extract maximum value from their existing big data infrastructure.
Penguin Computing
- AMD Powers Penguin Computing at SC12. Penguin Computing CTO Phil Pokorney describes the company’s full range of AMD Opteron integrated cluster solutions for HPC.
Rogue Wave Software
- Rogue Wave Steps up with HPC Programming Tools for Intel Xeon Phi. Scott Lasica from Rogue Wave software describes the company’s Totalview debugger for the new Intel Xeon Phi.
- TotalView Debugger Stands Above with Support for Blue Gene/Q. Scott Lasica from Rogue Wave Software discusses the company’s new Totalview programming tools for IBM BlueGene/Q supercomputers with a million processing cores or more.
Samplify
- Samplify APAX: Lowering the Cost of Big Science, Big Data, and Cloud Computing. APAX accelerates the performance of multicore CPU-based applications bound by memory, I/O, and storage bottlenecks.
- Slidecast: Samplify APAX Compression Lowers Cost of Big Science. APAX is the only solution that accelerates the throughput DDRx, SAS/SATA, SSD, PCIe, Ethernet, and Infiniband, by up to six times.
SC12 Committee
- SC12 Press Conference with Jeff Hollingsworth. In this video, SC12 General Chair Jeff Hollingsworth opens the show press conference in Salt Lake City. This year there were a record number of exhibitors have booths at the show. Recorded Nov. 12, 2012.
Scalable Informatics
- Scalable Informatics at SC12 – A Keen Eye on Real Storage Performance. Joe Landmand from Scalable Informatics describes the company’s latest storage technologies for HPC.
Seneca
- Seneca Accelerates HPC Apps with Intel Xeon Phi and Nvidia Kepler K20X Side by Side. Bret Stouder from Seneca describes the company’s latest contract with Jefferson Labs for the first-ever hybrid servers with Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors and Nvidia Kepler K20X accelerators running side by side.
SGI
- Interview: SGI Teams with Altair on the Road to Exascale. Paul Kinyon from SGI’s product management team describes how the company is working with partners like Altair to solve customer’s toughest computational challenges. The company is looking at a range of technologies that could enbable Exascale computing capabilities at a practical level of power consumption.
- Intel Xeon Phi Adds Smarts to SGI UV. SGI’s Chief Marketing Office Franz Aman describes the company’s full range of solutions featuring the new Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor for HPC.
Solarflare
- Solarflare ApplicationOnLoad Engine – HPC Processing on a “Bump in the Wire”. With their ApplicationOnLoad Engine (AOE) the company is enabling applications to be processed on the fly right on the NIC server adapter.
- Slidecast: Solarflare Processing NICs Do HPC Custom Compute. Solarflare President & CEO Russell Stern describes how the company develops network interface software and hardware to transform the way applications use networks, providing industry-leading application acceleration for the most demanding scale-out compute environments.
Spectra Logic
- Spectra Logic Tape Storage Technologies Taking Off at SC12. Molly Rector from Spectra Logic describes the latest advancements in the company’s tape-based storage technologies. Along the way, she debunks the myth that Amazon’s AWS Glacier offering will be the death of tape.
Supermicro
- Supermicro Showcases AMD Opteron Solutions for HPC. Don Clegg from Supermicro describes the company’s wide array of HPC solutions powered by AMD Opteron.
Sugon
- Chinese Supercomputer Vendor Sugon Sponsors SC12 Student Cluster Competition. Sha Chaoqun from Sugon describes the company’s products for high performance computing. As a leading Chinese server vendor, Sugon helped sponsor the SC12 Student Cluster Challenge.
Texas Instruments
- Texas Instruments Offers System on a Chip for HPC. Based on its award winning KeyStone architecture, TI’s SoCs are designed to revitalize cloud computing, inject new verve and excitement into pivotal infrastructure systems and, despite their feature rich specifications and superior performance, actually reduce energy consumption.
- Slidecast: Texas Instruments SoC’s Increase Performance and Reduce Power Consumption. Arnon Friedmann from TI presents details on the the company’s new SoCs, which now have the capability to boot Linux and run conventional HPC software.
The Portland Group
- PGI’s Michael Wolfe on OpenACC Directives for GPUs. Michael Wolfe from The Portland Group discusses the origins of the OpenACC standard for programming directives in GPUs. He also weighs in on the recent OpenMP 4.0 technical report, which proposed to incorporate OpenACC directives into OpenMP 4.0 sometime in 2013.
VMware
- Interview: Josh Simons on HPC Cloud Trends at SC12. Josh Simons from the VMware CTO office describes recent trends in Cloud Computing for HPC. The company is looking at how virtualization technologies could benefit supercomputing on the road to Exascale.
Xyratex
- Xyratex Announces OEM Deals with Dell and HPC at SC12. Mike Stoltz from Xyratex describes the company’s ClusterStor products for HPC. The company recently announced that HP and Dell will resell ClusterStor to power their advanced HPC clusters.
