Update: Approximately 100 Seagate ClusterStor Employees to Move to Cray in Strategic Transaction
Seagate is getting out of the HPC business. Today Cray announced that it has entered into partnership agreement with Seagate centered around ClusterStor high-performance storage. "In 2012 Cray became our first OEM and has continued over the years to be our largest and most strategic ClusterStor partner," said Ken Claffey, vice president and general manager, Storage Systems Group at Seagate. "As the leader in the supercomputing market, Cray will be a great home for the ClusterStor, employees, customers and partners.” [READ MORE...]
Featured Stories
Interview: Hot Interconnects Conference to Focus on Next-Generation Networks
The Hot Interconnects Conference is coming up Aug. 28-30 in Santa Clara. To learn more, we caught up with Program Chairs Ryan Grant and Jitu (Jitendra) Padhye. "Hot Interconnects brings together members of the industrial, academic and broader research community to unveil the very latest advances in network technologies as well as to discuss ideas for future generation interconnects. Unlike other conferences, Hot Interconnects is focused on only the latest most topical subjects and concentrates on technologies that will be available for deployment in the near future." [READ MORE...]
Speeding Up Big Data Analysis With Intel MKL and Intel DAAL
"New algorithms that can query massive amounts of data an draw conclusions have been developed, but these algorithms need to be optimized on the underlying hardware. This is where the expertise of vendors who develop the hardware can add tremendous value. Optimizing the underlying libraries that can execute with a high degree of parallelism will definitely lead to improved performance for the software and productivity gains for the organization." [READ MORE...]
Cryo-EM Moves Forward with $9.3M NIH Award
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $9.3 million to the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) to support ongoing development of PHENIX, a software suite for solving three-dimensional macromolecular structures. "The impetus behind PHENIX is a desire to make the computational aspects of crystallography more automated, reducing human error and speeding solutions,” said PHENIX principal investigator Paul Adams, director of Berkeley Lab’s Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division." [READ MORE...]
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insideBIGDATA Guide to Artificial Intelligence & Deep Learning
This guide to artificial intelligence explains the difference between AI, machine learning and deep learning, and examine the intersection of AI and HPC. To learn more about AI and HPC download this guide.
Industry Perspectives
Using HPC to Track Massive Ice Shelves
Mellanox Technologies' Vice President of Marketing, Gilad Shainer, discusses the University of Alaska Fairbanks and Mellanox’s high performance computing work that is tracking the Earth's most massive ice shelves. Essentially, the simulations needed to track the massive ice sheet’s progress require extremely large resolutions, large outputs and high computational demands – all of which requires massive computational power. [Read More...]
Radio Free HPC Looks at AI Ethics and a Tale of Henry's Super Heroism
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team learns about Henry's first exploit as an Ethical Superhero. "After witnessing a hit-and-run fender bender, Henry confronted the culprit and ensured that the miscreant left a note on the victim's windshield. And while we applaud Henry for his heroism, we are also very grateful that he was not shot in the process. This tale leads us into a discussion of AI ethics and how we won't have this problem in the coming era of self-driving cars." [Read More...]
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Surprising Stories from 17 National Labs in 17 Minutes
In this video, the U.S. Department of Energy gives a quick tour of all 17 National Labs. Each one comes with a surprising story on what these labs do for us as a Nation. "And they all do really different stuff. Think of a big scientific question or challenge, and one or more of the labs is probably working on it." [Read More...]
Video: Supermicro Showcases HPC Solutions at ISC 2017
In this video, Peter Maas from Supermicro gives us a tour of the company's exhibit at ISC 2017. "Supermicro offers the industry’s broadest selection of HPC Solutions in the industry, including 1U, 2U, 3U, 4U SuperServers, FatTwin, SuperWorkstations and SuperBlade platforms. Now, the HPC community can build even higher density compute clusters to deliver maximum parallel computing performance per watt, per dollar, and per square foot. Look to Supermicro HPC Servers and Solutions to deliver the performance, scalability and reliability needed to solve the most complex computing challenges of our time." [Read More...]
Interview: John Gustafson on the Evolution of Supercomputing
In this MacObserver podcast, John Martellaro discusses the evolution of HPC with John Gustafson, Visiting Professor at NUS in Singapore. “Known by many as the father of Gustafson's Law, Dr. John Gustafson is a professor of computer science, now at The National University of Singapore. Listen in as John describes his career arc and offers some great advice for young scientists just getting started.” [Read More...]
Interview: Dr. Christoph Schär on Escaping the Data Avalanche for Climate Modeling
"There are large efforts towards refining the horizontal resolution of climate models to O(1 km) with the intent to represent convective clouds explicitly rather than using semi-empirical parameterizations. This refinement would move the governing equations closer to first principles and is expected to reduce the uncertainties of climate models. However, the output volume of climate simulations would dramatically grow, and storing it for later analysis would likely become impractical, due to limited I/O bandwidth and mass-storage capacity. In this presentation we discuss possible solutions to this challenge." [Read More...]
Mateo Valero on how the MareNostrum 4 Supercomputer will Advance Science
In this video from ISC 2017, Mateo Valero from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center describes the innovations behind MareNostrum 4, the #13 supercomputer on the TOP500. "MareNostrum 4, hosted by Barcelona Supercomputing Center, is entirely aimed at generating scientific knowledge and its computer architecture has been called ‘the most diverse and interesting in the world’ by international experts. Equipped with Intel's latest processing and networking technologies, MareNostrum provides 11.1 Petaflops of processing power to scientific production." [Read More...]
