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...]
Bright Computing SC15 Announcement About Reducing the Complexity of On-Premises HPC
Bright Computing to Release Updates to Popular Management Software at SC15 Enhancements will further reduce the complexity of on-premise HPC San Jose, CA – Bright Computing, the leading provider of hardware-agnostic cluster and cloud management software, announces that it will release several updates and enhancements to its most popular management software solutions at SC15, … [Read more...]
Microsoft Azure Provides Private Preview of NVIDA-based Cloud Computing
NVIDIA GPUs are coming to Azure! Microsoft announced it will provide a private preview of NVIDIA GPUs running in the Azure Cloud with a target of December 2015. Through our partnership with NVidia, we will be offering state-of-the-art GPU Visualization Infrastructure and GPU Compute Infrastructure. Join this session to learn about the technology, see demos, and hear … [Read more...]
SC15 – Intel Will Launch Lustre Solutions Reseller Channel Program
Intel® is launching an entirely new Intel® Lustre* Solutions Reseller Channel Program at SC15 in November in Austin, Texas. We are working closely with Intel®’s leading global software distributors including Lifeboat - one of the largest. Lifeboat is already successfully processing Intel® Solutions for Lustre* Software orders. Please contact sales@lifeboatdistribution.com … [Read more...]
Register for the HPC User Group at SC15 on Monday, November 16th from 4:00pm – 7:00pm
Register for the HPC User Group at SC15 on Monday, November 16th from 4:00pm – 7:00pm. Click the image to register! Seagate makes two claims, "We’ll also be unveiling an industry first no other company in the world can do – don't miss this!" "You don’t want to miss what our speakers have to say – it could change the way you do things (not to mention the fact that … [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...]