PGI Demo at GTC 2013: OpenACC Binary Runs on Nvidia GPUs and AMD Firepro
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In this video from the 2013 GPU Technology Conference, Michael Wolfe from The Portland Group demos how OpenACC enables programmers to generate a single binary that runs on Nvidia GPUs and AMD Firepro accelerators.
Michael Wolfe on PGI’s All-new, Gnu-compatible C++ Compiler
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In this video, Michael Wolfe from The Portland Group describes PGI’s new release with support for C++. Their all-new gnu-compatible C++ compiler includes the full suite of PGI optimizations plus support for CUDA-x86, OpenMP and OpenACC. The new EDG 4.5 front-end also supports many C++11 language features.
Wolfe also hints at a ground-breaking PGI demo planned for the GPU Technology Conference in March 2013.
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The Portland Group Updates HPC Compilers and Development Tools
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Today The Portland Group (PGI) announced new developer tools with expanded support for programming HPC accelerators along with industry-leading multi-core x64 performance. Now available for Linux, Apple OS X and Microsoft Windows, the 2013 release of the PGI high-performance parallelizing compilers and development tools are now available.
The high-performance computing landscape is evolving rapidly. With the recent introduction of new accelerators from NVIDIA, Intel and AMD, HPC users have more options than ever,” said Douglas Miles, director of The Portland Group. “With PGI 2013, we are expanding support within our PGI Accelerator programming tools so developers wishing to access the huge potential performance of these new platforms can do so in a consistent, productive and portable way.”
Highlights include:
- The PGI) announced new developer tools with expanded support for programming HPC accelerators along with industry-leading multi-core x64 performance.”>PGI Accelerator native Fortran 2003 and C99 compilers expands support for the OpenACC directive-based accelerator programming model through the addition of an all-new PGI Accelerator C++ compiler. All three compilers feature expanded support for the OpenACC standard as well as new PGI extensions for supporting multiple devices. PGI Accelerator compilers also now target the latest NVIDIA Tesla K20 and K20X GPUs.
- Support for targeting Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors and AMD APUs and discrete GPUs with OpenACC is planned for a future release.
- New CUDA Fortran extensions in PGI 2013 include support for textures as well as support for dynamic parallelism and separate compilation on suitable CUDA-enabled hardware. Both PGI Accelerator and CUDA Fortran now support the latest CUDA 5.0 software environment from NVIDIA in addition to supporting multiple devices from a single program or host thread.
SPECompG_base2012 relative performance as measured by The Portland Group during the weeks of January 28 and February 4, 2013. The number of OpenMP threads was set to match the number of cores on each system.
In addition to expanded support for accelerators, PGI 2013 also delivers significantly faster performance on multi-core x64 processors including industry-leading OpenMP parallel performance on the new SPEC® OMP2012 benchmark suite running on the latest AVX-enabled processors from AMD and Intel. Overall performance on the SPEC CPU 2006 floating-point benchmarks is over 10% faster compared to the initial version of PGI 2012 released in February 2012. Similar performance gains have been seen on other HPC benchmarks as well.
Additional performance information is available at the PGI Benchmark page. Read the Full Story.
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GPU Technology Conference Agenda Chocked Full of Supercomputing Sessions
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The 2013 GPU Technology Conference is out with its preliminary agenda featuring a full boat of supercomputing sessions. The event will take place March 18-21 in San Jose, CA.
Supercomputing sessions include:
- Acceptance Testing a GPU Based Cluster (LANL)
- An Unlikely Symbiosis: HPC and Gaming (Nvidia)
- Pedraforca: a First ARM + GPU Cluster for HPC (Barcelona Supercomputing Center)
- Accelerating Science and Engineering with Titan, the World’s Fastest Supercomputer (ORNL)
- Accelerating Seismic Wave Propagation Simulations on Petascale Heterogeneous Architectures (UCSD)
- A Microsecond-a-day Keeps the Doctor Away: Efficient GPU Molecular Dynamics with GROMACS (KTH Royal Institute of Technology at Stockholm University)
- OpenACC Support and Extensions in the Cray Compilation Environment (Cray Inc.)
- Petascale Molecular Dynamics Simulations on Titan and Blue Waters (University of Illinois)
- Targeting Extreme Scale Computational Challenges with Heterogeneous Systems (PNNL)
Friday, Jan. 24 is the last day to take advantage of Early-Bird registration discounts, so Register Now.
In related news, Donal Murphy from Nvidia has posted a story on Five Amazing Things You’ll Learn About at NVIDIA’s Expanded GPU Technology Conference.
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CAPS-Enterprise Tops Off Directives for Accelerators with OpenACC
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In this video from SC12, Caps-Enterprise CTO François Bodin describes the company’s tools with support for programming Directives for GPUs, APUs and Intel Xeon Phi using OpenACC.
