Interview: Piz Daint Supercomputer advances to the #3 position on the TOP500
In this video from PASC17 in Lugano, Michele De Lorenzi from CSCS discussed the recent advancement of Piz Daint supercomputer to the #3 position on the TOP500. After that, he describes the mission of the PASC conference and the location of PASC18 next year. [READ MORE...]
Recent Features
Video: New Mellanox SHIELD Technology Enables Self Healing Networks
“The CPU-centric data center architecture has come to an end and new data centers are now built based on a data-centric architecture. These systems require an intelligent interconnect that can deliver In-Network Computing and Self-healing capabilities, to ensure highest performance, scalability and resiliency." [READ MORE...]
Bright Computing Steps up with Cloud Bursting to Azure at ISC 2017
In this video from ISC 2017, Bill Wagner from Bright Computing describes the company's new capabilities for Cloud Bursting to Microsoft Azure. “Cloud bursting from an on-premises cluster to Microsoft Azure offers companies an efficient, cost-effective, secure and flexible way to add additional resources to their HPC infrastructure. Bright’s integration with Azure also gives our clients the ability to build an entire off-premises cluster for compute-intensive workloads in the Azure cloud platform.” [READ MORE...]
Proceedings from ISC 2017 are now available for download
The Proceedings from ISC 2017 are now available for download at no cost for a limited time. "We are pleased to announce that many fascinating topics in HPC are covered by the proceedings." [READ MORE...]
Featured Resource
Considerations for Applications to Transition to a Cloud
This is the third entry in an insideHPC series that explores the HPC transition to the cloud, and what your business needs to know about this evolution. This series, compiled in a complete Guide, covers cloud computing for HPC, considerations for applications to transition to the cloud, IaaS components, OpenStack fundamentals and more. [READ MORE...]
Industry Perspectives
Podcast: Brent Gorda on the State of Lustre at ISC 2017
In this RichReport podcast from the German Autobahn, Brent Gorda gives us a Lustre update from ISC 2017 in Frankfurt. "On the latest Top500 list, Lustre leads the pack with 9 systems out of the Top 10." [Read More...]
Intel's Trish Damkroger on why HPC Matters at ISC 2017
In this video from ISC 2017, Trish Damkroger from Intel describes the company’s vision for HPC as more and more workloads move to the Cloud. She then goes on to preview the full week of Intel’s ISC activities. "Intel is transforming the future of high-performance computing with new tools for innovation and discovery. [Read More...]
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Editor’s Choice
Video: Scaling Climate and Weather Forecasting on Sunway TaihuLight
Haohuan Fu from Tsinghua University in China at the PASC17 conference in Lugano. "This talk reports efforts on refactoring and optimizing the climate and weather forecasting programs – CAM and WRF – on Sunway TaihuLight. To map the large code base to the millions of cores on the Sunway system, OpenACC-based refactoring was taken as the major approach, with source-to-source translator tools applied to exploit the most suitable parallelism for the CPE cluster and to fit the intermediate variable into the limited on-chip fast buffer." [Read More...]
Video: The Amazing Lustre through the Alps Tour
We interrupt our stream of serious HPC news for this post-ISC update from Europe. "After ISC wrapped up last week, I had the good fortune to join the First Annual Lustre Motorcycle Tour of the Alps. This amazing three day trip took us through Italy, Switzerland, and Austria." [Read More...]
How Intel is bringing AI & Machine Learning to the People
In this video from ISC 2017, Pradeep Dubey, Intel Fellow and Director of the Parallel Computing Lab at Intel, discusses how artificial intelligence impacts a wide range of industries and is driving the need for massive amounts of compute power enabled by Intel. [Read More...]
Dr. Eng Lim Goh on HPE's Recent PathForward Award for Exascale Computing
In this video from ISC 2017, Dr. Eng Lim Goh from HPE discusses the company's recent PathForward award as well as the challenges of designing energy efficient Exascale systems. After that, he gives his unique perspective on HPE's "The Machine" architecture for memory-driven computing. “The work funded by PathForward will include development of innovative memory architectures, higher-speed interconnects, improved reliability systems, and approaches for increasing computing power without prohibitive increases in energy demand." [Read More...]
Is Aurora Morphing into an Exascale AI Supercomputer?
The recently published Department of Energy FY 2018 Congressional Budget Request has raised a lot of questions about the Aurora supercomputer that was scheduled to be deployed at Argonne ALCF next year. "As we covered in our Radio Free HPC podcast, Aurora appears to be morphing into a very different kind of machine." [Read More...]
