Video: Exploring the Universe with Blue Waters
Brian O'Shea from Michigan State University gave this talk at the Blue Waters Summit. "Astronomy, astrophysics, and space sciences are fields that are inundated with data, and involve physical phenomena that are complex and cannot be explored via experiments on Earth. As a result, sophisticated simulation tools are required to make theoretical progress in understanding these phenomena, and large-scale computing is required to both analyze observational data and to execute the necessary simulations. In this talk, I will highlight some of the most important advances made in astronomy, astrophysics, and space sciences using Blue Waters, including a variety of figures and animations contributed by the user community." [READ MORE...]
Featured Stories
Video: Introduction to OpenACC
Vasileios Karakasis from CSCS gave this talk at the the Directive Based GPU Programming Workshop. "Directives-based programming facilitates the task of parallelizing your application by letting you focus on its parallel logic rather than on the very details and the low-level intricacies of the GPU architecture. In this course, we will introduce the OpenACC programming paradigms for the GPU. We will cover the parallel execution model and how it can be used to leverage parallelism, the memory model and how this differs from the classic CPU paradigm." [READ MORE...]
Women in HPC Launches Chapters and Affiliates Pilot Program
Today the Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC) group announced the launch of a Chapters and Affiliates Program to bring its vision and mission to the worldwide community and assist those passionate about diversity and inclusion in bringing about positive change in their localities. The pilot programme consists of six chapters and three affiliates across Europe and North America, and will allow WHPC to assess how a worldwide network of such chapters and affiliates might operate. [READ MORE...]
Video: Massive Galaxies and Black Holes at the Cosmic Dawn
Tiziana DiMatteo from Carnegie Melon University gave this talk at the 2018 Blue Waters Symposium. "The first billion years is a pivotal time for cosmic structure formation. The galaxies and black holes that form then shape and influence all future generations of stars and black holes. Understanding and detecting the the first galaxies and black holes is therefore one of the main observational and theoretical challenges in galaxy formation." [READ MORE...]
Featured Resource
In-Network Computing and Next Generation HDR 200G InfiniBand
With the exponential growth of data that needs to be analyzed and the data resulting from ever-more complex workflows, the need for faster data movement has never been more challenging and critical to the worlds of High Performance Computing (HPC) and machine learning. Mellanox Technologies is once again moving the bar forward with the introduction of and end-to-end HDR 200G InfiniBand product portfolio. Download the new white paper, courtesy of Mellanox, that explores in-network computing and the benefits of the switch from 100G to 200G Infiniband.
Industry Perspectives
Why the Choice of DRAM in the Data Center is so Critical
By working with a manufacturer of DRAM products that deliver a diversity of components, data center operators can be assured that they will not have a patchwork of suppliers to work with. This guest post from Kingston Technology explores different storage structures and why DRAM performance is so crucial to data center success. [Read More...]
PASC18 Panel Discussion Big Data vs. Fast Computation
"The panelists will discuss the critical challenges facing key HPC application areas in the next 5-10 years, based on a mix of knowledge and speculation. They will explore whether we need to make radical changes to our practices, methods, tools, and techniques to be able to use modern resources and make faster and bigger progress on our scientific problems." [Read More...]
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Editor’s Choice
HPE Eagle Supercomputer to Triple Performance and Enhance Energy Efficiency at NREL
Today HPE announced it is building a new supercomputer for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) that is more energy efficient and 3.5 times more powerful than its existing system. The new development is part of a long-standing collaboration between HPE and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to apply advanced supercomputing and HPC solutions to accelerate research across various DOE agencies. The new, fast-performing system, which NREL has named Eagle, will run more detailed models that simulate complex processes, systems, and phenomena to advance early research and development on energy technologies across fields including vehicle, wind power, and data sciences. [Read More...]
Lenovo Takes the TOP500 with Liquid Cooling at ISC 2018
In this video from ISC 2018, Rick Koopman from Lenovo describes the company's latest HPC innovations including their new Neptune liquid cooling technology. Lenovo is the world’s largest TOP500 supercomputing provider measured by the number of systems ranked on the TOP500 list. 117 of the 500 most powerful supercomputers included in the TOP500 are Lenovo installations, meaning nearly one out of every four systems (23.4 percent) on the prestigious list is a Lenovo solution. [Read More...]
There's still Time to register for HPC User Forum in Detroit - Agenda targets AI, Autonomous Cars, & Sensor Networks
There's still Time to register for HPC User Forum in Detroit. The meeting takes place September 4-6 in Dearborn, Michigan. Key topics include AI and other advanced analytics, automated driving systems a.k.a. self-driving vehicles, additive manufacturing and HPC in clouds (and outer space!). "If AI is in your crosshairs, you won't want to miss the next HPC User Forum in Dearborn, Michigan. Aside from tackling leadership computing initiatives in the U.S. and around the world, the meeting will zero in on artificial intelligence use cases on prem and in the cloud, especially self-driving vehicle development and urban sensor networks." [Read More...]
Julia 1.0 release Opens the Doors for a Connected World
Today Julia Computing announced the Julia 1.0 programming language release. As the first complete, reliable, stable and forward-compatible Julia release, version 1.0 is the fastest, simplest and most productive open-source programming language for scientific, numeric and mathematical computing. "During the last six and a half years, Julia has reached more than 2 million downloads and early adopters have already put Julia into production to power self-driving cars, robots, 3D printers and applications in precision medicine, augmented reality, genomics, energy trading, machine learning, financial risk management and space mission planning." [Read More...]
Video: New Cascade Lake Xeons to Speed Ai with Intel Deep Learning Boost
This week at the Data-Centric Innovation Summit, Intel laid out their near-term Xeon roadmap and plans to augment their AVX-512 instruction set to boost machine learning performance. "This dramatic performance improvement and efficiency - up to twice as fast as the current generation - is delivered by using a single instruction to handle INT8 convolutions for deep learning inference workloads which required three separate AVX-512 instructions in previous generation processors." [Read More...]
