In this video from ISC 2017, Gilad Shainer from Mellanox discusses the company’s newest announcements for HPC: New Shield Technology Brings Self Healing to Networks, InfiniBand continues to grow on the TOP500, and how RDMA is enabling Machine Learning at Scale.
Video: InfiniBand Accelerates Majority of New Systems on TOP500 List
June 19, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Mellanox Enables Composable Infrastructure on HPE Synergy Platform
June 7, 2017 by Leave a Comment
“We are pleased to partner with Mellanox to now offer even higher performance networking as an integrated component of the HPE Synergy platform. The unmatched Ethernet switch fabric performance and latency will enable our financial, business analytics, telco, and scientific customers to improve efficiency and achieve business results faster than ever before.”
How InfiniBand is Powering new capabilities for Machine Learning with RDMA
June 6, 2017 by Leave a Comment
In this video from GTC 2017, Scot Schultz from Mellanox describes how high performance InfiniBand is powering new capabilities for Machine Learning with RDMA. “Mellanox Solutions accelerate many of the world’s leading artificial intelligence and machine learning platforms. Mellanox solutions enable companies and organizations such as Baidu, Facebook, JD.com, NVIDIA, PayPal, Tencent, Yahoo and many more to leverage machine learning platforms to enhance their competitive advantage.”
Call for Presentations: MVAPICH User Group Meeting (MUG)
June 2, 2017 by Leave a Comment
The MVAPICH User Group Meeting (MUG) has issued its Call for Presentations. As the annual gathering of MVAPICH2 users, researchers, developers, and system administrators, the MUG event includes Keynote Talks, Invited Tutorials, Invited Talks, Contributed Presentations, Open MIC session, and hands-on sessions. The event takes place August 14-16, 2017 in Columbus, Ohio.
ExaComm 2017 Workshop at ISC High Performance posts Full Agenda
May 26, 2017 by
The ExaComm 2017 Workshop at ISC High Performance has posted its Full Agenda. As the Third International Workshop on Communication Architectures for HPC, Big Data, Deep Learning and Clouds at Extreme Scale, the one day workshop takes place at the Frankfurt Marriott Hotel on Thursday, June 22. “The objectives of this workshop will be to share the experiences of the members of this community and to learn the opportunities and challenges in the design trends for exascale communication architectures.”
PSSC Labs Launches Eco Blades for HPC
May 22, 2017 by
The Eco Blade is a unique server platform engineered specifically for high performance, high density computing environments – simultaneously increasing compute density while decreasing power use. Eco Blade offers two complete, independent servers within 1U of rack space. Each independent server supports up to 64 Intel Xeon processor cores and 1.0 TB of enterprise memory for a total of up to 128 Cores and 2 TB of memory per 1U.
Panel Discussion on Disruptive Technologies for HPC
April 25, 2017 by
In this video from the HPC User Forum, Bob Sorensen from Hyperion Research moderates a panel discussion on Disruptive Technologies for HPC. “A disruptive innovation is an innovation that creates a new market and value network and eventually disrupts an existing market and value network, displacing established market leading firms, products and alliances. The term was defined and phenomenon analyzed by Clayton M. Christensen beginning in 1995.”
Mellanox InfiniBand Delivers up to 250 Percent Higher ROI for HPC
April 24, 2017 by
Today Mellanox announced that EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand solutions have demonstrated from 30 to 250 percent higher HPC applications performance versus Omni-Path. These performance tests were conducted at end-user installations and Mellanox benchmarking and research center, and covered a variety of HPC application segments including automotive, climate research, chemistry, bioscience, genomics and more.
High Performance Interconnects – Assessments, Rankings and Landscape
April 18, 2017 by
Dan Olds from OrionX.net presented this talk at the Switzerland HPC Conference. “Dan Olds will present recent research into the history of High Performance Interconnects (HPI), the current state of the HPI market, where HPIs are going in the future, and how customers should evaluate HPI options today. This will be a highly informative and interactive session.”
Panel Discussion: The Exascale Era
April 13, 2017 by
In this video from Switzerland HPC Conference, Rich Brueckner from insideHPC moderates a panel discussion on Exascale Computing. “The Exascale Computing Project in the USA is tasked with developing a set of advanced supercomputers with 50x better performance than today’s fastest machines on real applications. This panel discussion will look at the challenges, gaps, and probable pathways forward in this monumental endeavor.”
Panelists:
Gilad Shainer, HPC Advisory Council
Jeffrey Stuecheli, IBM
DK Panda, Ohio State University
Torsten Hoefler, ETH Zurich
Rich Graham, Mellanox
