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How to Spot a Legacy Storage Vendor
As do all of us in the storage industry, I love reading what Chris Mellor writes. Last week he described a “street fight” between NetApp and Pure Storage, with each trying to articulate that the other is a legacy storage vendor. I even retweeted his story with our own quick summary: I then decided to […]
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There’s been a lot of discussion lately in the analyst community about the return on investment (ROI) of high performance computing (HPC) clusters. I believe one aspect often overlooked is that most clusters are inherently incapable of achieving a high ROI for their users because of fundamental misconceptions of what an HPC cluster is or […]
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China Unveils First 7nm Chip: Big Island
January 22, 2021
Shanghai Tianshu Zhaoxin Semiconductor Co. is claiming China’s first 7-nanometer chip, described as a leading-edge, general-purpose cloud computing chip based on a proprietary GPU architecture. Dubbed “Big Island Read more…
HiPEAC’s Vision for a New Cyber Era, a ‘Continuum of Computing’
January 21, 2021
Earlier this week (Jan. 19), HiPEAC — the European Network on High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation — published the 8th edition of the HiPEAC Vision, detailing an increasingly interconnected computing landscape where complex tasks are carried out across multiple... Read more…
Supercomputers Assist Hunt for Mysterious Axion Particle
January 21, 2021
In the 1970s, scientists theorized the existence of axions: particles born in the hearts of stars that, when exposed to a magnetic field, become light particles, and which may even comprise dark matter. To date, however, Read more…
Researchers Train Fluid Dynamics Neural Networks on Supercomputers
January 21, 2021
Fluid dynamics simulations are critical for applications ranging from wind turbine design to aircraft optimization. Running these simulations through direct numerical simulations, however, is computationally costly. Many Read more…
Saudi Aramco Unveils Dammam 7, Its New Top Ten Supercomputer
January 21, 2021
By revenue, oil and gas giant Saudi Aramco is one of the largest companies in the world, and it has historically employed commensurate amounts of supercomputing power. Now, Aramco has unveiled – in partnership with stc Read more…
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Modeling fires is key for many industries, from the design of new buildings, defining evacuation procedures for trains, planes and ships, and even the spread of wildfires. Read more…
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Intel is the foundation of HPC – from the workstation to the cloud to the backbone of the Top500. At SC20, Intel’s Trish Damkroger, VP and GM of high performance computing, addresses the audience to show how Intel and its partners are building the future of HPC today, through hardware and software technologies that accelerate the broad deployment of advanced HPC systems. Read more…
Xilinx Announces Winners of First Adaptive Computing Challenge
January 20, 2021
Last July, Xilinx announced the first-ever Xilinx Adaptive Computing Challenge. Run in partnership with Hackster.io, the challenge tasked developers with finding creative workload acceleration solutions using the Vitis U Read more…
HiPEAC’s Vision for a New Cyber Era, a ‘Continuum of Computing’
January 21, 2021
Earlier this week (Jan. 19), HiPEAC — the European Network on High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation — published the 8th edition of the HiPEAC Vision, detailing an increasingly interconnected computing landscape where complex tasks are carried out across multiple... Read more…
Saudi Aramco Unveils Dammam 7, Its New Top Ten Supercomputer
January 21, 2021
By revenue, oil and gas giant Saudi Aramco is one of the largest companies in the world, and it has historically employed commensurate amounts of supercomputing Read more…
President-elect Biden Taps Eric Lander and Deep Team on Science Policy
January 19, 2021
Last Friday U.S. President-elect Joe Biden named The Broad Institute founding director and president Eric Lander as his science advisor and as director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Lander, 63, is a mathematician by training and distinguished life sciences... Read more…
Pat Gelsinger Returns to Intel as CEO
January 14, 2021
The Intel board of directors has appointed a new CEO. Intel alum Pat Gelsinger is leaving his post as CEO of VMware to rejoin the company that he parted ways with 11 years ago. Gelsinger will succeed Bob Swan, who will remain CEO until Feb. 15. Gelsinger previously spent 30 years... 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…
Intel ‘Ice Lake’ Server Chips in Production, Set for Volume Ramp This Quarter
January 12, 2021
Intel Corp. used this week’s virtual CES 2021 event to reassert its dominance of the datacenter with the formal roll out of its next-generation server chip, the 10nm Xeon Scalable processor that targets AI and HPC workloads. The third-generation “Ice Lake” family... Read more…
Researchers Say It Won’t Be Possible to Control Superintelligent AI
January 11, 2021
Worries about out-of-control AI aren’t new. Many prominent figures have suggested caution when unleashing AI. One quote that keeps cropping up is (roughly) th Read more…
AMD Files Patent on New GPU Chiplet Approach
January 5, 2021
Advanced Micro Devices is accelerating the GPU chiplet race with the release of a U.S. patent application for a device that incorporates high-bandwidth intercon Read more…
Esperanto Unveils ML Chip with Nearly 1,100 RISC-V Cores
December 8, 2020
At the RISC-V Summit today, Art Swift, CEO of Esperanto Technologies, announced a new, RISC-V based chip aimed at machine learning and containing nearly 1,100 low-power cores based on the open-source RISC-V architecture. Esperanto Technologies, headquartered in... 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…
Azure Scaled to Record 86,400 Cores for Molecular Dynamics
November 20, 2020
A new record for HPC scaling on the public cloud has been achieved on Microsoft Azure. Led by Dr. Jer-Ming Chia, the cloud provider partnered with the Beckman I Read more…
NICS Unleashes ‘Kraken’ Supercomputer
April 4, 2008
A Cray XT4 supercomputer, dubbed Kraken, is scheduled to come online in mid-summer at the National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS). The soon-to-be petascale system, and the resulting NICS organization, are the result of an NSF Track II award of $65 million to the University of Tennessee and its partners to provide next-generation supercomputing for the nation's science community. Read more…
Is the Nvidia A100 GPU Performance Worth a Hardware Upgrade?
