The Complexity of Learning Concept - Machine Learning in Genomics #1
How much data do we need to use a ML algorithm?Although this is the most common question, it is hard to answer since the amount of data mainly depends on how complex the learning concept is. In Machine...
View ArticleNew NVIDIA V100 32GB GPUs, Initial performance results
Deepthi Cherlopalle, HPC and AI Innovation Lab. June 2018GPUs are useful for accelerating large matrix operations, analytics, deep learning workloads and several other use cases. NVIDIA introduced the...
View ArticleCollaboration Showcase: Dell EMC, TACC and Intel join forces on Stampede2...
Dell EMC Solutions, June 2018 Stampede2 system, is the result of collaboration between the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), Dell EMC and Intel. Stampede2 consists of 1,736 Dell EMC PowerEdge...
View ArticleDe Novo Assembly with SPAdes
OverviewWe published the whitepaper, “Dell EMC PowerEdge R940 makes De Novo Aseembly easier”, last year to study the behavior of SOAPdenovo2 [1]. However, the whitepaper is limited to one De Novo...
View ArticleRNA-Seq pipeline benchmark with Dell EMC Ready Bundle for HPC Life Sciences
Deferentially Expressed Gene (DEG) Analysis with Tuxedo PipelineOverviewGene expression analysis is as important as identifying Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP), InDel or chromosomal restructuring....
View ArticleDell EMC Ready Bundle for HPC Life Sciences - Whitepaper 20180319
Refresh with 14th Generation serversDell EMC's flexible HPC architecture for Life Sciences has been through a dramatic improvement with new Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors. Dell EMC Ready Bundle for...
View ArticleDell EMC Ready Bundle for HPC Life Sciences - Reference Architectures 20180319
Refresh with 14th Generation serversDell EMC’s flexible HPC architecture for Life Sciences has been through a dramatic improvement with new Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors. Dell EMC Ready Bundle for...
View ArticleCryo-EM – Relion benchmarks on Skylake
Optimized Relion Tests on Dell EMC PowerEdge C6420s with Dell EMC IsilonOverviewThe purpose of this blog is to validate the optimized Relion (for REgularised LIkelihood OptimizatioN) on Dell EMC...
View ArticleDeep Learning Performance with Intel® Caffe - Training, CPU model choice and...
Authors: Alex Filby and Nishanth DandapanthulaHPC Engineering, HPC Innovation Lab, March 2018 OverviewTo get the most out of deep learning technologies requires careful attention to both hardware and...
View ArticleVariant Calling (BWA-GATK) pipeline benchmark with Dell EMC Ready Bundle for...
13G/14G server performance comparisons with Dell EMC Isilon and Lustre StorageOverviewVariant calling is a process by which we identify variants from sequence data. This process helps determine if...
View ArticleDeep Learning Performance on R740 with V100-PCIe GPUs
Authors: Rengan Xu, Frank Han, Nishanth DandapanthulaDell EMC HPC Innovation Lab. February 2018Overview The Dell EMC PowerEdge R740 is a 2-socket, 2U rack server. The system features the Intel Skylake...
View ArticleDigital Manufacturing with 14G
Author: Joshua Weage, HPC Innovation Lab, February 2018 Dell EMC Ready Bundle for HPC Digital Manufacturing Four technical white papers were recently published describing the recently released Dell EMC...
View ArticleHPC Applications Performance on R740 with V100 GPUs
Authors: Frank Han, Rengan Xu, Nishanth Dandapanthula. HPC Innovation Lab. February 2018Overview Not long ago, PowerEdge R740 Server was released as part of Dell’s 14th Generation server portfolio....
View ArticlePerformance of LS-DYNA on Singularity Containers
Authors: Nirmala Sundararajan, Joshua Weage, Nishanth DandapanthulaHPC Innovation Lab, February 2018 OverviewWe often look at containers today and see the potential of accelerated application delivery,...
View ArticleDELL EMC ISILON F800 AND H600 PERFOMRANCE EVALUATION
Two white papers were recently published, which presented comprehensive performance studies of both Dell EMC lsilon F800 and H600 storage systems.“DELL EMC ISILON F800 AND H600 I/O PERFORMANCE”...
View ArticleDesign Principles for HPC
Dell EMC HPC Innovation Lab, February 2018.HPC system configuration can be a complex task, especially at scale, requiring a balance between user requirements, performance targets, data center power,...
View ArticleSkylake memory study
Authors: Joseph Stanfield, Garima Kochhar and Donald Russell, Bruce Wagner. HPC Engineering and System Performance Analysis Teams, HPC Innovation Lab, January 2018.To function efficiently in an HPC...
View ArticleScaling Deep Learning on Multiple V100 Nodes
Authors: Rengan Xu, Frank Han, Nishanth Dandapanthula. HPC Innovation Lab. November 2017 Abstract In our previous blog, we presented the deep learning performance on single Dell PowerEdge C4130 node...
View ArticleContainerizing HPC Applications with Singularity
Authors: Rengan Xu, Frank Han, Nishanth Dandapanthula.HPC Innovation Lab. October 2017Overview In this blog, we will give an introduction to Singularity containers and how they should be used to...
View ArticleHPC Applications Performance on V100
Authors: Frank Han, Rengan Xu, Nishanth Dandapanthula. HPC Innovation Lab. August 2017 Overview This is one of two articles in our Tesla V100 blog series. In this blog, we present the initial benchmark...
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