In this RCE podcast, Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres speak withPhil Blood of the Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center (PSC) about XSEDE the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment.
RCE Podcast: XSEDE Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment
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Happy Holidays from insideHPC
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At insideHPC, we would like to thank your readers and sponsors for making 2011 such a terrific year.
We have some exciting plans in store for 2012, and we hope to share those with you soon. In the meantime, all the best to you and your loved ones this holiday season.
Yours Truly,
-Rich Brueckner
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Contest Winner – Cuda on ARM Developer Kit to be Named CARMA
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Thanks to its crowdsourcing contest, Nvidia has named its ARM developer kit CARMA.
Powered by a Tegra 3 quad-core ARM-based processor and an NVIDIA CUDA-enabled GPU, the CARMA DevKit is being developed to support energy-efficient HPC projects using ARM-based GPU computing. In fact, this technology will power the Barcelona Supercomputing Center’s ARM-based GPU supercomputer.
CARMA is expected to start shipping in Q2 2012. Read the Full Story.
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IEEE eScience Conference Call for Submissions
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The 2012 IEEE eScience Conference has issued its Call for Submissions. The event will take place in Chicago on Oct. 8-12, 2012.
Researchers in all disciplines are increasingly adopting digital tools, techniques and practices, often in communities and projects that span disciplines, laboratories, organizations, and national boundaries. The eScience 2012 conference is designed to bring together leading international and interdisciplinary research communities, developers, and users of eScience applications and enabling IT technologies. The conference serves as a forum to present the results of the latest applications research and product/tool developments and to highlight related activities from around the world. Also, we are now entering the second decade of eScience and the 2012 conference gives an opportunity to take stock of what has been achieved so far and look forward to the challenges and opportunities the next decade will bring.
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Sponsored Post: Grid Engine Quiz — Win an iPad2
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Are you a Grid Engine user? If so, you are eligible to win an iPad2.
It’s easy. Just watch this video interview with Univa’s Rob Secontine and take the quiz to be entered in the prize drawing:
Watch the Video & Complete the Survey to be Entered to Win an iPad2!
Everyone who completes the quiz and identifies themself will, in exchange for your valuable time, be entered in a draw for an iPad2. A valid email address must be used, of course, because if we don’t know who you are, we can’t send you a gift should you win. This promotion is limited to eligible Grid Engine users only.
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Video: Why ARM Does Compute for Future HPC
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In this video from EE Times, Nvidia’s Sumit Gupta describes why energy-efficient ARM processors is better option for supercomputing going forward.
The number one consideration for x86 has always been to make operating systems like Windows run much faster and to be able to respond to unpredictable tasks, such as a mouse-click or a keyboard entry,” said Gupta, noting that the need for branch prediction and speculative execution was the reason x86 processors had such sizeable cache. “It’s a terrific processor for everyday computing, not the right device as we go towards high performance computing,” he maintained.
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AMD Fusion12 Developer Summit Issues Call For Papers
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The AMD Fusion Developer Summit has issued its Call for Proposals. The event takes place June 11-14, 2012 in Bellevue, Washington.
Fusion made HPC headlines recently when Penguin Computing deployed the world’s first APU-based supercomputer at Sandia National Labs. For more information, check out the Penguin’s interview video from SC11.
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Nvidia Contest: Name the Project – Cuda on ARM Development Kit
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Nvidia is looking for a good name for the Cuda on ARM Development Kit.
Recently announced at the SuperComputing 2011 conference in Seattle, Wash., the CUDA on ARM development kit will enable programmers to easily write code for the next generation of powerful, energy efficient supercomputers. Fitting, as this same hardware – powered by the ARM-based NVIDIA Tegra 3 mobile processor and a discrete NVIDIA CUDA GPU – is being used in theBarcelona Supercomputing Center’s world’s first ARM-based supercomputer.
The winner will get a development kit for a prize. After watching the Grimm episode the other night about the killer bees, I suggested the name SWARM. Hey, this thing is all about economies of scale, right? Since I don’t code, I’d rather have them send me Cuban cigars and beer, though.
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Video: Mellanox Showcases FDR InfiniBand at SC11
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In this video, Gilad Shainer from Mellanox discusses the impact FDR InfiniBand is making on the HPC and TOP500 landscape. He also describes new virtualized GPU technology enabled by IB’s low latency as well as new MPI communication libraries including ScalableSHMEM 2.0 and ScalableUPC 2.0.
Mellanox InfiniBand interconnect solutions continue to demonstrate leading performance, efficiency, scalability and reliability for the world’s fastest supercomputer systems,” said Eyal Waldman, president, chairman and CEO of Mellanox Technologies. “With over half of the world’s Petaflop systems, as well as the top three most efficient systems on the list, Mellanox FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand and 10/40GbE interconnect solutions with PCI Express 3.0 provide the best return-on-investment with leading system efficiency without sacrificing performance.”
Recorded at SC11 in Seattle. Read the Full Story.
RIKEN Wins Gordon Bell Prize Using K Computer
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Last week a research group from RIKEN, the University of Tsukuba, the University of Tokyo, and Fujitsu Limited announced that research results obtained using the “K computer” were awarded the ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Peak-Performance at SC11.
