In this video, Michael Feldman of The Next Platform and Florina Ciorba of University of Basel look back on ISC 2019. “ISC 2019 brought together 3,573 HPC practitioners and enthusiasts interested in high performance computing, storage, networking, and AI. The theme of this year’s conference was Fueling Innovation.”
Podcast: HPC Market Eyes $44B in 5 Years
July 18, 2019 by Leave a Comment
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at a new projections from Hyperion Research that has the HPC+AI market growing to $44B, in 5 years. “The industry is hitting on all cylinders, benefiting from the Exascale race, AI coming to the enterprise, and it’s customary slow but always steady growth. The big news continues to be AI fundamentally bringing HPC closer to the mainstream of enterprise computing whether it is on-prem, in a co-location facility, or in a public cloud.”
GigaIO Steps Up with PCIe Gen 4 Interconnect for HPC
July 17, 2019 by Leave a Comment
In this video from ISC 2019, Marc Lehrer from GigaIO describes the company’s innovative HPC interconnect technology based on PCIe Gen 4. “For your most demanding workloads, you want time to solution. The GigaIO hyper-performance network breaks the constraints of old architectures, opening up new configuration possibilities that radically reduces system cost and protect your investment by enabling you to easily adopt new compute or business processes.”
DDN: Innovating to Create a Brighter Future for AI, HPC, and Big Data
July 16, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Alex Bouzari gave this talk at the DDN User Group meeting at ISC 2019. “In this rapidly changing landscape of HPC, DDN brings fresh innovation with the stability and support experience you need. Stay in front of your challenges with the most reliable long term partner in data at scale.”
Exploring Bright Cluster Manager on NVIDIA DGX Systems
July 16, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming an essential business and research tool, providing valuable new insights into corporate data and delivering those insights with high velocity and accuracy. While these AI capabilities add significant value to our lives, they are the most demanding workloads in modern computing history. Download the new report from Bright Computing to explore how NVIDIA DGX and Bright Cluster Manager are designed to deliver more of what AI infrastructure users need.
Faster Path to HPC Enabled with Intel Select Solutions for Simulation & Modeling
July 15, 2019 by Leave a Comment
HPC clusters used for simulation and modeling today in government, academic, and corporate institutions drive scientific discovery and engineering innovation. This sponsored post from Bill Magro, chief technologist for HPC, and HPC solutions lead at Intel Corp., explores how Intel, OEMs, systems integrators, and ISVs partner to reduce deployment barriers through pre-configured and validated HPC systems.
Video: Tyan Computing Steps Up with Intel Xeon Scalable Processors for HPC at ISC 2019
July 15, 2019 by Leave a Comment
In this video, Rich Brueckner from insideHPC tours the Tyan booth at ISC 2019. The company exhibited a full line of HPC, storage and cloud computing server platforms. “TYAN’s leading portfolio of HPC, storage and cloud server platforms are based on the 2nd gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors and are designed to help enterprises and data center service providers capture, process, and analyze big data faster and at a more powerful rate than ever before.”
NVIDIA DGX-Ready Program Goes Global
July 12, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Deploying AI at scale can be an extreme challenge for data centers. To ease the process, NVIDIA has expanded its DGX-Ready Data Center Program to 19 validated partners around the world. “DGX-Ready Data Center partners help companies access modern data center facilities for their AI infrastructure. They offer world-class facilities to host DGX AI compute infrastructure, giving more organizations access to AI-ready data center facilities while saving on capital expenditures and keeping operational costs low.”
Time to Value: Storage Performance in the Epoch of AI
July 12, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Sven Oehme gave this talk at the DDN User Group meeting at ISC 2019. “New AI and ML frameworks, advances in computational power (primarily driven by GPU’s), and sophisticated, maturing use-cases are demanding more from the storage platform. Sven will share some of DDN’s recent innovations around performance and talks about how they translate into real-world customer value.”
Video: Verne Global joins NVIDIA DGX-Ready Program as HPC & AI Colocation Partner
July 11, 2019 by Leave a Comment
In this video, Bob Fletcher from Verne Global describes advantages the HPC cloud provider offers through the NVIDIA DGX Ready Data Center program. “Enterprises and research organizations seeking to leverage the NVIDIA DGX-2 System – the world’s most powerful AI system – now have the option to deploy their AI infrastructure using a cost-effective Op-Ex solution in Verne Global’s HPC-optimized campus in Iceland, which utilizes 100 percent renewable energy and relies on one of the world’s most reliable and affordable power grids.”
