The LAD’17 conference has posted their meeting agenda. Also known as the Lustre Administrator and Developer Workshop, the event takes place Oct. 4-5 in Paris. “EOFS and OpenSFS are organizing the seventh european lustre workshop. This will be a great opportunity for Lustre worldwide administrators and developers to gather and exchange their experiences, developments, tools, good practices and more.”
Archives for August 2017
Illinois Supercomputers Tag Team for Big Bang Simulation
August 29, 2017 by
Researchers are tapping Argonne and NCSA supercomputers to tackle the unprecedented amounts of data involved with simulating the Big Bang. “Researchers performed cosmological simulations on the ALCF’s Mira supercomputer, and then sent huge quantities of data to UI’s Blue Waters, which is better suited to perform the required data analysis tasks because of its processing power and memory balance.”
ScaleMP Completes $10M Funding Round
August 29, 2017 by
Today ScaleMP a leading provider of virtualization solutions for high-end computing, delivering technology for software-defined computing and software-defined memory products, today announced it has completed a $10 million funding round. The investment follows deeper and broader adoption of ScaleMP’s technology by server and storage OEMs. The funds will further accelerate the company’s growth, enhance the company’s products and technology, and expand ScaleMP’s support for its OEM partners.
A Simpler Path to Reliable, Productive HPC
August 29, 2017 by
HPC is becoming a competitive requirement as high performance data analysis (HPDA) joins multi-physics simulation as table stakes for successful innovation across a growing range of industries and research disciplines. Yet complexity remains a very real hurdle for both new and experienced HPC users. Learn how new Intel products, including the Intel HPC Orchestrator, can work to simplify some of the complexities and challenges that can arise in high performance computing environments.
Intel Discontinues Xeon Phi 7200-Series Knights Landing Coprocessors
August 28, 2017 by
AnandTech reports that Intel is discontinuing it’s line of Knights Landing PCIe based Co-processors. The move is not a surprise given that the company has been producing bootable Xeon Phi processors since early in 2016. “At least for now, Intel does not want to compete against add-on PCIe compute accelerators with its Xeon Phi products. A big question is whether it actually needs to, given the stand-alone capabilities of Xeon Phi and its performance characteristics.”
VMware Rolls Out vSphere Scale-Out Edition for Big Data and HPC Workloads
August 28, 2017 by
Today VMware introduced vSphere Scale-Out Edition for Big Data and HPC Workloads, a new solution in the vSphere product line aimed at Big Data and HPC workloads. VMware vSphere Scale-Out edition includes the features and functions most useful to Big Data and HPC workloads such as those provided by the core vSphere hypervisor and the vSphere Distributed Switch. “This new solution also enables the ability to rapidly change and provision compute nodes. The solution will be offered at an attractive price point, optimized for Big Data and HPC environments.”
Interview: How HPE is Democratizing High Performance Computing
August 28, 2017 by
In this video, Tuomas Sandholm from Strategic Machine, Inc. and Eng Lim Goh from HPE discuss how High Performance Computing is fast-becoming an integral part of our lives. “Our HPC solutions empower innovation at any scale, building on our purpose-built HPC systems and technologies solutions, applications and support services. The results? More power to differentiate your business, drive research and find answers like never before.”
Radio Free HPC Catches up with Quantum Computing News
August 28, 2017 by
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at some new developments in the Quantum Computing ecosystem. Last week, IEEE approved a new Standards Project for Quantum Computing Definitions. Meanwhile, Silicon Valley Startup Rigetti Computing has teamed up the CDL incubator to boost the Quantum Machine Learning Startup ecosystem.
Job of the Week: Senior Linux System Administrator at Yale
August 27, 2017 by
Yale University is seeking a Sr. Linux System Administrator in our Job of the Week. “In this role, you will work as a Linux senior administrator in ITS Systems Administration. Provide leadership in Linux server administration, for mission-critical services in a dynamic, 24/7 production data center environment.”
Oak Ridge Turns to Deep Learning for Big Data Problems
August 27, 2017 by
The Advances in Machine Learning to Improve Scientific Discovery at Exascale and Beyond (ASCEND) project aims to use deep learning to assist researchers in making sense of massive datasets produced at the world’s most sophisticated scientific facilities. Deep learning is an area of machine learning that uses artificial neural networks to enable self-learning devices and platforms. The team, led by ORNL’s Thomas Potok, includes Robert Patton, Chris Symons, Steven Young and Catherine Schuman.
