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NOAA Lays Out Aggressive New AI Strategy
Roughly coincident with last week’s announcement of a planned tripling of its compute capacity, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued an ambitious AI Strategy to transform NOAA’s use of AI technology. “The goals and supporting objectives in this strategy are intended to directly improve the understanding, coordination, awareness, and application of AI across all […]
New Supercomputer Cooling Method Saves Half-Million Gallons of Water at Sandia National Laboratories
A new cooling method for supercomputer systems is picking up steam – literally. After saving millions of gallons of water at a National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) datacenter, this innovative approach, called...
What’s New in HPC Research: Dark Matter, Arrhythmia, Sustainability & More
February 28, 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…
Microsoft Announces General Availability of AMD-backed Azure HBv2 Instances for HPC
February 27, 2020
Nearly seven months after they were first announced, Microsoft Azure’s HPC-targeted HBv2 virtual machines (VMs) based on AMD second-generation Epyc processors are ready for primetime. The new VMs, which Azure claims of Read more…
Sequoia Decommissioned, Making Room for El Capitan
February 27, 2020
After eight years of service, Sequoia has been felled. Once the most powerful publicly ranked supercomputer in the world, Sequoia – hosted by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) – has been decommissioned to Read more…
Blue Waters Supercomputer Helps Tackle Pandemic Flu Simulations
February 26, 2020
While not the novel coronavirus that is now sweeping across the world, the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic (pH1N1) infected up to 21 percent of the global population and killed over 200,000 people. Now, a team of researchers from Read more…
Micron Accelerator Bumps Up Memory Bandwidth
February 26, 2020
Deep learning accelerators based on chip architectures coupled with high-bandwidth memory are emerging to enable near real-time processing of machine learning algorithms. Memory chip specialist Micron Technology argues t Read more…
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Amazon FSx for Lustre Update: Persistent Storage for Long-Term, High-Performance Workloads
Last year I wrote about Amazon FSx for Lustre and told you how our customers can use it to create pebibyte-scale, highly parallel POSIX-compliant file systems that serve thousands of simultaneous clients driving millions of IOPS (Input/Output Operations per Second) with sub-millisecond latency. 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…
Oak Ridge Supercomputer Helps Apply Machine Learning to Drug Design
February 25, 2020
Drug discovery is a complex task that often costs many millions of dollars through painstaking trial and error, but advanced computing technologies can dramatically accelerate the process. Now, a team of researchers from Read more…
University of Stuttgart Inaugurates ‘Hawk’ Supercomputer
February 20, 2020
This week, the new “Hawk” supercomputer was inaugurated in a ceremony at the High-Performance Computing Center of the University of Stuttgart (HLRS). Offici Read more…
US to Triple Its Supercomputing Capacity for Weather and Climate with Two New Crays
February 20, 2020
The blizzard of news around the race for weather and climate supercomputing leadership continues. Just three days after the UK announced a £1.2 billion plan to build the world’s largest weather and climate supercomputer, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration... Read more…
Japan’s AIST Benchmarks Intel Optane; Cites Benefit for HPC and AI
February 19, 2020
Last April Intel released its Optane Data Center Persistent Memory Module (DCPMM) – byte addressable nonvolatile memory – to increase main memory capacity a Read more…
UK Announces £1.2 Billion Weather and Climate Supercomputer
February 19, 2020
While the planet is heating up, so is the race for global leadership in weather and climate computing. In a bombshell announcement, the UK government revealed p Read more…
The Massive GPU Cloudburst Experiment Plays a Smaller, More Productive Encore
February 13, 2020
In November, researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and the IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC) set out to break the internet – or Read more…
Eni to Retake Industry HPC Crown with Launch of HPC5
February 12, 2020
With the launch of its Dell-built HPC5 system, Italian energy company Eni regains its position atop the industrial supercomputing leaderboard. At 52-petaflops p 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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…
Cray to Provide NOAA with Two AMD-Powered Supercomputers
February 24, 2020
The United States’ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) last week announced plans for a major refresh of its operational weather forecasting supercomputers, part of a 10-year, $505.2 million program, which will secure two HPE-Cray systems for NOAA’s National Weather Service to be fielded later this year and put into production in early 2022. 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…
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…
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…
Microsoft Azure Adds Graphcore’s IPU
November 15, 2019
Graphcore, the U.K. AI chip developer, is expanding collaboration with Microsoft to offer its intelligent processing units on the Azure cloud, making Microsoft Read more…
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