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By: Jeff Reser

February 10, 2021 7:58 pm

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Accelerating Atmospheric Research at NCAR with HPE and SUSE

Extreme weather events and global warming are constantly in the news, dominating the list of long-term global risks to our planet. Having lived through many harsh winters in the mountains of Pennsylvania and dangerous hurricanes that have hit the Carolinas, I admire the research involved in monitoring climate change, data simulations and predictive analysis. As […]

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By: Jeff Reser

July 9, 2020 7:06 pm

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Artificial Intelligence – will 2020 be the year the momentum stalls?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already impacting almost every aspect of our lives and its influence is set to grow exponentially over the next few years. According to Gartner, AI augmentation (the human-centric partnership of people and AI) will create an additional $2.9 trillion of business value and 6.2 billion hours of worker productivity […]

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By: Jeff Reser

February 11, 2020 9:04 pm

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How High Performance Computing is Powering the Age of Genomic Big Data

What does bacteria, a blade of grass and the human body have in common? On the surface, very little. But given the title of this blog, you’re probably way ahead of me. At a cellular level, they all make use of the same superb genetic database to control their appearance, as well as how […]

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By: Lawrence Kearney

December 4, 2019 11:08 am

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PDSH, SLE, and SLURM

Managing many systems from one is a basic need for system administrators. A need which has obvious development commonality judging from the myriad tools available that delegate work to other systems. Often the criteria used to target systems for management is understandably inflexible. Directory service management consoles and configuration management systems are good examples of […]

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By: Jeff Reser

June 16, 2019 5:33 pm

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Enabling Discoveries with AI and HPC (and the Rise of Helium)

This week I am attending the International Supercomputing conference in Frankfurt, and I am in awe of the scientists and researchers that are here and their ability to dig in and understand super complex problems in very specialized areas.  While I am humbled by the world-changing work represented at a conference like this, I […]

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By: Jeff Reser

March 26, 2019 2:04 pm

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Aurora – A New Dawn in Exascale Computing

Recently, Argonne National Laboratory and DOE announced the first exascale Cray supercomputer to be built in the U.S.  It will run Cray Linux Environment, a derivative of SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing. According to Argonne’s Director Paul Kearns “Imagine a computer so powerful that it can predict future climate patterns, […]

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By: Lawrence Kearney

November 27, 2018 2:06 am

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Deploying SLURM PAM modules on SLE compute nodes

Security in High Performance Computing (HPC) environments has always been a proposal of relativity. Striking a balance between implementing an adequate level of security and not interfering with “getting the science done”. In the simplest terms the primary security realms HPC systems and clusters are exposed to are environmental and user facing. More specifically […]

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By: Jeff Reser

November 12, 2018 5:00 pm

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Seeing Further – SUSE Joins OpenACC

“With their HPC on Linux knowledge and long history of engagement with the HPC community, we welcome SUSE as one of the newest OpenACC members,” says Duncan Poole, President of OpenACC-Standard.org. “SUSE engineers are already collaborating with other OpenACC members on the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), the most common compiler used […]

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By: Jeff Reser

November 8, 2018 12:00 pm

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Cowboy up! Announcing the SUSE Partner Theater at SC18 in Dallas

SUSE will have a strong presence at the SuperComputing18 conference in Dallas, November 12-15. The theme this year is “HPC Inspires” – bringing together computing systems and brilliant minds in the continuous pursuit of improving our world as never before, allowing us to analyze many points of data to make groundbreaking discoveries in all […]

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