In this video from the Rice Oil & Gas Conference, Andrew Jones from NAG moderates a panel session on the challenges for meeting computing-capacity demand in the energy industry for the next decade. “This panel gives an opportunity for younger people to get valuable career experience and exposure, for the audience to hear from new and diverse ideas, and to stimulate the community discussion of HPC opportunities in O&G from a fresh viewpoint.”
Video: Arm in HPC
March 15, 2019 by
Brent Gorda from ARM gave this talk at the Rice Oil & Gas Conference. “With the recent Astra system at Sandia Lab (#203 on the Top500) and HPE Catalyst project in the UK, Arm-based architectures are arriving in HPC environments. Several partners have announced or will soon announce new silicon and projects, each of which offers something different and compelling for our community. Brent will describe the driving factors and how these solutions are changing the landscape for HPC.”
Video: The Game Changing Post-K Supercomputer for HPC, Big Data, and Ai
March 13, 2019 by
Satoshi Matsuoka from RIKEN gave this talk at the Rice Oil & Gas Conference. “Rather than to focus on double precision flops that are of lesser utility, rather Post-K, especially its Arm64fx processor and the Tofu-D network is designed to sustain extreme bandwidth on realistic applications including those for oil and gas, such as seismic wave propagation, CFD, as well as structural codes, besting its rivals by several factors in measured performance. Post-K is slated to perform 100 times faster on some key applications c.f. its predecessor, the K-Computer, but also will likely to be the premier big data and AI/ML infrastructure.”
Video: The Challenge of Heterogeneous Compute & Memory Systems
March 31, 2018 by
Mike Ignatowski from AMD gave this talk at the Rice Oil & Gas conference. “We have reached the point where further improvements in CMOS technology and CPU architecture are producing diminishing benefits at increasing costs. Fortunately, there is a great deal of room for improvement with specialized processing, including GPUs and other emerging accelerators. In addition, there are exciting new developments in memory technology and architecture coming down the development pipeline.”
Video: Convergence of AI & HPC
March 24, 2018 by
Thor Sewell from Intel gave this talk at the Rice Oil & Gas conference. “We are seeing the exciting convergence of artificial intelligence and modeling & simulation workflows as well as the movement towards cloud computing and Exascale. This session will cover these significant trends, the technical challenges that must be overcome, and how to prepare for this next level of computing.”
Panel Discussion: Delivering Exascale Computing for the Oil and Gas Industry
March 19, 2018 by
In this video from the 2018 Rice Oil & Gas Conference, Addison Snell from Intersect360 Research leads a panel discussion on Exascale computing. “High-end computing and information technology continues to stand out across the industry as a critical business enabler and differentiator with a relatively well understood return on investment. However, challenges such as constantly changing technology landscape, increasing focus on software and software innovation, and escalating concerns around workforce development still remain.”
