Top 10 Ways Intel is Driving HPC Democratization

In this podcast, James Reinders from Intel describes how Intel will continue to drive HPC democratization in 2016.

Seagate Beefs Up ClusterStor at SC15

In this podcast from SC15, Larry Jones from Seagate provides an overview of the company’s revamped HPC storage product line, including a new 10,000 RPM ClusterStor hard disk drive tailor-made for the HPC market. Watch the video presentation.

Mellanox Announces Switch IB2 at SC15

In this podcast, Gilad Shainer from Mellanox provides an overview of new products for the SC15 conference. Watch the video presentation.

New Micron Persistent Memory & NVDIMM

In this podcast, Ryan Baxter from Micron describes the company’s new NVDIMM persistent memory products. Today Micron announced the production of 8GB DDR4 NVDIMM, the company’s first commercially available solution in the persistent memory category. Persistent memory delivers a unique balance of latency, bandwidth, capacity and cost, delivering ultra-fast DRAM-like access to critical data and allowing system designers to better manage overall costs. With persistent memory, system architects are no longer forced to sacrifice latency and bandwidth when accessing critical data that must be preserved. Watch the video presentation.

How to Buy a Supercomputer – Lessons Learned

In this podcast, Andrew Jones from NAG discusses the lessons learned from over 40 supercomputing procurements. NAG has announced plans to launch an impartial HPC technology intelligence and analysis subscription service at SC15. “Developed in partnership with Red Oak Consulting, the NAG HPC Technology Intelligence Service will deliver technology insight and risk-reduction to help HPC buyers and users make better decisions and optimize their HPC investments.” Watch the video presentation.

Dell Workshop on Large Genomic Data sets Comes to La Jolla Sept. 15

In this podcast, David Bump from Dell describes an upcoming Workshop on large genomic data sets coming to La Jolla, California on Sept. 15, 2015. The Workshop Title is: Enabling Discovery and Product Innovation with Dell HPC and Big Data Solutions.

Please join us for this one day workshop featuring presentations from Dell, Appistry, UNC Chapel Hill, Arizona State University, and TGen who all will share their cutting-edge results and best practices for helping labs process, manage, and analyze large genomic data sets. You will also hear from Intel and Nvidia on their latest HPC/Big Data technology innovations.

Dell is planning a series of these workshops, so be sure to reach out to your sales rep if you want to bring one of these informative events to your town. Register now * Download the MP3 * Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter

Broad Institute Maps Cancer Genes with Cycle Computing

In this podcast, Jason Stowe from Cycle Computing describes how the Broad Institute is mapping cancer genes with CycleCloud.

According to Stowe, Cycle Computing recently ran a 50,000+ core workload for the B​road Institute with low-cost Preemptible VMs on the Google Compute Engine, performing three decades of cancer research computations in a single afternoon.

Seagate Nytro Family of Flash Storage Devices

In this podcast, Kent Smith from Seagate introduces the Seagate Nytro family of flash storage devices.

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IBM Platform Data Manager for LSF

In this podcast, Gabor Samu from IBM presents: IBM Platform Data Manager for LSF. IBM Platform Data Manager for LSF takes control of data transfers to help organizations improve data throughput and lower costs by minimizing wasted compute cycles and conserving disk space. Platform Data Manager automates the transfer of data used by application workloads running on IBM Platform LSF clusters and the cloud, bringing frequently used data closer to compute resources by storing it in a smart, managed cache that can be shared among users and workloads.

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IBM High Performance Services

In this podcast, Chris Porter and Jeff Kamiol from IBM describe how IBM High Performance Services deliver versatile, application-ready clusters in the cloud for organizations that need to quickly and economically add computing capacity for high performance application workloads. Watch the video presentation.

DDN Strategic Vision

In this podcast, Molly Rector from DDN describes the company's vision for high performance data storage.

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Announcing the UCX Unified Communication X Framework

In this podcast, Pavel Shamis from ORNL and Gilad Shainer from Mellanox announce the UCX Unified Communication X Framework. "UCX is a collaboration between industry, laboratories, and academia to create an open-source production grade communication framework for data centric and HPC applications." Watch the video presentation: http://insidehpc.com/2015/05/slidecast-ucx-unified-communication-x-framework/

FPGAs Power the New SRC Saturn 1 Server

In this slidecast, David Eaton and Mark Tellez from SRC Computer describe the company's new Saturn 1 server, a dynamically reconfigurable modular system for hyperscale data centers and Web operations. Watch the video presentation: http://wp.me/p3RLHQ-ea8

IBM Spectrum Scale Storage Slidecast

In this slidecast, Jim Gutowski and Scott Fadden from IBM describe the advantages IBM Spectrum Scale Storage brings to the enterprise. Watch the video presentation: http://wp.me/p3RLHQ-e0a Learn more: http://ibm.co/1y1QIrj

Deep Learning - Unreasonably Effective

In this podcast, Stephen Jones from Nvidia presents: Deep Learning - Unreasonably Effective.

Deep Learning is a new area of Machine Learning research, which has been introduced with the objective of moving Machine Learning closer to one of its original goals: Artificial Intelligence. At the 2015 GPU Technology Conference, you can join the experts who are making groundbreaking improvements in a variety of deep learning applications, including image classification, video analytics, speech recognition, and natural language processing.

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UberCloud - From Experiment to Marketplace

In this slidecast, Wolfgang Gentzsch presents: UberCloud - From Experiment to Marketplace. After 18 months of developing Docker container technology into high performance application containers for engineering and scientific simulations,  UberCloud announces the availability of high performance application containers on its online UberCloud Marketplace, for ANSYS Mechanical, Fluent, CFX, Workbench, Icepak, EM, LS-DYNA and LS-PrePost,  for CD-adapco STAR-CCM+,  and for OpenFOAM, and more in the pipeline. These application containers are portable on all in-house and cloud environments and allow seamless and transparent on-demand access to and use of applications and data in the cloud, with a look and feel identical to your workstation. View the Slides * Download the MP3 * Subscribe on iTunes * Subscribe to RSS  Sign up for our insideHPC Newletter.