IO500 List Showcases World's Fastest Storage Systems for HPC
In this video from ISC 2018, John Bent and Jay Lofstead describe how the IO500 benchmark measures storage performance in HPC environments. "The IO500 benchmark suite is designed to be easy to run and the community has multiple active support channels to help with any questions. The list is about much more than just the raw rank; all submissions help the community by collecting and publishing a wider corpus of data." [READ MORE...]
Featured Stories
From Weather Dwarfs to Kilometre-Scale Earth System Simulations
Nils P. Wedi from ECMWF gave this talk at PASC18. "The increasingly large amounts of data being produced b weather and climate simulations and earth system observations is sometimes characterised as a deluge. This deluge of data is both a challenge and an opportunity. The main opportunities are to make use of this wealth of data to 1) improve knowledge by extracting additional knowledge from the data and 2) to improve the quality of the models themselves by analysing the accuracy, or lack thereof, of the resultant simulation data." [READ MORE...]
NEC Accelerates Machine Learning with Vector Computing
In this video from ISC 2018, Takeo Hosomi from NEC describes how vector computing can accelerate Machine Learning workloads. "Machine learning is the key technology for data analytics and artificial intelligence. Recent progress in this field opens opportunities for a wide variety of new applications. Our department has been at the forefront of developments in such areas as deep learning, support vector machines and semantic analysis for over a decade. Many of our technologies have been integrated in innovative products and services of NEC." [READ MORE...]
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...]
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Modernizing Healthcare Workloads with Virtual GPU Technology
In the healthcare sector, clinicians are increasingly using mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets, and personal laptops to access patient records and more. Many hospitals have turned to virtualization and virtual GPU technology to offer greater mobility, security, and IT manageability. Download the report from HPE that explores how virtual GPU technology is modernizing healthcare.
Industry Perspectives
Why the World is Starting to look like a Giant HPC Cluster
"AI, machine learning, is not a (traditional) HPC workload. However, it takes an HPC machine to do it. If you look at HPC, generally, you take a model or things like that, you turn it into an extraordinarily large amount of data, and then you go find some information for that data. Machine learning, on the other hand, takes an extraordinarily large amount of information and collapses it into an idea or a model." [Read More...]
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...]
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Editor’s Choice
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...]
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...]
