Introducing HPE Performance Cluster Manager Software
Over at the HPE Blog, Bill Mannel writes that new HPE Performance Cluster Manager can help you reduce the time and resources spent administering HPC systems. "Managing HPC clusters can be challenging. Especially when you have to deal with the ever-growing large scale systems with thousands of nodes which means you need to monitor and manage more and more components. Your system administrators need a system management solution to allow them to manage even very complex HPC installations easily and quickly." [READ MORE...]
Featured Stories
Atos and Dell EMC Centre of Excellence coming to Supercomputing Wales
Today Atos announced a new contract with Supercomputing Wales, the national supercomputing research facility for Wales that will result in a world-first Atos and Dell EMC supercomputing Centre of Excellence. This partnership will provide high performance computing facilities and big data research capabilities to a consortium of universities in Wales including Cardiff, Swansea, Aberystwyth and Bangor Universities. "We are thrilled to be part of such an important partnership to help continue the great work already being carried out by universities across Wales," said Richard Rawcliffe, Vice President, UK Public Sector, Dell EMC. [READ MORE...]
Asetek Liquid Cooling comes to Latest Intel Compute Modules at ISC18
Today Asetek announced plans to showcase its latest liquid cooling technology integrated in Intel Compute Modules at ISC 2018 in Frankfurt. "Asetek is excited with this next step in the ongoing collaboration with Intel,” said John Hamill, Asetek Chief Operating Officer. “The integration of Asetek liquid cooling technology in Intel Compute Modules HNS2600BPBLC and HNS7200APRL serves as further validation of low pressure distributed liquid cooling for HPC and Data Center sites.” [READ MORE...]
Implementing PCIe Gen 4 Expansion
After a long run for PCI Express (PCIe) Gen 3, Gen 4 is fast becoming the latest de facto standard for general purpose I/O of the modern computer system. "The ability to run PCIe over cable at full performance with complete software transparency has opened up a range of new application possibilities over the past decade for CPU to I/O system re-partitioning with expansion systems uniquely situated to take advantage of the new PCIe Gen 4 bandwidth soon available on servers." [READ MORE...]
Featured Resource
Exploring Dell EMC Networking for vSan
This is the second entry in an insideHPC guide series that explores networking with Dell EMC ready nodes. Read on to learn more about Dell EMC networking for vSan. [READ MORE...]
Industry Perspectives
Video: Speed Your Code with Intel Parallel Studio XE
"Modern processors perform their best with parallel code that's both vectorized and threaded, which can run more than 100 times faster more than serial code. So how can you accomplish this more easily through parallel programming? Enter Parallel Studio XE, a suite of tools that simplifies and speeds the design, building, tuning, and scaling of applications with the latest code modernization methods." [Read More...]
Radio Free HPC Previews ISC Student Cluster Competition & Ancillary Events
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team previews the ISC 2018 Student Cluster Competition. “Now in its seventh year, the Student Cluster Competition enables international STEM teams to take part in a real-time contest focused on advancing STEM disciplines and HPC skills development at ISC 2018 from June 25-27.” [Read More...]
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- Deep Reinforcement Learning: From Board Games to the BoardroomIn this contributed article, Andrew Vaziri, a Senior Artificial Intelligence Engineer at Bonsai, highlights how we are now entering the age of profit-making Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL), and why it took so long for this technology to make the leap from board games to the boardroom?
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Editor’s Choice
NVIDIA Releases Code for Accelerated Machine Learning
Today NVIDIA made a number of announcements centered around Machine Learning software at the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference in Salt Lake City. "NVIDIA is kicking off the conference by demonstrating an early release of Apex, an open-source PyTorch extension that helps users maximize deep learning training performance on NVIDIA Volta GPUs. Inspired by state of the art mixed precision training in translational networks, sentiment analysis, and image classification, NVIDIA PyTorch developers have created tools bringing these methods to all levels of PyTorch users." [Read More...]
Virtualizing AI & HPC Workloads with vSphere
In this video from the Dell EMC HPC Community Meeting, Josh Simons from VMware describes why more customers are moving their HPC & AI workloads to virtualized environments using vSphere. "With VMware, you can capture the benefits of virtualization for HPC workloads while delivering performance that is comparable to bare-metal. Our approach to virtualizing HPC adds a level of flexibility, operational efficiency, agility and security that cannot be achieved in bare-metal environments—enabling faster time to insights and discovery." [Read More...]
Let's Talk Exascale: Optimizing I/O at the ADIOS Project
In this episode of Let's Talk Exascale, researchers from the ADIOS project describe how they are optimizing I/O on exascale architectures and making the code easily maintainable, sustainable, and extensible, while ensuring its performance and scalability. "The Adaptable I/O System (ADIOS) project in the ECP supports exascale applications by addressing their data management and in situ analysis needs." [Read More...]
ARM goes Big: HPE Builds Petaflop Supercomputer for Sandia
Today HPE announced plans to deliver the world’s largest Arm supercomputer. As part of the Vanguard program, Astra, the new Arm-based system, will be used by the NNSA to run advanced modeling and simulation workloads for addressing areas such as national security, energy and science. "By introducing Arm processors with the HPE Apollo 70, a purpose-built HPC architecture, we are bringing powerful elements, like optimal memory performance and greater density, to supercomputers that existing technologies in the market cannot match,” said Mike Vildibill, vice president, Advanced Technologies Group, HPE. [Read More...]
Video: Calligo Technologies Demonstrates Posit Computing Implementation
Anantha Kinnal from Calligo Technologies gave this talk at the ConGA conference for Next Generation Arithmetic. "CalligoTech, based in Bangalore - India, built and demonstrated World’s First Posit-enabled System at the CoNGA track at Supercomputing Asia’18, Singapore. Our primary objective was to build a System capable of performing basic arithmetic operations using Posit Number System and capable of running existing C programs." [Read More...]
