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Latest on ASC19 Finals: BUAA and SYSU Leads in HPL and CESM respectively; Multinational Teams Won the Group Competition
On April 23, the third day of the ASC19 Student Supercomputer Challenge (ASC19) final held at Dalian University of Technology, the top 20 teams accomplished HPL/HPCG, Community Earth System Model …
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Pulling Apart Containers or Why Containers Are Like Tupperware
Panels tend to be among the livelier conference sessions and the “Containers” panel at Tabor’s Advanced Scale Forum last week in Jacksonville, Fla., was certainly no exception. Moderated by …
Meet the ASC19 Clusters, CPUs are Back in Style
Here’s the first look at the configurations of the ASC19 Student Cluster Competition teams. First thing to realize is that all of the hardware is being generously provided by Inspur, so this is …
Interview with 2019 Person to Watch Steve Scott
April 25, 2019
Next up in our HPCwire People to Watch focus series is our interview with 2019 Person to Watch Steve Scott. Steve -- who is senior vice president and CTO at Cray -- is responsible for guiding the long-term direction of Read more…
UC Berkeley Researchers Build Largest Integrated Optical Switch
April 24, 2019
A team of UC Berkeley researchers has reported fabricating the “largest integrated photonic switch ever.” Their achievement comes at a time when there are many R&D efforts seeking ways to improve and expand the u Read more…
PRACE 2018 Report – EuroHPC, Working with XSEDE, More
April 23, 2019
PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe) posted its 2018 annual report yesterday and as managing director Serge Bogaerts wrote in his introduction, this year’s edition has a more “corporate publication” 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.
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Bridging HPC and Cloud Native Development with Kubernetes
The HPC community has historically developed its own specialized software stack including schedulers, filesystems, developer tools, container technologies tuned for performance and large-scale on-premises deployments. Read more…
LANL Researchers Simulate Billion-Atom Biomolecule
April 23, 2019
Simulating large biomolecules has long been challenging. Now, researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory, RIKEN Center for Computational Science in Japan, the New Mexico Consortium, and New York University have succ Read more…
PRACE 2018 Report – EuroHPC, Working with XSEDE, More
April 23, 2019
PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe) posted its 2018 annual report yesterday and as managing director Serge Bogaerts wrote in his introduction, Read more…
A Beginner’s Guide to the ASC19 Finals
April 22, 2019
Three thousand watts. That's how much power the competitors in the 2019 ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge here in Dalian, China, have to work with. Everybody Read more…
At ASF 2019: The Virtuous Circle of Big Data, AI and HPC
April 18, 2019
We've entered a new phase in IT -- in the world, really -- where the combination of big data, artificial intelligence, and high performance computing is pushing Read more…
Interview with 2019 Person to Watch Michela Taufer
April 18, 2019
Today, as part of our ongoing HPCwire People to Watch focus series, we are highlighting our interview with 2019 Person to Watch Michela Taufer. Michela -- the Read more…
Intel Gold U-Series SKUs Reveal Single Socket Intentions
April 18, 2019
Intel plans to jump into the single socket market with a portion of its just announced Cascade Lake microprocessor line according to one media report. This isn Read more…
BSC Researchers Shrink Floating Point Formats to Accelerate Deep Neural Network Training
April 15, 2019
Sometimes calculating solutions as precisely as a computer can wastes more CPU resources than is necessary. A case in point is with deep learning. In early stag Read more…
Intel Extends FPGA Ecosystem with 10nm Agilex
April 11, 2019
The insatiable appetite for higher throughput and lower latency – particularly where edge analytics and AI, network functions, or for a range of datacenter ac Read more…
Nvidia Doubles Down on Medical AI
April 9, 2019
Nvidia is collaborating with medical groups to push GPU-powered AI tools into clinical settings, including radiology and drug discovery. The GPU leader said Monday it will collaborate with the American College of Radiology (ACR) to provide clinicians with its Clara AI tool kit. The partnership would allow radiologists to leverage AI techniques for diagnostic imaging using their own clinical data. 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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…
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…
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…
Oil and Gas Supercloud Clears Out Remaining Knights Landing Inventory: All 38,000 Wafers
March 13, 2019
The McCloud HPC service being built by Australia’s DownUnder GeoSolutions (DUG) outside Houston is set to become the largest oil and gas cloud in the world th Read more…
Intel Extends FPGA Ecosystem with 10nm Agilex
April 11, 2019
The insatiable appetite for higher throughput and lower latency – particularly where edge analytics and AI, network functions, or for a range of datacenter ac Read more…
BSC Researchers Shrink Floating Point Formats to Accelerate Deep Neural Network Training
April 15, 2019
Sometimes calculating solutions as precisely as a computer can wastes more CPU resources than is necessary. A case in point is with deep learning. In early stag Read more…
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