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Slidecast: Teradata Rolls Out Intelligent Memory Technology

Rich Brueckner — Sat, 18 May 2013 13:43:45 +0000

In this slidecast, Scott Gnau from Teradata Labs presents: Teradata Intelligent Memory.

The introduction of Teradata Intelligent Memory allows our customers to exploit the performance of memory within Teradata Platforms, which extends our leadership position as the best performing data warehouse technology at the most competitive price,” said Scott Gnau, president, Teradata Labs. “Teradata Intelligent Memory technology is built into the data warehouse and customers don’t have to buy a separate appliance. Additionally, Teradata enables its customers to buy and configure the exact amount of in-memory capability needed for critical workloads. It is unnecessary and impractical to keep all data in memory, because all data do not have the same value to justify being placed in expensive memory.”

How does Intelligent Memory work? This animation video does a good job of making this advanced technology look simple.

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Nominees Sought for SC13 Awards

Staff — Fri, 17 May 2013 14:28:14 +0000

SC13, the international conference for high-performance computing, networking, storage and analysis, is accepting nominations for three distinguished awards that will be presented at the conference in November.

The IEEE Seymour Cray Computer Science and Engineering Award, the IEEE Sidney Fernbach Memorial Award and the ACM-IEEE Ken Kennedy Award will be announced at SC13, to be held from 17 to 22 November at the Colorado Convention Center, US. Nominations should be made via the SC13 website.

Established in 1997, the IEEE Computer Society Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award recognises innovative contributions to high-performance computing systems that best exemplify the creative spirit demonstrated by Seymour Cray. Previous winners have been recognised for design, engineering and intellectual leadership in creating innovative and successful HPC systems.

The IEEE Computer Society Sidney Fernbach Award was established in 1992 in honour of Sidney Fernbach, one of the pioneers in the development and application of high-performance computers for solving large computational problems. Nominations that recognise creation of widely-used and innovative software packages, application software and tools are especially solicited. The Fernbach award winner receives a certificate and $2,000.

The ACM/IEEE Ken Kennedy Award, established in 2009, is presented for outstanding contributions to programmability or productivity in computing, together with significant community service or mentoring contributions. The award was established in memory of Ken Kennedy, the founder of Rice University’s nationally ranked computer science program and one of the world’s foremost experts on high-performance computing. Awardees receive a certificate and a $5,000 honorarium.

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30 Years of Parallel Computing at Argonne

Ralph — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:23:57 +0000

Argonne National Lab just wrapped up a two-day event celebrating 30 years of parallel computing. The event hosted many of the visionaries at the lab and at other institutions who initiated and contributed to Argonne’s history of advancing parallel computing and computational science.

Argonne National Laboratory seeks solutions to pressing national problems in science and technology. The nation’s first national laboratory, Argonne conducts leading-edge basic and applied scientific research in virtually every scientific discipline. Argonne researchers work closely with researchers from hundreds of companies, universities, and federal, state and municipal agencies to help them solve their specific problems, advance America’s scientific leadership and prepare the nation for a better future.

The tradition continues as Argonne explores new paths and paves the way toward exascale computing. Read the Full Story.

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NICE EnginFrame 2013 Enables Remote Visualization Sessions in the Technical Cloud

Rich Brueckner — Wed, 15 May 2013 21:29:20 +0000

Today Italian HPC solution provider NICE announced the release of the EnginFrame 2013.0 software. Designed for technical computing users in a broad range of markets, EnginFrame simplifies engineering and scientific workflows, increasing productivity and streamlining data and resource management.

With EnginFrame 2013.0 we have further strengthened our technology leadership in the HPC Portal market” , said Giuseppe Ugolotti, CEO of NICE. “NICE EnginFrame is a critical component for anyone who wants to create a technical Cloud that can run at the same time both HPC and interactive workload.”

