The HPC User Forum has posted their Preliminary Agenda for their upcoming meeting in France. Free to attend, the event takes place March 6-7 near Paris at the Teratec campus in Bruyères-le-Châtel. “We have developed an exciting agenda with prominent speakers who will discuss the HPC strategies for Europe, Japan and the USA,” said Earl Joseph, CEO of Hyperion Research. “We will also have talks on new HPC technologies, applications and markets; and the proliferation of HPC in industrial and commercial environments.”
Red Hat steps up with Multi-Architecture Solutions for HPC
January 2, 2018 by
In this video from SC17, Dan McGuan and Jon Masters from Red Hat describe the company’s Multi-Architecture HPC capabilities. “At SC17, you will have an opportunity to see the power and flexibility of Red Hat Enterprise Linux across multiple architectures, including Arm v8-A, x86_64 and IBM POWER Little Endian.”
Dr. Pradeep Dubey on AI & The Virtuous Cycle of Compute
January 2, 2018 by
“Deep Learning was recently scaled to obtain 15PF performance on the Cori supercomputer at NERSC. Cori Phase II features over 9600 KNL processors. It can significantly impact how we do computing and what computing can do for us. In this podcast, I will discuss some of the application-level opportunities and system-level challenges that lie at the heart of this intersection of traditional high performance computing with emerging data-intensive computing.”
Video: Dell EMC AI Vision & Strategy
January 1, 2018 by
Jay Boisseau from Dell EMC gave this talk at SC17 in Denver. “Across every industry, organizations are moving aggressively to adopt AI | ML | DL tools and frameworks to help them become more effective in leveraging data and analytics to power their key business and operational use cases. To help our clients exploit the business and operational benefits of AI | ML | DL, Dell EMC has created “Ready Bundles” that are designed to simplify the configuration, deployment and management of AI | ML | DL solutions.”
Harp-DAAL: A Next Generation Platform for High Performance Machine Learning on HPC-Cloud
December 31, 2017 by
Judy Qiu from Indiana University gave this Invited Talk at SC17. “Our research has concentrated on runtime and data management to support HPC-ABDS. This is illustrated by our open source software Harp, a plug-in for native Apache Hadoop, which has a convenient science interface, high performance communication, and can invoke Intel’s Data Analytics Acceleration Library (DAAL). We are building a scalable parallel Machine Learning library that includes routines in Apache Mahout, MLlib, and others built in an NSF funded collaboration.”
Video: Deep Learning at 15 Petaflops
December 30, 2017 by
Narayanan Sundaram gave this talk at the Intel HPC Developer Conference. “We present the first 15-PetaFLOP Deep Learning system for solving supervised and semi-supervised scientific pattern classification problems, optimized for Intel Xeon Phi. We use a hybrid of synchronous and asynchronous training to scale to ~9600 nodes of Cori on CNN and autoencoder networks.”
Job of the Week: Senior Memory Systems Architect at NVIDIA
December 30, 2017 by
NVIDIA in Silicon Valley is seeking a Senior Memory Systems Architect in our Job of the Week. “NVIDIA is building the world’s fastest highly-parallel processing systems, period. Our high-bandwidth multi-client memory subsystems are blazing new territory with every generation. As we increase levels of parallelism, bandwidth and capacity, we are presented with design challenges exacerbated by clients with varying but simultaneous needs such as real-time, low latency, and high-bandwidth. In addition, we are adding improved virtualization and programming model capabilities.”
Jack Dongarra Presents: Overview of HPC and Energy Savings on NVIDIA’s V100
December 29, 2017 by
Jack Dongarra from the University of Tennessee gave this talk at SC17. “In this talk we will look at the current state of high performance computing and look to the future toward exascale. In addition, we will examine some issues that can help in reducing the power consumption for linear algebra computations.”
Michael Wolfe Presents: Why Iteration Space Tiling?
December 28, 2017 by
In this Invited Talk from SC17, Michael Wolfe from NVIDIA presents: Why Iteration Space Tiling? The talk is based on his noted paper, which won the SC17 Test of Time Award. “Tiling is well-known and has been included in many compilers and code transformation systems. The talk will explore the basic contribution of the SC1989 paper to the current state of iteration space tiling.”
Radio Free HPC does their 2018 Technology Predictions
December 27, 2017 by
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team reviews their 2017 technology predictions from last year. After that, we do our 2018 Predictions including a bombshell on who Rich thinks will acquire Cray by the end of the year.