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PGI’s Michael Wolfe on OpenACC Directives for GPUs
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In this video from SC12, Michael Wolfe from The Portland Group discusses the origins of the OpenACC standard for programming directives in GPUs. He also weighs in on the recent OpenMP 4.0 technical report, which proposes to incorporate OpenACC directives into OpenMP 4.0 sometime in 2013.
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Slidecast: OpenMP is Expanding
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In this slidecast, Matthijs van Waveren from OpenMP.org presents: OpenMP is Expanding. OpenMP, the de-facto standard for parallel programming on shared memory systems, continues to extend its reach beyond pure HPC to include DSPs, real time systems, and accelerators. The first release candidate of OpenMP 4.0 was made available at the SC12 conference and exhibition.
We are proud to mark the 15th anniversary of OpenMP,” said Michael Wong, OpenMP CEO, “with a major leap forward with significant enhancements to parallelism.”
OpenMP released a technical report on directives for attached accelerators recently with the intent to integrate OpenACC into the final OpenMP release candidate in the 1st quarter of 2013. The second release candidate will include the directives for attached accelerators, tasking extensions and error handling. Read the Full Story.
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SC12 Featured Videos on insideHPC TV
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SC12 Featured Videos
This year at SC12, we shot over 50 video interviews. It was a lot of work, but we want to bring you the very best of what this amazing conference had to offer.
SC12 Videos (Alphabetical by Vendor Name):
Adaptive Computing
- Big Data Debate at SC12. In this video, Adaptive Computing hosts a Big Data Debate at SC12 in Salt Lake City.
- Interview: Adaptive Computing CEO on HPC, Clouds and Big Data. Robert A.Clyde describes how the company’s system management software helps customers manage the world’s largest HPC clusters and private Clouds.
- Moab HPC Suite Remote Visualization Software Speeds Innovation at SC12. Moab HPC Suite Remote Visualization Edition enables you to create easy, centralized access to shared visualization compute, application and data resources.
- Adaptive Computing Enhances Moab Cloud Suite 7.2. Brady Kimball from Adaptive Computing describes enhancements to the Moab Cloud Suite, an intelligent cloud management end-to-end platform. The suite provides touchless cloud service optimization across the full cloud service life cycle including agility, cost savings and service performance.
- Adaptive Computing Leverages Torque to Manage Intel Xeon Phi Resources. Nick Ihli from Adaptive Computing demonstrates how the company’s Torque resource manager works with Intel Xeon Phi. By relaying Intel Xeon Phi instrumentation such as memory availability to the company’s Moab workload manager, the system is able to schedule coprocessor resources efficiently.
- Adaptive Computing Enhances Moab HPC Suite at SC12. Brady Kimball describes enhancements to the Moab Compute Manager 7.2 suite.
Adaptive Computing SC12 Booth Theater
- Overview of Warewulf Node Health Check Software. Michael Jennings Jackie Scoggins from LBNL describe Warewulf Node Health Check software.
- Community HPC Clusters at Purdue University. Andrew Howard from Purdue discuss has the community cluster program has moved forward with the help of Moab software at the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing.
- What’s New in Moab HPC Suite 7.2? Brady Kimball describes enhancements to the company’s resource management software.
- COSMOS – Fundamental Cosmology, Dark Energy, and the Cosmic Microwave Sky. The COSMOS Supercomputer Consortium, founded by Stephen Hawking and part of the Science and Technology Facilities Council DiRAC High Performance Computing facility, has chosen Moab HPC Suite 7.2 to manage its groundbreaking scientific computing workloads.
- Moab/TORQUE Support for Intel Xeon Phi. The latest version of Moab was designed to recognize and work with the new Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors, including the ability to automatically detect coprocessors and determine their location and availability.
- Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor Overview at SC12. Mike Haedrich from Intel presents an overview of the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor.
- HPC Cloud ROI and Opportunities Cloud Brings to HPC. Brady Kimball from Adaptive Computing presents on the Moab Cloud Suite.
- Moab HPC Suite – Remote Visualization Edition at SC12. With Moab HPC Suite — Remote Visualization Edition, you can improve the productivity, collaboration and security of the design and research process by only transferring pixels instead of data to users to do their simulations and analysis.
- Using Moab Node-sets to Improve Job Scheduling. Gabriel Mateescu from Virginia Tech presents how Node-sets work to improve scheduling efficiency.
- Configuring Moab to Fairly Share a Supercomputer while Preventing Starvation in a University Setting. Jenett Tillotson from Indiana University presents this talk on Moab.
- Demo: Adaptive Computing All-Spark Cube at SC12. Ian Nate from Adaptive demonstrates the company’s resource management software through a custom-built All Spark cube.
- Realizing Energy Efficient Scheduling in a Network of Datacenters. Dr. Bastian Koller from the HPC Center in Stuttgart presents this talk on Moab at HLRS.
- The Technical Cloud: When Remote 3D Visualization Meets HPC. Andrea Rodolico from NICE Software presents on remote visualization.
