Supercomputing More Fuel-Efficient Engines at GM
Ronald Grover from GM gave this talk at the HPC User Conference. "Ronald Grover his colleagues at GM are using the Titan supercomputer at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), a US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility at DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), to improve combustion models for diesel passenger car engines with an ultimate goal of accelerating innovative engine designs while meeting strict emissions standards." [READ MORE...]
Featured Stories
Supermicro Ai Supercomputer Sports 20 NVIDIA Tesla T4 Accelerators in 4U
Supermicro's new SuperServer 6049GP-TRT provides the superior performance required to accelerate the diverse applications of modern AI. "We see the combination of NVIDIA TensorRT and the new Turing architecture based T4 GPU Accelerator as the ideal combination for these new demanding and latency-sensitive workloads and are aggressively leveraging them in our GPU system product line." [READ MORE...]
Cray XC50 Supercomputer coming to Institute for Basic Science in South Korea
Today Cray announced that the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) has awarded the Company a contract valued at $9 million for a Cray XC50 supercomputer and Cray ClusterStor L300F storage system. The new supercomputer, paired with the scale-out Lustre storage solution, will provide high-performance capabilities for IBS to expand research in climate physics and work toward its goal of improving decadal earth system forecasts and long-term future climate projections. [READ MORE...]
Imagine HPC with the Power of the Cloud
Running HPC in the cloud enables organizations to select and deploy an optimal set of services for their unique applications, and to pay only for what they use. This sponsored post from AWS explores how the cloud HPC market is growing at a significant rate and accelerating HPC innovation. "With HPC in the cloud, computational scientists and commercial HPC users can gain rapid access to resources they need without a burdensome procurement process." [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
Video: Leading the charge for ARM in HPC
Andy Warner from HPE gave this talk at the ARM Research Summit. "The Arm HPC user Group hosted by going Arm workshop, will enable attendees to take in technical presentations by fellow applications programmers and tool authors who are currently using the Arm platform. This workshop is all about sharing experiences and knowledge. Attendees will gain from the first-hand knowledge of experienced scientific application programmers writing for the Arm platform, including topics such as: optimizing for 64-bit Arm, memory systems, scalability and vectorization." [Read More...]
Industry HPC Trends & Advocacy
David Kepczynski from GE gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Detroit. "David Kepczynski from GE Global Research was recently apponted as the new chair of the ECP Industry Council, an external advisory group of executives from some of the nation’s most prominent companies with a collaborative interest in bringing the potential of exascale computing to a wide range of industry segments." [Read More...]
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Editor’s Choice
Survey Foretells Explosive Growth in Machine Learning Projects Over Next Two Years
Over at the Univa Blog, Gary Tyreman writes that the company sponsored an industry-wide survey to better understand what key challenges our HPC users are currently facing that are preventing them from moving their machine learning (ML) projects into production. "Our goal is to use this data to help guide our customers and recommend the right set of tools and migration options needed to accelerate value in machine learning." [Read More...]
Video: 1 Year Later, the HPE Spaceborne Supercomputer Keeps on Trucking
Mark Fernandez from HPE gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Detroit. "It’s been almost 12 months since HPE and NASA sent the first ever commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) computer system — the Spaceborne Computer — to the International Space Station (ISS). As part of an experiment to operate seamlessly in the harsh conditions of space for one year – about the amount of time it will take to travel to Mars — Spaceborne is literally going faster and further than any other COTS supercomputer has been before." [Read More...]
Video: NVIDIA Rolls out TensorRT Hyperscale Platform and New T4 GPU for Ai Datacenters
This morning at GTC Japan, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced a set new products centered around Ai and accelerated computing. Targeting Hyperscale datacenters looking to run Ai workloads, NVIDIA continues to innovate Machine Learning technologies at an unprecedented pace. "There is no question that deep learning-powered AI is being deployed around the world, and we’re seeing incredible growth here,” Huang told an audience of more than 4,000 press, partners, academics and technologists gathered on the latest stop in a GTC world tour. [Read More...]
Intel® Compilers Overview: Scalable Performance for Intel® Processors
Intel Compilers for C/C++ and Fortran empower developers to derive the greatest performance from applications and hardware. In this video, Igor Vorobtsov discusses nuances of Intel compiler features which enable high-level optimization, auto-parallelization, auto-vectorization, dynamic profile guided optimization, detailed optimization reports, inter-procedural optimization (IPO), and much more. [Read More...]
Video: Suitability of Commercial Clouds for NASA's HPC Applications
Bob Hood from InuTeq gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "NASA’s High-End Computing Capability Project is periodically asked if it could be more cost effective through the use of commercial cloud resources. To answer the question, HECC’s Application Performance and Productivity team undertook a performance and cost evaluation comparing three domains: two commercial cloud providers, Amazon and Penguin, and HECC’s in-house resources—the Pleiades and Electra systems." [Read More...]
