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Super-Connecting the Supercomputers: In-Network Computing
Supercomputers are the essential tools we need to conduct research, enable scientific discoveries, design new products, and develop self-learning software algorithms. Supercomputing leadership means scientific leadership, which explains the investments made by many governments and research institutes to build faster and more powerful supercomputing platforms. The heart of a supercomputer is the network that connects […]
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Data-centric Organizations need both Performance and Flexible Data Management
Converged AI and HPC have arrived in 2020 and commercial IT organizations are putting data at the core of their business model. Just in the HPC market alone, Intersect360[1] found that around 90% of HPC organizations were either running machine learning (56%) or investigating/planning its introduction. Gartner[2] claims that 60% of organizations are adapting their […]
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Amid Upbeat Earnings, Intel to Cut 1% of Employees, Add as Many
January 24, 2020
For all the sniping two tech old timers take, both IBM and Intel announced surprisingly upbeat earnings this week. IBM CEO Ginny Rometty was all smiles at this week’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, after Read more…
Indiana University Dedicates ‘Big Red 200’ Cray Shasta Supercomputer
January 24, 2020
After six months of celebrations, Indiana University (IU) officially marked its bicentennial on Monday – and it saved the best for last, inaugurating Big Red 200, a new AI-focused supercomputer that joins the ranks of Read more…
What’s New in HPC Research: Tsunamis, Wildfires, the Large Hadron Collider & More
January 24, 2020
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…
Energy Research Combines HPC, 3D Manufacturing
January 23, 2020
A federal energy research initiative is gaining momentum with the release of a contract award aimed at using supercomputing to harness 3D printing technology that would boost the performance of power generators. Partn Read more…
TACC Highlights Its Upcoming ‘IsoBank’ Isotope Database
January 22, 2020
Isotopes – elemental variations that contain different numbers of neutrons – can help researchers unearth the past of an object, especially the few hundred isotopes that are known to be stable over time. However, iso Read more…
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Challenging the barriers to High Performance Computing in the Cloud
Cloud computing helps democratize High Performance Computing by placing powerful computational capabilities in the hands of more researchers, engineers, and organizations who may lack access to sufficient on-premises infrastructure. Read more…
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Intelligent HPC – Keeping Hard Work at Bay(es)
Since the dawn of time, humans have looked for ways to make their lives easier. Over the centuries human ingenuity has given us inventions such as the wheel and simple machines – which help greatly with tasks that would otherwise be extremely laborious. Read more…
ORNL Demos Memory Storage for Super Cold Computing
January 22, 2020
Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have experimentally demonstrated a novel cryogenic, or low temperature, memory cell circuit design based on coupled arrays of Josephson junctions Read more…
DNA-Based Storage Nears Scalable Reality with New $25 Million Project
January 21, 2020
DNA-based storage, which involves storing binary code in the four nucleotides that constitute DNA, has been a moonshot for high-density data storage since the 1960s. Since the first successful experiments in the 1980s, researchers have made a series of major strides toward implementing DNA-based storage at scale, such as improving write times and storage density and enabling easier file identification and extraction. Now, a new $25 million... Read more…
AMD Recruits Intel, IBM Execs; Pending Layoffs Reported at Intel Data Platform Group
January 17, 2020
AMD has raided Intel and IBM for new senior managers, one of whom will replace an AMD executive who has played a prominent role during the company’s recharged Read more…
Atos-AMD System to Quintuple Supercomputing Power at European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
January 15, 2020
The United Kingdom-based European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), a supercomputer-powered weather forecasting organization backed by most of Read more…
Julia Programming’s Dramatic Rise in HPC and Elsewhere
January 14, 2020
Back in 2012 a paper by four computer scientists including Alan Edelman of MIT introduced Julia, A Fast Dynamic Language for Technical Computing. At the time, t Read more…
White House AI Regulatory Guidelines: ‘Remove Impediments to Private-sector AI Innovation’
January 9, 2020
When it comes to new technology, it’s been said government initially stays uninvolved – then gets too involved. The White House’s guidelines for federal a Read more…
IBM Touts Quantum Network Growth, Improving QC Quality, and Battery Research
January 8, 2020
IBM today announced its Q (quantum) Network community had grown to 100-plus – Delta Airlines and Los Alamos National Laboratory are among most recent addition Read more…
HPCwire Awards Highlight Supercomputing Achievements in the Sciences
January 7, 2020
