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Lustre and Persistent Storage
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Lustre and Persistent Storage

Lustre was originally developed as the fastest scratch file system for HPC workloads that supercomputer centers could get, but has over the years matured to beLustre...

HPCG Benchmark Gains Traction for Ranking Supercomputers
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HPCG Benchmark Gains Traction for Ranking Supercomputers

The High Performance Conjugate Gradients (HPCG) benchmark continues to gain traction in the high-performance computing community. “HPCG is designed to complement...

Lustre: This is Not Your Grandmother’s (or Grandfather’s) Parallel File System
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Lustre: This is Not Your Grandmother’s (or Grandfather’s) Parallel File System

"Over the last several years, an enormous amount of development effort has gone into Lustre to address users’ enterprise-related requests. Their work is not only...

Enabling New Frontiers in CFD Research at Argonne with Allinea DDT
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Enabling New Frontiers in CFD Research at Argonne with Allinea DDT

Scientists from the Heat and Mass Transfer Technological Center (CTTC) at the Technical University of Catalonia in Spain have harnessed the extreme performanceEnabling...

Is the Future CPU+GPU or CPU+FPGA?
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Is the Future CPU+GPU or CPU+FPGA?

"At SC15, IBM, in turn, announced new offerings centered "on the tight integration of IBM’s Power processors with accelerators." But it was an announcement about...

ClusterVision Trinity Private Cloud Moves to UberCloud HPC Application Containers
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ClusterVision Trinity Private Cloud Moves to UberCloud HPC Application Containers

Today ClusterVision and UberCloud formally announced the integration of UberCloud Application Containers with Trinity, ClusterVision’s private cloud solution. Trinity...

Apply for International Summer School on HPC Challenges in Slovenia
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Apply for International Summer School on HPC Challenges in Slovenia

Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars from institutions in Canada, Europe, Japan and the United States are invited to apply for the seventh InternationalApply...

Deep Learning System Replaces Hand-Engineered Components With Neural Networks
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Deep Learning System Replaces Hand-Engineered Components With Neural Networks

Baidu Research has unveiled new research results from its Silicon Valley AI Lab (SVAIL). Results include the ability to accurately recognize both English and Mandarin...

New Allinea 6.0 HPC Developer Tools Suite
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New Allinea 6.0 HPC Developer Tools Suite

Today Allinea released version 6.0 of their HPC development tools suite Allinea Forge and Performance Reports. Building on their commitment to serving the scientific...

Cleversafe takes Software Defined Storage to Industry Standard Hardware
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Cleversafe takes Software Defined Storage to Industry Standard Hardware

Today IBM's Cleversafe announced its software defined/hardware aware storage approach to enable organizations with massive-scale data demands to easily take advantage...

Call for Participation: XSEDE16 Conference in Miami
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Call for Participation: XSEDE16 Conference in Miami

The XSEDE16 conference has issued its Call for Participation. With a conference theme of Diversity, Big Data, Science at Scale: Enabling the Next-Generation ofCall...

SC15 Announces Attendance Record & Awards Roundup
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SC15 Announces Attendance Record & Awards Roundup

SC15 has released results from the Supercomputing conference in Austin. This year, the conference drew a record 12,868 attendees, including 4,829 who registered...

HPC Myths Need Not Hamper the Technology’s Growth
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HPC Myths Need Not Hamper the Technology’s Growth

In this special guest feature, Kristin Hansen, Chief Marketing Officer at Bright Computing writes that HPC doesn't need to be held back by commonly held misconceptions...

GPUs Power Facebook’s New Deep Learning Machine
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GPUs Power Facebook’s New Deep Learning Machine

Today Nvidia announced that Facebook will power its next-generation computing system with Tesla GPUs, enabling a broad range of new machine learning applications...

CoolIT Systems Named Alberta’s Exporter of the Year
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CoolIT Systems Named Alberta’s Exporter of the Year

Today CoolIT Systems announced that the company has been named 2015 Exporter of the Year by the Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters (CME) and JuneWarren-Nickle’s...

Virtual HPC Clusters Power Cancer Research at eMedLab
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Virtual HPC Clusters Power Cancer Research at eMedLab

A partnership of seven leading bioinformatics research and academic institutions called eMedLab is using a new private cloud, HPC environment and big data system...

Numascale Expands Performance and Features with NumaConnect-2
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Numascale Expands Performance and Features with NumaConnect-2

"At SC15, Numascale announced the availability of NumaConnect-2, a scalable cache coherent memory technology that connects servers in a single high performanceNumascale...

Univa Supports Dynamic Clusters on Microsoft Azure
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Univa Supports Dynamic Clusters on Microsoft Azure

"With Azure, Microsoft makes it easy for Univa customers to run true performance applications on demand in a cloud environment," said Bill Bryce, Univa Vice President...

1degreenorth to Prototype HPDA Infrastructure in Singapore
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1degreenorth to Prototype HPDA Infrastructure in Singapore

At SC15, 1degreenorth announced plans to build an on-demand High Performance Computing Big DataAnalytics (“HPC-BDA”) infrastructure the National Supercomputing1degreenorth...

How Can HPC Best Help Pharma R&D?
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How Can HPC Best Help Pharma R&D?

"The challenges facing informatics systems in the pharmaceutical industry’s R&D laboratories are changing. The number of large-scale computational problems in the...
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