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Get a Grip: Intel Neuromorphic Chip Used to Give Robotics Arm a Sense of Touch
Moving neuromorphic technology from the laboratory into practice has proven slow-going. This week, National University of Singapore researchers moved the needle forward demonstrating an event-driven, visual-tactile perception system that uses Intel’s Loihi chip to control a robotic arm combining tactile sensing and vision. Noteworthy, they also ran the exercise on a GPU system and reported […]
InfiniBand Powers World's Leading Weather Forecasters' Supercomputers
Weather and climate models are both compute and data intensive. Forecast quality scales with modeling complexity and resolution. Resolution depends on the performance of supercomputers. And supercomputer performance depends on the underlying interconnect technology: to get higher performance, the interconnect must be able to move data quickly, effectively and in a scalable manner across compute […]
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There’s No Storage Like ATGC: Breakthrough Helps to Store ‘The Wizard of Oz’ in DNA
July 15, 2020
Even as storage density reaches new heights, many researchers have their eyes set on a paradigm shift in high-density information storage: storing data in the four nucleotides (A, T, G and C) that constitute DNA, a metho Read more…
What’s New in HPC Research: Volcanoes, Mobile Games, Proteins & More
July 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…
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 increase the vehicle’s speed and efficiency. These fluid dyn Read more…
U.S. CTO Michael Kratsios Adds DoD Research & Engineering Title
July 13, 2020
Michael Kratsios, the U.S. Chief Technology Officer, has been appointed acting Undersecretary of Defense for research and engineering. He replaces Mike Griffin, who along with his deputy Lis Porter, stepped down last wee Read more…
Supercomputer Research Reveals Star Cluster Born Outside Our Galaxy
July 11, 2020
The Milky Way is our galactic home, containing our solar system and continuing into a giant band of densely packed stars that stretches across clear night skies around the world – but, it turns out, not all of those st Read more…
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INEOS TEAM UK Accelerates Boat Design for America’s Cup Using HPC on AWS
The America’s Cup Dream
The 36th America’s Cup race will be decided in Auckland, New Zealand in 2021. Like all the teams, INEOS TEAM UK will compete in a boat whose design will have followed guidelines set by race organizers to ensure the crew’s sailing skills are fully tested. 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…
Max Planck Society Begins Installation of Liquid-Cooled Supercomputer from Lenovo
July 9, 2020
Lenovo announced today that it is supplying a new high performance computer to the Max Planck Society, one of Germany's premier research organizations. Comprised of Intel Xeon processors and Nvidia A100 GPUs, and featuri Read more…
Max Planck Society Begins Installation of Liquid-Cooled Supercomputer from Lenovo
July 9, 2020
Lenovo announced today that it is supplying a new high performance computer to the Max Planck Society, one of Germany's premier research organizations. Comprise Read more…
President’s Council Targets AI, Quantum, STEM; Recommends Spending Growth
July 9, 2020
Last week the President Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) met (webinar) to review policy recommendations around three sub-committee reports: 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…
Q&A: HLRS’s Bastian Koller Tackles HPC and Industry in Germany and Europe
July 6, 2020
In this exclusive interview for HPCwire – sadly not face to face – Steve Conway, senior advisor for Hyperion Research, talks with Dr.-Ing Bastian Koller about the state of HPC and its collaboration with Industry in Europe. Koller is a familiar figure in HPC. He is the managing director at High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) and also serves... Read more…
OpenPOWER Reboot – New Director, New Silicon Partners, Leveraging Linux Foundation Connections
July 2, 2020
Earlier this week the OpenPOWER Foundation announced the contribution of IBM’s A21 Power processor core design to the open source community. Roughly this time Read more…
Hyperion Forecast – Headwinds in 2020 Won’t Stifle Cloud HPC Adoption or Arm’s Rise
June 30, 2020
The semiannual taking of HPC’s pulse by Hyperion Research – late fall at SC and early summer at ISC – is a much-watched indicator of things come. This yea Read more…
Racism and HPC: a Special Podcast
June 29, 2020
Promoting greater diversity in HPC is a much-discussed goal and ostensibly a long-sought goal in HPC. Yet it seems clear HPC is far from achieving this goal. Re Read more…
Top500 Trends: Movement on Top, but Record Low Turnover
June 25, 2020
The 55th installment of the Top500 list saw strong activity in the leadership segment with four new systems in the top ten and a crowning achievement from the f 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…
[email protected] Turns Its Massive Crowdsourced Computer Network Against COVID-19
March 16, 2020
For gamers, fighting against a global crisis is usually pure fantasy – but now, it’s looking more like a reality. As supercomputers around the world spin up Read more…
[email protected] Rallies a Legion of Computers Against the Coronavirus
March 24, 2020
Last week, we highlighted [email protected], a massive, crowdsourced computer network that has turned its resources against the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the globe – but [email protected] isn’t the only game in town. The internet is buzzing with crowdsourced computing... 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…
DoE Expands on Role of COVID-19 Supercomputing Consortium
March 25, 2020
After announcing the launch of the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium on Sunday, the Department of Energy yesterday provided more details on its sco 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…
Honeywell’s Big Bet on Trapped Ion Quantum Computing
April 7, 2020
Honeywell doesn’t spring to mind when thinking of quantum computing pioneers, but a decade ago the high-tech conglomerate better known for its control systems waded deliberately into the then calmer quantum computing (QC) waters. Fast forward to March when Honeywell announced plans to introduce an ion trap-based quantum computer whose ‘performance’ would... 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’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…
‘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…
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…
Summit Supercomputer is Already Making its Mark on Science
September 20, 2018
Summit, now the fastest supercomputer in the world, is quickly making its mark in science – five of the six finalists just announced for the prestigious 2018 Read more…
TACC Supercomputers Run Simulations Illuminating COVID-19, DNA Replication
March 19, 2020
As supercomputers around the world spin up to combat the coronavirus, the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) is announcing results that may help to illumina 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…
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