A recent IDC survey indicated that about 25 percent of sites that ran HPC workloads are using some sort of cloud computing, and that just over 30 percent of the HPC workloads were being performed at cloud sites. There are a number of reasons to consider HPC in the cloud. Here are 5 good ones.
Archives for October 2015
PGI Accelerator Compilers Add OpenACC Support for x86
October 29, 2015 by
“Our goal is to enable HPC developers to easily port applications across all major CPU and accelerator platforms with uniformly high performance using a common source code base,” said Douglas Miles, director of PGI Compilers & Tools at NVIDIA. “This capability will be particularly important in the race towards exascale computing in which there will be a variety of system architectures requiring a more flexible application programming approach.”
European Commission Steps Up Funding of HPC
October 28, 2015 by
In this special guest feature, Tom Wilkie from Scientific Computing World reports that the European Commission is funding research projects and centers of excellence as part of its strategy to coordinate European HPC efforts. In October, the EC made a series of announcements on how it is going to invest some of the €700 million allocated to its Public-Private Partnership on high performance computing.
ExaHyPE Project to Develop Exascale Software for Geophysics and Astrophysics
October 28, 2015 by
A new EU research project called “ExaHyPE” is developing open-source software for exascale-class supercomputers. As an international project coordinated at TUM in Munich, ExaHyPE (“An Exascale Hyperbolic PDE Engine”) seeks to develop novel software, initially for simulations in geophysics and astrophysics.
DDN Reports Growing Momentum Leading into SC15
October 28, 2015 by
Today DDN announced the highest bookings quarter in the company’s history with double-digit year-over-year growth.
Justin Rattner to Keynote SC15 Energy Efficient HPC Workshop
October 28, 2015 by
Today the SC15 Energy Efficient HPC Workshop announced that parallel supercomputing pioneer Justin Rattner will deliver the keynote address at their event in Austin on Monday, November 16th, 2015. Formerly head of Intel Labs, Rattner directed Intel’s global research efforts in microprocessors, systems and communications including the company’s disruptive research activity.
Submissions Open for ISC 2016 in Frankfurt
October 28, 2015 by
Submissions are now open for the ISC 2016 conference including workshops, tutorials, birds-of-a-feather (BoF) sessions, research papers, research posters, and the student volunteer program. The event takes place June 19-23 in Frankfurt, Germany.
Seagate HPC User Group Returns to SC15 in Austin
October 27, 2015 by
Seagate will hosts its annual HPC User Group at SC15 on Monday, Nov 16 from 4:00pm – 7:00pm at the JW Marriott in Austin. “You don’t want to miss what our speakers have to say – it could change the way you do things (not to mention the fact that you’ll walk away with the most talked-about consumer hard drive on the market – the Seagate Seven).”
EoCoE Center of Excellence Using HPC to Accelerate Transition to Low Carbon Energy
October 27, 2015 by
In HPC news from CEA in France, the EoCoE (Oriented Energy Center of Excellence) project officially launched earlier this month. Pronounced “Echo,” the EoCoE has a mission to create a new, long lasting and sustainable community around computational energy science.
It’s Here: The Print ‘n Fly Guide to SC15 in Austin
October 27, 2015 by
At insideHPC, are very pleased to publish the Print ‘n Fly Guide to SC15 in Austin. We designed this Guide to be an in-flight magazine custom tailored for your journey to SC15 — the world’s largest gathering of high performance computing professionals.
