Dell EMC Announces New HPC Services

Dell EMC Announces New HPC Services

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Tech giant Dell EMC has announced a new collection of high performance computing (HPC) cloud offerings, software and systems to make more HPC services available to enterprises of all sizes, optimize HPC technology innovations, and advance the HPC community.

"The global HPC market forecast exceeds $30 billion in 2016 for all product and services spending, including servers, software, storage, cloud, and other categories, with continued growth expected at 5.2 percent CAGR through 2020," said Addison Snell, CEO of Intersect360 Research, in a statement. "Bolstered by its combination with EMC, Dell will hold the number-one position in total HPC revenue share heading into 2017."

Democratizing HPC

Among the new products and services is the new HPC System for Life Sciences, which will be available with the PowerEdge C6320p Server (pictured above) by the first quarter 2017. The company said the new life sciences service accelerates results for bioinformatics centers to identify treatments in clinically relevant timeframes while protecting confidential data.

"Highly parallelized computing plays an important role in high performance computing," said Ed Turkel, HPC Strategist at Dell EMC, in the statement. "Compared to serial computing, parallel computing is much better suited for modeling, simulating and understanding complex, real world phenomena. In many cases, serial programs 'waste' potential computing power." The PowerEdge C6320p Server is specifically designed to address this parallel processing environment to drive improved performance and faster big data analysis, Turkel said.

The company also said that it will begin offering new cloud bursting services from Cycle Computing to enable cloud orchestration and management between some of the largest public cloud services, including Azure and AWS. Dell said the service allows customers to more efficiently utilize their on-premises systems while providing access to the resources of the public cloud for HPC needs.

The company will also offer customers the Intel HPC Orchestrator later this quarter to help simplify the installation, management and ongoing maintenance of high-performance computing systems. HPC Orchestrator, which is based on the OpenHPC open source project, can help accelerate enterprises' installations and management.

Optimizing the HPC Porftolio

Dell EMC has been increasingly placing its bets on HPC services, unveiling a portfolio of several new HPC technologies earlier this month. For example, the company introduced its PowerEdge C4130 and R730 servers designed to boost throughput and improve cost savings for HPC and hyperscale data centers to support more deep learning applications and artificial intelligence techniques in technological and scientific fields such as DNA sequencing.

"Dell EMC is uniquely capable of breaking through the barriers of data-centric HPC and navigating new and varied workloads that are converging with big data and cloud," said Jim Ganthier, senior vice president, Validated Solutions and HPC Organization, Dell EMC, in the statement. "We are collaborating with the HPC community, including our customers, to advance and optimize HPC innovations while making these capabilities easily accessible and deployable for organizations and businesses of all sizes."

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ARM Bolsters HPC Position Through Acquisition

ARM Bolsters HPC Position Through Acquisition

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LONDON--ARM (Cambridge, UK) has announced that it has acquired Allinea Software (San Jose, CA), a leading provider of software tools for high performance computing (HPC); ARM says that this extends its range of development tools to HPC, machine learning and data analytics markets.

Allinea Software specializes in development and performance analysis tools to maximize the efficiency of software for HPC systems, and claims that 20 of the world’s top 25 supercomputers use its tools, with key customers including the US Department of Energy, NASA, a range of supercomputing national labs and universities, and private companies using HPC systems for scientific computation.

Allinea’s tools provide developers with the ability to deal with systems with hundreds, thousands (and hundreds of thousands) of cores. The product suite includes the developer tool suite Allinea Forge, which incorporates an application debugger called Allinea DDT and a performance analyzer called Allinea MAP, and an analysis tool for system owners, users and administrators called Allinea Performance Reports.

“As systems and servers grow in complexity, developers in HPC are facing new challenges that require advanced tools designed to enable them to continue to innovate,” said Javier Orensanz, general manager, development solutions group, ARM. “Allinea’s ability to debug and analyze many-node systems is unique, and with this acquisition we are ensuring that this capability remains available to the whole ARM ecosystem, and to the other CPU architectures prevalent in HPC, as well as in future applications such as artificial intelligence, machine learning and advanced data analytics.”

