Radio Free HPC Looks at China's Three-Pronged Plan for Exascale
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team goes through a fascinating presentation that provides details on China’s Three-Pronged Plan for Exascale. "China may not be the first to Exascale, but they are building three divergent architectural prototypes that pave the way forward. We’ve got the details in this not-to-miss podcast." [READ MORE...]
Featured Stories
Growing HPC Adoption Among Manufacturers
The global manufacturing industry is moving down the path to a fourth industrial revolution — Industry 4.0 — empowered by the opportunity to collect and analyze massive amounts of data. This guest post from Intel explores how the global manufacturing industry is moving toward HPC adoption, and how it is approaching an inflection point which Intel refers to as “HPC for Everyone.” [READ MORE...]
Abstractions and Directives for Adapting Wavefront Algorithms to Future Architectures
Robert Searles from the University of Delaware gave this talk at PASC18. "Architectures are rapidly evolving, and exascale machines are expected to offer billion-way concurrency. We need to rethink algorithms, languages and programming models among other components in order to migrate large scale applications and explore parallelism on these machines. Although directive-based programming models allow programmers to worry less about programming and more about science, expressing complex parallel patterns in these models can be a daunting task especially when the goal is to match the performance that the hardware platforms can offer." [READ MORE...]
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 Resource
Infinite Memory Engine
This paper is intended to inform technical and business readers with I/O-intensive computing environments about a new software solution that manages at-scale flash to eliminate file system bottlenecks and voids old rules for application I/O optimization. Download now to learn more.
Industry Perspectives
Addressing Computing Challenges at CERN openlab
In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Robert Roe speaks with Dr Maria Girone, Chief Technology Officer at CERN openlab ahead of her keynote presentation at ISC High Performance. "The challenge of creating the largest particle accelerator is now complete but there is another challenge – harnessing all of the data produced through experimentation. This will become even greater when the ‘high-luminosity’ LHC experiments begin in 2026." [Read More...]
How DMTF and Redfish Ease System Administration
In this video from the Dell EMC HPC Community meeting, Alan Sill from Texas Tech University describes how DMTF and the Redfish project will ease system administration for HPC clusters. "DMTF’s Redfish is a standard API designed to deliver simple and secure management for converged, hybrid IT and the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC). An open industry standard specification and schema, Redfish specifies a RESTful interface and utilizes defined JSON payloads - usable by existing client applications and browser-based GUI." [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...]