- HPC at ACC Cyfronet. Lukasz Fils from Cyfronet presents a talk on Moab at Cyfronet in Poland.
- NCRC Scheduling Environment. Frank Indiviglio from NOAA describes how Moab software is used for job scheduling.
Aeon
- Aeon Computing Showcases Award-Winning Data Oasis at SC12. Doug Johnson from Aeon Computing describes the company’s innovative Data Oasis technology powered by the Lustre file system.
Allinea
- Allinea Helps Scientists Run their Applications Faster and Better. Allinea CTO David Lecomber describes the company’s powerful tools for debugging at scale.
- Demo: Allinea MAP Profiling Tool. Mark O’Connor from Allinea demonstrates the company’s new MAP performance profiler tool, a unique offering with extremely low overheard.
Altair
- Interview: SGI Teams with Altair on the Road to Exascale. Paul Kinyon from SGI’s product management team describes how the company is working with partners like Altair to solve customer’s toughest computational challenges. The company is looking at a range of technologies that could enbable Exascale computing capabilities at a practical level of power consumption.
- Altair Speeds RADIOSS at SC12 Using Intel Xeon Phi. James Reinders and Paresh Pattani from Intel discuss how the new Intel Xeon Phi is already powering engineering applications like RADIOSS. Altair was able to port both the explicit and implicit versions of the RADIOSS code in short order.
- Altair PBS Pro Steps up with Support for Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessors. Altair’s Mary Bass describes the company’s PBS Pro system management software, now with support for the new Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor.
- Demo: Altair RADIOSS Finite Element Analysis on Intel Xeon Phi at SC12. Eric Lequiniou, Director of High Performance Computing at Altair demonstrates a port of RADIOSS to the new Intel Xeon Phi that uses both explicit and implicit solvers.
AMD
- AMD Powers Penguin Computing at SC12. Penguin Computing CTO Phil Pokorney describes the company’s full range of power-efficient integrated cluster solutions for HPC.
- Supermicro Showcases AMD Opteron Solutions for HPC. Don Clegg from Supermicro describes the company’s wide array of HPC solutions powered by AMD Opteron.
Asetek
- Asetek Reinvents the Datacenter with Innovative Hot Water Cooling at SC12. Asetek founder & CEO André Eriksen describes how CPUs are liquid cooled with the company’s proprietary liquid cooling while a liquid-to-air heat exchanger inside the server cools the inside server air.
Bull
- New Bull Supercomputer Blades Featuring Intel Xeon Phi. Pascale Bernier-Bruna from Bull describes the company’s new hpc blade offerings with the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor.
- French Supercomputer Vendor Bull Optimizes Apps for Intel Xeon Phi. In this video from SC12, Mathieu Dubois from Bull discusses the company’s application optimization efforts on the new Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor.
CAPS-Enterprise
- Caps-Enterprise Steps up with Support for Intel Xeon Phi. Caps-Enterprise CTO François Bodin describes the company’s programming tools for new Intel Xeon Phi.
- CAPS-Enterprise Tops Off Accelerators for Accelerators with OpenACC. Caps-Enterprise CTO François Bodin describes the company’s tools with support for programming Directives with OpenACC.
Colfax International
- Colfax Offers Powerhouse Xeon Phi Server and Code Optimization Course at SC12. Mike Fay from Colfax International describes the company’s new CXP9000 server with up to eight Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors. After that, Vardim Karpusenko provides an overview of the company’s new training courses on optimizing code for Xeon Phi.
Cycle Computing
- Cycle Computing Spins up HPC in the Cloud. Jason Stowe from Cycle Computing describes how the company helps customers maximize the utilization of existing supercomputing infrastructure and bridge the gap between traditional data centers and on-demand utility supercomputing.
- Demo: Cycle Computing Spins Up Big AWS Clusters on-the-fly at SC12. Cycle Computing CEO Jason Stowe demonstrates how easy it is to use the company’s software to provision large compute instances on the AWS cloud.
DDN
- DDN Powers Genomics at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute. Dr. Harold (Skip) Garner from the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute describes how Big Data I/O is required to crunch Genomics data in the fight against cancer.
- DDN Ramps Up for Exascale at SC12. Jeff Denworth from Data Direct Networks describes the company’s high performance storage solutions for HPC. Used by 60 percent of the TOP100 supercomputers in the works, DDN recently announced a $100 Million dollar investment in Exascale technologies.
- Steve Simms on the Data Capacitor II at Indiana University. Steve Simms from Indiana University describes a recent upgrade to the Data Capacitor project, a high-speed, high-capacity storage facility for very large data sets. With 5 PB of storage, Data Capacitor II will support big data applications used in computational research. IU partnered with DDN to develop Data Capacitor II, which is scheduled to be installed in the IU Data Center in spring 2013.
Dell
- Dell Powers Genomics Research Computing and Personalized Medicine at SC12. Glen Otero from Dell discusses his Birds of Feather session on Personalized Medicine at SC12. The company is working with researchers to enable faster, more cost-effective genome sequencing to enable better healthcare for us all.
