The Use of HPC to Model the California Wildfires
Ilkay Altintas from the San Diego Supercomputer Center gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "WIFIRE is an integrated system for wildfire analysis, with specific regard to changing urban dynamics and climate. The system integrates networked observations such as heterogeneous satellite data and real-time remote sensor data, with computational techniques in signal processing, visualization, modeling, and data assimilation to provide a scalable method to monitor such phenomena as weather patterns that can help predict a wildfire's rate of spread." [READ MORE...]
Featured Stories
HPE Deploys "Genius" Supercomputer at KU Leuven
Today HPE announced a new supercomputer installation at KU Leuven, a Flemish research university consistently ranked as one of the five most innovative universities in the world. HPE collaborated with KU Leuven to develop and deploy Genius, a new supercomputer built to run artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. The system will be available to both academia and the industry to build applications that drive scientific breakthroughs, economic growth and innovation in Flanders, the northern region of Belgium. [READ MORE...]
RCE Podcast Looks at MEEP Software for Simulating Electromagnetic Systems
In this RCE podcast, Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres discuss MEEP, a free finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) software for electromagnetic simulations. Their guests are Dr. Steven G. Johnson and Dr. Ardavan Oskooi. "Meep is a free and open-source software package for simulating electromagnetic systems via the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. Meep is an acronym for MIT Electromagnetic Equation Propagation." [READ MORE...]
Earth-modeling System steps up to Exascale
"Unveiled today by the DOE, E3SM is a state-of-the-science modeling project that uses the world's fastest computers to more accurately understand how Earth's climate work and can evolve into the future. The goal: to support DOE's mission to plan for robust, efficient, and cost-effective energy infrastructures now, and into the distant future." [READ MORE...]
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The Machine Learning Potential of a Combined Tech Approach
This is the first in a five-part series from a report exploring the potential of unified deep learning with CPU, GPU and FGPA technologies. This post explores the machine learning potential of taking a combined approach to these technologies. [READ MORE...]
Industry Perspectives
Why UIUC Built HPC Application Containers for NVIDIA GPU Cloud
In this video from the GPU Technology Conference, John Stone from the University of Illinois describes how container technology in the NVIDIA GPU Cloud help the University distribute accelerated applications for science and engineering. "Containers are a way of packaging up an application and all of its dependencies in such a way that you can install them collectively on a cloud instance or a workstation or a compute node. And it doesn't require the typical amount of system administration skills and involvement to put one of these containers on a machine." [Read More...]
Exascale Computing for Long Term Design of Urban Systems
In this episode of Let's Talk Exascale, Charlie Catlett from Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago describes how extreme scale HPC will be required to better build Smart Cities. "Urbanization is a bigger set of challenges in the developing world than in the developed world, but it’s still a challenge for us in US and European cities and Japan." [Read More...]
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Editor’s Choice
Quantum Computing at NIST
Carl Williams from NIST gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Tucson. "Quantum information science research at NIST explores ways to employ phenomena exclusive to the quantum world to measure, encode and process information for useful purposes, from powerful data encryption to computers that could solve problems intractable with classical computers." [Read More...]
Containers Using Singularity on HPC
Abhinav Thota, from Indiana University gave this talk at the 2018 Swiss HPC Conference. "Container use is becoming more widespread in the HPC field. There are various reasons for this, including the broadening of the user base and applications of HPC. One of the popular container tools on HPC is Singularity, an open source project coming out of the Berkeley Lab. In this talk, we will introduce Singularity, discuss how users of Indiana University are using it and share our experience supporting it. This talk will include a brief demonstration as well." [Read More...]
Using the Titan Supercomputer to Develop 50,000 Years of Flood Risk Scenarios
Dag Lohmann from KatRisk gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Tucson. "In 2012, a small Berkeley, California, startup called KatRisk set out to improve the quality of worldwide flood risk maps. The team wanted to create large-scale, high-resolution maps to help insurance companies evaluate flood risk on the scale of city blocks and buildings, something that had never been done. Through the OLCF’s industrial partnership program, KatRisk received 5 million processor hours on Titan." [Read More...]
Shifter - Docker Containers for HPC
Alberto Madonaa gave this talk at the Swiss HPC Conference. "In this work we present an extension to the container runtime of Shifter that provides containerized applications with a mechanism to access GPU accelerators and specialized networking from the host system, effectively enabling performance portability of containers across HPC resources. The presented extension makes possible to rapidly deploy high-performance software on supercomputers from containerized applications that have been developed, built, and tested in non-HPC commodity hardware, e.g. the laptop or workstation of a researcher." [Read More...]
Iceland's Verne Global Steps up to run HPC & AI Workloads in the Cloud
In this video from the GPU Technology Conference, Bob Fletcher from Verne Global discusses why more and more HPC & AI workloads are moving to the company's datacenters in Iceland. “Today’s computational environments are changing rapidly as more companies are looking to utilize HPC and intensive applications across an increasingly wide variety of industries. At Verne Global we have fully optimized our campus to meet the specific requirements of the international HPC community.” [Read More...]
