“At SC16, DDN demonstrated centralized storage implementations that accelerate financial and scientific analytics by 5x – extracting maximum efficiency, value and ROI in real-world customer environments using DDN products and solutions with open and commercial software including OpenStack and Hadoop. In addition to the demonstrations, DDN also highlighted its customer use cases with other open and commercial software such as Informatica, SAS GRID, R and Ab Initio, among others.”
Archives for November 2016
NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPU Review
November 30, 2016 by
Accelerated computing continues to gain momentum as the HPC community moves towards Exascale. Our recent Tesla P100 GPU review shows how these accelerators are opening up new worlds of performance vs. traditional CPU-based systems and even vs. NVIDIA’s previous K80 GPU product. We’ve got benchmarks, case studies, and more in the insideHPC Research Report on GPU Accelerators.
Bernd Mohr on how #hpcconnects on the Road to SC17
November 30, 2016 by
In this special guest feature, SC17 General Chair Bernd Mohr write that the conference will focus on making connections. “We are very confident, that SC17 will once again be THE gathering of scientists, engineers, researchers, educators, programmers, system administrators and developers that is unequaled in the world—for an exceptional program of technical presentations, papers, workshops, informative tutorials, timely research posters and Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) sessions, all connected by a world-class exhibition.”
Asetek Lands Nine Installations on the Green500
November 30, 2016 by
“As seen at installations included on both the Green500 and Top500 lists, Asetek’s distributed liquid cooling architecture enables cluster energy efficiency in addition to sustained and un-throttled cluster performance,” said John Hamill, Vice President of WW Sales and Marketing. “Around the world, data centers are increasingly using Asetek technology for High Performance Computing while reducing energy costs.”
Huawei Showcases HPC Solutions at SC16
November 30, 2016 by
“Huawei has increasingly become more prominent in the HPC market. It has successfully deployed HPC clusters for a large number of global vehicle producers, large-scale supercomputing centers, and research institutions. These show that Huawei’s HPC platforms are optimized for industry applications which can help customers significantly simplify service processes and improve work efficiency, enabling them to focus on product development and research.”
SGI Paves the Way to the Future with HPE at SC16
November 29, 2016 by
In this video from SC16, Gabriel Broner from SGI describes the company’s full breadth of HPC solutions. Recently acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, SGI’s product technologies such as the SGI ICE XA system and SGI UV big memory systems will continue to offer unique value for HPC customers on the road to Exascale. “Will this be a good marriage? Well, this reporter got to spend some time with HPE, SGI, and their joint customers at the recent HP-CAST user group meeting, and all indications are that this combination will be a powerful force in HPC moving forward.”
New InfiniBand Architecture Specifications Extend Virtualization Support
November 29, 2016 by
“As performance demands continue to evolve in both HPC and enterprise cloud applications, the IBTA saw an increasing need for new enhancements to InfiniBand’s network capabilities, support features and overall interoperability,” said Bill Magro, co-chair of the IBTA Technical Working Group. “Our two new InfiniBand Architecture Specification updates satisfy these demands by delivering interoperability and testing upgrades for EDR and FDR, flexible management capabilities for optimal low-latency and low-power functionality and virtualization support for better network scalability.”
How Dell EMC Delivers HPC Cloud with R-Systems
November 29, 2016 by
“Learn how you can cost effectively accelerate innovation with a secure private cloud environment, hosted and managed by Dell and R Systems Bare Metal Solution. The HPC infrastructure consists of Dell processing, power, storage and memory capacity. R Systems provides white-glove HPC services with custom solutions in your choice of locations, including their company-owned data centers in Champaign, Illinois located at the University of Illinois’ Research Park. R Systems offers complete Dell hardware-based systems, as well as custom engagements/configurations based on specific business needs.”
13.7 Petaflop MareNostrum 4 Supercomputer Coming to BSC
November 29, 2016 by
Today the Barcelona Supercomputing Center announced plans to MareNostrum 4, a 13.7 Petaflop supercomputer that will be 12.4 times more powerful than the current MareNostrum 3 system. In a contract valued at almost €30 million, IBM will integrate in one sole machine using its own technologies alongside those of Lenovo, Intel, and Fujitsu.
Avere Speeds Hybrid Cloud at SC16
November 29, 2016 by
“Avere Hybrid Cloud is a groundbreaking solution that changes the economics and functionality of data storage and computing. Avere Hybrid Cloud enables companies to leverage public and private storage clouds, IaaS, and elastic compute for workloads previously limited to on-premises high-performance (HPC) storage systems. With Avere Systems, you can achieve unlimited performance scaling, eliminate latency and cut storage costs by more than 50%.”