- Dell HPC Keeps Focus on Helping Researchers. Tim Carroll from Dell discusses the company’s recent Stampede supercomputer installation at the Texas Advanced Computing Center and how the company focuses on helping researchers.
Gnodal
- Gnodal Showcases Fully Adaptive Load Balancing Ethernet Fabric at SC12. Fred Homewood from Gnodal describes escribes the company’s high bandwidth, low latency 40 GigE Ethernet switch solutions for HPC and the Enterprise.
HPC Advisory Council
- HPC Advisory Council Announces Student Cluster Teams for ISC’12. Gilad Shainer, Tong Liu, and Pak Lui from the HPC Advisory Council revue the organization’s outreach efforts for the past year and look forward to 2013. The council is an active sponsor of international Student Cluster Competitions that encourage young people to learn parallel programming skills.
IBM
- IBM Platform HPC Speeds Applications with Intel Xeon Phi. Jie Wu from IBM Platform Computing describes how the company’s Platform HPC software manages computing resources from the new Intel Xeon Phi.
IDC
- IDC HPC Market Update from SC12. Did you know that 3Q2012 was the biggest quarter of revenue in the history of HPC? In this video from SC12, Earl Joseph from IDC presents the latest on the supercomputing market.
Inktank
- Inktank Boosts Open Source Ceph File System. Neil Levine from Inktank describes the company’s efforts to commercialize and support the Ceph open source file system. With high reliability and nearly unlimited scalability, Ceph has great potential for Big Data applications as well as an enabling technology for Exascale computing.
Intel
- TACC Stampede Supercomputer Comes in at #7 on the TOP500 with Intel Xeon Phi. Lars Koesterke from the Texas Advanced Computing Center describes how hundreds of science applications are being ported to the the new Stampede supercomputer powered by the Intel Xeon Phi.
- Altair Speeds RADIOSS at SC12 Using Intel Xeon Phi. James Reinders and Paresh Pattani from Intel discuss how the new Intel Xeon Phi is already powering engineering applications like RADIOSS. Altair was able to port both the explicit and implicit versions of the RADIOSS code in short order.
- Colfax Offers Powerhouse Xeon Phi Server and Code Optimization Course at SC12. Mike Fay from Colfax International describes the company’s new CXP9000 server with up to eight Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors. After that, Vardim Karpusenko provides an overview of the company’s new training courses on optimizing code for Xeon Phi.
- Intel Xeon Phi Adds Smarts to SGI UV. SGI’s Chief Marketing Office Franz Aman describes the company’s full range of solutions featuring the new Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor for HPC.
- Intel Xeon Phi at the University of Tokyo. Professor Kei Hiraki from the University of Tokyo discusses the historical development of accelerator technology that has culminated in the new Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor.
- Rogue Wave Steps up with HPC Programming Tools for Intel Xeon Phi. Scott Lasica from Rogue Wave software describes the company’s Totalview debugger for the new Intel Xeon Phi.
- IBM Platform HPC Speeds Applications with Intel Xeon Phi. Jie Wu from IBM Platform Computing describes how the company’s Platform HPC software manages computing resources from the new Intel Xeon Phi.
- Caps-Enterprise Steps up with Support for Intel Xeon Phi. Caps-Enterprise CTO François Bodin describes the company’s programming tools for new Intel Xeon Phi.
- NAG Programming Tools for Intel Xeon Phi. David Cassell from NAG describes the company’s programming environment for the new Intel Xeon Phi.
- New Bull Supercomputer Blades Featuring Intel Xeon Phi. Pascale Bernier-Bruna from Bull describes the company’s new hpc blade offerings with the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor.
- James Reinders on Exploiting Parallelism with the Intel Xeon Phi. Intel’s James Reinders describes the new Intel Xeon Phi and how scientists can exploit parallelism in its many cores to speed their HPC applications.
- Seneca Accelerates HPC Apps with Intel Xeon Phi and Nvidia Kepler K20X Side by Side. Bret Stouder from Seneca describes the company’s latest contract with Jefferson Labs for the first-ever hybrid servers with Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors and Nvidia Kepler K20X accelerators running side by side.
- Intel Parallel Studio XE Demo at SC12. Steve Lionel from Intel demonstrates the Intel Parallel Studio XE. Available for Linux and Windows, the studio suite eases application development for Xeon CPUs and Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors.
- Intel Cluster Studio XE Demo at SC12. Gergana Slavova from Intel demonstrates the Intel Cluster Studio XE, an integrated tool suite for HPC development.
- Demo: Intel Advisor XE 2013 Transforms Serial Code for Intel Xeon Phi at SC12. In this video from SC12, David R. Mackay from Intel demonstrates the Intel Advisor XE 2013, a design tool that helps you to transform serial code to run well on multicore hardware (such as the Intel Xeon Phi) by forecasting what might happen if the code executes in parallel.
