NVidia's President and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang gave a short but very clear presentation in the NVidia booth at Supercomputing 2015 about accelerated computing and the impact of deep-learning. In short, look for HPC dominance and a technology transfer that will replace the browser and drive your car. "Moore's Law is utterly irrelevant" Huang said. With over $10 billion of … [Read more...]
SC15 – Accelerator Use in World’s Top Supercomputers
NVIDIA notes more than 100 accelerated systems now on TOP500 list TOP500 Highlights: One-third of FLOPS now powered by accelerators NVIDIA Tesla GPUs sweep 23 of 24 new accelerated supercomputers Tesla supercomputers growing at 48% CAGR over past five years AUSTIN, Texas—SC15—Nov. 16, 2015—Today’s list of the world’s TOP500 supercomputers shows the extent to which … [Read more...]
Opening Your Computer’s Mind – Google and Microsoft Open-Source Deep-Learning Software
Both Google and Microsoft have made open-source deep-learning toolkits available for download. TechEnablement.com also has a github repository containing our machine-learning teaching code that achieved 13 PF/s average sustained performance on the ORNL Titan supercomputer. Google's TensorFlow™ is an open source software library for numerical computation using data flow … [Read more...]
PGI/NVIDIA To Develop LLVM-based Open-Source Fortran Compiler for NNSA and Possibly OpenPower
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...]
Gary Grider Talks MarFS – A Scalable Near-POSIX Name Space over Cloud Objects File System
Gary Grider, HPC luminary and the High Performance Computing Division Leader at Los Alamos National Laboratory, will give a BrightTalk live online presentation Nov 10 2:00 pm United States - New York (Eastern) time. The video will be available 45 minutes after his presentation at 2:45 Eastern. Register here to attend or view the video. Those who cannot wait can find Gary's … [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...]
Free Mozilla Online Classes – HTML, JavaScript CSS, Privacy, and More!
The Mozilla Foundation is featuring a number of web-based activities that include step-by-step instructions and has been tested in schools, after school programs, libraries and community centers around the globe. Whether learning how to code, understanding why privacy matters, or creating openly-licensed web content, we believe teaching the web should be fun and … [Read more...]