Global financial industry leaders such as Citi and J.P. Morgan have acknowledged they are currently modernizing their code via collaborative efforts with the Intel Software and Solutions Group. Results reported in the recent presentation, Intel’s New STAC A2 Results and Speeding Up FX LSV Monte Carlo case study[1], demonstrate an overall 32.9X speedup in the financial industry … [Read more...]
Press Release – Adaptive Computing Achieves Record High Throughput on Supermicro Solutions
Adaptive Computing Achieves Record High Throughput on Supermicro Solutions PROVO, UT (January 22, 2016) - Adaptive Computing, provider of award-winning workload and resource orchestration software, announces it has set a new record in High Throughput Computing (HTC) in collaboration with Supermicro, a leader in high-performance green computing solutions. Supermicro … [Read more...]
3D XPoint Memory Poised to Revolutionize System Memory and Storage
3D XPoint™ memory (pronounced 3d cross-point) is a new nonvolatile, memory technology co-developed by Intel and Micron that can deliver, “Up to 4x system memory capacity at significantly lower cost than DRAM”, a hundred times lower latency than today’s best performing NAND, and write cycle durability that is 1000x that of NAND. The 3D XPoint memory technology is … [Read more...]
SC15 Excitement! Bright Computing Provisions and Manages HPC and Cloud Clusters Worldwide
The Bright Computing booth was a bustling hub of happy activity at SC15. Solving cluster deployment issues "headache free" has brought Bright Computing to the forefront in the under-appreciated world of HPC and cloud provisioning as well as generated a global customer (and fan) base. In short, Bright Computing provides comprehensive software solutions for provisioning and … [Read more...]
Webinars Showing How to GPU Accelerate Python With Numba
Register to attend a webinar about accelerating Python programs using the integrated GPU on AMD Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) using Numba, an open source just-in-time compiler, to generate faster code, all with pure Python. This webinar will be presented by Stanley Seibert from Continuum Analytics, the creators of the Numba project. This webinar is tailored to an … [Read more...]
NVIDIA’s CEO Cuts to the Chase at SC15 about Accelerated Computing and Deep-learning
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...]
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...]
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...]