“Containers wrap up software with all its dependencies in packages that can be executed anywhere. This can be specially useful in HPC environments where, often, getting the right combination of software tools to build applications is a daunting task. However, typical container solutions such as Docker are not a perfect fit for HPC environments. Instead, Shifter is a better fit as it has been built from the ground up with HPC in mind. In this talk, we show you what Shifter is and how to leverage from the current Docker environment to run your ap- plications with Shifter.”
Archives for March 2016
IBM Bluemix Garage in France Fuels Cloud Development
March 27, 2016 by
This week IBM announced the opening of a Bluemix Garage in Nice, France to help European organizations of all sizes and industries accelerate the development and design of next-generation apps on IBM Cloud. “Our latest Bluemix Garage in Nice is a critical addition to our network of Garages across Europe and globally, and will help our clients to more quickly build with IBM Cloud,” said Steve Robnison, General Manager, Client Engagement of IBM Cloud. “IBM Cloud offers companies the most rapid on-ramp, and most robust toolset, for their developers to create the apps they need to succeed and compete.”
Using Xeon + FPGA for Accelerating HPC Workloads
March 26, 2016 by
“The Exascale computing challenge is the current Holy Grail for high performance computing. It envisages building HPC systems capable of 10^18 floating point operations under a power input in the range of 20-40 MW. To achieve this feat, several barriers need to be overcome. These barriers or “walls” are not completely independent of each other, but present a lens through which HPC system design can be viewed as a whole, and its composing sub-systems optimized to overcome the persistent bottlenecks.”
Job of the Week: HPC System Administrator at Mount Sinai Health
March 26, 2016 by
Mount Sinai Health Systems in New York is seeking an HPC Systems Administrator in our Job of the Week.
Improving Storm Forecasts with the Stampede Supercomputer
March 25, 2016 by
Performing experimental weather forecasts using the Stampede supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, researchers have gained a better understanding of what conditions cause severe hail to form, and are producing predictions with far greater accuracy than those currently used operationally.
Radio Free HPC Previews the GPU Technology Conference
March 25, 2016 by
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team previews the GPU Technology Conference coming up April 4-7 in Silicon Valley. “GTC is the largest and most important event of the year for GPU developers. Join us this year as we showcase the most vital work in the computing industry today – Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning, Virtual Reality and Self Driving Cars. GTC attracts developers, researchers, and technologists from some of the top companies, universities, research firms and government agencies from around the world.”
Video: Protecting Your Data, Protecting Your Hardware
March 25, 2016 by
“Thanks to the arrival of SSDs, the performance of storage systems can be boosted by orders of magnitude. While a considerable amount of software engineering has been invested in the past to circumvent the limitations of rotating media, there is a misbelief than a lightweight software approach may be sufficient for taking advantage of solid state media. Taking the data protection as an example, this talk will present some of the limitations of current storage software stacks. We will then discuss how this unfold to a more radical re-design of the software architecture and ultimately is making a case for an I/O interception layer.”
OpenACC Building Momentum going into GTC
March 25, 2016 by
Today the OpenACC standards group announced a set of additional hackathons and a broad range of learning opportunities taking place during the upcoming GPU Technology Conference being held in San Jose, CA April 4-7, 2016. OpenACC is a mature and performance-portable path for developing scalable parallel programs across multi-core CPUs, GPU accelerators or many-core processors.
Video: The State of Linux Containers
March 24, 2016 by
“With Docker v1.9 a new networking system was introduced, which allows multi-host network- ing to work out-of-the-box in any Docker environment. This talk provides an introduction on what Docker networking provides, followed by a demo that spins up a full SLURM cluster across multiple machines. The demo is based on QNIBTerminal, a Consul backed set of Docker Images to spin up a broad set of software stacks.”
Lenovo Powers Phoenix Supercomputer at University of Adelaide
March 24, 2016 by
Researchers at the University of Adelaide will soon have access to a new Lenovo supercomputer named “Phoenix” with as much as 30 times more computing power than before.
