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The case of the missing GPU The other day I was preparing a GPU demo on the cloud service Vultr, and I ran into some problems. After going down a few rabbit holes, I found that the issue was one I had run into and fixed in a different context 5 or 6 years ago! …
Rocky Linux users have long benefited from the availability of Apptainer on the EPEL repository. Apptainer, formerly known as Singularity, is widely used in the HPC community. Ubuntu is the one another major distribution for Apptainer users. Now there is great news for Ubuntu and Windows/WSL2/Ubuntu Apptainer users! Apptainer pre-built binaries are now available on…
Apptainer is free, open source software that is the most widely used container system for high performance computing (HPC). Apptainer, formerly known as Singularity, is now part of the Linux Foundation, which aims to democratize code and scale adoption by helping companies and developers identify and contribute to the projects that matter. It’s designed to…
Pulling together proven technology and the latest innovations, CIQ has created a turnkey solution with a traditional high performance computing (HPC) stack that meets the needs of a large variety of users. Easy to deploy, highly scalable, and very flexible, this infrastructure substrate provides a stable, secure, and supported foundation, empowering users to build the…
Forward by Brock Taylor Collaboration through open source may become a necessity for application developers to keep pace with the rapid introduction of technology in high performance computing. With the rapid injection of new silicon, new performance software, and managing all the existing components, developing for high performance computing is stress-inducing. The efforts led by…
Rocky Linux and Apptainer Receive Coveted HPCwire Readers’ Choice Awards We are thrilled to announce that Rocky Linux and Apptainer have been recognized as recipients of the HPCwire Readers’ Choice Awards, which were unveiled this week at the 2022 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC22), in Dallas, Texas. Each year,…
There is an older version of this article, which can be found here. Altair Radioss is now available as an open source project! This is major news for the simulation community with many contributors already onboard with OpenRadioss. Moving into open source can speed collaborative efforts like containerizing the application and testing on a new…
There is an updated version of this article, which can be found here. Altair Radioss is now available as an open source project! This is major news for the simulation community with many contributors already onboard with OpenRadioss. Moving into open source can speed collaborative efforts like containerizing the application and testing on a new operating system….
I would rank Altair’s decision to make Radioss available as open source in at least my top 10 events in HPC for 2022. I cannot tell you when I first found out this was going to happen…no, really, I was under NDA. I can say I did not see it coming, and my first thought…
Apptainer 1.1.0 Is Here, with Improved Security and User Experience Here at CIQ, we’re excited to highlight an important announcement from the Apptainer community. Apptainer (formerly Singularity), a Linux Foundation project, announced version 1.1.0 of the most widely used container system for secure, high-performance computing (HPC). Apptainer is an open source project that executes HPC applications at…