SC23 Beowulf Bash Video Evidence
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The SC23 Beowulf Bash was wildly successful, or was it wild and successful. You can judge for yourself because we have video evidence. Thank you Kiwi for the video. All this HPC fun was made possible by Beowulf Bash Angels and Demons team. (That is not Ted Danson on the left.) One key demon did not make it for the team picture but he is easily identified in the video ..read more
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First Experiences with Composable Hardware: An HPC User Perspective
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1y ago
Note: this paper was prepared for a conference that we decided not to attend (Okay, it was not accepted). It is written in a more formal style than the normal ClusterMonkey articles and is sponsored by the The Beowulf Foundation Abstract Popular homogeneous clustered HPC systems (e.g., commodity x86 servers connected by a high-speed interconnect) have given way to heterogeneous clusters comprised of multi-core servers, high speed interconnects, accelerators (often GPU based), and custom storage arrays. Cluster designers are often faced with finding a balance between purpose-built (tailored to ..read more
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FLOP GUN: Return of the Beowulf Bash
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1y ago
The Bash is Back! After a two year Covid respite, the Bash is back live in Dallas for 2022. And, this year we are all about FLOP (sorry Top) Gun: Maverick the hugely poplar sequel (remake?) with old timey jets, a contrived mission, death-star like trench, all sorts of contorted nosebleed high-G maneuvers, unseen bad guys, and a little ground fighting just for fun. We are all in. What's not to like! IMPORTANT: We know Covid is not over (we are science types afterall) and want everyone to be safe. For that reason, we are inviting all attendees to take the HPC Community Covid Safety Pledge Now ..read more
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These are Not the Watts You Are Looking For
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2y ago
From the What's Watts Dept. Some Clarity around TDP ratings Managing power usage on multi-core processors has become an important aspect with modern computing systems. At the same time, finding an accurate specification of actual power usage has become more difficult. Knowing power usage is important in many areas and particularly when considering the efficiency of High Performance Computing (HPC) systems. In almost all modern CPUs and GPUs the only number that seems to give a hint about power usage is Thermal Design Power or TDP. According to Wikipedia Thermal Design Power is defined as fol ..read more
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Jack Dongarra Likes Julia (the language)
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2y ago
From the "What We Have Been Saying Dept" Fresh from Julia Computing is a short note about HPC maven Jack Dongarra had to say about Julia. 2021 Turing Award Winner Jack Dongarra Says Julia Is ‘Much Better’ Than Other Languages and Should Perhaps Take Over: The winner of the 2021 Turing Award, often referred to as the ‘Nobel Prize of Computing’, is Jack Dongarra. Dongarra says Julia is ‘much better’ than other languages and should perhaps take over. According to ZDNet: “While hardware speeds up matrix multiplication, [Jack] Dongarra is, again, mindful of the needs of the scientists and the soft ..read more
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Disrupt Forward: Announcing the Beowulf Foundation
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2y ago
From the self reference department The Beowulf Foundation was announced by Douglas Eadline and Lara Kisielewska at the SC 2021 Beowulf Bash in St Louis. The idea for a “Foundation” emerged from the continued discussion amongst the Beowulf community about the supporting the “Beowulf Ethos,” that began with the Beowulf Project at NASA using commodity hardware and open source software to build high-performance systems at low cost. Initially considered an anomaly, the “wrong ideas” demonstrated by the Beowulf Project changed the face of modern supercomputing. The goal of the Beowulf Foundation is ..read more
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2021 Hybrid Beowulf Bash and PID Game
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2y ago
The 2021 Beowulf Bash has gone hybrid. We were looking forward to a face-to-face event, but the never ending pandemic situation has caused us to change course. In any case, like last year we will have a Zoom based get together with some flash panels to discuss the following interesting topics: Composable Computing - Will the next generation of HPC computing be built-to-order at run time? Dynamic infrastructure represents a new way provision just the right amount of bare-metal hardware for your application. This panel will discuss the concept of composable computing and how it can used in HPC ..read more
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Open, Scalable, and Portable 3D Data Visualization
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2y ago
From the "So That is What My Data Look Like" Department A new open source, portable, and scalable 3D visualization standard is in the works. Announced by Khronos Group ANARI (Analytic Rendering Interface) 1.0 Provisional Specification for scientific visualization and scalable 3D Data visualization. ANARI will enable users to quickly and easily build a scene description and create 3D images. Most importantly, ANARI doesn’t specify the rendering details; the rendering gets left to the backend engine which provides a simplified way to develop a visualization application with cross-vendor portabil ..read more
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The !(Beowulf Bash) for 2020
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3y ago
From the (maybe) better late than never department The ever popular Beowulf Bash will be held virtually this year. Yes, we know like everything else. Please take a look at the landing page for all the details and good dose of Beowulf Bash snark. We also realized it was time to take last years 2019 Beowulf Bash announcement off the featured articles page ..read more
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Now Everyone Can Attend HPC and AI on Wall Street
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3y ago
Virtual shows are the thing! The always popular HPC (fill in current interesting topic) On Wall Street event will be virtual this year. If in the past you missed this event due to distance or time, now is you chance to check it out. According the Intersect360 reports that the financial sector represents a healthy 13% of the total HPC market, This year HPC + AIWall Street 2020 has announced two global CxO keynotes for its virtual conference on September 15, 2020. The morning keynote, “Cross-Border Payments and Real-time Reconciliation —Is the US Ready?,” will be delivered by Shaunt M. Sarkissi ..read more
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