Intersect360 Research
- The Effect of HPC on Everyday Lives. Addison Snell from Intersect360 Research presents at the SC12 Opening Press Conference.
NAG
- NAG Programming Tools for Intel Xeon Phi. David Cassell from NAG describes the company’s programming environment for the new Intel Xeon Phi.
Nirvana
- Nirvana Large-scale Data Federation Technology at SC12. As a division of General Atomics, Nirvana commercializes data grid technology originally developed at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC)
Numascale
- Numascale Aggregates Big Memory SMPs from Commodity Servers at SC12. Einar Rustad from Numascale describes the company’s hardware-based server aggregation platform that enables large shared-memory systems to be built from commodity servers.
Nvidia
- Nvidia GPU Technology Theater at SC12. Livestreamed from the show, the complete theater shedule from SC12 features terrific talks on science and engineering.
- Introducing Nvidia Kepler K20X – the GPU that Powers the World’s Fastest Supercomputer. Nvidia’s Sumit Gupta describes the 64-bit Kepler K20 architecture for HPC applications.
- Buddy Bland on How the #1 Titan Supercomputer will Power Science. As a hybrid system, Titan derived 100 percent of its LINPACK performance from NVIDIA K20X accelerators.
Mellanox
- Mellanox Breaks Performance Records, Dominates TOP500 at SC12. Todd Wilde from Mellanox describes the company’s recent advancements in high speed InfiniBand interconnects. Infiniband recently InfiniBand has become the leading interconnect on the TOP500 with 224 clusters and the Connect-IB dual-port 56Gb/s FDR InfiniBand adapter recently achieved the industry’s highest throughput of more than 100Gb/s utilizing PCI Express 3.0 x16 and over 135 million messages per second, 4.5X higher than previous or competing solutions.
OpenSFS & EOFS
- OpenSFS and EOFS Foster the Lustre Community at SC12. Norm Morse from OpenSFS and Hugo Falter from the European EOFS discuss the latest developments in the Lustre community.
Panasas
- Panasas Showcases ActiveStor 14 at SC12. By accelerating small file and metadata performance with Solid State Drive (SSD) technology, ActiveStor 14 delivers extreme performance, for the technical computing and big data workloads commonly found in HPC environments.
- Panasas Chief Scientist on Where HPC Meets Big Data and Hadoop. Panasas ActiveStor not only accelerates product design and scientific discovery applications, but will perform seamless Hadoop analyses, ensuring that customers can extract maximum value from their existing big data infrastructure.
Penguin Computing
- AMD Powers Penguin Computing at SC12. Penguin Computing CTO Phil Pokorney describes the company’s full range of AMD Opteron integrated cluster solutions for HPC.
Rogue Wave Software
- Rogue Wave Steps up with HPC Programming Tools for Intel Xeon Phi. Scott Lasica from Rogue Wave software describes the company’s Totalview debugger for the new Intel Xeon Phi.
- TotalView Debugger Stands Above with Support for Blue Gene/Q. Scott Lasica from Rogue Wave Software discusses the company’s new Totalview programming tools for IBM BlueGene/Q supercomputers with a million processing cores or more.
Samplify
- Samplify APAX: Lowering the Cost of Big Science, Big Data, and Cloud Computing. APAX accelerates the performance of multicore CPU-based applications bound by memory, I/O, and storage bottlenecks.
- Slidecast: Samplify APAX Compression Lowers Cost of Big Science. APAX is the only solution that accelerates the throughput DDRx, SAS/SATA, SSD, PCIe, Ethernet, and Infiniband, by up to six times.
SC12 Committee
- SC12 Press Conference with Jeff Hollingsworth. In this video, SC12 General Chair Jeff Hollingsworth opens the show press conference in Salt Lake City. This year there were a record number of exhibitors have booths at the show. Recorded Nov. 12, 2012.
Scalable Informatics
- Scalable Informatics at SC12 – A Keen Eye on Real Storage Performance. Joe Landmand from Scalable Informatics describes the company’s latest storage technologies for HPC.
Seneca
- Seneca Accelerates HPC Apps with Intel Xeon Phi and Nvidia Kepler K20X Side by Side. Bret Stouder from Seneca describes the company’s latest contract with Jefferson Labs for the first-ever hybrid servers with Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors and Nvidia Kepler K20X accelerators running side by side.
SGI
- Interview: SGI Teams with Altair on the Road to Exascale. Paul Kinyon from SGI’s product management team describes how the company is working with partners like Altair to solve customer’s toughest computational challenges. The company is looking at a range of technologies that could enbable Exascale computing capabilities at a practical level of power consumption.
- Intel Xeon Phi Adds Smarts to SGI UV. SGI’s Chief Marketing Office Franz Aman describes the company’s full range of solutions featuring the new Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor for HPC.
Solarflare
- Solarflare ApplicationOnLoad Engine – HPC Processing on a “Bump in the Wire”. With their ApplicationOnLoad Engine (AOE) the company is enabling applications to be processed on the fly right on the NIC server adapter.
