In this video, Dan Olds from OrionX presents insights from their Q2-Q3 2017 Survey on Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning/Deep Learning – one of the industry’s most comprehensive AI/ML/DL surveys to date with more than 144 data points. “Dan Olds talks the audience through the demographics and questions, respondents’ understanding of AI/ML/DL, current projects, who is driving AI in organizations, project attributes and more.”
Archives for October 2017
Video: The Era of Data-Centric Data Centers
October 28, 2017 by
Gilad Shainer gave this talk at the HPC Advisory Council Spain Conference. “The latest revolution in HPC is the move to a co-design architecture, a collaborative effort among industry, academia, and manufacturers to reach Exascale performance. By taking a holistic system-level approach to fundamental performance improvements Co-design architectures exploit system efficiency and optimizes performance by creating synergies between the hardware and the software.”
Job of the Week: HPC System Administrator at Purdue
October 28, 2017 by
Purdue University seeks a HPC Systems Administrator to design, deploy, administer, and update large-scale research systems, related infrastructure services, grid software stacks, and operating systems. Additionally, as HPC Systems Administrator, you will be responsible for components of Purdue’s computational research environment, and work closely with researchers, systems administrators, engineers and developers throughout the University and partner institutions. You will also administer existing cluster and grid infrastructure technologies, and research/prototype new systems and technologies.
Now Shipping: Intel Optane SSDs with 4x Performance of NAND-Based Devices
October 27, 2017 by
Today Intel announced the launch of the Intel Optane SSD 900P Series, the first SSD for desktop PC and workstation users built on Intel Optane technology. “Up to four times faster than competitive NAND-based SSDs, the Intel Optane SSD 900P Series delivers incredibly low latency and best-in-class random read and write performance. The Intel Optane SSD 900P Series is ideal for the most demanding storage workloads, including 3D rendering, complex simulations, fast game load times and more. The device also offers up to 22 times more endurance than other drives.”
New Subsea Cable Lowers Network Costs from Iceland to North America by 90%
October 27, 2017 by
The cost of moving HPC workloads to Iceland is coming down in a big way. Today Verne Global and Tele Greenland announced that the 12.4-Tbps upgrade to the Greenland Connect subsea cable system with three new 100-Gpbs connections into Verne Global’s Icelandic data center, is now complete. The upgraded network provides streamlined routing from Iceland to the New York City metro area, lower latency and up to 90% lower network costs. Tele Greenland has also invested in improving route security to ensure data integrity and protect cables from elemental factors.
SC17 Session Preview: “Taking the Nanoscale to the Exascale”
October 27, 2017 by
Brian Ban continues his series of SC17 Session Previews with a look at an invited talk on nanotechnology. “This talk will focus on the challenges that computational chemistry faces in taking the equations that model the very small (molecules and the reactions they undergo) to efficient and scalable implementations on the very large computers of today and tomorrow.”
Agreement Ensures Ongoing HPC Funding for Climate Research at DKRZ in Germany
October 27, 2017 by
Today German officials signed a contract for the long-term financing of a new supercomputer for DKRZ. The new machine will be used for climate research. “We need to understand much better how climate changes influence our way of life and vice versa – locally and globally,” said Katharina Fegebank, Senator for Science, Research and Equality. “This interplay is highly complex. Wise solutions are therefore dependent on sound scientific knowledge.”
Video: HPC Meets Machine Learning
October 27, 2017 by
Andres Gómez Tato from CESGA gave this talk at the HPC Advisory Council Spain Conference. “With the explosion of Deep Learning thanks to the availability of large volume of data, computational resources are needed to train large models, using GPUs and distributed computing. When working on large models, HPC infrastructures can help to speed-up some task during the model design and training. Based on the experience at CESGA and FORTISIMO, this talk reviews the computational needs of Deep Learning, the use cases where HPC can help to Machine Learning, the performance of available Machine Learning APIs and the parallel methods commonly used during ML training.”
Radio Free Looks at why the Tape Storage Market is falling on Hard Times
October 27, 2017 by
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team asks the question: Is the Cloud Killing the Tape Market? The issue came up this week that Spectra Logic is laying off 9 percent of its workforce. “The technology has had its ups and downs over the years, and things look positive for it once again as cloud providers have adopted it as a cost-effective way to handle the growing amount of data being generated, TechTarget, a marketing firm, reported.”
NCI Doubles Raijin Supercomputer Throughput with IBM POWER8
October 26, 2017 by
Today NCI in Australia announced that it has adopted IBM’s Power8 architecture as part of Raijin, the system fastest supercomputer in the Southern Hemisphere. The hybrid x86/Power8 system will offer local researchers the opportunity to explore the intersection of AI and HPC. “The extraordinary bandwidth in Power Systems provides a significant performance advantage, and we look forward to scientists exploiting those capabilities now and into the future.”
