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Today we welcome Jack Dongarra who was recently honored with the ACM Turing Award for “Pioneering Concepts and Methods Which Resulted in World-Changing Computations.” As the ACM said in its award announcement, “Dongarra has led the world of high-performance computing through his contributions to….Featured StoriesGeneral Dynamics IT Unit Wins $89.5M EPA HPC ContractMay 6, 2022 — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded an $89.5 million contract to General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), a unit of aerospace and defense contractor General Dynamics (NYSE:GD). The money will fund EPA’s High-End Scientific Computing (HESC) II Support Services task order. The contract is issued on a one-year base with six option years. The HESC program provides EPA researchers and scientists supercomputing hardware, modeling and data [READ MORE…]Hyperion Research Announces Special June HPC User Forum: Exascale at Oak RidgeST. PAUL, Minn., May 5, 2022 — HPC industry analyst firm Hyperion Research today announced a special HPC User Forum to be held June 21-22, 2022 hosted onsite by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). According to Hyperion Research CEO Earl Joseph, “The special June 2022 HPC User Forum will give attendees an inside look at the state of exascale computing—where we are, how we [READ MORE…]Nominations Open for SC 2025 General Chair and Steering Committee OpeningsMay 4, 2022 — The SC Steering Committee is seeking future leaders for the SC Conference Series. Nominations for the SC25 general chair are now open and will close on Wednesday, July 13, 2022. To enter a nomination, send an email to [email protected] with the candidate’s name, a short paragraph describing how the candidate meets the below criteria and a recent curriculum vitae (CV) that highlights professional and SC Conference [READ MORE…]Post-Exascale Fabric: NNSA Awards Cornelis Networks $18M for High Performance Network R&DThose who gave up for dead Intel’s Omni-Path fabric, which Intel began working on 2012 and stopped supporting seven years later, may want to re-think that. Cornelis Networks, the company breathing life into Omni-Path since 2020, has won an $18 million R&D contract from the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). The award is part of DOE’s Next-Generation High Performance Computing Network (NG-HPCN) project….Featured ResourceSponsored by: RescaleHPC Cost ModelingThis ebook from our friends over at Rescale, focuses on why the historical methodology for determining cost, price per core hour is at best incapable of providing effective cost optimization for HPC workloads. At worst, it could increase your overall cost of ownership and slow innovation and productivity. Assessing the cost of your HPC practice […] Download HPC Newsline@HPCpodcast: Jack Dongarra Talks Turing Award, the TOP500 and the Past and Future of SupercomputingTachyum Prodigy FPGA Running Applications in Linux Interactive ModeComposable Memory within CXL 2.0 Protocol Shown by Liqid, Samsung, TanzaniteDOE’s Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program Selects 80 U.S. Graduate StudentsSustainable Data Center Technology Company Asperitas in CEO TransitionNSF-funded Computer Program Receives $150,000 in Improvement FundingProposals Open to Research Community for ALCF AI Testbed’s Cerebras and SambaNova SystemsDell Technologies Interview: Univ. of Liverpool’s Hybrid HPC Strategy Boosts Scientific Computing with a BurstHyperion Research Expands Analyst TeamAWS Launches Storage-Optimized EC2 Instances (I4i) Powered by Intel Xeon Scalable (Ice Lake) Processors@HPCpodcast: Exascale in China and a Philosophical Turn on Riding Advanced Tech to Super-wealth and Media PowerINCITE Issues Call for Papers for HPC-intensive Research ProposalsKao Data Partners with Virgin Media O2 Business to Increase High-Performance Connectivity OptionsSponsored by: Lenovo, Intel and SuseHarvard’s Cannon Supercomputer is Anything but LooseHPE Launches 2 HPC-AI Offerings for ML Implementation and and CollaborationSponsored by: Rockport NetworksIt’s Time to Resolve the Root Cause of CongestionChanges Afoot at Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, Exascale Computing ProjectLawrence Berkeley’s Marques to Run Exascale Computing Project’s Training & Productivity EffortSponsored by: PNY TechnologiesPNY Named 2021 NVIDIA Partner Network Americas Distribution Partner of the YearOptical I/O Company Ayar Labs Raises $130M in Series C FundingQumulo Launches ‘Cloud Now’ Program with 1 Free Petabyte of StorageJapanese Custom ASICS Company MegaChips to Enter US MarketOCP Global Summit to Be in San Jose, Oct. 18–20, 2022@HPCpodcast: HPC Storage Rock Star Gary Grider Talks How We Got Here and Where We’re GoingPSC, NCSA, NCAR in $7.5M NSF Project Allocating Access on NSF SupercomputersGRC Releases Guide on Liquid Immersion Cooling for Data Center SustainabilityExascale in China? 