As an HPC Portal, EnginFrame 2013.0 now offers built-in management of 3D and 2D remote visualization sessions, improved data transfer capabilities and a great number of new features and enhancements addressing both end users’ and system administrators’ needs. Leveraging all the major HPC job schedulers and remote visualization technologies, EnginFrame translates user clicks into the appropriate actions to submit HPC jobs, create remote visualization sessions, and monitor workloads on distributed resources.

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Video: EIOW Exascale I/O Working Group

Rich Brueckner — Sun, 05 May 2013 15:06:29 +0000

In this video from the Lustre User Group 2013, Meghan McClelland from Xyratex presents: EIOW – Exascale I/O Working Group.

There is a fierce competition on the storage market to offer the best performing devices, with great management at a low price. The EIOW group, from the outset, decided that it would not attempt to offer an end-to-end solution, which would necessarily involve competing instead of working with storage providers. The focus of EIOW is on middleware to provide, for example, schemas describing data structure and layout, novel access methods to data for applications, a uniform data management infrastructure and a framework for the implementation of layered I/O software, similar in spirit to HDF5 as a specialized use of a parallel file system. We decided EIOW should be open, and have interfaces to layer on lower level storage infrastructure such as object stores, databases and file systems as provided by storage providers, to allow their expertise and leadership in this area to continue to benefit the HPC community.

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Sign Up for the Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing, July 28-August 9

Rich Brueckner — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:56:59 +0000

Computational scientists are invited to register for the upcoming Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC). The event will take place in the greater Chicago area from July 28-August 9, 2013.

The program provides intensive hands-on training on the key skills, approaches, and tools to design, implement, and execute computational science and engineering applications on current high-end computing systems and the leadership-class computing systems of the future. As a bridge to that future, this two-week program to be held in suburban Chicago fills the gap that exists in the training computational scientists typically receive through formal education or other shorter courses.

Applications are currently being accepted for the program. The deadline for applying is May 22, 2013. Read the Full Story.

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INCITE-ful Proposals Now Being Accepted

Staff — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:30:39 +0000

Proposals are now being accepted for the Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program. INCITE will allocate more than five billion core-hours on leadership-class supercomputers in 2014.

INCITE enables transformational advances in science and technology for computationally intensive, large-scale research projects through large allocations of computer time and supporting resources at the Argonne and Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (LCF) centres, operated by the US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science.

INCITE seeks research enterprises for capability computing: production simulations – including ensembles – that use a large fraction of the LCF systems or require the unique LCF architectural infrastructure for high-impact projects that cannot be performed anywhere else to address some of the toughest challenges in science and engineering.

INCITE is currently soliciting proposals of research for awards of time on the 27-petaflop Cray XK7 ‘Titan’ and the 10-petaflop IBM Blue Gene/Q ‘Mira’ beginning Calendar Year (CY) 2014. Average awards per project for CY 2014 are expected to be on the order of tens to hundreds of millions of core-hours. Proposals may be for up to three years. The INCITE programme is open to US- and non-US-based researchers and research organisations needing large allocations of computer time, supporting resources and data storage. Applications undergo a two-phase review process to identify projects with the greatest potential for impact and a demonstrable need for leadership-class systems to deliver solutions to grand challenges.

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Moabcon 2013 Videos

Rich Brueckner — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:24:10 +0000

Moabcon 2013 took place in Park City on April 9-11, 2013. At insideHPC, we were there to capture the very best of this conference to help keep you up to date on the latest Moab software developments.

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NICS, Adaptive Computing, and Intel: Leadership in HPC

Rich Brueckner — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 11:00:43 +0000

In this video from Moabcon 2013, Troy Baer presents: NICS, Adaptive Computing, and Intel: Leadership in HPC.

An Appro Xtreme-X Supercomputer named Beacon, deployed by the National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS) of the University of Tennessee, tops the current Green500 list, which ranks the world’s fastest supercomputers based on their power efficiency. To earn its number-one ranking, the supercomputer employed Intel® Xeon® processors and Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessors to produce 112.2 trillion calculations per second using only 44.89 kW of power, resulting in world-record efficiency of 2.499 billion floating point operations per second per watt.”

