In this special guest feature, Paul Grun from the OpenFabrics Alliance provides a preview of the upcoming OFA Workshop. “We are especially excited about how this year’s program is coming together. At the OFA Workshop 2019, we introduced a hands-on tutorial allowing participants to install an RDMA-enabled cluster directly on their laptop. In response to the overwhelmingly positive feedback, we are thrilled to be building on last year’s success by expanding the tutorials being offered this year.”
OpenFabrics Alliance to Expand Hands-On Tutorial Offerings at Its 2020 Workshop
January 24, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Registration Opens for HPC User Forum in Princeton, NJ
January 21, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Hyperion Research has posted their preliminary agenda for the upcoming HPC User Forum. The event takes place March 30 – April 1 in Princeton, New Jersey. “The HPC User Forum was established in 1999 to promote the health of the global HPC industry and address issues of common concern to users (www.hpcuserforum.com). The organization has grown to 150 members.”
HDR 200GB/sec InfiniBand for HPC & AI
January 18, 2020 by Leave a Comment
In this video from the DDN booth at SC19, Scot Schultz from Mellanox presents: Connecting Visions: HDR 200GB/sec InfiniBand. “HDR 200Gb/s InfiniBand accelerates 31 percent of new InfiniBand-based systems on the current TOP500, including the fastest TOP500 supercomputer built this year. The results also highlight InfiniBand’s continued position in the top three supercomputers in the world and acceleration of six of the top 10 systems. Since the TOP500 List release in June 2019, InfiniBand’s presence has increased by 12 percent, now accelerating 141 supercomputers on the List.”
200G HDR InfiniBand to Accelerate Weather Forecasting at ECMWF
January 17, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Today Mellanox announced that 200 Gigabit HDR InfiniBand has been selected by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) to accelerate their new world-leading supercomputer, based on Atos’ latest BullSequana XH2000 technology. By leveraging HDR InfiniBand’s fast data throughout, extremely low latency, and smart In-Network Computing engines, ECMWF will enhance, speed up, and increase the accuracy of weather forecasting and predictions.
Meet the Future at the Supercomputing Frontiers Europe 2020 Conference
January 17, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Supercomputing Frontiers Europe 2020 is a platform for the thought leaders from both academia and industry to interact and discuss the visionary ideas, the most important global trends and substantial innovations in supercomputing. This year the SCEF 2020 will take place March 23-26, 2020 in Warsaw, Poland.
Full Roundup: SC19 Booth Tour Videos from insideHPC
January 8, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Now that SC19 is behind us, it’s time to gather our booth tour videos in one place. Throughout the course of the show, insideHPC talked to dozens of HPC innovators showcasing the very latest in hardware, software, and cooling technologies.
Atos to deploy AMD-powered AION Supercomputer at the University of Luxembourg
January 7, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Today Atos announced a 4-year contract to supply its BullSequana XH2000 supercomputer to the University of Luxembourg. “The BullSequana XH2000 supercomputer will give researchers 1.5 times more computing capacity with a theoretical peak performance of 1.7 petaflops which will complement the existing supercomputing cluster. It will be equipped with AMD EPYC processors and Mellanox InfiniBand HDR technology, connected to a DDN storage environment.”
Dell Technologies Democratizes HPC at SC19
December 31, 2019 by Leave a Comment
In this video from SC19, Thierry Pellegrino from Dell Technologies describes how the company’s HPC solutions are designed to simplify and accelerate customers’ HPC and AI efforts. “There’s a lot of value in the data that organizations collect, and HPC and AI are helping organizations get the most out of this data,” said Thierry Pellegrino, vice president of HPC at Dell Technologies. “We’re committed to building solutions that simplify the use and deployment of these technologies for organizations of all sizes and at all stages of deployment.”
Cloud Compute in 2019: Workloads and Options
December 30, 2019 by Leave a Comment
In this video, Oracle Sr Director Leo Leung cloud computing options by workload in 2019. “Of course there’s variance when it comes to clock speeds, when it comes to the amount of memory versus storage is on board. But generally they fall in these families: CPU based instances that have storage onboard, CPU instances that require network storage, and GPU instances that require network storage.”
Video: I/O Architectures and Technology
December 26, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Glenn Lockwood from NERSC gave this talk at ATPESC 2019. “Systems are very different, but the APIs you use shouldn’t be. Understanding performance is easier when you know what’s behind the API. What really happens when you read or write some data?”