40 Million Cores Used for Many-Body Quantum SimulationMore ‘EPYC’ Options for HPCSoftIron Adding Roles for Open Source Development as CTO Office ExpandsAstera Labs Adds New Managers» More News «Industry PerspectivesHPC: Stop Scaling the Hard Way…today’s situation is clear: HPC is struggling with reliability at scale. Well over 10 years ago, Google proved that commodity hardware was both cheaper and more effective for hyperscale processing when controlled by software-defined systems, yet the HPC market persists with its old-school, hardware-based paradigm. Perhaps this is due to prevailing industry momentum or working within the collective comfort zone of established practices. Either way, hardware-centric approaches to storage resiliency need to go.New, Open DPC++ Extensions Complement SYCL and C++In this guest article, our friends at Intel discuss how accelerated computing has diversified over the past several years given advances in CPU, GPU, FPGA, and AI technologies. This innovation drives the need for an open and cross-platform language that allows developers to realize the potential of new hardware, minimizes development cost and complexity, and maximizes reuse of their software investments. Featured from insideBIGDATAResearch Highlights: Transformer Feed-Forward Layers Are Key-Value MemoriesIn this regular column, we take a look at highlights for important research topics of the day for big data, data science, machine learning, AI and deep learning. It’s important to keep connected with the research arm of the field in order to see where we’re headed. In this edition, if you (like me) have […] News from insideBIGDATAIncreasing Customer Loyalty With Data Collecting: How to Do It RightResearch Highlights: Transformer Feed-Forward Layers Are Key-Value Memories“Above the Trend Line” – Your Industry Rumor Central for 5/5/20224 Areas Where Grocery Stores Can Use Data Analytics to Enhance OperationsWhat Comes After the Data Lakehouse?Galileo Launches to Give Data Scientists the Superpowers They Need for Unstructured Data Machine LearningNew Streamlined Statistical Method Provides Improved Pattern Detection and Risk Prediction for DiseaseEditor’s ChoiceChip Geopolitics: If China Invades, Make Taiwan ‘Unwantable’ by Destroying TSMC, Military Paper SuggestsUS military planners are taking notice of a suggestion by two military scholars calling for the destruction of semiconductor foundry company Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), whose fabs produce advanced microprocessors used in HPC and AI, in the event China invades the island nation A news story in today’ edition of Data Center Times cites the Nikkei Asia news service and a paper in the U.S. Army War College’s scholarly journal, Parameters, discussing the possibility of Taiwan adopting “’a scorched earth policy’ and wipe out its own semiconductor foundries in the wake of any Chinese invasion as a deterrent, U.S. [READ MORE…]Exascale: Rumors Circulate HPC Community Regarding Frontier’s StatusBy now you may have expected a triumphant announcement from the U.S. Department of Energy that the Frontier supercomputer, slated to be installed by the end of 2021 as the first U.S. exascale-class system, has been stood up with all systems go. But as of now, DOE (whose Oak Ridge National Laboratory will house Frontier) is foregoing a “mission accomplished” announcement and instead has issued a somewhat formal statement about Frontier’s status. Left unaddressed are rumors circulating through the HPC community of difficulties encountered in the late stages of Frontier system integration and fine tuning. Here’s the official statement on [READ MORE…]How Machine Learning Is Revolutionizing HPC SimulationsPhysics-based simulations, that staple of traditional HPC, may be evolving toward an emerging, AI-based technique that could radically accelerate simulation runs while cutting costs. Called “surrogate machine learning models,” the topic was a focal point in a keynote on Tuesday at the International Conference on Parallel Processing by Argonne National Lab’s Rick Stevens. Stevens, ANL’s associate laboratory director for computing, environment and life sciences, said early work in “surrogates,” as the technique is called, shows tens of thousands of times (and more) speed-ups and could “potentially replace simulations.” Surrogates can be looked at as an end-around to two big problems [READ MORE…]Double-precision CPUs vs. Single-precision GPUs; HPL vs. HPL-AI HPC Benchmarks; Traditional vs. AI SupercomputersIf you’ve wondered why GPUs are faster than CPUs, in part it’s because GPUs are asked to do less – or, to be more precise, to be less precise. Next question: So if GPUs are faster than CPUs, why aren’t GPUs  the mainstream, baseline processor used in HPC server clusters? Again, in part it gets back to precision. In many workload types, particularly traditional HPC workloads, GPUs aren’t precise enough. Final question: So if GPUs and AI are inextricably linked, particularly for training machine learning models, and if GPUs are less precise than CPUs, does that mean AI is imprecise? [READ MORE…]6,000 GPUs: Perlmutter to Deliver 4 Exaflops, Top Spot in AI SupercomputingThe U.S. National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center today unveiled the Perlmutter HPC system, a beast of a machine powered by 6,159 Nvidia A100 GPUs and delivering 4 exaflops of mixed precision performance. Perlmutter is based on the HPE Cray Shasta platform, including Slingshot interconnect, a heterogeneous system with both GPU-accelerated and CPU-only nodes. The system is being installed in two phases – today’s unveiling is Phase 1, which includes the system’s GPU-accelerated nodes and scratch file system. Phase 2 will add CPU-only nodes later in 2021. “That makes Perlmutter the fastest system on the planet on the 16- and 32-bit [READ MORE…] Recent VideosLatest VideoRecent VideosIndustry PerspectivesinsideHPC and OrionX.net Launch the @HPCpodcastinsideHPC in association with the technology analyst firm OrionX.net today announced the launch of the @HPCpodcast, featuring OrionX.net analyst Shahin Khan and Doug Black, insideHPC’s editor-in-chief. @HPCpodcast is intended to be a lively and informative forum examining key technology trends driving high performance computing and artificial intelligence. Each podcast will feature Khan and Blacks’ comments on the latest HPC news and also a deeper dive into a focused topic. In our first @HPCpodcast episode, we talk about a recent spate of good news for Intel before taking up one of the hottest areas of the advanced computing arena: new HPC-AI chips. You can find the @HPCpodcast on insideHPC and on Twitter. 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