Gene Cooperman from Northeastern University gave this talk at the MVAPICH User Group. “This talk presents an efficient, new software architecture: split processes. The “MANA for MPI” software demonstrates this split-process architecture. The MPI application code resides in “upper-half memory”, and the MPI/network libraries reside in “lower-half memory”.
Checkpointing the Un-checkpointable: MANA and the Split-Process Approach
September 8, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Identifying Opportunities to Improve Efficiency in HPC Clusters
September 7, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Jordi Blasco from HPC Now! gave this talk at HPCKP’19. “Jordi Blasco has developed a new open source monitoring tool which allows the HPC user support teams to identify new opportunities to improve the efficiency of the codes being executed on HPC resources. Earlier adopters of this new tool, and through the continuous monitoring of jobs efficiency, have been able to improve the scalability and performance of several codes and workflows.”
AMD: Delivering the Future of High-Performance Computing
September 6, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Dr. Lisa Su from AMD gave this talk at the recent DARPA Electronics Resurgence Initiative Summit. “Optimum system performance requires co-design of silicon chips, system architecture, and software. She presented the example of the Frontier exascale computer system being developed for Oak Ridge National Lab, which should exhibit 1.5 exaflops by 2021. While the highest-performance chips and systems will initially be limited to the most expensive machines, it is expected that similar technology will become available within a few years in data centers, edge computers, and even mobile devices.”
Podcast: ECP Team Achieves Huge Performance Gain on Materials Simulation Code
September 5, 2019 by Leave a Comment
The Exascale Atomistics for Accuracy, Length, and Time (EXAALT) project within the US Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) has made a big step forward by delivering a five-fold performance advance in addressing its fusion energy materials simulations challenge problem. “Summit is at roughly 200 petaflops, so by the time we go to the exascale, we should have another factor of five. That starts to be a transformative kind of change in our ability to do the science on these machines.”
Supercomputing and the Scientist: How HPC and Analytics are transforming experimental science
September 5, 2019 by Leave a Comment
In this video from DataTech19, Debbie Bard from NERSC presents: Supercomputing and the scientist: How HPC and large-scale data analytics are transforming experimental science. “Debbie Bard leads the Data Science Engagement Group NERSC. NERSC is the mission supercomputing center for the USA Department of Energy, and supports over 7000 scientists and 700 projects with supercomputing needs.”
Call for Papers: ISC 2020 in Frankfurt
September 4, 2019 by Leave a Comment
The ISC 2020 conference has issued its Call for Papers. The event takes place June 21-25, 2020 in Frankfurt, Germany. “The ISC research paper sessions provide world-class opportunities for engineers and scientists in academia, industry and government to present and discuss issues, trends and results that will shape the future of high performance computing (HPC), Networking, Storage and AI/Machine Learning.”
Podcast: Inside TACC’s Frontera Supercomputer
September 4, 2019 by Leave a Comment
In this Intel Chip Chat podcast, Dan Stanzione from TACC discusses the architecture and capabilities of Frontera, TACC’s newest HPC cluster. “Frontera’s architecture includes 8,000 servers, each powered by 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors. The cluster includes hundreds of thousands of processing cores and a liquid-cooled infrastructure enabling a higher clock rate for even more performance.”
NVIDIA Powers GRC Immersion Cooled System at TACC
September 3, 2019 by 1 Comment
Today GRC announced its joint project with NVIDIA to help power a GPU-intensive computing subsystem for TACC’s Frontera Supercomputer, the world’s largest academic supercomputer. GRC is proud of its long history with TACC and we’re delighted to have been able to collaborate once again with NVIDIA to help power the next generation of academic research,” […]
Experiences developing and running numerical simulations on HPC platforms: BSIT and GeNESiS
September 3, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Claudia Rosas from BSC gave this talk at the HPCKP’19. “In this talk, we present the general benefits of using the frameworks in current HPC platforms and describe both of them when applied to develop and deploy wave propagation simulations which are highly valuable for the Oil & Gas industry. The knowledge obtained from work with BSIT has motivated the concepts and methodology behind GeNESiS to consolidate years of experience in one robust, flexible and modern tool for numerical simulations.”
TACC Unveils Frontera – Fastest Supercomputer in Academia
September 3, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Today TACC unveiled Frontera, the 5th most powerful supercomputer in the world. “Frontera has been supporting science applications since June and has already enabled more than three dozen teams to conduct research on a range of topics from black hole physics to climate modeling to drug design, employing simulation, data analysis, and artificial intelligence at a scale not previously possible.”
