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...]
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...]
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...]
IBM unveils Power Systems LC – CAPI in Action for HPC, Cloud and Enterprise!
IBM (International Business Machines) unveiled Power Systems LC, a new line of power servers aimed at the HPC, cloud, and big data analytics markets. IBM claims its newly unveiled three Power Systems LC servers cost 50% less than a comparable x86 server and provide twice the level of performance. Sumit Gupta, previously of NVIDIA and now VP of OpenPower high-performance … [Read more...]
NVIDIA Oct. 20 Webinar – GPU Powered Advances in 4k Facial Recognition
New GPU technologies are fueling a dramatic growth in the use of video surveillance and video analytics around the globe. The emergence of ultra-high resolutions and massive video content calls for faster and more accurate ways to accelerate facial analysis. Register here for the October 20, 2015 webinar from 10am to 11am Pacific Time. By attending this webinar, you'll … [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...]