“This year’s workshop continues SDSC’s strategy of bringing high-performance computing to what is known as the ‘long tail’ of science, i.e. providing resources to a larger and more diverse number of modest-sized computational research projects that represent, in aggregate, a tremendous amount of scientific research and discovery. SDSC has developed and hosted Summer Institute workshops for well over a decade.”
Archives for March 2017
Video: State of the OpenFabrics Alliance
March 31, 2017 by
In this video from the OpenFabrics Workshop, Susan Coulter from LANL presents: State of the OpenFabrics Alliance. “The OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) is an open source-based organization that develops, tests, licenses, supports and distributes OpenFabrics Software (OFS). The Alliance’s mission is to develop and promote software that enables maximum application efficiency by delivering wire-speed messaging, ultra-low latencies and maximum bandwidth directly to applications with minimal CPU overhead.”
CloudLightning Conference Coming to Dublin April 11
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“The Cloud Lightning conference will feature academics and industry professionals from across Europe and the UK who will deliver presentations, talks, and research findings into High Performance Infrastructure for Public Sector Research, Heterogeneous Computing, HPC in the Cloud Use Cases, and Next Generation Resource Management for cloud/HPC.”
SHAPE Program offers HPC to Small Businesses in Europe
March 31, 2017 by
“The SHAPE Program will help European SMEs overcome barriers to using HPC, such as cost of operation, lack of knowledge and lack of resources. It will facilitate the process of defining a workable solution based on HPC and defining an appropriate business model.”
Accelerating Hadoop, Spark, and Memcached with HPC Technologies
March 31, 2017 by
“This talk will present RDMA-based designs using OpenFabrics Verbs and heterogeneous storage architectures to accelerate multiple components of Hadoop (HDFS, MapReduce, RPC, and HBase), Spark and Memcached. An overview of the associated RDMA-enabled software libraries (being designed and publicly distributed as a part of the HiBD project for Apache Hadoop.”
GW4 Unveils ARM-Powered Isambard Supercomputer from Cray
March 30, 2017 by
Today the GW4 Alliance in the UK unveiled Isambard, the world’s first ARM-based production supercomputer at today’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) launch at the Thinktank science museum in Birmingham. “Isambard is able to provide system comparison at high speed as it includes over 10,000, high-performance 64-bit ARM cores, making it one of the largest machines of its kind anywhere in the world. Such a machine could provide the template for a new generation of ARM-based services.”
Prof. Dieter Kranzlmüller Named Chairman of the Board at LRZ in Germany
March 30, 2017 by
Today the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) announced that Prof. Dr. Dieter Kranzlmüller is the new Chairman of the Board of Directors at GCS member Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ).
Purdue Supercomputer Gets Second Life in Colombia
March 30, 2017 by
“Besides trying to identify likely drug targets for new HIV treatments, EAFIT’s first supercomputer, named Apolo, is being used for everything from earthquake science in a country regularly shaken by tremors, to a groundbreaking examination of the tropical disease leishmaniasis, to the most “green” way of processing cement. The machine speeds the time to science for Colombian researchers and lets them tackle bigger problems.”
Dell Powers New Owens Cluster at Ohio State
March 30, 2017 by
Today the Ohio Supercomputer Center dedicated its newest, most powerful supercomputer: the Owens Cluster. The Dell cluster, named for the iconic Olympic champion Jesse Owens, delivers 1.5 petaflops of total peak performance. “OSC’s Owens Cluster represents one of the most significant HPC systems Dell has built,” said Tony Parkinson, Vice President for NA Enterprise Solutions and Alliances at Dell.
Register Now for PRACEdays17 in Barcelona
March 30, 2017 by
Registration is now open for PRACEdays17. The event May 16-18 in Barcelona, Spain. “The PRACEdays17 program will follow the tradition set by the first three editions and will include international keynote presentations from high-level scientists and researchers from academia and industry, including among others Telli van der Lei, Senior Scientist Supply Chain and Process Modeling at DSM; Nuria Lopez, Professor at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia; and Xue-Feng Yuan, Director of the Institute for Systems Rheology (ISR), P. R. China.”
