HPC Advisory Council » gilad shainer http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog Your contact for High Performance Computing Tue, 27 Dec 2011 23:17:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 New system arrived to our HPC center! http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/2010/07/new-system-arrived-to-our-hpc-center/ http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/2010/07/new-system-arrived-to-our-hpc-center/#comments Fri, 16 Jul 2010 21:24:57 +0000 shainer http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/?p=120 Recently we have added new systems into out HPC center, and you see the full list at http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/cluster_center.php.

The newest system is the “Vesta” system (and you can see Pak Lui, the HPC Advisory Council HPC Center Manager  standing next to it in the picture below). Vesta consist of six Dell™ PowerEdge™ R815 nodes, each with four processors AMD Opteron 6172 (Magny-Cours) which mean 48 Cores per node and 288 cores for the entire system. The networking was provided by Mellanox, and we have plugged two adapters per node (Mellanox ConnectX®-2 40Gb/s InfiniBand adapters). All nodes are connected via Mellanox 36-Port 40Gb/s InfiniBand Switch. Furthermore, each node has 128 GB, 1333 MHz memory to make sure we can really get the highest performance from this system.

 

Microsoft has provided us with Windows HPC 2008 v3 preview, so we can check the performance gain versus v2 for example. The system is capable of dual boot – Windows and Linux, and is now available for testing. If you would like to get access, just fill the form on the URL above.

 

 Vesta

In the picture – Pak Lui standing next to Vesta

 

I want to thank Dell, AMD and Mellanox for providing this system to the council!

 

Regards,

Gilad, HPC Advisory Council Chairman

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I participated in the first 2 days of SciDAC. While the weather there is not ideal to say the least…  I have enjoyed the presentations and discussions.  The Undersecretary Steven Koonin (undersecretary for science, department of energy) commented on DoE future goals – reducing Oil consumption in transportation by 35%, reducing greenhouse gas emissions 17% by 2020, and 83% by 2050, maintain technical base and exploit simulation capabilities.

Many of the discussions were on Exascale computing – what is needed to be done in order to get there – systems, applications etc, with the goal to have the first system by 2018. Our HPC|Scale subgroup will try to help make the right steps toward this goal with exploration and experiments. I hope to report soon on the subgroup progress.

Regards,
Gilad

]]> http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/2010/07/scientific-discovery-through-advanced-computing-conference-july-2010/feed/ 0 International Supercomputing Conference 2010 http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/2010/05/international-supercomputing-conference-2010/ http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/2010/05/international-supercomputing-conference-2010/#comments Fri, 28 May 2010 19:05:02 +0000 brian http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/?p=116 The second biggest HPC show will start next week, and I am now on a United flight from San Francisco to Germany on my way to the conference. On Sunday we will do the HPC Advisory Council European workshop, the second workshop of the year (3 more to come – TeraGrid, HPC China and MEW UK). For the workshop we have gathered some interesting HPC people from around the world – Richard Graham and Steve Poole from Oak Ridge National Laboratory US, Norbert Eicker from the Jülich Supercomputing Centre Germany, Tor Skeie from Simula Research Laboratory Norway, and Abhishek Das from C-DAC India. We will also host interesting talks on HPC in cloud computing, virtualization and HPC, application best practices and more. I will make sure to capture the highlights from the day and share it here.

ISC’10 is also the place where the Top500 list is being published. Published twice a year (ISC and SC), the Top500 list rank the 500 fastest supercomputers in the world. Why is it important for us? Because it can give us indications on trends in the HPC world, capabilities and usage models. It is also a great tool for making predications on when we will see the first ExaScale system etc.

And last but not least, the HPC Advisory Council will give the 2009-2010 awards in 4 categories in the closing session of ISC – Thursday at 1pm Germany time. If you are planning to be in Germany feel free to join us at the workshop, or be there for the award ceremony. Or just drop by and say hello…

Gilad

]]> http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/2010/05/international-supercomputing-conference-2010/feed/ 0 HPC in 2010: A look at technology, issues, and opportunities http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/2010/01/hpc-in-2010-a-look-at-technology-issues-and-opportunities/ http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/2010/01/hpc-in-2010-a-look-at-technology-issues-and-opportunities/#comments Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:22:22 +0000 brian http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/?p=94 insideHPC talked with Gilad Shainer, the Chairman of the HPC Advisory Council, about what the organziation does, how its grown, and how it is helping catalyze developments for users and HPC businesses.  In addition talking about what the Council has already accomplished, Gilad also talks about the new research and focus areas that they are kicking off. The  Council’s mission is to help everyone, so papers, inf0rmation, best practices, and so on are all available for download at their website.

Video is posted here: http://insidehpc.com/hpc-2010-technology-issues-opportunities/

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