- Slidecast: Solarflare Processing NICs Do HPC Custom Compute. Solarflare President & CEO Russell Stern describes how the company develops network interface software and hardware to transform the way applications use networks, providing industry-leading application acceleration for the most demanding scale-out compute environments.
Spectra Logic
- Spectra Logic Tape Storage Technologies Taking Off at SC12. Molly Rector from Spectra Logic describes the latest advancements in the company’s tape-based storage technologies. Along the way, she debunks the myth that Amazon’s AWS Glacier offering will be the death of tape.
Supermicro
- Supermicro Showcases AMD Opteron Solutions for HPC. Don Clegg from Supermicro describes the company’s wide array of HPC solutions powered by AMD Opteron.
Sugon
- Chinese Supercomputer Vendor Sugon Sponsors SC12 Student Cluster Competition. Sha Chaoqun from Sugon describes the company’s products for high performance computing. As a leading Chinese server vendor, Sugon helped sponsor the SC12 Student Cluster Challenge.
Texas Instruments
- Texas Instruments Offers System on a Chip for HPC. Based on its award winning KeyStone architecture, TI’s SoCs are designed to revitalize cloud computing, inject new verve and excitement into pivotal infrastructure systems and, despite their feature rich specifications and superior performance, actually reduce energy consumption.
- Slidecast: Texas Instruments SoC’s Increase Performance and Reduce Power Consumption. Arnon Friedmann from TI presents details on the the company’s new SoCs, which now have the capability to boot Linux and run conventional HPC software.
The Portland Group
- PGI’s Michael Wolfe on OpenACC Directives for GPUs. Michael Wolfe from The Portland Group discusses the origins of the OpenACC standard for programming directives in GPUs. He also weighs in on the recent OpenMP 4.0 technical report, which proposed to incorporate OpenACC directives into OpenMP 4.0 sometime in 2013.
VMware
- Interview: Josh Simons on HPC Cloud Trends at SC12. Josh Simons from the VMware CTO office describes recent trends in Cloud Computing for HPC. The company is looking at how virtualization technologies could benefit supercomputing on the road to Exascale.
Xyratex
- Xyratex Announces OEM Deals with Dell and HPC at SC12. Mike Stoltz from Xyratex describes the company’s ClusterStor products for HPC. The company recently announced that HP and Dell will resell ClusterStor to power their advanced HPC clusters.
PGI to Deliver OpenACC for Intel Xeon Phi
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This week the The Portland Group announced plans to extend its PGI Accelerator compiler technology with OpenACC to Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors. Using their existing code bases and with only minor modifications to their build scripts, software developers using PGI Accelerator compilers will soon be able to target Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors as well.
Until now, industry CIOs and government and university lab directors have encountered difficult decisions when evaluating accelerator technologies,” said Douglas Miles, director, The Portland Group. “Do we wait to see which technologies win out? Which programming model or models do we choose? How do we retrain developers to use these programming models? Will our applications be future-proof and portable across the different types of host CPUs and coprocessors? PGI Accelerator compilers will make Xeon Phi coprocessors programmable using standard OpenACC directives that are fully compatible with the accelerator application development efforts already under way at most significant HPC centers and sites.”
First announced in mid-2009, PGI Accelerator compilers provide a high-level coprocessor programming model intended for scientists, engineers and other domain experts who aren’t full-time programmers. PGI Accelerator Fortran 2003, C and C++ compilers enable programmers to offload compute-intensive portions of an application to a coprocessor by adding portable compiler directives, treated as comments by other compilers, to existing standard-compliant programs and recompiling with appropriate compiler options. In 2012, the PGI Accelerator compilers were enhanced to support the new de facto standard OpenACC directives.
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Tuesday, Nov 13 Livestream: GPU Technology Theater from SC12
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Starting at 10:30 am MDT today (Nov. 13), insideHPC will be streaming live presentations from the Nvidia GPU Technology Theater at SC12. They have an amazing lineup of speakers, and while they encourage you to come to booth #2217 and see for yourself, the company also wants to reach out to the many people who could not attend the show this year.
GPU Technology Theater Schedule @ SC12
(Booth #2217)
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
- 10:30 Inside the Kepler Architecture, Stephen Jones, Nvidia
- 11:00 Big Data Astronomical Data, Amr Hassan, Swinburne University
- 11:30 Real-time Triggering Using GPUs, Felice Pantaleo, CERN
- 12:00 Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics, Justin Foley, University of Utah
- 12:30 FIM and NIM Weather Models, Mark Govett, NOAA
- 13:00 OpenACC, John Urbanic, PSC
- 13:30 Turbulence Visualization, Marc Treib, Technische Universität München
- 14:00 MAGMA Linear Algebra Libraries, Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee
- 14:30 Beyond Tsubame 2.0, Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology
- 15:00 CUDA Development w/ NVIDIA Nsight , David Goodwin, Nvidia
- 15:30 CUDA-Accelerated Libraries, Levi Barnes, Nvidia
- 16:00 Thrust Parallel Algorithms Library, Thomas Bradley, Nvidia
- 16:30 Compiling Parallel Languages w/ Numba, Mark Harris, Nvidia
- 17:30 Improving Engineering Productivity, Ray Browel, ANSYS
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OpenACC Version 2.0 Specification Posted for Comment
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The OpenACC standards group has posted a draft of the new OpenACC Version 2.0 specification at the SC12 Conference. With new controls over data movement including better handling of unstructured data, the new version allows for superior performance in parallelizing code and an improved developer experience.