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Thomas Sterling Presents: Towards the Exascale Target – the Arrow in Flight

Rich Brueckner — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 15:03:41 +0000

In this video from the 2013 National HPCC Conference, Dr. Thomas Sterling from Indiana University presents: Towards the Exascale Target – the Arrow in Flight.

The preceding year has witnessed a strong impetus towards the ultimate US achievement of practical exascale computing through the initiation of research and development programs. There are two trajectories in flight toward this ambitious target in the US, both guided principally by the DOE through an important partnership between the NNSA and the OS/ASCR. One, the incremental flight path through a series of successive petascale systems, is building on step-wise extensions of conventional practices for low risk and minimal disruption to ensure continued US capability growth in performing mission-critical applications throughout the remainder of this decade. The second, the advanced course of revolutionary research, has in its target cross hairs a truly general purpose and easily programmed class of exascale systems. This strategy is enabled by a set of principles that transform a once static methodology to a dynamic adaptive paradigm to advance efficiency and scalability while exhibiting a far more programmable user interface. This presentation will review the important strides made over the last year and describe the significant accomplishments that have been achieved under the guidance of the DOE leadership in establishing key programs that will maintain US competitiveness internationally and leadership at home.

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HPC People on the Move: More Exodus at Tabor Communications

Lewey — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:48:22 +0000

Hello. It’s me again–Dr. Lewey Anton. I’ve been commissioned by insideHPC to track HPC People on the Move. The personnel landscape in HPC continues to ebb and flow out there. And in a small community like this, the company names on the badges may change, but faces remain the same.

Here are the most recent developments:

Richard Brandt has left Tabor Communications, the third editor to exit the company in as many months. Brandt took over as editor of HPCwire in February, replacing Michael Feldman, who had been editor of the publication for seven years or so. Feldman is now an analyst at Intersect360 Research.

Nicole Hemsoth is now Director of Editorial Operations and Managing Editor HPCwire. Hemsoth was previously the editor of Datanami and HPC in the Cloud, and with her considerable writing chops, she is well-suited to step in at HPCwire.

John Kirkley is now a contributing editor at insideBigData. Kirkley left the Digital Manufacturing Report at Tabor Communications last month to reboot Kirkley Communications.

Isaac Lopez is now Managing Editor at Datanami. Previously the publisher of Datanami, Lopez has 11 years in the high technology and publishing industries.

Ken Tan has joined Skyera as VP of Operations. Tan is responsible for the worldwide supply chain and manufacturing operations for Skyera as the company ramps its skyHawk series of solid-state storage systems.

Susan Lewis has joined Silicon Mechanics as director of product management. Lewis has over 20 years experience in the industry, and her leadership should be a boon for this maker of rackmount servers, storage, and high-performance computing clusters.

Have you moved or know of HPC folks in new positions? Let us know by sending an email to: lewey@insidehpc.com. In the meantime, keep up with the HPC community’s movers and shakers by subscribing to insideHPC today.

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ACM Athena Lecturer Katherine Yelick to Present at SC13

Ralph — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 22:03:22 +0000

This week SC13 announced that Katherine Yelick of LBNL will address the conference as the 2013-2014 Athena Lecturer. The award honors outstanding women researchers who have made fundamental contributions to computer science.

The Athena Lecturer award is a leading award in the computing community, and is a well-deserved honor that recognizes Dr. Yelick’s rich legacy of accomplishments in the field,” said William D. Gropp, the Thomas M. Siebel Chair in Computer Science at the University of Illinois and General Chair of SC13. “Kathy’s research has led to fundamental improvements in the ways in which we think about parallelism in complex applications and express it at large scale.”

Yelick’s was recognized for an extensive body of work including the co-creation of Unified Parallel C (UPC) and core contributions to the theory and practice of performance analysis, modeling, and optimization for the field of high performance computing.

