HPC systems rely on large amounts of complex software, much of which is freely available. There is an assumption that because the software is “freely available,” there are no associated costs. This is a dangerous assumption. There are real configuration, administration, and maintenance costs associated with any type of software (open or closed).
Archives for May 2014
Datum in Farnborough to Host Bull’s Cloud and HPC-on-demand
May 27, 2014 by
Today Bull Information Systems announced a three-year deal with Datum to host Bull’s new cloud and HPC-on-demand platforms in Farnborough, UK.
Paving the Way for Future Crash Simulation
May 26, 2014 by
The requirement for both application scaling (capability computing) and system throughput (capacity computing) continues to grow. The “THUMS” human body model has 1.8 million elements, and safety simulations of over 50 million elements are on the roadmap. Models of this size will require scaling to thousands of cores just to maintain the current turnaround time.
Nobel Lecture Series: A Perspective of Biology
May 26, 2014 by
In this video from the NERSC Nobel Lecture Series: John Kuriyan from UC Berkeley presents: A Perspective of Biology.
Google Develops Quantum Computing Playground
May 26, 2014 by
Developed by Google engineers, the Quantum Computing Playground is a browser-based WebGL Chrome Experiment featuring a simple IDE interface and its own scripting language with debugging and 3D quantum state visualization features.
Atos to Acquire Bull in France
May 26, 2014 by
IT services provider Atos has announced plans to acquire Bull, the French supercomputing vendor. The objective is to leverage the global reach of Atos with Bull’s unique expertise in Cybersecurity and HPC.
Podcast: Radio Free HPC Previews the ISC’14 Student Cluster Challenge
May 25, 2014 by
“The third HPCAC-ISC Student Cluster Challenge at ISC’14 is an opportunity to showcase student expertise in a friendly yet spirited competition. The competition will feature 11 small teams that compete to demonstrate the incredible capabilities of state-of- the-art high-performance cluster hardware and software.”
Apply Now for the SC14 Experiencing HPC for Undergraduates Program
May 25, 2014 by
As the HPC community begins to show its age, there is a growing need to bring in the bright young minds that will be tomorrow’s supercomputing leaders.
Dassault Powers Living Heart Project
May 24, 2014 by
“The Living Heart Project is a model for how collaborations can work to advance regulatory science in the medical device industry and improve patient access to cutting-edge medical technology.”
New Paper: Petascale Multiphase Flow Solutions on Titan Supercomputer
May 24, 2014 by
“In this paper, we consider a coupled solution in which a multiphase flow simulator is coupled to an analysis approach used to extract the interfacial geometries as the flow evolves. This has been implemented using MPI to target heterogeneous nodes equipped with GPUs. The GPUs evolve the multiphase flow solution using the lattice Boltzmann method while the CPUs compute upscaled measures of the morphology and topology of the phase distributions and their rate of evolution. Our approach is demonstrated to scale to 4,096 GPUs and 65,536 CPU cores to achieve a maximum performance of 244,754 million-lattice-node updates per second (MLUPS) in double precision execution on Titan.”
