Dubbed “The Premier AI Conference”, NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) opens its doors in San Jose from March 17 to 21, 2019. This conference series is absolutely jam-packed with opportunities around every corner: training, speakers, workshops, events, plus direct access…
There has never been a more exciting year for Bio-IT World. Taking the show on the road after 17 years in Boston as the premier event showcasing IT and informatics technologies driving biomedical research, the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo…
A primer on using Univa Grid Engine with GPU-aware applications In Part I of this two-part article, I provided a short primer on GPUs, explained how they are used in HPC and AI, and covered some of the challenges users…
A primer on using Univa Grid Engine with GPU-aware applications For almost two decades, GPUs (Graphics Processing Units) have been steadily revolutionizing high-performance computing (HPC) and AI. Originally designed for graphics-intensive applications such as gaming and image processing, it didn’t…
In life sciences research, solving big problems increasingly requires the fusion of genetic data with other rich data sets from omics, imaging, medical records to population-level studies. HPC, Analytics and AI make these types data wrangling possible, but they often…
Univa received some good tidings this holiday season, allowing us to kick-off the new year right – we have been named a finalist in the 2018-2019 Cloud Awards in the Best Hybrid Cloud Solution category! For those unfamiliar with the…
A step-by-step guide In an earlier article, we compared the big three container technologies for HPC (Docker, Singularity, and Shifter). In a subsequent article, we provided a tutorial explaining how to use Univa Grid Engine (UGE) to manage Docker workloads….
@navopsrob In 2017, AWS rolled out 1,400 new features and 2018 appears to have continued that remarkable momentum. Last week I had the opportunity to watch the many announcements (and even participate in one) made at the AWS re:Invent conference…
In the burgeoning fields of life sciences, bioinformatics and genomics continue to undergo rapid advancements, churning out breakthroughs and new discoveries never thought possible even a few decades ago. It is astonishing to consider that by 2003, it had taken…
The demands of today’s high-performance computing are presenting IT and research organizations with many changes and challenges as they look to migrate their HPC workloads to the cloud. In particular, industries such as life sciences, manufacturing, and AI/analytics require the…
