In this special guest feature, Brent Gorda from Arm shares his impressions of ISC 2019 in Frankfurt. “From the perspective of Arm in HPC, it was an excellent event with several high-profile announcements that caught everyone’s attention. The Arm ecosystem was well represented with our partners visible on the show floor and around town.”
Job of the Week: Application Engineer for Arm in Austin
July 13, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Arm in Austin, Texas is seeking an Application Engineer in our job of the Week. “The Applications Engineer is part of a focused professional services team part of the Development Solutions Group, that has responsibility for supporting and enabling key HPC customers and partners in their development of HPC software, using the Arm HPC Tools across various Linux/UNIX HPC platforms (Arm and other architectures). In this position, you will sharpen your HPC application expertise working on a wide range of scientific fields and environments. You will gain an excellent knowledge of Arm’s HPC development tools, alongside a deep understanding on Arm architecture and Arm IP roadmap. This position is located in the Austin Arm office. This role involves working with sensitive government customers and will involve up to 50% travel, primarily across the US.”
ISC 2019 Recap from Glenn Lockwood
July 4, 2019 by Leave a Comment
In this special guest feature, Glenn Lockwood from NERSC shares his impressions of ISC 2019 from an I/O perspective. “I was fortunate enough to attend the ISC HPC conference this year, and it was a delightful experience from which I learned quite a lot. For the benefit of anyone interested in what they have missed, I took the opportunity on the eleven-hour flight from Frankfurt to compile my notes and thoughts over the week.”
Open Edge and HPC Initiative to Provide Arm-based Systems to Researchers
June 19, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Today E4 Computer Engineering and the Open Edge and HPC Initiative today announced that Arm-based HPC resources will be provided to researchers and scientists from academia and industry through the codes@OEHI program. To submit a request for access, have a look at the section “How to Apply” in the OEHI website. “The mission of the Open Edge and HPC Initiative is foster the development of an open and feature-rich ecosystem for Arm-based technologies to support the evolving needs of the various industries undergoing digitalization and of all their respective stakeholders.”
Podcast: Radio Free HPC Runs Down the TOP500
June 17, 2019 by 3 Comments
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team reviews the new TOP500 list of most powerful supercomputers. “Not much changed in the TOP10 but a lot is changing further down the list. The overwhelming majority of the systems, 478 of them, are based on Intel CPUs. 13 are IBM, and there is 1 system based on Arm provided by Cavium, now part of Marvell.”
NVIDIA Brings CUDA to Arm for HPC
June 17, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Today NVIDIA announced its support for Arm CPUs, providing the high performance computing industry a new path to build extremely energy-efficient, AI-enabled exascale supercomputers. “NVIDIA is making available to the Arm ecosystem its full stack of AI and HPC software — which accelerates more than 600 HPC applications and all AI frameworks — by year’s end. The stack includes all NVIDIA CUDA-X AI and HPC libraries, GPU-accelerated AI frameworks and software development tools such as PGI compilers with OpenACC support and profilers.”
Barcelona Supercomputing Centre opens Arm Centre of Excellence for HPC
May 20, 2019 by Leave a Comment
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and Arm Research have signed a multi-year agreement to establish the Arm-BSC Centre of Excellence. The move reflects a long history of BSC pioneering Arm technologies in HPC with the MontBlanc project. “The establishment of this Centre of Excellence will enable us to continue our close collaboration in order to advance the presence of Arm technologies in High Performance Computing and High Performance Data Analytics in Europe and worldwide.”
Call for Presentations: MVAPICH User Group in August
April 30, 2019 by Leave a Comment
The 7th annual MVAPICH User Group (MUG) meeting has issued its Call for Presentations. MUG will take place from August 19-21, 2019 in Columbus, Ohio. “MUG aims to bring together MVAPICH2 users, researchers, developers, and system administrators to share their experience and knowledge and learn from each other. The event includes keynote talks, invited tutorials, invited talks, contributed presentations, open MIC session, hands-on sessions with MVAPICH developers, etc.”
Fujitsu to Productize Post-K Supercomputer Technologies
April 15, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Today Fujitsu announced that it has completed the design of Post-K supercomputer for deployment at RIKEN in Japan. While full-production of the full machine is not scheduled until 2021-2022, Fujitsu disclosed plans to productize the Post-K technologies and begin global sales in the second half of fiscal 2019. “Reaching the production milestone marks a significant achievement for Post-K and we are excited to see the potential for broader deployment of Arm-based Fujitsu technologies in support of HPC and AI applications.”
Arm A64fx and Post-K: A Game-Changing CPU & Supercomputer
April 12, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Satoshi Matsuoka from RIKEN gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Santa Fe. “Post-K is the flagship next generation national supercomputer being developed by Riken and Fujitsu in collaboration. Post-K will have hyperscale class resource in one exascale machine, with well more than 100,000 nodes of sever-class A64fx many-core Arm CPUs, realized through extensive co-design process involving the entire Japanese HPC community.”
