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Disrupting the HPC balance – Arm-based processors in the cloud
Driven by cloud economics, the AWS-designed Arm-based Graviton2 processor is leading an HPC performance revolution Reminder: You can learn a lot from AWS HPC engineers by subscribing to the HPC Tech Short YouTube channel, and following the AWS HPC Blog channel. Since the debut of the first ‘Beowulf’ cluster in 1994, HPC has been a […]
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Q&A with Google’s Bill Magro, an HPCwire Person to Watch in 2021
June 11, 2021
Last Fall Bill Magro joined Google as CTO of HPC, a newly created position, after two decades at Intel, where he was responsible for the company's HPC strategy. This interview was conducted by email at the beginning of A Read more…
ISC21 Keynoter Xiaoxiang Zhu to Deliver a Bird’s-Eye View of a Changing World
June 10, 2021
ISC High Performance 2021 – once again virtual due to the ongoing pandemic – is swiftly approaching. In contrast to last year’s conference, which canceled its in-person component with a couple months’ notice, ISC Read more…
Xilinx Expands Versal Chip Family With 7 New Versal AI Edge Chips
June 10, 2021
FPGA chip vendor Xilinx has been busy over the last several years cranking out its Versal AI Core, Versal Premium and Versal Prime chip families to fill customer compute needs in the cloud, datacenters, networks and more. Now Xilinx is expanding its reach to the booming edge... Read more…
Space Weather Prediction Gets a Supercomputing Boost
June 9, 2021
Solar winds are a hot topic in the HPC world right now, with supercomputer-powered research spanning from the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (which used Oak Ridge’s Titan system) to University College London (which used resources from the DiRAC HPC facility). One of the larger... Read more…
ECP Leads the Way to Cross-Platform Tested and Verified Compilers for HPC and Exascale Architectures
June 9, 2021
The Exascale Computing Project (ECP) is working to combine two key technologies, LLVM and continuous integration (CI), to ensure that current and future compilers are stable and performant on high-performance computing ( Read more…
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Building highly-available HPC infrastructure on AWS
Reminder: You can learn a lot from AWS HPC engineers by subscribing to the HPC Tech Short YouTube channel, and following the AWS HPC Blog channel. Read more…
What’s New in HPC Research: JUWELS, MEEP, WRENCH & More
June 7, 2021
In this regular feature, HPCwire highlights newly published research in the high-performance computing community and related domains. From parallel programming to exascale to quantum computing, the details are here. Read more…
ISC21 Keynoter Xiaoxiang Zhu to Deliver a Bird’s-Eye View of a Changing World
June 10, 2021
ISC High Performance 2021 – once again virtual due to the ongoing pandemic – is swiftly approaching. In contrast to last year’s conference, which canceled Read more…
Xilinx Expands Versal Chip Family With 7 New Versal AI Edge Chips
June 10, 2021
FPGA chip vendor Xilinx has been busy over the last several years cranking out its Versal AI Core, Versal Premium and Versal Prime chip families to fill customer compute needs in the cloud, datacenters, networks and more. Now Xilinx is expanding its reach to the booming edge... Read more…
What is Thermodynamic Computing and Could It Become Important?
June 3, 2021
What, exactly, is thermodynamic computing? (Yes, we know everything obeys thermodynamic laws.) A trio of researchers from Microsoft, UC San Diego, and Georgia Tech have written an interesting viewpoint in the June issue... Read more…
AMD Introduces 3D Chiplets, Demos Vertical Cache on Zen 3 CPUs
June 2, 2021
At Computex 2021, held virtually this week, AMD showcased a new 3D chiplet architecture that will be used for future high-performance computing products set to Read more…
Nvidia Expands Its Certified Server Models, Unveils DGX SuperPod Subscriptions
June 2, 2021
Nvidia is busy this week at the virtual Computex 2021 Taipei technology show, announcing an expansion of its nascent Nvidia-certified server program, a range of Read more…
Using HPC Cloud, Researchers Investigate the COVID-19 Lab Leak Hypothesis
May 27, 2021
At the end of 2019, strange pneumonia cases started cropping up in Wuhan, China. As Wuhan (then China, then the world) scrambled to contain what would, of cours Read more…
Berkeley Lab Debuts Perlmutter, World’s Fastest AI Supercomputer
May 27, 2021
A ribbon-cutting ceremony held virtually at Berkeley Lab's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) today marked the official launch of Perlmutter – aka NERSC-9 – the GPU-accelerated supercomputer built by HPE in partnership with Nvidia and AMD. Read more…
IBM Joins Effort to Build $200M AI, Cloud, Quantum Discovery Accelerator at the University of Illinois
