

Technical Talks
Wednesday, March 19, 2014, 10:30-11:30 am
Visualization Lab, 346 Lewis Science Library
NetApp will be here to give an overview of their storage systems. We use these bricks in our GPFS implementation. The bricks allow for 60 disks in 4U with different RAID controllers having very different performance characteristics. Many other vendors OEM these products. It is certainly worth a listen if you ever need to add storage.
The Architecture for Discovery: HPC Insights from Intel®
Speaker: Tuong Nguyen, HPC Technical Specialist, Intel Corporation
Wednesday, February 5, 2014, 2:00 – 3:00 pm
Visualization Lab, 346 Lewis Science Library
Intel® is helping to blaze a path toward new innovation and discovery with its supercomputing vision and products. Please join us for insight into current and future HPC technologies, as Intel® looks forward to shaping this path with you.
This talk will focus on compute foundations for HPC – The Architecture of Discovery: Intel® Xeon® processors, Many Integrated Core architecture (Intel® MIC), and high-performance Fabric.
Thursday, January 30, 2014 ∙ 10:30 am - 1:00 pm
(Lunch will be provided after the training.)
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HPC in the Multicore Era: Challenges and Opportunities
Speaker: David Barkai
HPC, Intel Corporation
Tuesday, September 21, 2010 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Visualization Lab • 346 Lewis Science Library
Light refreshments served at 12:30 pm PICSciE reception area • 300 Lewis Science Library
Abstract
The application of "Moore's Law" still provides us with doubling the performance every generation through higher density of transistors on the chip, but also with the help of architectural innovation. What is a new phe-nomenon is that since the introduction of multicore the potential performance increase will not occur without assistance from the software and applications developers community. The challenges arise from the ever in-creasing level of concurrency, and the innovation required to maintain an adequate compute-bandwidth-latency balance. This talk will cover the current state of affairs in HPC, the hardware and software challenges, some approaches being studied to resolve them - new approaches to memory and IO systems, examination of more complex programming models (i.e., heterogeneous and hybrid); and the scientific discovery opportunities that will open up when those barriers are overcome.
Co-Sponsored by the Office of Information Technology (OIT)