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Since introducing the HPC-AI Advisory Council’s (HPCAIAC) first international workshop in 2009, with breakthroughs that include being the first parallel session and first international entity to host an independently organized forum as part of the annual China HPC Conference, leading research centers have collaborated through the member-based ‘for community benefit’ Council to facilitate more than […]
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Supercomputer Simulations Validate NASA Crash Testing
February 17, 2020
Car crash simulation is already a challenging supercomputing task, requiring pinpoint estimation of how hundreds of components interact with turbulent forces and human bodies. Spacecraft crash simulation is far more diff Read more…
What’s New in HPC Research: Quantum Clouds, Interatomic Models, Genetic Algorithms & More
February 14, 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…
ORNL Team Develops AI-based Cancer Text Mining Tool on Summit
February 13, 2020
A group of Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers working on the Summit supercomputer has developed a new neural network tool for fast extraction of information from cancer pathology reports to speed research and clin Read more…
Nature Serves up Another Challenge to Quantum Computing?
February 13, 2020
Just when you thought it was safe to assume quantum computing – though distant – would eventually succumb to clever technology, another potentially confounding factor pops up. It’s the Heisenberg Limit (HL), close Read more…
Researchers Enlist Three Supercomputers to Apply Deep Learning to Extreme Weather
February 12, 2020
When it comes to extreme weather, an errant forecast can have serious effects. While advance warning can give people time to prepare for the weather as it did with the polar vortex last year, the absence of accurate adva 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…
ECP Update: Satisfying DOE and Building SDKs for Heterogeneous Exascale Architecture
February 11, 2020
Delivering an exascale-ready software infrastructure is the Exascale Computing Project’s mission, a goal towards which it has steadily marched although ECP doesn’t grab headlines the way pre- and planned exascale sys Read more…
Trump Budget Proposal Again Slashes Science Spending
February 11, 2020
President Donald Trump’s FY2021 U.S. Budget, submitted to Congress this week, again slashes science spending. It’s a $4.8 trillion statement of priorities, Read more…
Policy: Republicans Eye Bigger Science Budgets; NSF Celebrates 70th, Names Idea Machine Winners
February 5, 2020
It’s a busy week for science policy. Yesterday, the National Science Foundation announced winners of its 2026 Idea Machine contest seeking directions for futu Read more…
Fujitsu A64FX Supercomputer to Be Deployed at Nagoya University This Summer
February 3, 2020
Japanese tech giant Fujitsu announced today that it will supply Nagoya University Information Technology Center with the first commercial supercomputer powered Read more…
Intel Stopping Nervana Development to Focus on Habana AI Chips
February 3, 2020
Just two months after acquiring Israeli AI chip start-up Habana Labs for $2 billion, Intel is stopping development of its existing Nervana neural network proces Read more…
Lise Supercomputer, Part of HLRN-IV, Begins Operations
January 29, 2020
The second phase of the build-out of HLRN-IV – the planned 16 peak-petaflops supercomputer serving the North-German Supercomputing Alliance (HLRN) – is unde Read more…
IBM Debuts IC922 Power Server for AI Inferencing and Data Management
January 28, 2020
IBM today launched a Power9-based inference server – the IC922 – that features up to six Nvidia T4 GPUs, PCIe Gen 4 and OpenCAPI connectivity, and can accom 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 Read more…
Toshiba Promises Quantum-Like Advantage on Standard Hardware
January 23, 2020
Toshiba has invented an algorithm that it says delivers a 10-fold improvement for a select class of computational problems, without the need for exotic hardware 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…
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…
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…
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…
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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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…
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…
Fujitsu A64FX Supercomputer to Be Deployed at Nagoya University This Summer
February 3, 2020
Japanese tech giant Fujitsu announced today that it will supply Nagoya University Information Technology Center with the first commercial supercomputer powered 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…
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…
In Memoriam: Steve Tuecke, Globus Co-founder
November 4, 2019
HPCwire is deeply saddened to report that Steve Tuecke, longtime scientist at Argonne National Lab and University of Chicago, has passed away at age 52. Tuecke Read more…
Cray Debuts ClusterStor E1000 Finishing Remake of Portfolio for ‘Exascale Era’
October 30, 2019
Cray, now owned by HPE, today introduced the ClusterStor E1000 storage platform, which leverages Cray software and mixes hard disk drives (HDD) and flash memory Read more…
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