May 27, 2021
With demands for AI, hybrid cloud and quantum computing expanding daily, IBM is joining an initiative to build a Discovery Accelerator Institute at the Universi Read more…
AMD Chipmaker TSMC to Use AMD Chips for Chipmaking
May 8, 2021
TSMC has tapped AMD to support its major manufacturing and R&D workloads. AMD will provide its Epyc Rome 7702P CPUs – with 64 cores operating at a base cl Read more…
Intel Launches 10nm ‘Ice Lake’ Datacenter CPU with Up to 40 Cores
April 6, 2021
The wait is over. Today Intel officially launched its 10nm datacenter CPU, the third-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor, codenamed Ice Lake. With up to 40 Read more…
Berkeley Lab Debuts Perlmutter, World’s Fastest AI Supercomputer
May 27, 2021
A ribbon-cutting ceremony held virtually at Berkeley Lab's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) today marked the official launch of Perlmutter – aka NERSC-9 – the GPU-accelerated supercomputer built by HPE in partnership with Nvidia and AMD. Read more…
CERN Is Betting Big on Exascale
April 1, 2021
The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) involves 23 countries, 15,000 researchers, billions of dollars a year, and the biggest machine in the worl Read more…
Google Launches TPU v4 AI Chips
May 20, 2021
Google CEO Sundar Pichai spoke for only one minute and 42 seconds about the company’s latest TPU v4 Tensor Processing Units during his keynote at the Google I Read more…
Iran Gains HPC Capabilities with Launch of ‘Simorgh’ Supercomputer
May 18, 2021
Iran is said to be developing domestic supercomputing technology to advance the processing of scientific, economic, political and military data, and to strengthen the nation’s position in the age of AI and big data. On Sunday, Iran unveiled the Simorgh supercomputer, which will deliver.... Read more…
HPE Launches Storage Line Loaded with IBM’s Spectrum Scale File System
April 6, 2021
HPE today launched a new family of storage solutions bundled with IBM’s Spectrum Scale Erasure Code Edition parallel file system (description below) and featu Read more…
Quantum Computer Start-up IonQ Plans IPO via SPAC
March 8, 2021
IonQ, a Maryland-based quantum computing start-up working with ion trap technology, plans to go public via a Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) merger a Read more…
10nm, 7nm, 5nm…. Should the Chip Nanometer Metric Be Replaced?
June 1, 2020
The biggest cool factor in server chips is the nanometer. AMD beating Intel to a CPU built on a 7nm process node* – with 5nm and 3nm on the way – has been i Read more…
Julia Update: Adoption Keeps Climbing; Is It a Python Challenger?
January 13, 2021
The rapid adoption of Julia, the open source, high level programing language with roots at MIT, shows no sign of slowing according to data from Julialang.org. I Read more…
AMD Launches Epyc ‘Milan’ with 19 SKUs for HPC, Enterprise and Hyperscale
March 15, 2021
At a virtual launch event held today (Monday), AMD revealed its third-generation Epyc “Milan” CPU lineup: a set of 19 SKUs -- including the flagship 64-core, 280-watt 7763 part -- aimed at HPC, enterprise and cloud workloads. Notably, the third-gen Epyc Milan chips achieve 19 percent... Read more…
Can Deep Learning Replace Numerical Weather Prediction?
March 3, 2021
Numerical weather prediction (NWP) is a mainstay of supercomputing. Some of the first applications of the first supercomputers dealt with climate modeling, and Read more…
Livermore’s El Capitan Supercomputer to Debut HPE ‘Rabbit’ Near Node Local Storage
February 18, 2021
A near node local storage innovation called Rabbit factored heavily into Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s decision to select Cray’s proposal for its CORAL-2 machine, the lab’s first exascale-class supercomputer, El Capitan. Details of this new storage technology were revealed... Read more…
GTC21: Nvidia Launches cuQuantum; Dips a Toe in Quantum Computing
April 13, 2021
Yesterday Nvidia officially dipped a toe into quantum computing with the launch of cuQuantum SDK, a development platform for simulating quantum circuits on GPU-accelerated systems. As Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang emphasized in his keynote, Nvidia doesn’t plan to build... Read more…
Microsoft to Provide World’s Most Powerful Weather & Climate Supercomputer for UK’s Met Office
April 22, 2021
More than 14 months ago, the UK government announced plans to invest £1.2 billion ($1.56 billion) into weather and climate supercomputing, including procuremen Read more…
African Supercomputing Center Inaugurates ‘Toubkal,’ Most Powerful Supercomputer on the Continent
February 25, 2021
Historically, Africa hasn’t exactly been synonymous with supercomputing. There are only a handful of supercomputers on the continent, with few ranking on the Read more…
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