The Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) has named Doug Kothe as its new director effective October 1. “Doug’s credentials in this area and familiarity with every aspect of the ECP make him the ideal person to build on the project’s strong momentum,” said Bill Goldstein, director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and chairman of the ECP Board of Directors, which hired Kothe.”
China Upgrading Milky Way 2 Supercomputer to 95 Petaflops
September 19, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Researchers in China are busy upgrading the MilkyWay 2 (Tianhe-2) system to nearly 95 Petaflops (peak). This should nearly double the performance of the system, which is currently ranked at #2 on TOP500 with 33.86 Petaflops on the Linpack benchmark. The upgraded system, dubbed Tianhe -2A, should be completed in the coming months.
NASA Perspectives on Deep Learning
September 19, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Nikunj Oza from NASA Ames gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. “This talk will give a broad overview of work at NASA in the space of data sciences, data mining, machine learning, and related areas at NASA. This will include work within the Data Sciences Group at NASA Ames, together with other groups at NASA and university and industry partners. We will delineate our thoughts on the roles of NASA, academia, and industry in advancing machine learning to help with NASA problems.”
Pursuit of Sustainable Healthcare through Personalized Medicine with HPC
September 18, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Graham Anthony from BioVista gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. “We apply our systematic discovery platform to develop our pipeline of repositioned drug candidates in neurodegenerative diseases, epilepsy, oncology and orphan diseases. We use this insight to find new uses for existing drugs or drug combinations, assess their risk profile and advance them to PoC and Clinical Phase IIa/b sooner, cheaper and with a higher probability of success than has been possible to date.”
Video: The Future of High Performance Interconnects
September 17, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Ashrut Ambastha from Mellanox gave this talk at the HPC Advisory Council Australia conference. “Ashrut will review Co-Design collaborations with leaders in industry, academia, and manufacturing – and how they’re taking a holistic system-level approach to fundamental performance improvements expanding the capabilities of network as a new “co-processor” for handling and accelerating application workloads, dramatically improving application performance.”
Machine & Deep Learning: Practical Deployments and Best Practices for the Next Two Years
September 15, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Arno Kolster from Providentia Worldwide gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Milwaukee. “Providentia Worldwide is a new venture in technology and solutions consulting which bridges the gap between High Performance Computing and Enterprise Hyperscale computing. We take the best practices from the most demanding compute environments in the world and apply those techniques and design patterns to your business.”
AI Breakthroughs and Initiatives at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
September 14, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Nick Nystrom and Paola Buitrago from PSC gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Milwaukee. “The Bridges supercomputer at PSC offers the possibility for experts in fields that never before used supercomputers to tackle problems in Big Data and answer questions based on information that no human would live long enough to study by reading it directly.”
Entering the Era of Simulation Driven Design
September 13, 2017 by Leave a Comment
In this special guest feature, Robert Roe from Scientific Computing World reports from the European Altair Technology Conference and finds that simulation-driven design is taking center stage for the CAE industry. “Jim Scapa from Altair noted that Scapa noted that big data and the cloud will continue to play a significant role in the development and consumption of software and that manufacturing methods and materials science would continue to drive innovations – particularly in areas such as additive manufacturing and the design of composites.”
Video: Best Practices between HPC centers and Industrial Users
September 13, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Bill Kramer from NCSA gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Milwaukee. “NCSA and Hyperion Research released a new study that examines HPC and Industry partnerships. Aimed at identifying and understanding best practices in partnerships between public high performance computing centers and private industry, the study aims to promote the vital transfer of scientific knowledge to industry and the important transfer of industrial experience to the scientific community.”
Video: Characterization and Benchmarking of Deep Learning
September 12, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Natalia Vassilieva from HP Labs gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Milwaukee. “Our Deep Learning Cookbook is based on a massive collection of performance results for various deep learning workloads on different hardware/software stacks, and analytical performance models. This combination enables us to estimate the performance of a given workload and to recommend an optimal hardware/software stack for that workload. Additionally, we use the Cookbook to detect bottlenecks in existing hardware and to guide the design of future systems for artificial intelligence and deep learning.”
