Gilad Shainer moderated this panel discussion on Exascale Computing at the Stanford HPC Conference. “The creation of a capable exascale ecosystem will have profound effects on the lives of Americans, improving our nation’s national security, economic competitiveness, and scientific capabilities. The exponential increase of computation power enabled with exascale will fuel a vast range of breakthroughs and accelerate discoveries in national security, medicine, earth sciences and many other fields.”
Ohio State Launches High-Performance Deep Learning Project
November 11, 2016 by
Deep learning is one of the hottest topics at SC16. Now, DK Panda and his team at Ohio State University have announced an exciting new High-Performance Deep Learning project that aims to bring HPC technologies to the DL field. “Welcome to the High-Performance Deep Learning project created by the Network-Based Computing Laboratory of The Ohio State University. Availability of large data sets like ImageNet and massively parallel computation support in modern HPC devices like NVIDIA GPUs have fueled a renewed interest in Deep Learning (DL) algorithms. This has triggered the development of DL frameworks like Caffe, Torch, TensorFlow, and CNTK. However, most DL frameworks have been limited to a single node. The objective of the HiDL project is to exploit modern HPC technologies and solutions to scale out and accelerate DL frameworks.”
Overview of the MVAPICH Project and Future Roadmap
August 26, 2016 by
In this video from the 4th Annual MVAPICH User Group, DK Panda from Ohio State University presents: Overview of the MVAPICH Project and Future Roadmap. “This talk will provide an overview of the MVAPICH project (past, present and future). Future roadmap and features for upcoming releases of the MVAPICH2 software family (including MVAPICH2-X, MVAPICH2-GDR, MVAPICH2-Virt, MVAPICH2-EA and MVAPICH2-MIC) will be presented. Current status and future plans for OSU INAM, OEMT and OMB will also be presented.”
Job of the Week: Client Service Specialist at Ohio State
July 1, 2016 by
Ohio State University is seeking a Client Service Specialist in our Job of the Week. “The Ohio Supercomputer Center provides high-performance computing (HPC) services for Ohio’s university researchers and industrial clients. The HPC Client Services Group delivers the client experience at OSC through client engagement and administration. As a Client Service Specialist, this person supports the overall mission of the group and in particular acts as the primary level 2 (L2) incident coordinator, interfacing with Service Desk (L1), and is responsible for client incident triage, resolution of L2 incidents, and assignment to L2 and L3 analysts as appropriate. This person also informs clients of service issues through OSC web and social media outlets, analyzes incident records to identify deficiencies in incident processes, OSC services, client training, and analysis tools, and assists in improvements where appropriate.”
New Version of RDMA-Spark Runs Native InfiniBand and RoCE
January 6, 2016 by
Fans of High Performance Data Analytics got a boost today with news that the High-Performance Big Data (HiBD) team at Ohio State University has released RDMA-Apache-Spark 0.9.1.
