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The Irresistible Appeal of the ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge
The ASC 2019 Student Supercomputer Challenge is underway, with more than 300 teams from around the world will tackle challenges on CESM, the Community Earth System Model for studying climate chan …
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ClusterVision in Bankruptcy, Fate Uncertain
ClusterVision, European HPC specialists that have built and installed over 20 Top500-ranked systems in their nearly 17-year history, appear to be in the midst of bankruptcy proceedings. According …
UC Berkeley Paper Heralds Rise of Serverless Computing in the Cloud – Do You Agree?
Almost exactly ten years to the day from publishing of their widely-read, seminal paper on cloud computing, UC Berkeley researchers have issued another ambitious examination of cloud computing - …
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Celebrating the best and brightest in HPC in 2018.
What Will IBM’s AI Debater Learn from Its Loss?
February 14, 2019
The utility of IBM’s latest man-versus-machine gambit is debatable. At the very least its Project Debater got us thinking about the potential uses of artificial intelligence as a way of helping humans sift through al Read more…
South African Weather Service Doubles Compute and Triples Storage Capacity of Cray System
February 13, 2019
South Africa has made headlines in recent years for its commitment to HPC leadership in Africa – and now, Cray has announced another major South African HPC expansion. Cray has been awarded contracts with Eclipse Holdings Ltd. to upgrade the supercomputing system operated by the South African Weather Service (SAWS). Read more…
DARPA Eyes ‘Real-Time’ HPC for Simulations
February 13, 2019
The demands of training soldiers and pilots, a domain that is gradually incorporating AI-enabled technologies, has heightened the U.S. military’s need for far greater computing power. Hence, the Pentagon’s top resear Read more…
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HPE Systems With Intel Omni-Path: Architected for Value and Accessible High-Performance Computing
Today’s high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) users value high performing clusters. And the higher the performance that their system can deliver, the better. Read more…
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Medical Research Powered by Data
“We’re all the same, but we’re unique as well. In that uniqueness lies all of the answers….”
- Mark Tykocinski, MD, Provost, Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Thomas Jefferson University
Getting the answers to what causes some people to develop diseases and not others is driving the groundbreaking medical research being conducted by the Computational Medicine Center at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. Read more…
Iowa ‘Grows Its Own’ to Fill the HPC Workforce Pipeline
February 13, 2019
The global workforce that supports advanced computing, scientific software and high-speed research networks is relatively small when you stop to consider the magnitude of the transformative discoveries it empowers. Technical conferences provide a forum where specialists convene to learn about the latest innovations and schedule face-time with colleagues from other institutions. Read more…
Iowa ‘Grows Its Own’ to Fill the HPC Workforce Pipeline
February 13, 2019
The global workforce that supports advanced computing, scientific software and high-speed research networks is relatively small when you stop to consider the magnitude of the transformative discoveries it empowers. Technical conferences provide a forum where specialists convene to learn about the latest innovations and schedule face-time with colleagues from other institutions. Read more…
Trump Signs Executive Order Launching U.S. AI Initiative
February 11, 2019
U.S. President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order (EO) today launching a U.S Artificial Intelligence Initiative. The new initiative - Maintaining American L Read more…
Celebrating Women in Science: Meet Four Women Leading the Way in HPC
February 11, 2019
One only needs to look around at virtually any CS/tech conference to realize that women are underrepresented, and that holds true of HPC. SC hosts over 13,000 H Read more…
IBM Bets $2B Seeking 1000X AI Hardware Performance Boost
February 7, 2019
For now, AI systems are mostly machine learning-based and “narrow” – powerful as they are by today's standards, they're limited to performing a few, narro Read more…
Assessing Government Shutdown’s Impact on HPC
February 6, 2019
After a 35-day federal government shutdown, the longest in U.S. history, government agencies are taking stock of the damage -- and girding for a potential secon Read more…
Deep500: ETH Researchers Introduce New Deep Learning Benchmark for HPC
February 5, 2019
ETH researchers have developed a new deep learning benchmarking environment – Deep500 – they say is “the first distributed and reproducible benchmarking s Read more…