This acquisition continues ARM’s growth strategy in HPC and builds on the recent Fujitsu’s 64-bit ARMv8-A powered Post K supercomputer, and the launch of the ARMv8-A Scalable Vector Extension. It follows the announcement that ARMv8-A will be the first alternative architecture with OpenHPC support, and the release of ARM Performance Libraries, which provide software development and portability to ARMv8-A server platforms. ARM says that Allinea’s expertise will give partners access to a comprehensive software tools suite that address increasingly complex system challenges.

“Writing and deploying software that exploits the ever increasing computing power of clusters and supercomputers is a demanding challenge - it needs to run fast, and run right, and that’s exactly what our suite of tools is designed to enable,” said David Lecomber, CEO, Allinea.

“As part of ARM, we’ll continue to work with the HPC community, our customers and our partners to advance the development of our cross-platform technology, and take advantage of product synergies between ARM’s compilers, libraries and advisory tools and our existing and future debugging and analysis tools. Our combined expertise and understanding of the challenges this market faces will deliver new solutions to this growing ecosystem.”

Allinea will be integrated into the ARM business with all functions and Allinea’s Warwick and Eastleigh (UK) locations retained.

 

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Qualcomm joins Xen Project Advisory Board

Qualcomm joins Xen Project Advisory Board

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And comes right out and says why: it wants more ARM-powered servers and clouds

Qualcomm has joined the Xen Project's Advisory Board, the group of companies “committed to the market and technical success of the Xen Project” and who “provide financial support, technical contributions, and set high-level policy decisions.”

And it's done so “to accelerate ARM-server and hyperscale cloud development, according to the Linux Foundation.

The chip-maker was name-checked as one of the top ten contributors to the recently-released Xen 4.8, which added support for live patching of ARMv8-A CPUs in order to make ARM-powered servers running Xen more robust.

All concerned are saying it's a fine thing that Qualcomm has joined the Advisory Board, because its presence will help with the Project's current focus on “fine-tuning the hypervisor for better ARM support to capitalize on new developments with mobile, cloud and web-scale computing.”

Qualcomm clambering aboard Xen in an official capacity is an obvious step given its recent reveal of a 10nm server chip, as being able to wield a little more influence over Xen's direction will help it to steer the hypervisor in potentially-useful directions.

Xen can already point to Amazon Web Services as a user, albeit on x86 silicon. ARM server-makers, however, have only a few smaller clouds to trumpet, from the likes of Packet, Igneous Systems and OVH, plus Google's thought bubble about non-x86s from IBM or ARM.

Analyst firm IDC, meanwhile, recently reported that ARM servers “have yet to make an impact on the server market” and could find only “minimal revenue” from the architecture when used in servers.

Qualcomm's therefore got its work cut out for it. ®

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ARM acquisition bolsters its position in high-performance computing

ARM acquisition bolsters its position in high-performance computing

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ARM (Cambridge, UK) has announced that it has acquired Allinea Software (San Jose, CA), a leading provider of software tools for high performance computing (HPC); ARM says that this extends its range of development tools to HPC, machine learning and data analytics markets.

Allinea Software specializes in development and performance analysis tools to maximize the efficiency of software for HPC systems, and claims that 20 of the world’s top 25 supercomputers use its tools, with key customers including the US Department of Energy, NASA, a range of supercomputing national labs and universities, and private companies using HPC systems for scientific computation.

Allinea’s tools provide developers with the ability to deal with systems with hundreds, thousands (and hundreds of thousands) of cores. The product suite includes the developer tool suite Allinea Forge, which incorporates an application debugger called Allinea DDT and a performance analyzer called Allinea MAP, and an analysis tool for system owners, users and administrators called Allinea Performance Reports.

