Both Google and Microsoft have made open-source deep-learning toolkits available for download. TechEnablement.com also has a github repository containing our machine-learning teaching code that achieved 13 PF/s average sustained performance on the ORNL Titan supercomputer. Google's TensorFlow™ is an open source software library for numerical computation using data flow … [Read more...]
PGI/NVIDIA To Develop LLVM-based Open-Source Fortran Compiler for NNSA and Possibly OpenPower
PGI (The Portland Group) is working with the NNSA to create an open-source Fortran compiler designed to integrate with the widely used LLVM compiler infrastructure. Recently, PGI announced comparable x86 multicore OpenACC performance as compared the the Intel compiler using OpenMP. This move ensure that PGI will have access to the latest and best information about the AVX-512 … [Read more...]
Los Alamos Orders 1000+ Qubit D-Wave 2X Quantum Computer
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is continuing an aggressive program to stretch the limits of current computational technology. LANL is a participant in the NNSA Trinity supercomputer procurement with hardware already installed. In addition, LANL has just announced the purchase of a D-Wave 2X Quantum Computer. The D-Wave 2X system is expected to be installed at Los Alamos … [Read more...]
Pre-order Your $599 Tegra X1 Powered TX1 Developer Kit
NVIDIA is now taking pre-orders for the Tegra X1 powered TX1 development kit at the NVIDIA online store. You can develop OpenACC, CUDA, and OpenCL codes for this 64-bit ARM based system! No word yet on pricing of the actual credit card sized TX1 computer. JETSON TX1 MODULE NVIDIA Maxwell™ GPU with 256 NVIDIA® CUDA® Cores Quad-core ARM® Cortex®-A57 MPCore … [Read more...]
OpenACC Announcements Including PGI Compiler Free to Academics and Students!
OpenACC Standards Group Expands With New Members and Education Organization Extends Developer Momentum Approaching SC 15 While Planning More Hackathons In 2016 BEND, OR-NOVEMBER 9, 2015 – The OpenACC standards group today announced the addition of two new members, recent success stories from OpenACC applications and the schedule for Hackathons and Training Workshops in the … [Read more...]
Gary Grider Talks MarFS – A Scalable Near-POSIX Name Space over Cloud Objects File System
Gary Grider, HPC luminary and the High Performance Computing Division Leader at Los Alamos National Laboratory, will give a BrightTalk live online presentation Nov 10 2:00 pm United States - New York (Eastern) time. The video will be available 45 minutes after his presentation at 2:45 Eastern. Register here to attend or view the video. Those who cannot wait can find Gary's … [Read more...]
Free Mozilla Online Classes – HTML, JavaScript CSS, Privacy, and More!
The Mozilla Foundation is featuring a number of web-based activities that include step-by-step instructions and has been tested in schools, after school programs, libraries and community centers around the globe. Whether learning how to code, understanding why privacy matters, or creating openly-licensed web content, we believe teaching the web should be fun and … [Read more...]
Excellent x86 Performance! – PGI Accelerator Compilers Add OpenACC Support for x86 Multicore CPUs
TechEnablement - OpenACC x86 multi-core performance matches that of the Intel compiler using OpenMP when using the latest 15.10 version of the Portland Group compiler. Note: two MPI instances per GPU were required to fully utilize the NVIDIA K80 GPU as the problem sizes were too small to fully utilize the GPU with a single instance. SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Oct. 29, … [Read more...]
Justin Rattner To Give Keynote at SC15 Energy Efficient High Performance Computing Workshop
Parallel Computing Pioneer and Former Intel Senior Fellow and Chief Technology Officer, Justin Rattner, to Deliver Keynote Address at 6th Annual Energy Efficient HPC Working Group Workshop at Supercomputing Conference, SC15 DATE: Monday, November 16th TIME: Workshop: 9:00AM - 5:30PM Keynote: 2:00 PM LOCATION: SC15, Austin Texas Hilton Salon A The 6th annual event in … [Read more...]
Now Online – Presentations and Videos from Houston 2015 Directives and Tools for Accelerators Workshop
The presentations and videos from the October 12 University of Houston "2015 Directives and Tools for Accelerators" workshop are now available online. As with last year's workshop, this workshop was also considered a complete success Topics covered include: Usage of directives’ that preserves a single code base, accelerates for GPUs, and offers cross-platform … [Read more...]