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...]
TACC Offers SC15 Booth Tutorials – R for HPC, Million Core Job Scheduling, and more
SC15 offers a plethora of content for those who wish to learn. Check out the following tutorials scheduled in the TACC booth! Introduction to Data Analysis with Hadoop Streaming by Weijia Xu Tuesday, 10:30-11:30am | Beginner | 60 minutes Hadoop has become a popular choice for both large-scale data analysis and storage. Although Hadoop is natively implemented in Java, … [Read more...]
HPC Training! 78 Video Lectures and pdfs from Argonne Training Program on Extreme Scale Computing
Argonne has made 78 lectures from ATPESC 2015 free to any who wish to learn. The lectures range from programming techniques and numerical algorithms to trends in HPC architectures and software. The ATPESC 2015 pdfs can be found on at http://extremecomputingtraining.anl.gov/schedule/. All 78 videos are at the YouTube channel link … [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...]
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...]
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...]
PGI Compiled OpenACC ILP Loop Beats CUDA-7 by 200 GF/s on Deep-learning PCA Example
The PGI OpenACC compiler beat the performance of a CUDA 7.0 NVIDIA nvcc compiled deep-learning based PCA (Principal Components Analysis) example by 200 GF/s on a K40c using an ILP (Instruction Level Parallelism) loop structure taught in the TechEnablement classes and forthcoming Farber OpenACC book. PCA is an important data analysis tool utilized by data scientists. Sign up for … [Read more...]