“As systems and servers grow in complexity, developers in HPC are facing new challenges that require advanced tools designed to enable them to continue to innovate,” said Javier Orensanz, general manager, development solutions group, ARM. “Allinea’s ability to debug and analyze many-node systems is unique, and with this acquisition we are ensuring that this capability remains available to the whole ARM ecosystem, and to the other CPU architectures prevalent in HPC, as well as in future applications such as artificial intelligence, machine learning and advanced data analytics.”

This acquisition continues ARM’s growth strategy in HPC and builds on the recent Fujitsu’s 64-bit ARMv8-A powered Post K supercomputer, and the launch of the ARMv8-A Scalable Vector Extension. It follows the announcement that ARMv8-A will be the first alternative architecture with OpenHPC support, and the release of ARM Performance Libraries, which provide software development and portability to ARMv8-A server platforms. ARM says that Allinea’s expertise will give partners access to a comprehensive software tools suite that address increasingly complex system challenges.

“Writing and deploying software that exploits the ever increasing computing power of clusters and supercomputers is a demanding challenge - it needs to run fast, and run right, and that’s exactly what our suite of tools is designed to enable,” said David Lecomber, CEO, Allinea.

“As part of ARM, we’ll continue to work with the HPC community, our customers and our partners to advance the development of our cross-platform technology, and take advantage of product synergies between ARM’s compilers, libraries and advisory tools and our existing and future debugging and analysis tools. Our combined expertise and understanding of the challenges this market faces will deliver new solutions to this growing ecosystem.”

Allinea will be integrated into the ARM business with all functions and Allinea’s Warwick and Eastleigh (UK) locations retained.


 

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Call for Participation: HPC Advisory Council Stanford Conference in February

Call for Participation: HPC Advisory Council Stanford Conference in February

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"We invite submissions introducing a wide range of topics, levels and considerations in HPC architectures, applications and usage – from fundamentals to the latest advances and hot topic areas. Submissions can be proposed as papers or presentation only (without papers). Each submission should indicate any unique criteria and requirements along with scheduling and format preferences in your proposal. Sessions can be defined as technical sessions, workshop(s) and/or as part of a ‘mini’ series of quick take tutorials."

“Over two days we’ll delve into a wide range of interests and best practices – in applications, tools and techniques and share new insights on the trends, technologies and collaborative partnerships that foster this robust ecosystem. Designed to be highly interactive, the open forum will feature industry notables in keynotes, technical sessions, workshops and tutorials. These highly regarded subject matter experts (SME’s) will share their works and wisdom covering everything from established HPC disciplines to emerging usage models from old-school architectures and breakthrough applications to pioneering research and provocative results. Plus a healthy smattering of conversation and controversy on endeavors in Exascale, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and much much more!”

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Dell EMC Announces New HPC Services

Dell EMC Announces New HPC Services

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Tech giant Dell EMC has announced a new collection of high performance computing (HPC) cloud offerings, software and systems to make more HPC services available to enterprises of all sizes, optimize HPC technology innovations, and advance the HPC community.

"The global HPC market forecast exceeds $30 billion in 2016 for all product and services spending, including servers, software, storage, cloud, and other categories, with continued growth expected at 5.2 percent CAGR through 2020," said Addison Snell, CEO of Intersect360 Research, in a statement. "Bolstered by its combination with EMC, Dell will hold the number-one position in total HPC revenue share heading into 2017."

Democratizing HPC

Among the new products and services is the new HPC System for Life Sciences, which will be available with the PowerEdge C6320p Server (pictured above) by the first quarter 2017. The company said the new life sciences service accelerates results for bioinformatics centers to identify treatments in clinically relevant timeframes while protecting confidential data.

"Highly parallelized computing plays an important role in high performance computing," said Ed Turkel, HPC Strategist at Dell EMC, in the statement. "Compared to serial computing, parallel computing is much better suited for modeling, simulating and understanding complex, real world phenomena. In many cases, serial programs 'waste' potential computing power." The PowerEdge C6320p Server is specifically designed to address this parallel processing environment to drive improved performance and faster big data analysis, Turkel said.

The company also said that it will begin offering new cloud bursting services from Cycle Computing to enable cloud orchestration and management between some of the largest public cloud services, including Azure and AWS. Dell said the service allows customers to more efficiently utilize their on-premises systems while providing access to the resources of the public cloud for HPC needs.