OpenACC is an open standard designed to be easy to use, and performance portable across multiple architectures,” said Duncan Poole, President of OpenACC. “Our goal is to provide the developer ecosystem with a comprehensive and robust model for portable accelerator programming. We look forward to incorporating public feedback into this draft as well as features new to accelerators, such as dynamic parallelism, in the final version.”
As evidenced in this SC12 Show Guide, OpenACC will be all over the SC12 show floor this week. Be sure to check out the OpenACC tutorials and BoFs as well as demos from CAPS, PGI, and Rogue Wave.
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Hengeveld: SC12 – A Path to Discovery, Changing Course through Outer Space
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In this special guest feature, Intel’s John Hengeveld looks ahead to the SC12 conference.
The HPC industry is driving fast down a familiar road. SC12 represents a sharp turn for the industry. We are going to see inflection point in Salt Lake City in a few dimensions. I am beyond excited by the dynamics of this industry today.
Let me share what I am looking for:
In the past year, Big Data has emerged as a premier investment in business and academia. The use of HPC in the analysis of Big Data and how Big Data technology is going to evolve beyond Hadoop is going to be a major topic of discussion in the sessions and in the industry. How will storage change? How will compute change? How will this increased data bandwidth requirement be reflected in emerging interconnect models? I expect to find answers to these questions at SC12.
The top 10 supercomputers will be very interesting this time around. There has been relatively little change in the past 2 lists in the top10. It will be fascinating to see if there is a lot of change. How high up will the Titan monster go? What efficiency will it achieve? What other new systems will there be in the top 10? One very well informed person said to me in Hamburg “This top500 list is the last gasp of the dying blue gene architecture…” Is he right? Will BlueGene resurge? Or will hybrid architectures begin to retake a leadership role?
In the past year, there has emerged two competing groups are developing solutions for programming highly parallel compute devices. NVidia’s OpenACC has split off an approach to address GPU Computing and is trying to establish a competing standard to OpenMP. OpenMP last week announced its draft approach for targeting directives that support CPU, GPU and highly parallel CPU’s like Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessors. Very serious people are supporting each approach; Intel is supporting OpenMP 4.0, of course. Some people are trying to support both. It will be interesting to see how heavily NVidia hawks their approach.
What will the industry say about Intel® Xeon Phi products? In June, Intel announced this branding for products for the now famous Intel® Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture. Is the industry moving these products into reality? What is the time table? What are the products? How many people are taking this architecture approach seriously?
We have seen some announcements about SGI and Cray new architectures leading up to SC12. What will we hear more about them? How will the major OEMs respond? Cray just went live with their press release on Cascade (X30). Looking forward to event that announces it.. and of course the Cray Party.
What is happening in the storage world in support of HPC and Big Data? What about any new technologies to help improve IO bandwidth?
Are there any new approaches for the missing middle? – Lots of hype so far – where are the proof points and examples?
The industry is going a thousand miles an hour towards exascale and deep Petascale. But it’s a bit cloudy and just how the path will change ahead is unclear. In about a week I think we’ll know where we’re going.
Editor’s note: insideHPC would like to send out condolences to John Hengeveld and his family. His wife Jen’s brother died in a tragic car accident this week. If you see her with John at SC12 next week, he says to be sure to give her a hug.
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OpenACC on a Roll with Growing Developer Tool Support
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Today the OpenACC standards group announced growing support for OpenACC-supported development tools, and initial results from programmers who have been using the recently-released OpenACC compilers to accelerate research.
Using PGI’s OpenACC compiler, we ported a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) application benchmark to a general purpose GPU-based system,” reported NASA researchers in an upcoming research paper. “OpenACC is a much easier way to accelerate applications than other programming approaches, and we saw an immediate speed up of the benchmark on multiple tests, up to 10X faster compared with a single CPU core-based system.”
I met with members of the OpenACC standards group last week and it is clear to me that Directives are simply a much more efficient way to port codes to accelerators, especially on massive hybrid systems like the Titan Cray XK7.
As evidenced in this SC12 Show Guide, OpenACC will be all over the SC12 show floor next week. Be sure to check out the OpenACC tutorials and BoFs as well as demos from CAPS, PGI, and Rogue Wave. Read the Full Story.
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