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Cray Rolls Out AMD-Based CS500; More to Follow?
Cray was the latest OEM to bring AMD back into the fold with introduction today of a CS500 option based on AMD’s Epyc processor line. The move follows Cray’s introduction of an ARM-based syst …
IBM: Software Ecosystem for OpenPOWER is Ready for Prime Time
With key pieces of the IBM/OpenPOWER versus Intel/x86 gambit settling into place – e.g., the arrival of Power9 chips and Power9-based systems, hyperscaler support including a vote of confidence …
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New Exascale System for Earth Simulation Introduced
April 23, 2018
After four years of development, the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) will be unveiled today and released to the broader scientific community this month. The E3SM project is supported by the Department of Energy Read more…
RSC Reports 500Tflops, Hot Water Cooled System Deployed at JINR
April 18, 2018
RSC, developer of supercomputers and advanced HPC systems based in Russia, today reported deployment of “the world's first 100% ‘hot water’ liquid cooled supercomputer” at Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JI Read more…
New Device Spots Quantum Particle ‘Fingerprint’
April 18, 2018
Majorana particles have been observed by university researchers employing a device consisting of layers of magnetic insulators on a superconducting material. The advance opens the door to controlling the elusive particle Read more…
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Hybrid HPC is Speeding Time to Insight and Revolutionizing Medicine
High performance computing (HPC) is a key driver of success in many verticals today, and health and life science industries are extensively leveraging these capabilities. Read more…
Hennessy & Patterson: A New Golden Age for Computer Architecture
April 17, 2018
On Monday June 4, 2018, 2017 A.M. Turing Award Winners John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson will deliver the Turing Lecture at the 45th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) in Los Angeles. The 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…
Cloud-Readiness and Looking Beyond Application Scaling
April 11, 2018
There are two aspects to consider when determining if an application is suitable for running in the cloud. The first, which we will discuss here under the title Read more…
Transitioning from Big Data to Discovery: Data Management as a Keystone Analytics Strategy
April 9, 2018
The past 10-15 years has seen a stark rise in the density, size, and diversity of scientific data being generated in every scientific discipline in the world. Key among the sciences has been the explosion of laboratory technologies that generate large amounts of data in life-sciences and healthcare research. Large amounts of data are now being stored in very large storage name spaces, with little to no organization and a general unease about how to approach analyzing it. Read more…
IBM Expands Quantum Computing Network
April 5, 2018
IBM is positioning itself as a first mover in establishing the era of commercial quantum computing. The company believes in order for quantum to work, taming qu Read more…
FY18 Budget & CORAL-2 – Exascale USA Continues to Move Ahead
April 2, 2018
It was not pretty. However, despite some twists and turns, the federal government’s Fiscal Year 2018 (FY18) budget is complete and ended with some very positi 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…
Nvidia Riding High as GPU Workloads and Capabilities Soar
March 27, 2018
Don’t look now, but GPUs are gobbling up big workloads as massive data-crunching AI use cases proliferate around the world. That news couldn’t be sweeter fo Read more…
Nvidia Brings the Power of ‘Volta’ to Workstations with New Quadro
March 27, 2018
At a new product extravaganza this morning during its GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in San Jose, Nvidia unveiled the new Volta-based Quadro GV100 with RTX tec 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…
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…
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…
Chip Flaws ‘Meltdown’ and ‘Spectre’ Loom Large
January 4, 2018
The HPC and wider tech community have been abuzz this week over the discovery of critical design flaws that impact virtually all contemporary microprocessors. T Read more…
How Meltdown and Spectre Patches Will Affect HPC Workloads
January 10, 2018
There have been claims that the fixes for the Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities, named the KPTI (aka KAISER) patches, are going to affect applicatio 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…
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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…
Fast Forward: Five HPC Predictions for 2018
December 21, 2017
What’s on your list of high (and low) lights for 2017? Volta 100’s arrival on the heels of the P100? Appearance, albeit late in the year, of IBM’s Power9? 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…
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…
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…
New Blueprint for Converging HPC, Big Data
January 18, 2018
After five annual workshops on Big Data and Extreme-Scale Computing (BDEC), a group of international HPC heavyweights including Jack Dongarra (University of Te Read more…
Momentum Builds for US Exascale
January 9, 2018
2018 looks to be a great year for the U.S. exascale program. The last several months of 2017 revealed a number of important developments that help put the U.S. 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…
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