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Deep Learning Competitors Stalk Nvidia
There is no shortage of processing architectures emerging to accelerate deep learning workloads, with two more options emerging this week to challenge GPU leader Nvidia. First, Intel researchers …
CCC Offers Draft 20-Year AI Roadmap; Seeks Comments
Artificial Intelligence in all its guises has captured much of the conversation in HPC and general computing today. The White House, DARPA, IARPA, and Department of Energy all have issued strateg …
China Establishes Seventh National Supercomputing Center
May 16, 2019
Chinese media is reporting that China will construct a new National Supercomputer Center in Zhengzhou, in central China's Henan Province. The new Zhengzhou facility will house a 100-petaflops supercomputer and will be ta Read more…
Interview with 2019 Person to Watch Ken King
May 16, 2019
Today, as the final installment of our HPCwire People to Watch focus series, we present our interview with Ken King, general manager of OpenPOWER for the IBM Systems Group. Ken is responsible for building and managing t Read more…
What’s New in HPC Research: Image Classification, Crowd Computing, Genome Informatics & More
May 15, 2019
In this bimonthly 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…
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HPE and Intel® Omni-Path Architecture: How to Power a Cloud
Learn how HPE and Intel® Omni-Path Architecture provide critical infrastructure for leading Nordic HPC provider’s HPCFLOW cloud service.
For decades, HPE has been at the forefront of high-performance computing, and we’ve powered some of the fastest and most robust supercomputers in the world. Read more…
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Autonomous Vehicles: New challenges for the CAE Data Center
Managing infrastructure complexity in the age of AI
When most of us hear the term autonomous vehicles, we conjure up images of driverless Waymos or robotic transport trucks driving long-haul highway routes. Read more…
D-Wave Debuts Lower Noise Version of Its 2000Q System
May 15, 2019
Quantum computing pioneer D-Wave Systems today announced access to a lower noise version of its 2000Q system as part of its Leap quantum computing cloud service. The advance is part of an 18-month technology roadmap deta Read more…
Cascade Lake Shows Up to 84 Percent Gen-on-Gen Advantage on STAC Benchmarking
May 13, 2019
The Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC) issued a report Friday comparing the performance of Intel's Cascade Lake processors with previous-gen Skylake u Read more…
Nvidia Claims 6000x Speed-Up for Stock Trading Backtest Benchmark
May 13, 2019
A stock trading backtesting algorithm used by hedge funds to simulate trading variants has received a massive, GPU-based performance boost, according to Nvidia, Read more…
ASC19: NTHU Returns to Glory
May 11, 2019
As many of you Student Cluster Competition fanatics know by now, Taiwan’s National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) won the gold medal at the recently concluded AS Read more…
Intel 7nm GPU on Roadmap for 2021, OneAPI Coming This Year
May 8, 2019
At Intel's investor meeting today in Santa Clara, Calif., the company filled in details of its roadmap and product launch plans and sought to allay concerns about delays of its 10nm chips. In laying out its 10nm and 7nm timelines, Intel revealed that its first 7nm product would be... Read more…
Ten Great Reasons to Build the 1.5 Exaflops Frontier
May 7, 2019
It’s perhaps obvious that the fundamental reason for building expensive exascale computers is to drive science and industry forward, realizing the resulting b Read more…
Cray, AMD to Extend DOE’s Exascale Frontier
May 7, 2019
Cray and AMD are coming back to Oak Ridge National Laboratory to partner on the world’s largest and most expensive supercomputer. The Department of Energy’s Read more…
DDN to Acquire Nexenta, Citing ‘Holy Trinity’ of AI-5G-IoT
May 6, 2019
In the scramble for the emerging 5G-“compute everywhere” world to come, high performance storage heavyweight DataDirect Networks (DDN) has added to its rece Read more…
AMD Posts Transitional First Quarter Ahead of Rome Launch
May 2, 2019
On the eve of its 50th anniversary, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) reported sales of $1.27 billion for Q1 2019, down 10 percent quarter-over-quarter and 23 percen Read more…
Cray, AMD to Extend DOE’s Exascale Frontier
May 7, 2019
Cray and AMD are coming back to Oak Ridge National Laboratory to partner on the world’s largest and most expensive supercomputer. The Department of Energy’s Read more…
Graphene Surprises Again, This Time for Quantum Computing
May 8, 2019
Graphene is fascinating stuff with promise for use in a seeming endless number of applications. This month researchers from the University of Vienna and Institu Read more…
Why Nvidia Bought Mellanox: ‘Future Datacenters Will Be…Like High Performance Computers’
March 14, 2019
“Future datacenters of all kinds will be built like high performance computers,” said Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang during a phone briefing on Monday after Nvidia revealed scooping up the high performance networking company Mellanox for $6.9 billion. 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…
It’s Official: Aurora on Track to Be First US Exascale Computer in 2021
March 18, 2019
The U.S. Department of Energy along with Intel and Cray confirmed today that an Intel/Cray supercomputer, "Aurora," capable of sustained performance of one exaf 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…
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…
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…
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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…
Deep Learning Competitors Stalk Nvidia
May 14, 2019
There is no shortage of processing architectures emerging to accelerate deep learning workloads, with two more options emerging this week to challenge GPU leader Nvidia. First, Intel researchers claimed a new deep learning record for image classification on the ResNet-50 convolutional neural network. Separately, Israeli AI chip startup Hailo.ai... 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…
Arm Unveils Neoverse N1 Platform with up to 128-Cores
February 20, 2019
Following on its Neoverse roadmap announcement last October, Arm today revealed its next-gen Neoverse microarchitecture with compute and throughput-optimized si Read more…
Intel Launches Cascade Lake Xeons with Up to 56 Cores
April 2, 2019
At Intel's Data-Centric Innovation Day in San Francisco (April 2), the company unveiled its second-generation Xeon Scalable (Cascade Lake) family and debuted it Read more…
France to Deploy AI-Focused Supercomputer: Jean Zay
January 22, 2019
HPE announced today that it won the contract to build a supercomputer that will drive France’s AI and HPC efforts. The computer will be part of GENCI, the Fre Read more…
In Wake of Nvidia-Mellanox: Xilinx to Acquire Solarflare
April 25, 2019
With echoes of Nvidia’s recent acquisition of Mellanox, FPGA maker Xilinx has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Solarflare Communications, provider Read more…
Nvidia Claims 6000x Speed-Up for Stock Trading Backtest Benchmark
May 13, 2019
A stock trading backtesting algorithm used by hedge funds to simulate trading variants has received a massive, GPU-based performance boost, according to Nvidia, Read more…
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