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Spring Meetings Underscore Quantum Computing’s Rise
The month of April 2018 saw four very important and interesting meetings to discuss the state of quantum computing technologies, their potential impacts, and the technology challenges ahead. Thes …
Quantum Network Hub Opens in Japan
Following on the launch of its Q Commercial quantum network last December with 12 industrial and academic partners, the official Japanese hub at Keio University is now open to facilitate the expl …
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ASC18: Tough Applications & Tough Luck
May 17, 2018
The applications at the ASC18 Student Cluster Competition were tough. Tougher than the $3.99 steak special at your local greasy spoon restaurant. The apps are so tough that even Chuck Norris backs away from them slowly. Read more…
Democratizing HPC: OSC Releases Version 1.3 of OnDemand
May 16, 2018
Making HPC resources readily available and easier to use for scientists who may have less HPC expertise is an ongoing challenge. Open OnDemand is a project by the Ohio Supercomputing Center (OSC) funded with an National Read more…
ASC18: New HPCG Record (Barely) Set!!
May 16, 2018
When it comes to HPC benchmarks, very few are tougher on the hardware than HPCG. Designed to complement HPL (LINPACK), HPCG much more closely mimics today’s real-world workloads. Together, HPL and HPCG are sort of book Read more…
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HPC and AI Convergence is Accelerating New Levels of Intelligence
Data analytics is the most valuable tool in the digital marketplace – so much so that organizations are employing high performance computing (HPC) capabilities to rapidly collect, share, and analyze endless streams of data. Read more…
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Mastering the Big Data Challenge in Cognitive Healthcare
Patrick Chain, genomics researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory, posed a question in a recent blog: What if a nurse could swipe a patient’s saliva and run a quick genetic test to determine if the patient’s sore throat was caused by a cold virus or a bacterial infection? Read more…
Students Pack Many LINs at ASC18
May 16, 2018
The first task facing the university teams at the ASC18 Student Cluster Competition was running the venerable LINPACK benchmark. It was a hard fought battle, but in the end, Taiwan’s National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) came out on top with a score of 42.99 teraflops. Read more…
Democratizing HPC: OSC Releases Version 1.3 of OnDemand
May 16, 2018
Making HPC resources readily available and easier to use for scientists who may have less HPC expertise is an ongoing challenge. Open OnDemand is a project by t Read more…
PRACE 2017 Annual Report: Exascale Aspirations; Industry Collaboration; HPC Training
May 15, 2018
The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) today released its annual report showcasing 2017 activities and providing a glimpse into thinking about Read more…
US Forms AI Brain Trust
May 11, 2018
Amid calls for a U.S. strategy for promoting AI development, the Trump administration is forming a senior-level panel to help coordinate government and industry research efforts. The Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence was announced Thursday (May 10) during a White House summit organized by the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). Read more…
Emerging Advanced Scale Tech Trends Focus of Annual Tabor Conference
May 9, 2018
At Tabor Communications' annual Advanced Scale Forum (ASF) held this week in Austin, the focus was on enterprise adoption of HPC-class technologies and high performance data analytics (HPDA). It’s a confab that brings together end users (CIOs, IT planners, department heads) and vendors and encourages... Read more…
Google I/O 2018: AI Everywhere; TPU 3.0 Delivers 100+ Petaflops but Requires Liquid Cooling
May 9, 2018
All things AI dominated discussion at yesterday’s opening of Google’s I/O 2018 developers meeting covering much of Google's near-term product roadmap. The e Read more…
Data Management at NERSC in the Era of Petascale Deep Learning
May 9, 2018
Now that computer scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) have demonstrated 15 petaflops deep-learning training performance on the Cori supercomputer, the NERSC staff is working to address the data management issues that arise when running production deep-learning codes at such scale. Read more…
D-Wave Launches Machine Learning Services Business
May 8, 2018
Quantum computing pioneer D-Wave Systems today announced a new business unit – Quadrant – to provide machine learning services based on lessons from its qua Read more…
Nvidia Claims New ResNet-50 Top Marks; Microsoft Previews Brainwave
May 8, 2018
It’s becoming tough to sort out competing AI performance claims and to keep track of new AI initiatives. Perhaps the new MLPerf benchmark will eventually hel Read more…
MLPerf – Will New Machine Learning Benchmark Help Propel AI Forward?
