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Q3 2024 News and Changes

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Olivia Shoup
Olivia Shoup
Technical Writer

An overview of what changed at PW in the third quarter of 2024

July​

News​

Our Senior Sales Executive, Brad Redmond, attended the 2024 NAFEMS Americas Conference in Louisville, Kentucky. The event brought together professionals from engineering modeling, analysis, and simulation, offering a great opportunity for networking with peers and industry leaders.

Brad at the 2024 NAFEMS Americas Conference. Brad at the 2024 NAFEMS Americas Conference

Updates​

Public IP addresses give users the ability to have a static IP address, which can be attached to clusters so you can use the same IP address every time the controller node is started. Currently, this feature only works for GCP and AWS resources. We’ll be adding support for Azure within the next month.

We've also updated the home page UI with a customizable, modular layout. Click Customize on the home page to resize, add, or remove widgets.

August​

Updates​

For organization admins and platform admins, you can now add webhooks for notifications. Webhooks are useful for receiving platform notifications externally. Please see Managing Webhooks for more information.

September​

News​

Director of Sales and Businesss Development Phyllis Rhodes, Senior Sales Executive Brad Redmond, and CEO Matthew Shaxted attended HPC + AI Wallstreet. Along with David Flynn of Hammerspace and Alex Woodie of Datanami, Matthew lead the panel discussion Orchestrating the Future: Seamless Workload and Data Management in Distributed HPC Environments.

Phyllis, Matthew, and Brad at HPC + AI Wallstreet. Phyllis, Matthew, and Brad at HPC + AI Wallstreet

At ParslFest 2024, Workflow Development Intern Lola Obielodan and Senior Application Engineer & Computational Scientist Stefan Gary presented their initial proof of concept for integrating Parsl, MLOps, and ACTIVATE custom cloud clusters. You can read more about their work here.

Brad, Stefan, and Lola at ParslFest 2024. Brad, Stefan, and Lola at ParslFest

Updates​

We've redesigned the way workflows are built. Previously, they required an XML file to create the workflow form. Now, workflow forms are created with a YAML file, and you can build them interactively when creating local workflows. For more information, please see Building Workflows & Apps.

Upcoming Events​

In November, we're heading to SuperComputering 2024. The conference will be in Atlanta from the 19th to the 21st. Several team members will be representing PW at booth 4650, pictured below. You can view the entire map here.

PW's booth on the SC map.

From January 12th to the 16th, we'll be at AMS 2025 in booth 550.

If you're attending either of these conferences, come see us!

Upcoming Changes​

For users interested in AI/ML, we’re working on adding Azure Machine Learning workspaces to ACTIVATE. You’ll be able to use pre-built AI workflows and access machine learning models on Azure through our platform. We’ll be launching this feature before the end of the year.

We'll also be adding Azure OpenAI Service in the near future. Similar to provisioning clusters and storage resources, you'll be able to provision a new GPT model and chat with it about your data.

We’re collaborating with Hammerspace to make their storage offerings available in Azure through our platform. We expect this feature to make its debut in early 2025.

Lastly, we're updating our workflows with two new concepts called apps and sessions. Apps will facilitate streamlined workflow execution. With sessions, you'll be able to run an app or workflow and expose a port on the remote system to your browser. The tunneling is all handled by the platform, and the resulting "session" is shareable to other users, so multiple users can access the tunneled service. We'll be releasing these changes next month, and documentation will be available soon.