Category: Supercomputing

Keynote: Nvidia CUDA on Arm Servers ThunderX2, Ampere eMag, Fujitsu A64fx and Huawei Kunpeng 920

Posted by – November 20, 2019

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announces Arm server support consisting of hardware and software building blocks to enable HPC development with Nvidia on Arm throughout the HPC industry. Nvidia teamed up with Arm and the Arm Server HPC ecosystem, including Ampere, Fujitsu and Marvell collaborating also with Cray, HPE and more. This is an excerpt from the full keynote video which you can watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69nEEpdEJzU

Keynote: Nvidia supercomputer on Azure cloud

Posted by – November 20, 2019

Nvidia partners with Microsoft to provide Azure cloud NDv2 supercomputer instance that can use up to 800 Nvidia Tensor Core GPUs interconnected on a single Mellanox InfiniBand backend network. This enables customers to rent an entire AI supercomputer on-demand. Microsoft and Nvidia engineers used 64 NDv2 instances on a pre-release version of the cluster to train BERT, a popular natural language conversational AI model, in a mere three hours achieved in part with Nvidia’s CUDA-core technology and interconnects by Mellanox. This is an excerpt from the full keynote video which you can watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69nEEpdEJzU

NASA Supercomputer at Ames Research Center in the Silicon Valley

Posted by – April 8, 2018

NASA is using Supercomputing for aeronautics research, acoustics accross airplanes, cruise vehicles, launch vehicles also using supercomputing for earth science.

IBM Supercomputer on Power9 and Nvidia GPU

Posted by – April 8, 2018

Using IBM Power9 and Nvidia Volta GPU technology, the Summit system is a proven AI pioneer expected to deliver in excess of 200 Peta flops of performance, likely making it one of the world’s most powerful supercomputer.

Arm Allinea Studio, Supercomputing Scientific performance tools for ARM Servers

Posted by – April 8, 2018

The new Arm Allinea Studio release is a comprehensive and integrated tools suite to help Scientific computing, HPC and Enterprise developers to achieve best performance on modern server-class Arm-based platforms. Check out https://developer.arm.com/hpc for more info.

Singularity HPC container for Supercomputing

Posted by – April 8, 2018

Singularity enables users to have full control of their environment. Singularity containers can be used to package entire scientific workflows, software and libraries, and even data. This means that you don’t have to ask your cluster admin to install anything for you – you can put it in a Singularity container and run. Did you already invest in Docker? The Singularity software can import your Docker images without having Docker installed or being a superuser. Need to share your code? Put it in a Singularity container and your collaborator won’t have to go through the pain of installing missing dependencies. Do you need to run a different operating system entirely? You can “swap out” the operating system on your host for a different one within a Singularity container. As the user, you are in control of the extent to which your container interacts with its host. There can be seamless integration, or little to no communication at all. Read more: http://singularity.lbl.gov/index.html

CSCS Swiss National Supercomputing Centre at SC17

Posted by – April 6, 2018

The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre is the national high-performance computing centre of Switzerland.

Simon Hammond of Sandia National Laboratories at SC17

Posted by – April 6, 2018

Talking about the Exascale Supercomputers being built and developed at the Sandia National Laboratories in the USA.

Supercomputing Workshops at SC17

Posted by – April 6, 2018

Talking about the 37 workshops at the Supercomputing Denver conference.

Student Cluster Competition at SC17 Supercomputing Denver

Posted by – April 6, 2018

Tour of all the teams at the Student Cluster Competition at the SC17 Supercomputing Denver event, read more at http://studentclustercompetition.us/2017/

UMass Boston students at the Supercomputing Student Cluster Competition

Posted by – April 6, 2018

Students of the University of Massachusetts Boston with the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) at the http://studentclustercompetition.us/2017/

Cavium ThunderX2 (HPC applications and performance)

Posted by – April 6, 2018

Surya Hotha, Director, Product Marketing at Cavium, talks Innovative Alternate Architecture for Exascale Computing at the SC17 Supercomputing ARM HPC User Group event in Denver. See my other Cavium ThunderX videos here.

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Fujitsu SVE update, building the Arm HPC Ecosystem

Posted by – February 10, 2018

Fujitsu is developing a very advanced ARM Supercomputer. You can also watch my interview with Fujitsu about their upcoming ARM Supercomputer here.

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Filmed at the SC17 Supercomputing ARM HPC User Group event in Denver.