May 2, 2018
Let the AI benchmarking wars begin. Today, a diverse group from academia and industry – Google, Baidu, Intel, AMD, Harvard, and Stanford among them – releas Read more…
How the Cloud Is Falling Short for HPC
March 15, 2018
The last couple of years have seen cloud computing gradually build some legitimacy within the HPC world, but still the HPC industry lies far behind enterprise I Read more…
Russian Nuclear Engineers Caught Cryptomining on Lab Supercomputer
February 12, 2018
Nuclear scientists working at the All-Russian Research Institute of Experimental Physics (RFNC-VNIIEF) have been arrested for using lab supercomputing resources to mine crypto-currency, according to a report in Russia’s Interfax News Agency. Read more…
Nvidia Responds to Google TPU Benchmarking
April 10, 2017
Nvidia highlights strengths of its newest GPU silicon in response to Google's report on the performance and energy advantages of its custom tensor processor. Read more…
Deep Learning at 15 PFlops Enables Training for Extreme Weather Identification at Scale
March 19, 2018
Petaflop per second deep learning training performance on the NERSC (National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center) Cori supercomputer has given climate Read more…
Researchers Measure Impact of ‘Meltdown’ and ‘Spectre’ Patches on HPC Workloads
January 17, 2018
Computer scientists from the Center for Computational Research, State University of New York (SUNY), University at Buffalo have examined the effect of Meltdown Read more…
AI Cloud Competition Heats Up: Google’s TPUs, Amazon Building AI Chip
February 12, 2018
Competition in the white hot AI (and public cloud) market pits Google against Amazon this week, with Google offering AI hardware on its cloud platform intended Read more…
US Plans $1.8 Billion Spend on DOE Exascale Supercomputing
April 11, 2018
On Monday, the United States Department of Energy announced its intention to procure up to three exascale supercomputers at a cost of up to $1.8 billion with th Read more…
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Lenovo Unveils Warm Water Cooled ThinkSystem SD650 in Rampup to LRZ Install
February 22, 2018
This week Lenovo took the wraps off the ThinkSystem SD650 high-density server with third-generation direct water cooling technology developed in tandem with par Read more…
HPC and AI – Two Communities Same Future
January 25, 2018
According to Al Gara (Intel Fellow, Data Center Group), high performance computing and artificial intelligence will increasingly intertwine as we transition to Read more…
Inventor Claims to Have Solved Floating Point Error Problem
January 17, 2018
"The decades-old floating point error problem has been solved," proclaims a press release from inventor Alan Jorgensen. The computer scientist has filed for and Read more…
Google Chases Quantum Supremacy with 72-Qubit Processor
March 7, 2018
Google pulled ahead of the pack this week in the race toward "quantum supremacy," with the introduction of a new 72-qubit quantum processor called Bristlecone. Read more…
HPE Wins $57 Million DoD Supercomputing Contract
February 20, 2018
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today revealed details of its massive $57 million HPC contract with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). The deal calls for HP Read more…
CFO Steps down in Executive Shuffle at Supermicro
January 31, 2018
Supermicro yesterday announced senior management shuffling including prominent departures, the completion of an audit linked to its delayed Nasdaq filings, and Read more…
Deep Learning Portends ‘Sea Change’ for Oil and Gas Sector
February 1, 2018
The billowing compute and data demands that spurred the oil and gas industry to be the largest commercial users of high-performance computing are now propelling Read more…
Nvidia Ups Hardware Game with 16-GPU DGX-2 Server and 18-Port NVSwitch
March 27, 2018
Nvidia unveiled a raft of new products from its annual technology conference in San Jose today, and despite not offering up a new chip architecture, there were still a few surprises in store for HPC hardware aficionados. Read more…
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