GRC Receives Innovation in Liquid Cooling Award
Today GRC announced that the company has been awarded the Corporate LiveWire 2018/2019 Innovation in Liquid Cooling Award. The award recognizes GRC’s patented ICEraQ and ICEtank cooling solutions for its effectiveness solving the problem of increasing heat loads in data centers and as a technology-based product aimed toward providing a brighter future. "Since the company’s founding in 2009, it has deployed systems in 13 countries, across industries that include academic supercomputing, oil and gas, military, financial services, and cryptocurrency mining." [READ MORE...]
Featured Stories
Job of the Week: Software Developer for the FATES Project at LBNL
LBNL is seeking a Software Developer for the FATES Project in our Job of the Week. "The engineer will work with the FATES model, which is a size and age structured dynamic vegetation model that represents plant physiology and ecosystem assembly processes for use within Earth system models. This position will be principally funded by the NGEE-Tropics project, which is a long-term, DOE-supported effort to bring together observational and theoretical approaches to build, inform, and test the representation of tropical forests within Earth system models." [READ MORE...]
Penguin Computing Launches Ai Practice
Today Penguin Computing announced the formation of the Penguin Computing Artificial Intelligence Practice, a full service consultancy dedicated to working with organizations to achieve their AI goals. "The new AI Practice will be led by Penguin Computing Chief Technology Officer Philip Pokorny and will operate as a full-service consultancy, delivering system design expertise, building custom technology solutions, and providing professional services (including management and hosting of AI clusters) and advanced level support." [READ MORE...]
Watch 5,000 Robots Merge to Map the Universe in 3-D
In this video, scientists describe how the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will measure the effect of dark energy on the expansion of the universe. It will obtain optical spectra for tens of millions of galaxies and quasars, constructing a 3D map spanning the nearby universe to 11 billion light years. "How do you create the largest 3D map of the universe? It’s as easy as teaching 5,000 robots how to “dance.” DESI, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, is an experiment that will target millions of distant galaxies by automatically swiveling fiber-optic positioners (the robots) to point at them and gather their light." [READ MORE...]
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Choosing the Right In-Memory Computing Solution
This white paper reviews why in-memory computing makes sense for today’s fast-data and big-data applications. It dispels common myths about IMC and clarifies the distinctions among IMC product categories to make the process of choosing the right IMC solution for a specific use case much easier. Download the new white paper from GridGain that offers a guide to in-memory computing, and find out in-memory computing is right for your business.
Industry Perspectives
Making Storage Bigger on the Inside
This sponsored post from HPE delves into how tools like HPE Data Management Framework are working to make HPC storage "bigger on the inside" and streamline data workflows. "DMF seamlessly moves data between tiers, whether they’re “hot” tiers based on flash storage, “warm” tiers based on hard drives or “cold tiers based on tape." [Read More...]
The Rising AI Tide in HPC – Are You Ready?
This guest article from Dr. Bhushan Desam, Lenovo’s Director, Global Artificial Intelligence Business covers how new HPC tools like Lenovo's LiCO (Lenovo Intelligent Computing Orchestration) are working to address the growing popularity of AI in HPC and to simplify the convergence of HPC and AI. [Read More...]
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Editor’s Choice
Sunita Chandrasekaran Receives NSF Grant to Create Powerful Software Framework
Over at the University of Delaware, Julie Stewart writes that assistant professor Sunita Chandrasekaran has received an NSF grant to develop frameworks to adapt code for GPU supercomputers. She is working with complex patterns known as wavefronts, which are commonly found in scientific codes used in analyzing the flow of neutrons in a nuclear reactor, extracting patterns from biomedical data or predicting atmospheric patterns. [Read More...]
Big Data over Big Distance: Zettar Moves a Petabyte over 5000 Miles in 29 Hours
Today AIC announced a world-record in data transfer: one petabyte in 29 hours encrypted data transfer, with data integrity checksum unconditionally enabled, over a distance of 5000 miles. The average transfer rate is 75Gbps, or 94% utilization of the available bandwidth of 80Gbps. "Even with massive amounts of data, this test confirmed once more that it's completely feasible to carry out long distance, fully encrypted and checksum-ed data transfer at nearly the line-rate, over a shared and production network." [Read More...]
Using Ai to Automatically Diagnose Alzheimer’s Disease
Researchers from Stanford University have developed a deep learning based system that can automatically detect Alzheimer’s disease and its biomarkers from MRIs, with 94 percent accuracy. "Our method uses minimal preprocessing of MRIs (imposing minimum preprocessing artifacts) and utilizes a simple data augmentation strategy of downsampled MR images for training purposes,” the researchers stated in their paper. [Read More...]
300K-Core SuperMUC-NG System Launches at LRZ in Germany
LRZ in Germany dedicated their new SuperMUC-NG (“next generation”) supercomputer last week in Munich. Built by Lenovo, the massive system uses innovative hot-water cooling to achieve unprecedented computational power for large-scale scientific and engineering simulations. [Read More...]
Why Rich Brueckner @insideHPC is Making a Documentary about Dogs and the People Who Love Them
I would like to interrupt whatever it is that normally happens here to make an announcement about a personal project that does not involve HPC. "I, Richard Brueckner, am making a film and I want to share the details with all my readers who happen to be Dog lovers." [Read More...]
