In this special guest feature, SC19 Chair Michela Taufer writes that the conference theme of HPC Now is already resonating in a market sparked by Big Data & Ai. “HPC is exciting, and not just because of the problems it will solve in the future. It’s exciting because of how it is being used right now to save and enhance lives. My own research spans many HPC areas, such as determining how HPC cyberinfrastructures can make it possible to determine how new drugs could turn protein functions on or off, or how food production could be improved by predicting when and where farmers should water their fields.”
Making Sense of Performance in the Era of Burst Buffers
December 24, 2018 by
In this video from the DDN User Group at SC18, Glenn Lockwood from NERSC presents: Making Sense of Performance in the Era of Burst Buffers. “It really is important to divide burst buffers into their hardware architectures and software usage modes; different burst buffer architectures can provide the same usage modalities to users, and different modalities can be supported by the same architecture.”
Video: Illustris Simulation Depicts the Birth of the Universe
December 23, 2018 by
In this video, the “Illustris” scientific simulation begins just 12 million years after the Big Bang and illustrates the formation of stars, heavy elements, galaxies, exploding super novae and dark matter over 14 billion years. “We hope that the Illustris simulation will be of interest to scientists of all disciplines as well as to the broader non-scientific community.”
PASC19 Conference Keynote to Feature Gordon-Bell-Prize-Winner on Ai-Powered Genomics
December 21, 2018 by
Today the PASC19 conference team announced that Gordon Bell Prize-winner Deborah Weighill will keynote the show with a talk entitled: Investigating Epistatic and Pleiotropic Genetic Architectures in Bioenergy and Human. The event takes place June 12-14, 2019 in Zurich, Switzerland.
Latest Intel Tools Make Code Modernization Possible
December 21, 2018 by
Code modernization means ensuring that an application makes full use of the performance potential of the underlying processors. And that means implementing vectorization, threading, memory caching, and fast algorithms wherever possible. But where do you begin? How do you take your complex, industrial-strength application code to the next performance level?
Supercomputing the Future of Cycling
December 20, 2018 by
Today’s competitive cyclist benefits from more lightweight, aerodynamic and rigid bike models – and, in a similar way, the prototyping process for manufacturers has become less of a heavy load – in terms of both time and cost – thanks to technological advances in simulation software. “Wind tunnel analyses are very important, but they can be expensive, time consuming and you need to have the athlete available. So, although they are extremely important for the validation of the model, a combination of wind analysis and CFD simulation might be extremely useful.”
Video: How Intel is Advancing High Performance Computing at CHPC in South Africa
December 19, 2018 by
In this video from the 2018 CHPC Conference in South Africa, Trish Damkroger from Intel describes how the company is advancing the use of high performance computing on the African Continent. “In her Keynote talk at CHPC, Trish described the changing landscape of HPC, key trends, and the convergence of HPC-AI-HPDA that is transforming our industry and will fuel HPC to fulfill its potential as a scientific tool for insight and innovation.”
Video: Optimizing Wind Power with the ExaWind Project at NREL
December 19, 2018 by
In this video, Scott Gibson discusses the ExaWind project for windmill simulation with Michael Sprague from NREL. ExaWind is part of the ECP, which is building applications that will scale to tomorrow’s Exascale machines. “Sprague also explains why the simulation is important because it demonstrates that the physics models of the ExaWind team will perform well on large computers and paves the way for the team to improve the models and direct simulation capability toward the exascale platform when it’s ready. He added that, ultimately, the team plans to simulate tens of large turbines within a large wind farm.”
Video: How DDN Powers HPC & Ai Applications
December 17, 2018 by
In this video from SC18 in Dallas, James Coomer from DDN describes how the company powers HPC and Machine Learning applications. “Organizations around the world are leveraging DDN’s people, technology, performance and innovation to achieve their greatest visions and make revolutionary insights and discoveries! Designed, optimized and right-sized for Commercial HPC, Higher Education and Exascale Computing, our full range of DDN products and solutions are changing the landscape of HPC and delivering the most value with the greatest operational efficiency. Meet with our team of technologists to see how DDN is delivering the most optimized and efficient storage solutions for HPC, AI, and Hybrid Cloud.”
Video: HPC and the Future of Computing
December 17, 2018 by
In this video from ICT2018, Mateo Valero from the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre presents: HPC and the Future of Computing. “Europe is going in the right direction with EuroHPC and this must be sustained in the long-term. BSC fully supports this initiative and will do everything we can to help make it a success,” said Professor Valero, noting that much had been done since his previous keynote at ICT 2015 in Lisbon, where he already stressed the importance of developing European HPC technology.”
