Today ARM announced new math libraries that are precision-tuned for 64-bit ARMv8-A processors. Designed for ARM-based HPC servers, ARM Performance Libraries are foundational math routines designed to enable the maximum performance of computational software. ARM math libraries take advantage of each silicon partner’s specific microarchitecture innovations and features within their SoCs based on the ARMv8-A architecture to ensure peak system performance. The HPC community will have an opportunity to see the first public demonstrations of ARM Performance Libraries at the upcoming SC15 conference.
Archives for 2015
Atos Launches Bull sequana X1000 Supercomputer
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Today Atos launched the Bull sequana X1000, its new family of supercomputers on the company’s road to exascale. “The new Bull sequana system, powered by future Intel Xeon processors and the Intel Xeon Phi processor, code-named “Knights Landing”, is designed to address the performance, reliability and energy-efficiency requirements of exascale-class supercomputers,” said Raj Hazra, vice president and general manager, Enterprise and HPC Platforms Group, Intel Corporation. “We’re excited to be collaborating with Bull to bring to market this new generation of supercomputers on the path to exascale.”
Linux Foundation Announces OpenHPC Collaborative Project
November 12, 2015 by
Today the Linux Foundation announced plans to form the OpenHPC Collaborative Project. This project will provide a new, open source framework to support the world’s most sophisticated HPC environments. “The use of open source software is central to HPC, but lack of a unified community across key stakeholders – academic institutions, workload management companies, software vendors, computing leaders – has caused duplication of effort and has increased the barrier to entry,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director, The Linux Foundation. “OpenHPC will provide a neutral forum to develop one open source framework that satisfies a diverse set of cluster environment use-cases.”
Amber Molecular Dynamics Optimization on Intel Xeon Phi
November 12, 2015 by
“The Amber Molecular Dynamics software is a well known and understood application for the structural dynamics of large biological molecules. With modern computer systems, a speedup in the computations can lead to studying events that occur on longer timescales, as well as statistical convergences. By incorporating the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor into the workflow on a compute server, additional speedups can be obtained.”
Slidecast: Mellanox Announces Switch IB2 on the Road to Exascale
November 12, 2015 by
“Today Mellanox announced Switch-IB 2, the new generation of its InfiniBand switch optimized for High-Performance Computing, Web 2.0, database and cloud data centers, capable of 100Gb/s per port speeds. Switch-IB 2 is the world’s first smart network switch that offloads MPI operations from the CPU to the network to deliver 10X performance improvements. Switch-IB 2 will enables a performance breakthrough in building the next generation scalable and data intensive data centers, enabling users to gain a competitive advantage.”
Where Will Your Data Take You?
November 12, 2015 by
In this special guest feature, Steve Stover, VP of Marketing and Product Management for Predixion Software shares his thoughts about what is the best path for realizing the potential of IoT.
Talend Survey Reveals Real-Time Big Data Key to Cyber Monday Success
November 12, 2015 by
With the holidays rapidly approaching, merchants need strategies to convert digital shoppers. A recent survey from our friends over at Talend found some important online shopping trends.
RAI Stone Analytics Announces Partnership with the State of Wisconsin, Offering Helping Hand to Small Businesses with Next Stage Prosperity Initiative
November 12, 2015 by
RAI Stone Analytics today announced its partnership with the State of Wisconsin. The Next Stage Prosperity Initiative will use the RAI Stone Analytics platform to unite county economic development agencies, the University of WI, small business development centers, and small businesses in Wisconsin.
The Hyper-Converged Approach to Storage – a Natural Next Step
November 12, 2015 by
In this week’s Industry Perspectives, Laura Shepard, Sr. Director Vertical and Product Marketing at DDN looks at trends in commodity hardware, specifically a converged approach to storage and the many benefits it offers to supercomputing professionals.
Dell Equips PowerEdge Servers with Bright Cluster Manager for HPC Environments
November 12, 2015 by
Today Bright Computing announced that the latest version of its Bright Cluster Manager software is now integrated with Dell’s 13th generation PowerEdge server portfolio. The integration enables systems administrators to easily deploy and configure Dell infrastructure using Bright Cluster Manager.
