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...]
The First of NVIDIA’s Free OpenACC Courses is Online!
The first of NVIDIA's free online OpenACC course (Download / Stream, Slides,Q&A), lab (in C/C++ or Fortran), and online "office hours" (Download / Stream, Slides) is available to everyone! OpenACC is a programming approach designed to minimize developer effort while delivering performance portability on x86 CPUs and GPUs. The 8-week online OpenACC course described on … [Read more...]
Free Oct 30, 2015 Python HPC Training Webcast
The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) is providing a free overview of intermediate and advanced techniques for using Python in HPC environments. The course material will emphasize well known approaches for improving the performance of Python codes including (1) an overview of when Python can be used on HPC, (2) an overview of Numpy, Cython, Python's C Foreign Function … [Read more...]
Tenure Track Position in Computer Science at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
The Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Computer Science department is hiring a tenure-track faculty position in HPC. Click here for a direct link to the position description. They have a shiny new lab for teaching and research in parallel computing, along with a fantastic student body that will certainly attract talented people for this position.Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is located … [Read more...]
PyFR – Python/GPU Combustion Code Shortlisted for Several HPCWire Readers Choice Awards
PyFR, the Python-based GPU accelerated CFD solver PyFR managed by TechEnablement contributor Peter Vincent has been shortlisted for several HPCWire Readers Choice Awards this year: 12. Best HPC Software Product or Technology 18. Best HPC Collaboration Between Academia & Industry 20. Top 5 New Products or Technologies to Watch If you would like to support them, … [Read more...]
Learn to Modernize your code at IDF
Code modernization is easily the most beneficial, significant, and long-lasting investment the HPC community can make to capitalize on current and future hardware investments. The upcoming Intel IDF15 sees itself as partnership between Intel and code developers, makers, and technologists to bring software into the age of lotsofcores and massive parallelism. Register today … [Read more...]
Windows 10 Arrives – Problematic Nvidia Driver
The free upgrade for users of Windows 7 and 8.x has arrived! It will be rolled out starting with people on the Windows Insider program who participated in the evolution of the new "Windows-as-a-service" policy (jokingly referred to as the "eternal beta"). Apparently, Windows is now a "service", meaning that you will get to keep it free of charge for the lifetime of your machine … [Read more...]
More Trinity Racks Installed
"The proof of the pudding is in the tasting" is coming to fruition for the Trinity procurement as Cray installs more racks of the Trinity self-hosted Intel Knights Landing (KNL) processors. Each set of 12 cabinets is delivered, connected and tested one row at a time, by the Cray installation team. When all the phase-one cabinets have been delivered (60 in all), Cray will … [Read more...]
PathScale Supports OpenMP4 and OpenACC On NVIDIA, AMD, ARMv8, Plus Some CUDA
PathScale is capitalizing on over six years of development with the release of ENZO 2015, a compiler suite that allows C/C++/Fortran parallel programs to be built for a variety of hardware platforms from a single OpenACC or OpenMP4 source base. The PathScale compilers can generate executables for AMD GPUs, and NVIDIA GPUs as well as ARMv8 and x86 instruction sets. As a result, … [Read more...]
Intel Extends Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Intel extended it's research collaboration with the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) – one of four Intel exascale labs in Europe. Begun in 2011 and now extended to September 2017, the Intel-BSC work focuses on scalability issues as parallel applications move towards the exascale. BSC has been making HPC tools such as an instrumentation package (Extrae), a performance data … [Read more...]