For 25 years the SC conference series has served as the focal point of innovation in the HPC community,” said Satoshi Matsuoka, professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology and chair of the SC13 Technical Program. “We are proud that Dr. Yelick has chosen this conference for her lecture, and feel it is entirely in keeping with the SC tradition of excellence and leadership in our field. Kathy’s successful research career and her deep commitment to developing the next generation of computing professionals exemplify the core values of this conference.”

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Grand Challenges Déjà Vu

Staff — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:21:26 +0000

In this special guest feature, Doug Black from The Exascale Report writes that, while the idea of Grand Challenges is not new, the need for powerful computational tools to solve these global issues remains unchanged.

Flash back to 1992. Do you remember the ‘Blue Book’ and the HPCC program? If this is your first exposure to the ‘Grand Challenges’ you may find this quite interesting. On November 7, 2012, senior representatives of the DOE labs sent a letter to Secretary of Energy, Steven Chu to report on a Grand Challenges Workshop on Advanced Computing for Energy Innovation held in late July – early August 2012.

While the workshop recommendations focused on what it called Technical, Structural and Incentive ‘Grand Challenges’, one of its final recommendations was to establish an Advanced Computing for Energy (ACE) program within the Department of Energy. When I read this letter, I had an intense sense of déjà vu – one of those ‘here we go again’ feelings. But in a good way.

For a moment, it felt like 1992 all over again, a year of unusually high energy and high promise in the HPC community. It’s the year we really sank our teeth into the teraFLOPS challenge. It seemed the entire community rallied in support of what the first President Bush’s science advisor, Alan Bromley, labeled the Grand Challenges – referring to high performance computing and communications. Those Grand Challenges were the challenges of science.

It was the beginning of a period of powerful government and private industry collaboration referred to as the HPCC program. I pulled this quote from the program’s overview documentation: The HPCC Program is driven by the recognition that unprecedented computational power and capability is needed to investigate and understand a wide range of scientific and engineering “grand challenge” problems.

The program’s famous “Blue Book” also made this point:

The HPCC Program is the result of several years of effort on the part of senior government, industry, and academic scientists and managers to design a research agenda to extend U.S. leadership in high performance computing and networking technologies.

So, in many ways, nothing has really changed. Again, I mean this in a good way. The 2012 appeal to address the world’s ‘Grand Challenges’ is eerily similar to what we addressed 20 years ago. HPC is an ever widening circle that keeps coming around. Twenty years ago, the Grand Challenges included climate prediction and genome mapping. Today, the great need is energy innovation and saving the environment. Tomorrow, it may be food. This is HPC and that’s how HPC works, tackling as ever the need for funding and the need for urgency to apply extreme computational resources on the greatest scientific challenges of our time.

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Ashlee Ford Versypt Named 2013 Frederick A. Howes Scholar in Computational Science

Rich Brueckner — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 10:24:04 +0000

This week the Krell Institute announced that Ashlee Ford Versypt has been named the 2012 Frederick A. Howes Scholar in Computational Science. The award honors recent doctoral graduates of the Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship program for outstanding technical achievements.

Ashlee’s demonstrated excellence in research, leadership and outreach in the computational science community exemplifies the qualities that Fred Howes encouraged in all young scientists. She serves as a role model to her peers and a tireless communicator and advocate for the field of computational science,” the selection committee noted in its award citation.

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Violin Memory and Toshiba Team up for Mass Adoption of Memory Infrastructure

Rich Brueckner — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:59:01 +0000

In this slidecast, Narayan Venkat from Violin Memory describes how the company’s new alliance with Toshiba will help foster a whole new world of applications that perform at the speed of memory.

Our new focus on PCIe cards will allow both companies to drive radical new economics that lead to the mass adoption of memory-based architectures,” said Don Basile, CEO of Violin Memory. “NAND memory is now a requirement at every level from the smart connected device to the core of the cloud and the enterprise data center. Violin’s combined portfolios continue our leadership across the evolving memory-based solution market.”

