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...]
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...]
IEEE Offers access to Three Free IBM Webinars
IEEE has made three IBM videos available teaching "Application & Infrastructure Visibility to Gain Competitive Advantage". Registration with IBM is required. These videos are: Be a Superhero: Use Application & Infrastructure Visibility to Gain Competitive Advantage Learn how to gain end-to-end insight into critical applications and infrastructure while reducing … [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...]
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...]