Mont-Blanc ARM Supercomputer with the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (Next-gen ecosystem)

Posted by – February 5, 2018

Filippo Mantovani updates the audience of the GoingArm workshop at SC17 about the contributions of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center to the European Project Mont-Blanc.

Since 2011, Mont-Blanc pushes the adoption of Arm technology in the High Performance Computing deploying Arm-based prototypes, enhancing system software ecosystem and projecting performance of current systems for developing new, more powerful and less power hungry HPC computing platforms based on Arm SoC.

In the talk Filippo introduces the last Mont-Blanc system, called Dibona, designed and integrated by the coordinator and industrial partner of the project, Bull/ATOS. He also talks about tests performed at BSC of the Arm software tools (HPC compiler and mathematical libraries) as well as the Dynamic Load Balancing (DLB) technique and the MUltiscale Simulator Architecture (MUSA).

You can check out the Mont-Blanc and the BSC channels to know more about the research topics of this talk.

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Mellanox ConnectX-5 Interconnect showcased on Qualcomm Centriq 2400 Data Center Platform

Posted by – February 1, 2018

At SC17, Qualcomm and Mellanox jointly showcase super-fast 100 Gb/s networking card Mellanox ConnectX-5. This Arm-based solution is enabled and ready for the most demanding compute and storage workloads on the Qualcomm Centriq 2400, the world’s first 10nm server processor.

Qualcomm Centriq 2400 Arm Server presentation at the Supercomputing SC17 ARM User Group Meeting

Posted by – February 1, 2018

Qualcomm Centriq 2400 processor, based on the Qualcomm Falkor CPU, QDT’s own Armv8-based custom CPU core design, delivers leading-edge aggregate performance, the world’s first and only 10nm server processor. The Qualcomm Centriq 2400 processor delivers a phenomenal performance-per-dollar. With a list price of $1,995, the 48-core Qualcomm Centriq 2460 processor delivers 4X better performance-per-dollar versus Intel’s highest-performance Skylake processor, the Intel Xeon Platinum 8180. With a list price of $1373, the 46-core Qualcomm Centriq 2452 processor offers 3X better performance-per-dollar versus Intel Xeon Gold 6152. And, with a list price of $888, the 40-core Qualcomm Centriq 2434 processor offers 2X better performance-per-dollar versus Intel Xeon Silver 41166. Qualcomm Centriq 2400 delivers 2.5x better performance per watt than competing x86 server processor running the same SPECint_rate2006 benchmark.

Arm HPC performance results: Bristol/GW4 Isambard (Applications porting and performance)

Posted by – February 1, 2018

First public disclosure of Isambard performance results by Prof Simon McIntosh-Smith, University of Bristol, UK

Isambard is a new Tier 2 HPC service from GW4 built using:
Cray “Scout” system – XC50 series
• Aries interconnect
• 10,000+ Armv8 cores
• Cavium ThunderX2 processors
• 2x 32core @ above 2GHz per node

You can also watch my interview with Simon McIntosh-Smith about Isambard at the Cray booth at SC17 here.

Filmed at the Arm HPC User Group at SC17 in Denver.

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Sandia (Vanguard / ARM Tri-lab Software Environment)

Posted by – February 1, 2018

Maturing the ARM Software Ecosystem for U.S. DOE/ASC Supercomputing

Filmed at the Arm HPC User Group at SC17 in Denver.

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Red Hat Support for Arm HPC deployments

Posted by – February 1, 2018

OpenHPC and the CentOS Build System
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.4 for ARM provides feature parity at the OS Layer with x86 and enables development of new solutions in existing (Telco, FSI, HPC) and emerging (ML, IoT) segments

Filmed at the Arm HPC User Group at SC17 in Denver.

SUSE Support for Arm HPC deployments

Posted by – February 1, 2018

SUSE and the High Performance Computing Ecosystem
SUSE Linux with the HPC Module for Supported HPC packages
Partnerships with HPE, Arm, Cavium, Cray, Intel, Microsoft, Dell, Qualcomm, and others
OpenHPC Community
Half of the Top 100 systems are running SUSE Linux
At 13.8%, SUSE Linux is the leader in paid Linux on the Top 500
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server ARM Roadmap
Offering commercial Linux support for ARM AArch64 since November 2016

Filmed at the Arm HPC User Group at SC17 in Denver.

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