The award-winning results, presented at SC11, revealed the electron states of silicon nanowires, which have attracted attention as a core material for next-generation semiconductors. To verify the computational performance of the K computer, quantum-mechanical computations were performed on the electron states of a nanowire with approximately 100,000 atoms (20 nanometers in diameter and 6 nanometers long), close to the actual size of the materials, and achieved execution performance of 3.08 petaflops (representing execution efficiency of 43.6%). The results of the detailed calculations on the electron states of silicon nanowires, comprised of 10,000 to 40,000 atoms, clarified that electron transport characteristics will change depending on the cross-sectional shape of the nanowire.
This is the first time that a research group from Japan has won the Gordon Bell Prize for Peak-Performance since 2004. Read the Full Story.
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Gallery of Top 10 Supercomputers on Earth
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The TOP500 may have been a bit anticlimactic for some this year, but I still find the list to be a fascinating snapshot of the state of HPC today.
Rich Miller from Datacenter Knowledge brings us this photo gallery of the Top 10 supercomputers in the world. If they look familiar, that would be because they’re the same 10 machines that topped the list back in June.
Awarding of Certificates for No. 1 System in the 38th TOP500 List. From Left to Right: Dr. Hans Meuer, Dr. Jack Dongarra, Corporate Vice President Kenji Ikegai (Fujitsu), Dr. Tadashi Watanabe (RIKEN), Dr. Erich Strohmaier, Dr. Horst Simon
Here’s one more factoid I got from Jack Dongarra this week: The #1 K computer from Fujitsu has more flops than the #2 through #8 supercomputers combined.
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Colfax Goes Cluster Ready with Xeon E5
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Intel’s Cluster Ready program continues to make life easier in the HPC ecosystem. You’ve gotta like that. This week Colfax International jumped on the bandwagon with the CX-2290JF-X5 Cluster, which starts shipping sometime next year.
Based on the Intel Server System H2000 family, the CX-2290JF-X5 offers support for up to 8 future Intel Xeon E5 processors in a 2U form factor. Built for the HPC market, the Colfax CX-2290JF-X5 system offers 2X floating point operations per clock cycle via support of Intel Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) and provides a maximum memory bandwidth of up to 1600MHz. QDR Infiniband is available. The certification as an Intel® Cluster Ready system indicates that the CX-2290JF-X5 is built according to the Intel Cluster Ready specification and rigorously tested and verified for component interoperability. Customers can have confidence that a cluster built on this system will work as it should, boosting productivity right away.
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Mitrionics Returns to HPC
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As I learned this year at SC11, accelerators are doing all kinds of interesting things in HPC these days. Mitrionics AB, developer of the Mitrion Virtual Processor and the Mitrion Software Acceleration Platform for FPGA-based reconfigurable computing, announced its re-emergence in the HPC and supercomputing markets. After a one-year hiatus, the company will be headed by Sasan Fallahi.
Mitrionics is fortunate to begin its new operation with an impressive portfolio of products and strong working relationships with many of the HPC industry leaders,” stated Sasan Fallahi, CEO of Mitrionics AB. “Our success is dependent on the success of our partners, and our goal is to continue enhancing our technologies to meet the needs of our mutual customers.”
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Europe CRESTA Project Gears Up Software for Exascale
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A new consortium of leading European sites has come together to deliver the software needed to support and exploit the massive Exascale systems of the future. The €8.3M CRESTA project (Collaborative Research into Exascale Systemware, Tools and Applications) integrates thirteen leading European sites to deliver this technology. The project is funded under the EU Framework 7 research program and represents part of a significant investment in Exascale research by Europe. This computing challenge cannot be solved with existing approaches.
The consortium has shown that software is critical to successfully achieving exascale performance. CRESTA’s experts include four of Europe’s leading HPC centres (EPCC, HLRS, CSC and PDC), a world-leading supplier of HPC systems (Cray Europe), seven application owners from science and industry (DLR, KTH, ABO, JYU, UCL, ECMWF and CRSA), Europe’s leading HPC tool company (Allinea) and Europe’s leading performance analysis organization (TUD). The project has two integrated strands linked via a cyclical co-design process: one focused on enabling a key set of co-design applications for exascale, the other focused on building and exploring appropriate “systemware” for exascale platforms.
Exascale computing is posing new challenges on the entire software stack. A multidisciplinary approach combining hardware specialists, computer scientists, mathematicians, application developers and domain scientists is needed to address these challenges,” explains Dr Erwin Laurie, director of PDC’s High Performance Computing Centee. “CRESTA brings all of these competences together in co-design teams working on important European software packages to foster Europe’s leadership in HPC software.”
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Long Odds Coming in for SC11 Student Cluster Competition
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The wajers are starting to come in for the SC11 Student Cluster Competition, which kicks off next week. Dan Olds from The Register has been following this sporting event for a few years now, and today he looks at what the long odds are telling us from his betting site:
The first thing that jumps out at us is that the Texas Longhorn team is still the overall favorite by a wide margin. There are a few reasons behind this. First, it’s a competitive team that scored the overall highest LINPACK in the 2010 SCC (breaking a teraflop) and came close to winning all the marbles. We also see that Texas fans are shameless ballot box stuffers, practicing the time-honored tradition of voting early and often. Fair enough. They’re also doing their share of trash talking.
There’s still time to lay down your own SCC bet. Do you think Texas will rule? Or do you think Team Taiwan or Team China will dominate? Can Purdue or Colorado use their vast experience to finally capture the championship? Or will one of the dark horses like Team Russia or Boston U come out of nowhere to win? Perhaps you think we’ll hear the triumphant scree of the Rainforest Eagles? Read the Full Story and Place Your Bet.
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