October 16, 2020
Over the last decade, accelerators have seen an increasing rate of adoption in high-performance computing (HPC) platforms, and in the June 2020 Top500 list, eig Read more…
Aurora’s Troubles Move Frontier into Pole Exascale Position
October 1, 2020
Intel’s 7nm node delay has raised questions about the status of the Aurora supercomputer that was scheduled to be stood up at Argonne National Laboratory next year. Aurora was in the running to be the United States’ first exascale supercomputer although it was on a contemporaneous timeline with... 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…
Programming the Soon-to-Be World’s Fastest Supercomputer, Frontier
January 5, 2021
What’s it like designing an app for the world’s fastest supercomputer, set to come online in the United States in 2021? The University of Delaware’s Sunita Chandrasekaran is leading an elite international team in just that task. Chandrasekaran, assistant professor of computer and information sciences, recently was named... Read more…
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Top500: Fugaku Keeps Crown, Nvidia’s Selene Climbs to #5
November 16, 2020
With the publication of the 56th Top500 list today from SC20's virtual proceedings, Japan's Fugaku supercomputer – now fully deployed – notches another win, Read more…
Texas A&M Announces Flagship ‘Grace’ Supercomputer
November 9, 2020
Texas A&M University has announced its next flagship system: Grace. The new supercomputer, named for legendary programming pioneer Grace Hopper, is replacing the Ada system (itself named for mathematician Ada Lovelace) as the primary workhorse for Texas A&M’s High Performance Research Computing (HPRC). Read more…
At Oak Ridge, ‘End of Life’ Sometimes Isn’t
October 31, 2020
Sometimes, the old dog actually does go live on a farm. HPC systems are often cursed with short lifespans, as they are continually supplanted by the latest and Read more…
Gordon Bell Special Prize Goes to Massive SARS-CoV-2 Simulations
November 19, 2020
2020 has proven a harrowing year – but it has produced remarkable heroes. To that end, this year, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) introduced the Read more…
Nvidia and EuroHPC Team for Four Supercomputers, Including Massive ‘Leonardo’ System
October 15, 2020
The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (JU) serves as Europe’s concerted supercomputing play, currently comprising 32 member states and billions of euros in funding. I Read more…
Intel Xe-HP GPU Deployed for Aurora Exascale Development
November 17, 2020
At SC20, Intel announced that it is making its Xe-HP high performance discrete GPUs available to early access developers. Notably, the new chips have been deplo Read more…
Nvidia-Arm Deal a Boon for RISC-V?
October 26, 2020
The $40 billion blockbuster acquisition deal that will bring chipmaker Arm into the Nvidia corporate family could provide a boost for the competing RISC-V architecture. As regulators in the U.S., China and the European Union begin scrutinizing the impact of the blockbuster deal on semiconductor industry competition and innovation, the deal has at the very least... Read more…
HPE, AMD and EuroHPC Partner for Pre-Exascale LUMI Supercomputer
October 21, 2020
Not even a week after Nvidia announced that it would be providing hardware for the first four of the eight planned EuroHPC systems, HPE and AMD are announcing a Read more…
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The recently introduced HPE Apollo 80 from Hewlett Packard Enterprise is a new addition to the arsenal of high-performance computing (HPC) systems tools that an organization can opt for when there are memory-bound and bandwidth-sensitive workloads. The adoption of the Apollo 80 is driven by the fact that many such applications can run dramatically faster on the system and this performance boost is accessible with lightweight porting and minimal tuning. Download this white paper to learn how organizations that are running memory bandwidth-bound applications can use the system to accelerate those workloads with a purpose-built CPU that is accessible to existing applications.
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HPC Data Storage Enables Microbiome Research and Understanding of COVID-19 and Other Diseases
In this webinar, Martijn de Vries, CTO at Bright Computing and Robert Stober, Director of Product Management at Bright Computing, discuss the convergence of HPC and AI in the context of current industry trends and practices being used by organizations. They will discuss and demonstrate the convergence of HPC and AI on a shared infrastructure using Bright auto-scaler to enable efficient use of compute resources based on workload demand and policies, and also cover how to extend HPC/A.I. infrastructure to edge locations. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to gain valuable insight into innovative ways HPC and AI are being used together today.
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