The company will also offer customers the Intel HPC Orchestrator later this quarter to help simplify the installation, management and ongoing maintenance of high-performance computing systems. HPC Orchestrator, which is based on the OpenHPC open source project, can help accelerate enterprises' installations and management.

Optimizing the HPC Porftolio

Dell EMC has been increasingly placing its bets on HPC services, unveiling a portfolio of several new HPC technologies earlier this month. For example, the company introduced its PowerEdge C4130 and R730 servers designed to boost throughput and improve cost savings for HPC and hyperscale data centers to support more deep learning applications and artificial intelligence techniques in technological and scientific fields such as DNA sequencing.

"Dell EMC is uniquely capable of breaking through the barriers of data-centric HPC and navigating new and varied workloads that are converging with big data and cloud," said Jim Ganthier, senior vice president, Validated Solutions and HPC Organization, Dell EMC, in the statement. "We are collaborating with the HPC community, including our customers, to advance and optimize HPC innovations while making these capabilities easily accessible and deployable for organizations and businesses of all sizes."

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Nor-Tech Introduces Portable HPC Clusters for the Oil & Gas Industry

Nor-Tech Introduces Portable HPC Clusters for the Oil & Gas Industry

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Oct. 11 — Nor-Tech (Northern Computer Technologies), the leading provider of HPC clusters and high performance workstations, just introduced the first portable HPC cluster for the oil and gas industry with a price point starting at $20,000. 

Nor-Tech designed the cluster with the understanding that the oil and gas industry is looking for providers:

• With deep FEA/CFD/CAE experience and an engineering staff that understands the concepts and challenges.
• With knowledge of all software integration options and assurance of agnostic recommendations.
• That have the willingness to listen to clients, the ability to understand their needs, and the ability to incorporate those needs into the design.
• That can deliver a superior cost/performance ratio and a competitive total cost of ownership.
• That have an excellent reputation within the HPC community, and
• That offer a strong product lineup backed by quality service and prompt support.

Nor-Tech President and CEO David Bollig said, “Many businesses in the oil and gas industry in particular have been putting off upgrading from a workstation to a cluster even though they know it will dramatically reduce modeling time. Part of the reason is the price and the other part is the anticipated disruption. We’ve been working with clients in just this situation for many years and have perfected the transition process. Our goal is to have clients up and running with their new cluster within a couple hours of delivery. We also back that up with no wait time support.”

Nor-Tech’s cluster was developed with dual goals of mitigating risk and maximizing the speed of obtaining accurate, actionable results at a price within reach of even the smallest oil and gas companies. The cluster aggregates, processes, and interprets a terabyte or more of data originating in simulations, surveys, historical geological sources, etc.

Often, as organizations need more processing power than a single workstation can provide, they will add another workstation. It seems like a cost-saving strategy at first, but as they continue to add workstations, they soon exceed the price of a single cluster—which would also have about 3x the processing power.

“We always recommend the most cost-effective solution for the long term,” Bollig said. “So we do offer high end workstations that may make more sense for start-ups still struggling with desktops.”

About Nor-Tech

2016 HPCwire award finalist, Nor-Tech is renowned throughout the scientific, academic, and business communities for easy to deploy turnkey clusters and expert, no wait time support. All of Nor-Tech’s technology is made by Nor-Tech in Minnesota and supported by Nor-Tech around the world. In addition to HPC clusters, Nor-Tech’s custom technology includes workstations, desktops, and servers for a range of applications including CAE, CFD, and FEA. Nor-Tech engineers average 20+ years of experience and are responsible for significant high performance computing innovations. The company has been in business since 1998 and is headquartered in Burnsville, Minn. just outside of Minneapolis. To contact Nor-Tech call 952-808-1000/toll free: 877-808-1010 or visit http://www.nor-tech.com. For more information on Nor-Tech’s clusters visit: http://www.nor-tech.com/solutions/hpc.

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