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Submission + - Thousands of Slickwraps Customers Notified of Data Breach by White Hat Hacker (medium.com)

Submitted by overheardinpdx
overheardinpdx writes: White Hat hacker Lynx0x00 writes that iPhone accessory maker Slickwraps has experienced a major data breach. The company's reaction to his notification? They blocked his account and left the exploit in place. After further attempts to convince the company that they needed to act, today Lynx0x00 sent an email to thousands of Slickwraps customers (including this reporter) that included their personal information as proof of the exploit.

This is not the first time Slickwraps has been hacked. See more here at Android Police: https://www.androidpolice.com/...

Submission + - Could TensorFlow Revolutionize HPC? (insidehpc.com)

Submitted by overheardinpdx
overheardinpdx writes: Google has spent millions of dollars to develop TensorFlow in order to meet the need for its Machine Learning workloads. Now, researchers are looking at how this amazing framework could be used for high performance computing and simulation.

In this podcast, Peter Braam looks at how TensorFlow framework could be used to accelerate high performance computing as well as the future data processing needs of the SKA Telescope.

"Google has developed TensorFlow, a truly complete platform for ML. The performance of the platform is amazing, and it begs the question if it will be useful for HPC in a similar manner that GPU’s heralded a revolution."

Submission + - Novel Therm Powers HPC as a Service with Geothermal Energy (insidehpc.com)

Submitted by overheardinpdx
overheardinpdx writes: Geothermal energy is becoming much more practical thanks to a new kind of Sterling Engine that works with underground water no hotter than your cup of coffee. And these kinds of temperatures are more widely available at near-surface depths than you might think.

In this slidecast, Greg Stewart from Novel Therm describes how the company provides HPC As a Service using geothermal energy. As a wholesale provider of Geothermal HPC Data Centers, Novel Therm is a truly renewable energy source option for your HPC data center. “Tell us what you need and we will create a fixed price, wholesale, green energy solution for your data center needs. We will save you money and time while saving the planet. Low Impact Geothermal Energy Is At The Core Of What We Do.

Submission + - SPAM: Singularity Containers Power NVIDIA Full Galaxy Simulation

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overheardinpdx writes: Showing a demonstration of how Containers works has always been a struggle. Like, "Hey man, watch what happens when I type this command line." Well, no more. In this video, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang runs a full galaxy simulation from a Singularity Container of the ParaView visualization app. Christopher Nolan, eat your heart out!
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Submission + - SPAM: Energy Secretary announ ces $1.8 Billion RFP for Exascale Supercomputers

Submitted by overheardinpdx
overheardinpdx writes: Monday on Fox and Friends, Energy Secretary Rick Perry announced the US Dept. of Energy has issued a Request for Proposal for 2-3 Exascale machines.

"Called CORAL-2, this RFP is for up to $1.8 billion and is completely separate from the $320 million allocated for the Exascale Computing Project in the FY 2018 budget. Those funds are mostly focused at application development and software technology for an exascale software stack."
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Submission + - Nyriad Demo Goes Beyond RAID for Exascale Storage (insidehpc.com)

Submitted by overheardinpdx
overheardinpdx writes: RAID6 was standardized in 1993 in an era of single-core computing. For exascale computing, RAID is an obstacle to higher performance and resilience. Nyrad NSULATE software revolutionizes the role of the storage controller by replacing a fixed-function RAID controller with a powerful general-purpose GPU.

Watch the video from GTC 2018, Alexander St . John from Nyriad demonstrates how the company’s NSULATE software running on Advanced HPC gear provides extreme data protection for HPC data. As the demo progresses, he removes a dozen SSDs from a live filesystem — and it keeps on running!

“What we’re showing is that GPUs are actually superior for storage processing compared to any other storage technology. So this is the first time you’ll see this live, but 10 years from now, no one will have ever heard of using a RAID controller for storage because because GPUs are better now.”

RAID6 was standardized in 1993 in an era of single-core computing. For exascale computing, RAID is an obstacle to higher performance and resilience. NSULATE revolutionizes the role of the storage controller by replacing a fixed-function RAID controller with a powerful general-purpose GPU. Using a GPU as a storage controller enables the calculation of several storage functions on the same high performance controller, enabling more efficient storage processing without sacrificing performance. This enables modern storage appliances to deliver unprecedented speed, scale, security, storage efficiency and intelligence in real-time.

Submission + - Has the Decades-Old Floating Point Error Problem been Solved? (insidehpc.com) 1

Submitted by overheardinpdx
overheardinpdx writes: Has the Decades-Old Floating Point Error Problem been Solved? Today a company called Bounded Floating Point announced a "breakthrough patent in processor design, which allows representation of real numbers accurate to the last digit for the first time in computer history."

"This bounded floating point system is a game changer for the computing industry, particularly for computationally intensive functions such as weather prediction, GPS, and autonomous vehicles," said the inventor, Alan Jorgensen, PhD. “By using this system, it is possible to guarantee that the display of floating point values is accurate to plus or minus one in the last digit.”

Submission + - Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of These... (insidehpc.com)

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overheardinpdx writes: In this video from SC17, Bruce Tulloch from BitScope describes an low-cost Rasberry Pi cluster that Los Alamos National Lab is using to simulate large-scale supercomputers.

"The BitScope Pi Cluster Modules system creates an affordable, scalable, highly parallel testbed for high-performance-computing system-software developers. The system comprises five rack-mounted BitScope Pi Cluster Modules consisting of 3,000 cores using Raspberry Pi ARM processor boards, fully integrated with network switching infrastructure."

Submission + - Quantum Computing: HPC without FLOPS (insidehpc.com)

Submitted by overheardinpdx
overheardinpdx writes: What comes after Moore's Law? The folks at D-Wave Systems it will be some form of the Quantum Computing technologies they are pioneering today.

In this video from the 2016 HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference, Bo Ewald from D-Wave Systems provides an introduction to quantum computing and briefly review different approached to implementing a quantum computer. D-Wave’s approach to implementing a quantum annealing architecture and the software and programming environment will be discussed. He concludes with some potential applications of quantum computing.”

I’ve seen a number of talks about Quantum Computing, but this is the first time I’ve come away with what feels like a basic understanding of how it all works.

Submission + - How HPC is Shaping the Future of Music (insidehpc.com)

Submitted by overheardinpdx
overheardinpdx writes: Many will be familiar with HPC and industrial or scientific applications, but now HPC is making its impact on something that touches the soul of millions and millions of people every day — music. In an interview with the inventor of HPC for Music, Antonis Karalis shared a brief explanation of how the future of music has been compromised and what steps are being taken to revolutionize music composition, the creative workflow, and deliver new entertainment experiences. Along the way, Karalis is applying cutting edge computing technologies including Intel Optane 3D memory and the Scalable System Framework.

Submission + - Video: High Throughput Data Acquisition at the CMS experiment at CERN (insidehpc.com)

Submitted by overheardinpdx
overheardinpdx writes: In this video from the 2015 HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference, Andre Holzner from CERN presents: High throughput Data Acquisition at the CMS experiment at CERN.

"The CMS detector at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN underwent a replacement of its data acquisition network to be able to process the increased data rate expected in the coming years. We will present the architecture of the system and discuss the design of its layers which are based on Infiniband as well as 10 and 40 GBit/s Ethernet.”

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