In this special guest feature, Dr. Rosemary Francis reflects on how a recent film about Ruth Bader Ginsberg has a gender equality lesson for us all in high performance computing. “There’s a real argument that creating a more diverse HPC workforce will help us to create machines that make more diverse decisions. By bringing as many minds together as possible – men and women, of different ages, races and ethnicities – we can make sure all problems are considered on the basis of every possible human angle.”
Archives for May 2019
Excelero Integrates NVMesh and BeeGFS for Accelerated I/O
May 28, 2019 by
Today Excelero and ThinkParQ announced benchmark results from their combined technologies for HPC, AI, ML, and analytics. “With Excelero’s NVMesh, our customers have access to an ultra-low latency, high performance approach to scale-out storage,” said Frank Herold, CEO of ThinkParQ. “We’ve been impressed with NVMesh’s ability to deliver the high IOPS and ultra-low latency of NVMe drives over the network with highly available volumes – as well as options for distributed erasure coding and BeeGFS’ unmatched ability to efficiently handle all kinds of access patterns and file sizes.”
“Above the Trend Line” – Your Industry Rumor Central for 5/28/2019
May 28, 2019 by
Above the Trend Line: your industry rumor central is a recurring feature of insideAI News. In this column, we present a variety of short time-critical news items grouped by category such as M&A activity, people movements, funding news, financial results, industry alignments, customer wins, rumors and general scuttlebutt floating around the big data, data science and machine learning industries including behind-the-scenes anecdotes and curious buzz.
Video: The Kokkos C++ Performance Portability EcoSystem for Exascale
May 28, 2019 by
Christian Trott from Sandia gave this talk at the GPU Technology Conference. “The Kokkos C++ Performance Portability EcoSystem is a production-level solution for writing modern C++ applications in a hardware-agnostic way. We’ll provide success stories for Kokkos adoption in large production applications on the leading supercomputing platforms in the U.S. We’ll focus particularly on early results from two of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, Summit and Sierra, both powered by NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs.”
NVIDIA EGX Accelerates AI on TYAN Edge Server
May 28, 2019 by
Today TYAN announced that it is teaming with NVIDIA to integrate the NVIDIA EGX platform with its Thunder SX TN76-B7102 edge server, completing TYAN’s GPU server product line. “NVIDIA EGX provides the missing link for low-latency AI computing at the edge with an advanced, light-compute platform, reducing the amount of data that needs to be pushed to the cloud.”
Using Deep Learning for On-demand Expert Service Cloud for Analytics
May 27, 2019 by
Rumblings in the industry indicate there is a new on-demand expert service cloud for analytics. BI teams can now tap thousands of experts around the globe to quickly handle ad-hoc queries and eliminate backlog. The new technology creates a pool of analytics experts to add BI team capacity for ad-hoc analytics on data warehouses.
New NVIDIA EGX Platform Brings Real-Time AI to the Edge
May 27, 2019 by
Today NVIDIA announced NVIDIA EGX, an accelerated computing platform that enables companies to perform low-latency AI at the edge. “The combination of high-performance, low-latency and accelerated networking provides a new infrastructure tier of computing that is critical to efficiently access and supply the data needed to fuel the next generation of advanced AI solutions on edge platforms such as NVIDIA EGX.”
DataStax Announces Constellation, a Cloud-Native Data Platform
May 26, 2019 by
DataStax, the company behind a leading database built on Apache Cassandra™, announced DataStax Constellation, a cloud data platform that will simplify the development and operation of modern applications. Constellation will launch later this year with two cloud services: DataStax Apache Cassandra as a Service and DataStax Insights.
Dell HPC Community Meeting returns to Frankfurt for ISC 2019
May 26, 2019 by
Dell EMC will once again host the HPC Community Meeting at ISC 2019. “The Dell EMC HPC Community is a worldwide technical forum that fosters the exchange of ideas among researchers, computer scientists, technologists, and engineers and promotes the advancement of innovative, powerful HPC solutions. In the Community, members share expertise, insights, observations, suggestions, and experiences to improve current HPC solutions and to influence future technology capabilities & impact.”
Cybersecurity and Risk Management for HPC
May 26, 2019 by
Henry Newman from Seagate Government Solutions gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Santa Fe. “Cyber attacks and security breaches have become commonplace with explosion of data. More often than not, these breaches could have prevented or greatly reduced if these institutions would have followed prescribed security standards. As we move to the edge and go to 5G networks, there is going to be more distributed data and therefore protection is going to have to go out to the edge as well.”