In November at SC19 in Denver, the HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice awards program celebrated its 16th year of honoring remarkable achievements in high-performance computing. With categories ranging from Best Use of HPC in Energy to Top HPC-Enabled Scientific Achievement, many of the winners contributed to groundbreaking developments in the sciences. This editorial highlights those awards. Read more…
Blasts from the (Recent) Past and Hopes for the Future
December 23, 2019
What does 2020 look like to you? What did 2019 look like? Lots happened but the main trends were carryovers from 2018 – AI messaging again blanketed everything; the roll-out of new big machines and exascale announcements continued; processor diversity and system disaggregation kicked up a notch; hyperscalers continued flexing their muscles (think AWS and its Graviton2 processor); and the U.S. and China continued their awkward trade war. Read more…
Using AI to Solve One of the Most Prevailing Problems in CFD
October 17, 2019
How can artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) solve mesh generation, one of the most commonly referenced problems in computational engineering? A new study has set out to answer this question and create an industry-first AI-mesh application... Read more…
SC19: IBM Changes Its HPC-AI Game Plan
November 25, 2019
It’s probably fair to say IBM is known for big bets. Summit supercomputer – a big win. Red Hat acquisition – looking like a big win. OpenPOWER and Power processors – jury’s out? At SC19, long-time IBMer Dave Turek sketched out a different kind of bet for Big Blue – a small ball strategy, if you’ll forgive the baseball analogy... Read more…
Julia Programming’s Dramatic Rise in HPC and Elsewhere
January 14, 2020
Back in 2012 a paper by four computer scientists including Alan Edelman of MIT introduced Julia, A Fast Dynamic Language for Technical Computing. At the time, t Read more…
Cray, Fujitsu Both Bringing Fujitsu A64FX-based Supercomputers to Market in 2020
November 12, 2019
The number of top-tier HPC systems makers has shrunk due to a steady march of M&A activity, but there is increased diversity and choice of processing compon Read more…
Crystal Ball Gazing: IBM’s Vision for the Future of Computing
October 14, 2019
Dario Gil, IBM’s relatively new director of research, painted a intriguing portrait of the future of computing along with a rough idea of how IBM thinks we’ Read more…
Intel Debuts New GPU – Ponte Vecchio – and Outlines Aspirations for oneAPI
November 17, 2019
Intel today revealed a few more details about its forthcoming Xe line of GPUs – the top SKU is named Ponte Vecchio and will be used in Aurora, the first plann Read more…
Dell Ramps Up HPC Testing of AMD Rome Processors
October 21, 2019
Dell Technologies is wading deeper into the AMD-based systems market with a growing evaluation program for the latest Epyc (Rome) microprocessors from AMD. In a Read more…
D-Wave’s Path to 5000 Qubits; Google’s Quantum Supremacy Claim
September 24, 2019
On the heels of IBM’s quantum news last week come two more quantum items. D-Wave Systems today announced the name of its forthcoming 5000-qubit system, Advantage (yes the name choice isn’t serendipity), at its user conference being held this week in Newport, RI. Read more…
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IBM Unveils Latest Achievements in AI Hardware
December 13, 2019
“The increased capabilities of contemporary AI models provide unprecedented recognition accuracy, but often at the expense of larger computational and energet Read more…
SC19: Welcome to Denver
November 17, 2019
A significant swath of the HPC community has come to Denver for SC19, which began today (Sunday) with a rich technical program. As is customary, the ribbon cutt Read more…
Jensen Huang’s SC19 – Fast Cars, a Strong Arm, and Aiming for the Cloud(s)
November 20, 2019
We’ve come to expect Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s annual SC keynote to contain stunning graphics and lively bravado (with plenty of examples) in support of GPU Read more…
Top500: US Maintains Performance Lead; Arm Tops Green500
November 18, 2019
The 54th Top500, revealed today at SC19, is a familiar list: the U.S. Summit (ORNL) and Sierra (LLNL) machines, offering 148.6 and 94.6 petaflops respectively, Read more…
51,000 Cloud GPUs Converge to Power Neutrino Discovery at the South Pole
November 22, 2019
At the dead center of the South Pole, thousands of sensors spanning a cubic kilometer are buried thousands of meters beneath the ice. The sensors are part of Ic Read more…
Azure Cloud First with AMD Epyc Rome Processors
November 6, 2019
At Ignite 2019 this week, Microsoft's Azure cloud team and AMD announced an expansion of their partnership that began in 2017 when Azure debuted Epyc-backed instances for storage workloads. The fourth-generation Azure D-series and E-series virtual machines previewed at the Rome launch in August are now generally available. Read more…
Intel’s New Hyderabad Design Center Targets Exascale Era Technologies
December 3, 2019
Intel's Raja Koduri was in India this week to help launch a new 300,000 square foot design and engineering center in Hyderabad, which will focus on advanced com Read more…
Summit Has Real-Time Analytics: Here’s How It Happened and What’s Next
October 3, 2019
Summit – the world’s fastest publicly-ranked supercomputer – now has real-time streaming analytics. At the 2019 HPC User Forum at Argonne National Laborat Read more…
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