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Nvidia Said to Be Close on Arm Deal
GPU leader Nvidia Corp. is in talks to buy U.K. chip designer Arm from parent company Softbank, according to several reports over the weekend. If consummated, analysts said the acquisition would cement Nvidia’s status as a full-service chip vendor controlling its destiny while challenging chip rival Intel Corp. The Financial Times reported the parties are considering a […]
HPC-AI Advisory Council Ramps Online-Based Research, Education and Student Development in 2020
Responding to the required move to an all-digital experience, through our HPC-AI Advisory Council members and volunteer’s support, we not only led in introducing the virtual conference experience for 2020, the Council also hosted the first all-remote student cluster competitions. For the first time in the annual ISC-HPCAIAC SCC competition’s nine-year history, student teams competed […]
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New GE Simulations on Summit to Advance Offshore Wind Power
August 6, 2020
The wind energy sector is a frequent user of high-power simulations, with researchers aiming to optimize wind flows and energy production from the massive turbines. Now, researchers at GE are preparing to undertake a lar Read more…
Research: A Survey of Numerical Methods Utilizing Mixed Precision Arithmetic
August 5, 2020
Within the past years, hardware vendors have started designing low precision special function units in response to the demand of the machine learning community and their demand for high compute power in low precision for Read more…
Implement Photonic Tensor Cores for Machine Learning?
August 5, 2020
Researchers from George Washington University have reported an approach for building photonic tensor cores that leverages phase change photonic memory to implement a neural network (NN). Their novel architecture, reporte Read more…
Summer Reading: Here’s a Quantum Advantage You Can Bet On!
August 3, 2020
While quantum computing researchers today vigorously chase a demonstration of a quantum advantage – an application which when run on a quantum computer provides sufficient advantage to warrant switching from a classica Read more…
What’s New in HPC Research: the LHC, Nuclear Reactors, Legion & More
August 1, 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…
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AWS announces the release of AWS ParallelCluster 2.8.0
AWS ParallelCluster is a fully supported and maintained open source cluster management tool that makes it easy for scientists, researchers, and IT administrators to deploy and manage High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters in the AWS cloud. Read more…
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Supercomputing the Pandemic: Scientific Community Tackles COVID-19 from Multiple Perspectives
Since their inception, supercomputers have taken on the biggest, most complex, and most data-intensive computing challenges—from confirming Einstein’s theories about gravitational waves to predicting the impacts of climate change. Read more…
HPC Career Notes: August 2020 Edition
August 1, 2020
In this monthly feature, we’ll keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments for individuals in the high-performance computing community. Whether it’s a promotion, new company hire, or even an accolade, we’ Read more…
Intel’s 7nm Slip Raises Questions About Ponte Vecchio GPU, Aurora Supercomputer
July 30, 2020
During its second-quarter earnings call, Intel announced a one-year delay of its 7nm process technology, which it says it will create an approximate six-month shift for its CPU product timing relative to prior expectations. The primary issue is a defect mode in the 7nm process that resulted in yield degradation... Read more…
PEARC20 Plenary Introduces Five Upcoming NSF-Funded HPC Systems
July 30, 2020
Five new HPC systems—three National Science Foundation-funded “Capacity” systems and two “Innovative Prototype/Testbed” systems—will be coming onlin Read more…
Nvidia Dominates Latest MLPerf Training Benchmark Results
July 29, 2020
MLPerf.org released its third round of training benchmark (v0.7) results today and Nvidia again dominated, claiming 16 new records. Meanwhile, Google provided e Read more…
$39 Billion Worldwide HPC Market Faces 3.7% COVID-related Drop in 2020
July 29, 2020
Global HPC market revenue reached $39 billion in 2019, growing a healthy 8.2 percent over 2018, according to the latest analysis from Intersect360 Research. A 3 Read more…
Agenting Change: PEARC20 Keynote Encourages Cultural Change to Make Tech Better, More Diverse
July 29, 2020
The tech world will need to become more diverse if it is to thrive and survive, said Cherri Pancake, director of the Northwest Alliance for Computational Resear Read more…
In Big Win for COVID-19 Research, Neocortix Brings Arm Support to [email protected], [email protected]
July 28, 2020
