Video: Nvidia Unveils ARM-Powered SoC with Volta GPU
Today at GTC Europe, Nvidia unveiled Xavier, an all-new SoC based on the company's next-gen Volta GPU, which will be the processor in future self-driving cars. According to Huang, the ARM-based Xavier will feature unprecedented performance and energy efficiency, while supporting deep-learning features important to the automotive market. A single Xavier-based AI car supercomputer will be able to replace today’s fully configured DRIVE PX 2 with two Parker SoCs and two Pascal GPUs. [READ MORE...]
Recent Features
Nvidia Releases Cuda 8
Today Nvidia announced the general availability of CUDA 8 toolkit for GPU developers. "A crucial goal for CUDA 8 is to provide support for the powerful new Pascal architecture, the first incarnation of which was launched at GTC 2016: Tesla P100,” said Nvidia’s Mark Harris in a blog post. “One of NVIDIA’s goals is to support CUDA across the entire NVIDIA platform, so CUDA 8 supports all new Pascal GPUs, including Tesla P100, P40, and P4, as well as NVIDIA Titan X, and Pascal-based GeForce, Quadro, and DrivePX GPUs.” [READ MORE...]
Video: An Optimized Entry Level Lustre Solution in a Small Form Factor
In this video from LUG 2016 in Australia, Chakravarthy Nagarajan from Intel presents: An Optimized Entry Level Lustre Solution in a Small Form Factor. "Our goal was to provide an entry level Lustre storage solution in a high density form factor, with a low cost, small footprint, all integrated with Intel Enterprise Edition for Lustre* software." [READ MORE...]
D-Wave Systems Previews 2000-Qubit Quantum Computer
Today D-Wave Systems announced details of its most advanced quantum computing system, featuring a new 2000-qubit processor. The announcement is being made at the company’s inaugural users group conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The new processor doubles the number of qubits over the previous generation D-Wave 2X system, enabling larger problems to be solved and extending D-Wave’s significant lead over all quantum computing competitors. The new system also introduces control features that allow users to tune the quantum computational process to solve problems faster and find more diverse solutions when they exist. In early tests these new features have yielded performance improvements of up to 1000 times over the D-Wave 2X system. [READ MORE...]
Featured Resource
Next Generation Sequencing
With a massive surge in genomics research, the ability to quickly process very large amounts of data is now required for any organization that is involved in genomics. While the cost has been reduced significantly, the amount of data that is produced is has increased as well. This article describes next generation sequencing and how a combination of hardware and innovative software can decrease the amount of time to sequence genomes. [READ MORE...]
Industry Perspectives
Larry Smarr Presents: 50 Years of Supercomputing
Larry Smarr presented this talk as part of NCSA's 30th Anniversary Celebration. "For the last thirty years, NCSA has played a critical role in bringing computational science and scientific visualization to the national user community. I will embed those three decades in the 50 year period 1975 to 2025, beginning with my solving Einstein's equations for colliding black holes on the megaFLOPs CDC 6600 and ending with the exascale supercomputer. This 50 years spans a period in which we will have seen a one trillion-fold increase in supercomputer speed." [Read More...]
Putting HPC into the Hands of Every Engineer and Scientist
In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Wolfgang Gentzsch explains the role of HPC container technology in providing ubiquitous access to HPC. "The advent of lightweight pervasive, packageable, portable, scalable, interactive, easy to access and use HPC application containers based on Docker technology running seamlessly on workstations, servers, and clouds, is bringing us ever closer to the democratization of HPC." [Read More...]
Featured from insideBIGDATA
- Trifacta v4 Extends Enterprise Data Wrangling to Any User, Any Data, Any CloudTrifacta, a leader in data wrangling, announced the release of Trifacta v4. The latest release expands upon Trifacta’s award-winning approach to data wrangling, with capabilities specifically designed to work for more users, more diverse data sources and within more cloud environments.
News from insideBIGDATA
- Trifacta v4 Extends Enterprise Data Wrangling to Any User, Any Data, Any Cloud
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- Tego Announces Open, Multi-Platform Operating System for Powering Things With Intelligence
- Unlock the Potential of IoT with Real-Time Data
- “Above the Trend Line” – Your Industry Rumor Central for 9/26/2016
- SAP Announces SAP HANA®, Express Edition, for Rapid Application Development on a Personal Computer or in the Cloud
- New Lightbend Survey of 2,000 Java and Scala Developers Reveals Shake-Up In Enterprise Application Architecture
Editor’s Choice
Video: Cycle Computing Works with Dell to Deliver More Science for More Users
In this this video from ISC 2016, Tim Carroll describes how Cycle Computing is working with Dell Technologies to deliver more science for more users. Cycle Computing’s CycleCloud software suite is the leading cloud orchestration, provisioning, and data management platform for Big Compute, Big Data, and large technical computing applications running on any public, private, or internal environment. [Read More...]
Slidecast: For AMD, It’s Time to ROCm!
"AMD has been away from the HPC space for a while, but now they are coming back in a big way with an open software approach to GPU computing. The Radeon Open Compute Platform (ROCm) was born from the Boltzmann Initiative announced last year at SC15. Now available on GitHub, the ROCm Platform bringing a rich foundation to advanced computing by better integrating the CPU and GPU to solve real-world problems." [Read More...]
Video: The ECP Exascale Computing Project
Paul Messina presented this talk at the HPC User Forum in Austin. "The Exascale Computing Project (ECP) is a collaborative effort of the Office of Science (DOE-SC) and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). As part of President Obama’s National Strategic Computing initiative, ECP was established to develop a new class of high-performance computing systems whose power will be a thousand times more powerful than today’s petaflop machines." [Read More...]
Interview: Dr. Eng Lim Goh on the Latest Trends in High Performance Data Analytics
In this video from ISC 2016, Dr. Eng Lim Goh from SGI discusses the latest trends in high performance data analytics and machine learning. "Dr. Eng Lim Goh joined SGI in 1989, becoming a chief engineer in 1998 and then chief technology officer in 2000. He oversees technical computing programs with the goal to develop the next generation computer architecture for the new many-core era. His current research interest is in the progression from data intensive computing to analytics, machine learning, artificial specific to general intelligence and autonomous systems. Since joining SGI, he has continued his studies in human perception for user interfaces and virtual and augmented reality." [Read More...]
Radio Free HPC Looks at Sunway TaihuLight – the World’s Fastest Supercomputer
In this podcast, Shahin Khan from OrionX joins the Radio Free HPC team for a look at the new TOP500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers. "The 93 Petaflop Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer is not a one-time effort from China. Not only do they now have the two top two supercomputers, China also sponsors the world’s largest state-sponsored Student Cluster Competition with over 170 university teams. The takeaway from today; China is serious about supercomputing, they are in it for the long haul, and they are willing to write the checks to make it happen." [Read More...]
