Rich Brueckner was a friend and colleague who will be missed by the HPC community - myself included. He is a fallen comrade to those in media. Sadly we must now use the past tense and say he was a recognized and influential voice to his audience. Very simply, Rich raised the bar in reporting and life. His passing on May 18, 2020 means that we will no longer have the … [Read more...]
TechEnablement Blog Sunset or Sunrise?
Apologies to our readers but the TechEnablement blog is no longer actively updated. Please feel free to examine the older content until we find a way to revamp and revitalize our site. … [Read more...]
Third-Party Use Cases Illustrate the Success of CPU-based Visualization
John Stone (Research Staff, The Beckman Institute) points out that improvements in the AVX-512 instruction set in the Intel Xeon Phi (and latest generation Intel Xeon processors) can deliver significant performance improvements for some time consuming molecular visualization kernels over most existing Intel Xeon CPUs. Based on his recent results using the Intel Xeon Phi … [Read more...]
Face It: AI Gets Personal to Make You Look Better!
Sponsored Content Face it, a mobile AI-based hairstyle app, “is guaranteed to make you look your best” according to its creator Pallab Paul. Paul is an Intel student ambassador who presented his work at the 2017 Intel Developers conference in Denver, Colorado. The app has a very simple interface: all you have to do is provide some simple information about your hair, skin, and … [Read more...]
Intel Software Defined Visualization (SDVis) Appliance Delivers Efficient CPU-Based In Situ Visualization
This is a contributed editorial. All opinions are those of James Reinders. A New CPU-based Appliance Facilitates In Situ Visualization Intel’s software visualization efforts have resulted in exceptional performance using Embree and Intel CPUs over the last few years. Pressing its case on the role of CPUs for exascale data visualization further, Intel is … [Read more...]
NVIDIA GTC’17 announcements make them a complete ‘soup to nuts’ solution for specialized deep-learning applications
Amid a stronger-than-expected quarter (NVDA revenue $1.94B, datacenters sales of $409M), Jensen Huang (CEO/cofounder) Nvidia provided a comprehensive set of announcements during his GTC'17 keynote to position Nvidia for growth in the datacenter, cloud, embedded computing, plus IoT with low power domain level hardware (not a processor). Pre-emptive Intel Skylake comparative … [Read more...]
Oil and Gas Industry Progress Towards Faster, More Power Efficient Reservoir Simulation
Reservoir simulation is the single, most important calculation and Oil and Gas company can do. Attendees at the recent KAUST Global IT summit were told that armed guards are stationed inside the KAUST computer center when the ARAMCO simulation is running because the software is a state secret. The Oil and Gas Industry has been reporting heroic simulation sizes now … [Read more...]
SC16 – Chinese Tech Capability Increase Over Last Year Now Matches or Exceeds US HPC Capability
During the press briefing at SC'16, TOP500 luminaries like Jack Dongarra, Horst Simon, Wu Feng, Martin Weuer, and Erich Strohmaier responded to questioning by the Press. The panel was gracious enough to respond to questions from TechEnablement about the state of the Chinese HPC capability along with observations about the state of the Chinese semiconductor, network, and … [Read more...]
OpenACC Adoption Continues to Gain Momentum in 2016
Multiple Onsite Events at SC16 in Salt Lake City to Showcase Recent Advances BEND, OREGON– NOVEMBER 7, 2016 – The OpenACC standards group today announced several major milestones including the addition of new member, the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, the adoption of OpenACC by several major HPC applications, the addition of support for new target platforms and … [Read more...]
Code Modernization Enables Pikazo’s Economics and Creates Opportunity
Sponsored Content “Pikazo is a tool that let’s anyone become an artist”, began Noah Rosenberg (CEO, Pikazo) when speaking about CPU-based artistic computing. “About grade 3-4 people begin to censor themselves and don’t give themselves permission to call what they draw art”. Pikazo changes that through an innovative blend of machine-learning and behind-the-scenes artistic … [Read more...]