Massive-Scale Analytics Applied to Real-World Problems
David Bader from Georgia Tech gave this talk at PASC18. "Emerging real-world graph problems include: detecting and preventing disease in human populations; revealing community structure in large social networks; and improving the resilience of the electric power grid. Unlike traditional applications in computational science and engineering, solving these social problems at scale often raises new challenges because of the sparsity and lack of locality in the data, the need for research on scalable algorithms and development of frameworks for solving these real-world problems on high performance computers, and for improved models that capture the noise and bias inherent in the torrential data streams." [READ MORE...]
Featured Stories
Porting HPC Codes with Directives and OpenACC
In this video from ISC 2018, Michael Wolfe from OpenACC.org describes how scientists can port their code to accelerated computing. "OpenACC is a user-driven directive-based performance-portable parallel programming model designed for scientists and engineers interested in porting their codes to a wide-variety of heterogeneous HPC hardware platforms and architectures with significantly less programming effort than required with a low-level model." [READ MORE...]
Penguin Computing to Deploy Supercomputer at ICHEC in Ireland
Today Penguin Computing (a subsidiary of SMART Global Holdings) announced that it will deliver the new national supercomputer to the Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC) at the National University of Ireland (NUI) Galway. “With 11 supercomputers in the Top500 list and a bare-metal HPC Cloud service since 2009, we knew we could rely on Penguin Computing’s HPC expertise to address our needs in an innovative way.” [READ MORE...]
NEC Accelerates HPC with Vector Computing at ISC 2018
In this video from ISC 2018, Oliver Tennert from NEC Deutschland GmbH introduces the company's vector computing technologies for HPC and Machine Learning. "The NEC SX-Aurora TSUBASA is the newest in the line of NEC SX Vector Processors with the worlds highest memory bandwidth. The Processor that is implemented in a PCI-e form factor can be configured in many flexible configurations together with a standard x86 cluster." [READ MORE...]
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Machine Learning in Energy: A Hot Spot in Seismic Processing
Artificial intelligence and machine learning, based on widely available hardware and novel software techniques, give energy exploration companies the confidence to pinpoint drilling locations, resulting in lower costs. Download the new insideHPC special report, courtesy of Dell EMC and Nvidia, to learn how HPC technology is being used for energy exploration, ranging from drilling and well completion to modeling oil-refining strategies.
Industry Perspectives
Podcast: Deep Learning for Scientific Data Analysis
In this NERSC News Podcast, Debbie Bard from NERSC describes how Deep Learning can help scientists accelerate their research. "Deep learning is enjoying unprecedented success in a variety of commercial applications, but it is also beginning to find its footing in science. Just a decade ago, few practitioners could have predicted that deep learning-powered systems would surpass human-level performance in computer vision and speech recognition tasks." [Read More...]
Podcast: Evolving MPI for Exascale Applications
In this episode of Let's Talk Exascale, Pavan Balaji and Ken Raffenetti describe their efforts to help MPI, the de facto programming model for parallel computing, run as efficiently as possible on exascale systems. "We need to look at a lot of key technical challenges, like performance and scalability, when we go up to this scale of machines. Performance is one of the biggest things that people look at. Aspects with respect to heterogeneity become important." [Read More...]
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Editor’s Choice
Supermicro Steps up to HPC & AI Workloads at ISC 2018
In this video from ISC 2018, Perry Hayes and Martin Galle from Supermicro describe the company's latest innovations for HPC and AI workloads. "Supermicro delivers the industry's fastest, most powerful selection of HPC solutions offering even higher density compute clusters to deliver maximum parallel computing performance for any science and engineering, simulation, modeling, or analytics applications," said Charles Liang, president and CEO of Supermicro. [Read More...]
Univa Brings Navops to HPC at ISC 2018
In this video, Gary Tyreman from Univa describes how the company is helping HPC users move their workloads to the Cloud with their Navops products. "Univa is the leading innovator in workload management and orchestration solutions. With Navops suite of products, Univa is bringing its expertise to containers. Univa Navops is a suite of products that enable enterprises to easily migrate to the cloud or hybrid cloud, increase efficiencies and run containers at scale." [Read More...]
Quantum Corporation Optimizes Data Intensive Workloads at ISC 2018
In this video from ISC 2018, Laura Shepard and Jason Coari from Quantum Corporation describe how the company's high speed storage solutions power AI & HPC applications. "At ISC, Quantum highlighted end-to-end storage capabilities for large-scale HPC environments. Quantum offerings featured at their exhibit included high-performance Xcellis scale-out storage appliances to support data-intensive processing workflows, and StorNext HSM for automated migration of extremely large data sets to cost-effective storage tiers such as tape, object storage and the cloud." [Read More...]
SUSE offers Optimized HPC Modules at ISC 2018
In this video from ISC 2018, Jeff Reser from SUSE describes how the company's software enables High Performance Computing with HPC Modules, lower costs, and support for ARM. "SUSE Linux Enterprise for High Performance Computing provides a parallel computing platform for high performance data analytics workloads such as artificial intelligence and machine learning. Fueled by the need for more compute power and scale, businesses around the world today are recognizing that a high performance computing infrastructure is vital to supporting the analytics applications of tomorrow." [Read More...]
OpenACC Helps Scientists Port their code at the Center for Application Readiness (CARR)
In this video, Jack Wells from the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility and Duncan Poole from NVIDIA describe how OpenACC enabled them to port their codes to the new Summit supercomputer. "In preparation for next-generation supercomputer Summit, the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) selected 13 partnership projects into its Center for Accelerated Application Readiness (CAAR) program. A collaborative effort of application development teams and staff from the OLCF Scientific Computing group, CAAR is focused on redesigning, porting, and optimizing application codes for Summit’s hybrid CPU–GPU architecture." [Read More...]