Normally, Neocortix offers distributed cloud computing for its clients by way of PhonePaycheck, an app that pays users in exchange for the idle processing time Read more…
What’s Needed to Deliver the Nationwide Quantum Internet Blueprint
July 27, 2020
While few details accompanied last week’s official announcement of U.S. plans for a nation-wide quantum internet, many of the priorities and milestones had be Read more…
Hardware Acceleration of Recurrent Neural Networks: the Need and the Challenges
July 27, 2020
Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have shown phenomenal success in several sequence learning tasks such as machine translation, language processing, image captio Read more…
Supercomputer Modeling Tests How COVID-19 Spreads in Grocery Stores
April 8, 2020
In the COVID-19 era, many people are treating simple activities like getting gas or groceries with caution as they try to heed social distancing mandates and protect their own health. Still, significant uncertainty surrounds the relative risk of different activities, and conflicting information is prevalent. A team of Finnish researchers set out to address some of these uncertainties by... Read more…
Supercomputer-Powered Research Uncovers Signs of ‘Bradykinin Storm’ That May Explain COVID-19 Symptoms
July 28, 2020
Doctors and medical researchers have struggled to pinpoint – let alone explain – the deluge of symptoms induced by COVID-19 infections in patients, and what Read more…
Intel’s 7nm Slip Raises Questions About Ponte Vecchio GPU, Aurora Supercomputer
July 30, 2020
During its second-quarter earnings call, Intel announced a one-year delay of its 7nm process technology, which it says it will create an approximate six-month shift for its CPU product timing relative to prior expectations. The primary issue is a defect mode in the 7nm process that resulted in yield degradation... Read more…
Supercomputer Simulations Reveal the Fate of the Neanderthals
May 25, 2020
For hundreds of thousands of years, neanderthals roamed the planet, eventually (almost 50,000 years ago) giving way to homo sapiens, which quickly became the do 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…
Nvidia Said to Be Close on Arm Deal
August 3, 2020
GPU leader Nvidia Corp. is in talks to buy U.K. chip designer Arm from parent company Softbank, according to several reports over the weekend. If consummated Read more…
Neocortex Will Be First-of-Its-Kind 800,000-Core AI Supercomputer
June 9, 2020
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC - a joint research organization of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh) has won a $5 million award Read more…
Nvidia’s Ampere A100 GPU: Up to 2.5X the HPC, 20X the AI
May 14, 2020
Nvidia's first Ampere-based graphics card, the A100 GPU, packs a whopping 54 billion transistors on 826mm2 of silicon, making it the world's largest seven-nanom Read more…
Australian Researchers Break All-Time Internet Speed Record
May 26, 2020
If you’ve been stuck at home for the last few months, you’ve probably become more attuned to the quality (or lack thereof) of your internet connection. Even Read more…
15 Slides on Programming Aurora and Exascale Systems
May 7, 2020
Sometime in 2021, Aurora, the first planned U.S. exascale system, is scheduled to be fired up at Argonne National Laboratory. Cray (now HPE) and Intel are the k Read more…
‘Billion Molecules Against COVID-19’ Challenge to Launch with Massive Supercomputing Support
April 22, 2020
Around the world, supercomputing centers have spun up and opened their doors for COVID-19 research in what may be the most unified supercomputing effort in hist Read more…
Joliot-Curie Supercomputer Used to Build First Full, High-Fidelity Aircraft Engine Simulation
July 14, 2020
When industrial designers plan the design of a new element of a vehicle’s propulsion or exterior, they typically use fluid dynamics to optimize airflow and in Read more…
$100B Plan Submitted for Massive Remake and Expansion of NSF
May 27, 2020
Legislation to reshape, expand - and rename - the National Science Foundation has been submitted in both the U.S. House and Senate. The proposal, which seems to Read more…
John Martinis Reportedly Leaves Google Quantum Effort
April 21, 2020
John Martinis, who led Google’s quantum computing effort since establishing its quantum hardware group in 2014, has left Google after being moved into an advi Read more…
Google Cloud Debuts 16-GPU Ampere A100 Instances
July 7, 2020
On the heels of the Nvidia’s Ampere A100 GPU launch in May, Google Cloud is announcing alpha availability of the A100 “Accelerator Optimized” VM A2 instance family on Google Compute Engine. The instances are powered by the HGX A100 16-GPU platform, which combines two HGX A100 8-GPU baseboards using... Read more…
Japan’s Fugaku Tops Global Supercomputing Rankings
June 22, 2020
A new Top500 champ was unveiled today. Supercomputer Fugaku, the pride of Japan and the namesake of Mount Fuji, vaulted to the top of the 55th edition of the To Read more…
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