Intel Reportedly in $6B Bid for Mellanox
January 30, 2019
The latest rumors and reports around an acquisition of Mellanox focus on Intel, which has reportedly offered a $6 billion bid for the high performance interconn Read more…
Nvidia Expands Reach with ‘DGX-Ready’ Datacenter Network
January 30, 2019
Continuing its push to spread accelerated computing, Nvidia is launching a new program called DGX-Ready aimed at enabling customers "to deploy AI with ease" in Read more…
Quantum Computing Will Never Work
November 27, 2018
Amid the gush of money and enthusiastic predictions being thrown at quantum computing comes a proposed cold shower in the form of an essay by physicist Mikhail Read more…
Cray Unveils Shasta, Lands NERSC-9 Contract
October 30, 2018
Cray revealed today the details of its next-gen supercomputing architecture, Shasta, selected to be the next flagship system at NERSC. We've known of the code-name "Shasta" since the Argonne slice of the CORAL project was announced in 2015 and although the details of that plan have changed considerably, Cray didn't slow down its timeline for Shasta. Read more…
The Case Against ‘The Case Against Quantum Computing’
January 9, 2019
It’s not easy to be a physicist. Richard Feynman (basically the Jimi Hendrix of physicists) once said: “The first principle is that you must not fool yourse Read more…
AMD Sets Up for Epyc Epoch
November 16, 2018
It’s been a good two weeks, AMD’s Gary Silcott and Andy Parma told me on the last day of SC18 in Dallas at the restaurant where we met to discuss their show news and recent successes. Heck, it’s been a good year. Read more…
Intel Reportedly in $6B Bid for Mellanox
January 30, 2019
The latest rumors and reports around an acquisition of Mellanox focus on Intel, which has reportedly offered a $6 billion bid for the high performance interconn Read more…
US Leads Supercomputing with #1, #2 Systems & Petascale Arm
November 12, 2018
The 31st Supercomputing Conference (SC) - commemorating 30 years since the first Supercomputing in 1988 - kicked off in Dallas yesterday, taking over the Kay Ba Read more…
Looking for Light Reading? NSF-backed ‘Comic Books’ Tackle Quantum Computing
January 28, 2019
Still baffled by quantum computing? How about turning to comic books (graphic novels for the well-read among you) for some clarity and a little humor on QC. The Read more…
Contract Signed for New Finnish Supercomputer
December 13, 2018
After the official contract signing yesterday, configuration details were made public for the new BullSequana system that the Finnish IT Center for Science (CSC Read more…
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Deep500: ETH Researchers Introduce New Deep Learning Benchmark for HPC
February 5, 2019
ETH researchers have developed a new deep learning benchmarking environment – Deep500 – they say is “the first distributed and reproducible benchmarking s Read more…
ClusterVision in Bankruptcy, Fate Uncertain
February 13, 2019
ClusterVision, European HPC specialists that have built and installed over 20 Top500-ranked systems in their nearly 17-year history, appear to be in the midst o Read more…
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang Delivers Vision for the New HPC
November 14, 2018
For nearly two hours on Monday at SC18, Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, presented his expansive view of the future of HPC (and computing in general) as only he can do. Animated. Backstopped by a stream of data charts, product photos, and even a beautiful image of supernovae... Read more…
IBM Quantum Update: Q System One Launch, New Collaborators, and QC Center Plans
January 10, 2019
IBM made three significant quantum computing announcements at CES this week. One was introduction of IBM Q System One; it’s really the integration of IBM’s Read more…
The Deep500 – Researchers Tackle an HPC Benchmark for Deep Learning
January 7, 2019
How do you know if an HPC system, particularly a larger-scale system, is well-suited for deep learning workloads? Today, that’s not an easy question to answer Read more…
IBM Bets $2B Seeking 1000X AI Hardware Performance Boost
February 7, 2019
For now, AI systems are mostly machine learning-based and “narrow” – powerful as they are by today's standards, they're limited to performing a few, narro Read more…
HPC Reflections and (Mostly Hopeful) Predictions
December 19, 2018
So much ‘spaghetti’ gets tossed on walls by the technology community (vendors and researchers) to see what sticks that it is often difficult to peer through Read more…
Intel Confirms 48-Core Cascade Lake-AP for 2019
November 4, 2018
As part of the run-up to SC18, taking place in Dallas next week (Nov. 11-16), Intel is doling out info on its next-gen Cascade Lake family of Xeon processors, specifically the “Advanced Processor” version (Cascade Lake-AP), architected for high-performance computing, artificial intelligence and infrastructure-as-a-service workloads. Read more…
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