Video: How Intel will deliver on the Promise of AI
In this video, Naveen Rao keynotes the Intel AI DevCon event in San Francisco. "One of the important updates we’re discussing today is optimizations to Intel Xeon Scalable processors. These optimizations deliver significant performance improvements on both training and inference as compared to previous generations, which is beneficial to the many companies that want to use existing infrastructure they already own to achieve the related TCO benefits along their first steps toward AI." [READ MORE...]
Featured Stories
Supercomputer Simulations help fight Dengue Virus
Researchers are using supercomputers to combat the Dengue virus and related diseases spread by mosquitos. "Advanced software and the rapid calculation speeds of both Comet and Bridges made the current simulations possible. In particular, the graphics processing units (GPUs) on Comet enabled the team to simulate the motion more efficiently than possible if they had used only the central processing units (CPUs) present on most supercomputers." [READ MORE...]
Prof. Yutong Lu from China will Chair ISC 2019
Today ISC announced that Prof. Yutong Lu from the National Supercomputing Center in Guangzhou, China will be the ISC 2019 Program Chair. This new appointment begins a new journey for ISC High Performance, which has only seen men hold this position for the last four years. "As part of the international HPC community, ISC has committed to including more countries and people in order to foster a broader array of ideas and experiences." [READ MORE...]
Mentorship fosters a Career in STEM
In this special guest feature, Faith Singer-Villalobos from TACC continues her series profiling Careers in STEM. It's the inspiring story of Je'aime Powell, a TACC System Administrator and XSEDE Extended Collaborative Support Services Consultant. "Options, goals, and hope are what can set you on a path that can change your life," Powell said. [READ MORE...]
Featured Resource
The Role of Quick Disconnect Couplings in Liquid Cooling: 5 Attributes that Contribute to Connector Reliability
The use of liquid cooling to mitigate heat generated by electronics can be found in a wide variety of applications, including gaming computers, supercomputers and medical equipment. Download the new report, courtesy of CPC, "The Role of Quick Disconnect Couplings in Liquid Cooling: Five Attributes that Contribute to Connector Reliability," that explores the role of quick disconnect couplings in liquid cooling.
Industry Perspectives
Radio Free HPC Reviews the Results from the ASC 2018 Student Cluster Competition
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team reviews the results of the ASC 2018 Student Cluster Competition.
"The ASC 2018 Student Supercomputer Challenge finalist were announced on March 20, 2018. The 20 finalists will design and build supercomputers up to 3,000 Watts, solve exceptionally difficult problems in AI reading comprehension, perform RELION optimization as a core application of the Nobel winning cryo-electron microscopy, and utilize CFL3D, HPL, and HPCG." [Read More...]
Video: Doug Kothe Looks Ahead at The Exascale Computing Project
In this video, Doug Kothe from ORNl provides an update on the Exascale Computing Project. "With respect to progress, marrying high-risk exploratory and high-return R&D with formal project management is a formidable challenge. In January, through what is called DOE’s Independent Project Review, or IPR, process, we learned that we can indeed meet that challenge in a way that allows us to drive hard with a sense of urgency and still deliver on the essential products and solutions. In short, we passed the review with flying colors—and what’s especially encouraging is that the feedback we received tells us what we can do to improve." [Read More...]
Featured from insideBIGDATA
- Pure Storage Announces AIRI™ Mini: Complete, AI-Ready Infrastructure for EveryonePure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), the all-flash storage platform that helps innovators build a better world with data, today announced its second AI-Ready Infrastructure offering, AIRI™ Mini, powered by NVIDIA. Architected by Pure Storage and NVIDIA, AIRI is purpose-built to enable data architects, scientists and business leaders to extend the power of the NVIDIAⓇ DGX-1™ system.
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Editor’s Choice
Celebrating 20 Years of the OpenMP API
"The first version of the OpenMP application programming interface (API) was published in October 1997. In the 20 years since then, the OpenMP API and the slightly older MPI have become the two stable programming models that high-performance parallel codes rely on. MPI handles the message passing aspects and allows code to scale out to significant numbers of nodes, while the OpenMP API allows programmers to write portable code to exploit the multiple cores and accelerators in modern machines." [Read More...]
Quantum Computing: Its Principles, Capabilities and Challenges
Dr. Mark Mattingley-Scott from IBM gave this talk at the Swiss HPC Conference. "Quantum Computing is here, right now - and we are at the start of a new way of computing, which will impact us the way the revolution started by Shockley, Bardeen and Brattain did in 1947. In this talk I will introduce Quantum Computing, its principles, capabilities and challenges and provide you with the insight you need to decide how you should engage with this revolutionary technology." [Read More...]
New AI Performance Milestones with NVIDIA Volta GPU Tensor Cores
Over at the NVIDIA blog, Loyd Case shares some recent advancements that deliver dramatic performance gains on GPUs to the AI community. "We have achieved record-setting ResNet-50 performance for a single chip and single server with these improvements. Recently, fast.ai also announced their record-setting performance on a single cloud instance. A single V100 Tensor Core GPU achieves 1,075 images/second when training ResNet-50, a 4x performance increase compared to the previous generation Pascal GPU." [Read More...]
NVIDIA Simplifies Building Containers for HPC Applications
In this video, CJ Newburn from NVIDIA describes how users can benefit from running their workloads in the NVIDIA GPU Cloud. "A container essentially creates a self contained environment. Your application lives in that container along with everything the application depends on, so the whole bundle is self contained. NVIDIA is now offering a script as part of an open source project called HPC Container Maker, or HPCCM that makes it easy for developers to select the ingredients they want to go into a container, to provide those ingredients in an optimized way using best-known recipes." [Read More...]
Announcing the Dell EMC AI Challenge
In this video from the Dell EMC HPC Community meeting, Shreya Shar and Onur Celebioglu from Dell describe the new Dell EMC AI Challenge. "Dell EMC invites you to participate in an AI Challenge! Abstracts and proposals will be accepted through May 31, 2018, and will be reviewed according to the following three criteria: Most innovative use of AI technology, Biggest economic or social impact, and Highest potential for commercialization." [Read More...]
