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ISC19 Livewire Coverage:
First All-Petaflops Top500 List Debuts; US Maintains Performance Lead
With the kick-off of the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) in Frankfurt this morning, the 53rd Top500 list made its debut, and this one’s for petafloppers only. The entry point for Read More…
Nvidia Embraces Arm, Declares Intent to Accelerate All CPU Architectures
As the Top500 list was being announced at ISC in Frankfurt today with an upgraded petascale Arm supercomputer in the top third of the list, Nvidia announced its intention to Read More…
Jack Wells Joins OpenACC; Arm Support Coming
Perhaps the most significant ISC19 news for OpenACC wasn’t in its official press release yesterday which touted growing user traction and the notable addition of HPC leader Jack Wells, director Read More…
Center Stage:
Inspur Showcases Latest AI HPC Convergence Products and Solutions at ISC19
June 17th, Frankfurt, Germany – Today, Inspur showcased its latest AI HPC products and solutions at ISC19 to help users meet the challenges in the convergence of AI and HPC. Read More…
At ISC: DDN Launches EXA5 for AI, Big Data, HPC Workloads
June 17, 2019
DDN, for two decades competing at the headwaters of high performance storage, this morning announced an enterprise-oriented end-to-end high performance storage and data management for AI, big data and HPC acceleration. I Read more…
TIOBE Index: Python Reaches Another All-Time High
June 17, 2019
TIOBE has released its June 2019 Index, and Python has reached another all-time high. TIOBE, which stands for “the importance of being earnest,” was founded in 2000. Its Programming Community Index – which is u Read more…
Final Countdown to ISC19: What to See
June 13, 2019
If you're attending the International Supercomputing Conference, taking place in Frankfurt next week (June 16-20), you're either packing, in transit, or are already ensconced at the venue. In any case, you're busy, so he Read more…
HPE Extreme Performance Solutions
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.
For decades, HPE has been at the forefront of high-performance computing, and we’ve powered some of the fastest and most robust supercomputers in the world. Read more…
IBM Accelerated Insights
5 Benefits Artificial Intelligence Brings to HPC
According to findings from Hyperion Research, simulation is primarily responsible for expanding the global HPC market from $2 billion in 1990 to a projected $38 billion in 2022. Read more…
The US Global Weather Forecast System Just Got a Major Upgrade
June 13, 2019
The United States’ Global Forecast System (GFS) has received a major upgrade to its modeling capabilities. The new dynamical core that has been added to the GFS – its first new dynamical core in nearly 40 years – w Read more…
At ISC: DDN Launches EXA5 for AI, Big Data, HPC Workloads
June 17, 2019
DDN, for two decades competing at the headwaters of high performance storage, this morning announced an enterprise-oriented end-to-end high performance storage Read more…
Final Countdown to ISC19: What to See
June 13, 2019
If you're attending the International Supercomputing Conference, taking place in Frankfurt next week (June 16-20), you're either packing, in transit, or are alr Read more…
The US Global Weather Forecast System Just Got a Major Upgrade
June 13, 2019
The United States’ Global Forecast System (GFS) has received a major upgrade to its modeling capabilities. The new dynamical core that has been added to the G Read more…
TSMC and Samsung Moving to 5nm; Whither Moore’s Law?
June 12, 2019
With reports that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TMSC) and Samsung are moving quickly to 5nm manufacturing, it’s a good time to again ponder whither goes the venerable Moore’s law. Shrinking feature size has of course been the primary hallmark of achieving Moore’s law... Read more…
The Spaceborne Computer Returns to Earth, and HPE Eyes an AI-Protected Spaceborne 2
June 10, 2019
After 615 days on the International Space Station (ISS), HPE’s Spaceborne Computer has returned to Earth. The computer touched down onboard the same SpaceX Dr Read more…
Building the Team: South African Style
June 9, 2019
We’re only eight days away from the start of the ISC 2019 Student Cluster Competition. Fourteen student teams from eleven countries will travel to Frankfurt, Read more…
Scientists Solve Cosmic Mystery Through Black Hole Simulations
June 6, 2019
An international team of researchers has finally solved a long-standing cosmic mystery – and to do it, they needed to produce the most detailed black hole simulation ever created. Read more…
Quantum Upstart: IonQ Sets Sights on Challenging IBM, Rigetti, Others
June 5, 2019
Until now most of the buzz around quantum computing has been generated by folks already in the computer business – systems makers, chip makers, and big cloud Read more…
High Performance (Potato) Chips
May 5, 2006
In this article, we focus on how Procter & Gamble is using high performance computing to create some common, everyday supermarket products. Tom Lange, a 27-year veteran of the company, tells us how P&G models products, processes and production systems for the betterment of consumer package goods. Read more…
Cray, AMD to Extend DOE’s Exascale Frontier
May 7, 2019
Cray and AMD are coming back to Oak Ridge National Laboratory to partner on the world’s largest and most expensive supercomputer. The Department of Energy’s Read more…
Graphene Surprises Again, This Time for Quantum Computing
May 8, 2019
Graphene is fascinating stuff with promise for use in a seeming endless number of applications. This month researchers from the University of Vienna and Institu 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…
AMD Verifies Its Largest 7nm Chip Design in Ten Hours
June 5, 2019
AMD announced last week that its engineers had successfully executed the first physical verification of its largest 7nm chip design – in just ten hours. The AMD Radeon Instinct Vega20 – which boasts 13.2 billion transistors – was tested using a TSMC-certified Calibre nmDRC software platform from Mentor. 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…
Deep Learning Competitors Stalk Nvidia
May 14, 2019
There is no shortage of processing architectures emerging to accelerate deep learning workloads, with two more options emerging this week to challenge GPU leader Nvidia. First, Intel researchers claimed a new deep learning record for image classification on the ResNet-50 convolutional neural network. Separately, Israeli AI chip startup Hailo.ai... 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…
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TSMC and Samsung Moving to 5nm; Whither Moore’s Law?
June 12, 2019
With reports that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TMSC) and Samsung are moving quickly to 5nm manufacturing, it’s a good time to again ponder whither goes the venerable Moore’s law. Shrinking feature size has of course been the primary hallmark of achieving Moore’s law... 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…
Cray – and the Cray Brand – to Be Positioned at Tip of HPE’s HPC Spear
May 22, 2019
More so than with most acquisitions of this kind, HPE’s purchase of Cray for $1.3 billion, announced last week, seems to have elements of that overused, often 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…
Announcing four new HPC capabilities in Google Cloud Platform
April 15, 2019
When you’re running compute-bound or memory-bound applications for high performance computing or large, data-dependent machine learning training workloads on Read more…
In Wake of Nvidia-Mellanox: Xilinx to Acquire Solarflare
April 25, 2019
With echoes of Nvidia’s recent acquisition of Mellanox, FPGA maker Xilinx has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Solarflare Communications, provider Read more…
Nvidia Claims 6000x Speed-Up for Stock Trading Backtest Benchmark
May 13, 2019
A stock trading backtesting algorithm used by hedge funds to simulate trading variants has received a massive, GPU-based performance boost, according to Nvidia, Read more…
Nvidia Embraces Arm, Declares Intent to Accelerate All CPU Architectures
June 17, 2019
As the Top500 list was being announced at ISC in Frankfurt today with an upgraded petascale Arm supercomputer in the top third of the list, Nvidia announced its Read more…
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