“Containers just make life easy. So one of the things that people have issues with running bare metal is from time to time their libraries change, maybe they want to try the new version of CUDA, the new version of cuDNN, and they forget to simlink it back to the original path. If you have packaged your app into a container, it’s the same every time.”
Fireside Chat: Jensen Huang from NVIDIA on how AI will revolutionize Medicine
April 25, 2018 by Leave a Comment
In this video from the World Medical Innovation Forum, Jensen Huang from NVIDIA discusses the revolution of AI and Medicine with Keith Dreyer, Chief Data Science Officer at PHS. “Medical imaging researchers have discovered the power of deep learning. Half of the papers presented at last year’s MICCAI, the leading medical imaging conference, applied deep learning. We’re working with over 300 healthcare startups tackling challenges now possible with deep learning.”
The Use of HPC to Model the California Wildfires
April 24, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Ilkay Altintas from the San Diego Supercomputer Center gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. “WIFIRE is an integrated system for wildfire analysis, with specific regard to changing urban dynamics and climate. The system integrates networked observations such as heterogeneous satellite data and real-time remote sensor data, with computational techniques in signal processing, visualization, modeling, and data assimilation to provide a scalable method to monitor such phenomena as weather patterns that can help predict a wildfire’s rate of spread.”
Quantum Computing at NIST
April 23, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Carl Williams from NIST gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Tucson. “Quantum information science research at NIST explores ways to employ phenomena exclusive to the quantum world to measure, encode and process information for useful purposes, from powerful data encryption to computers that could solve problems intractable with classical computers.”
Containers Using Singularity on HPC
April 22, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Abhinav Thota, from Indiana University gave this talk at the 2018 Swiss HPC Conference. “Container use is becoming more widespread in the HPC field. There are various reasons for this, including the broadening of the user base and applications of HPC. One of the popular container tools on HPC is Singularity, an open source project coming out of the Berkeley Lab. In this talk, we will introduce Singularity, discuss how users of Indiana University are using it and share our experience supporting it. This talk will include a brief demonstration as well.”
Using the Titan Supercomputer to Develop 50,000 Years of Flood Risk Scenarios
April 21, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Dag Lohmann from KatRisk gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Tucson. “In 2012, a small Berkeley, California, startup called KatRisk set out to improve the quality of worldwide flood risk maps. The team wanted to create large-scale, high-resolution maps to help insurance companies evaluate flood risk on the scale of city blocks and buildings, something that had never been done. Through the OLCF’s industrial partnership program, KatRisk received 5 million processor hours on Titan.”
Video: HPC Use for Earthquake Research
April 20, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Christine Goulet from the Southern California Earthquake Center gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Tucson. “SCEC coordinates fundamental research on earthquake processes using Southern California as its principal natural laboratory. The SCEC community advances earthquake system science through synthesizing knowledge of earthquake phenomena through physics-based modeling, including system-level hazard modeling and communicating our understanding of seismic hazards to reduce earthquake risk and promote community resilience.”
Charliecloud: Unprivileged Containers for User-Defined Software Stacks
April 19, 2018 by Leave a Comment
“What if I told you there was a way to allow your customers and colleagues to run their HPC jobs inside the Docker containers they’re already creating? or an easily learned, easily employed method for consistently reproducing a particular application environment across numerous Linux distributions and platforms? There is. In this talk/tutorial session, we’ll explore the problem domain and all the previous solutions, and then we’ll discuss and demo Charliecloud, a simple, streamlined container runtime that fills the gap between Docker and HPC — without requiring HPC Admins to lift a finger!”
Introducing the SPEC High Performance Group and HPC Benchmark Suites
April 18, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Robert Henschel from Indiana University gave this talk at the Swiss HPC Conference. “In this talk, I will present an overview of the High Performance Group as well as SPEC’s benchmarking philosophy in general. Most everyone knows SPEC for the SPEC CPU benchmarks that are heavily used when comparing processor performance, but the High Performance Group specifically focusses on whole system benchmarking utilizing the parallelization paradigms common in HPC, like MPI, OpenMP and OpenACC.”
Ceph on the Brain: Storage and Data-Movement Supporting the Human Brain Project
April 17, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Adrian Tate from Cray and Stig Telfer from StackHPC gave this talk at the 2018 Swiss HPC Conference. “This talk will describe how Cray, StackHPC and the HBP co-designed a next-generation storage system based on Ceph, exploiting complex memory hierarchies and enabling next-generation mixed workload execution. We will describe the challenges, show performance data and detail the ways that a similar storage setup may be used in HPC systems of the future.”