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Argonne to Host Mira Community Conference March 4-8

Ralph — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 19:55:46 +0000

The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will host the inaugural Mira Community Conference on March 4-8, 2013 in Lemont, Illinois.

Join ALCF and industry experts in an overview of Mira and Blue Gene/Q technology. We’ll cover basic and advanced topics, including the key differences between Mira and Intrepid, plus code optimization, scaling, tools and debuggers and parallel I/O. Hone your skills with hands-on time on Blue Gene/Q resources.

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Altair PBS Works to Power Minerva Cluster University of Nottingham

Ralph — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:16:28 +0000

Today Altair announced that the University of Nottingham has selected Altair’s PBS Works suite to expand the capabilities of its campus-wide HPC service based on Minerva, the university’s latest generation HPC cluster.

Working in partnership with ClusterVision, Altair will provide PBS Professional, Compute Manager and PBS Analytics to transform the 45 Tflop cluster into a robust and easily usable HPC service for the cluster’s hundreds of users. Altair was chosen over competitors because of its portal offerings, strong feature set and highly customizable framework. The company’s proven technology leadership and flexible approach were also key factors in the selection.

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ETI to Develop 2012 X-Stack Self-Aware Software Framework

Ralph — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 12:30:30 +0000

The Department of Energy has selected two teams with University of Delaware connections to receive funding under a supercomputing program called 2012 X-Stack: Programming Challenges, Runtime Systems and Tools. Guang Gao, Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is part of an Intel-led team selected to address extreme-scale computing issues in scalability, programmability, portability, resilience, energy efficiency and interoperability. ETI, a UD spin-off company founded by Gao, also was awarded funding under the program.

As scientific discovery and national security needs advance, and as data consumption and creation accelerates, Gao says he believes the next generation of scientific breakthroughs in extreme scale science will require major, novel advances in computer technology. “We cannot outsource our exa-scale computing research and development needs elsewhere. Strategically it is too important to our national security and to maintaining leadership in science and technology,” he explains.

On the Intel-led X-Stack project, Gao is leading research at UD to develop a novel program execution model and self-aware system software framework. Read the Full Story.

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Dartmouth Opens Visualization Lab

Staff — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:12:02 +0000

The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth has announced the creation of the Center for Scientific Computing and Visualization Research, to promote the development of innovative and powerful computational tools to address scientific and societal challenges.

The dramatic increase in the speed and data-handling capability of high-performance computers, and complementary development of novel algorithms, have transformed the nature of scientific investigation.

The new centre will place UMass Dartmouth at the forefront of computationally-based research and education by providing intellectual, academic and technical leadership in the multi-disciplinary pursuit of discovery and innovation enabled by advanced computational methods and data visualisation,” added Robert Peck, Dean of the College of Engineering.

The Center for Scientific Computing and Visualization Research unites more than a dozen faculty researchers in mathematics, astrophysics, mechanical and civil engineering. It will promote the mission of the university by providing undergraduate and graduate students with high quality discovery-based educational experiences that transcend the traditional boundaries of academic field or department, and foster collaborative research in the computational sciences within the university.

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Wes Bethel from LBNL Named ACM Distinguished Scientist

Lewey — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 13:00:13 +0000

Wes Bethel, leader of the LBNL Visualization Group in the Computational Research Division, has been named an ACM Distinguished Scientist. The award recognizes ACM members who have made a significant impact on the computing field.

In the letter nominating Bethel, he was cited for his work on visualization and data analysis for nearly 30 years and being “a well-regarded leader of scientific visualization.” During his 10-year leadership of the Visualization Group, the group has grown from three staff members to 14, and the team regularly produces field-leading work recognized via best paper awards at conferences. Bethel is responsible for coordinating and leading or co-leading a number of multi-institutional research activities, such as the “Scalable Data Management, Analysis and Visualization Institute” and “Visual Data Exploration and Analysis of Ultra-large Climate Data.”

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