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Liquid Cooling Makes a Splash in Enterprise Data Centers
Direct liquid cooling is now gaining momentum in mainstream data centers — for many good reasons.
As servers get faster, they generate more heat, and that increases the need for innovative a …
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AI is the Next Exascale – Rick Stevens on What that Means and Why It’s Important
Twelve years ago the Department of Energy (DOE) was just beginning to explore what an exascale computing program might look like and what it might accomplish. Today, DOE is repeating that process …
Cray Wins NNSA-Livermore ‘El Capitan’ Exascale Contract
Cray has won the bid to build the first exascale supercomputer for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). The contract, valued at $ …
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Talk to Me: Nvidia Claims NLP Inference, Training Records
August 15, 2019
Nvidia says it’s achieved significant advances in conversation natural language processing (NLP) training and inference, enabling more complex, immediate-response interchanges between customers and chatbots. And the co Read more…
Trump Administration and NIST Issue AI Standards Development Plan
August 14, 2019
Efforts to develop AI are gathering steam fast. On Monday, the White House issued a federal plan to help develop technical standards for AI following up on a mandate contained in the Administration’s AI Executive Order Read more…
Argonne Supercomputer Accelerates Cancer Prediction Research
August 13, 2019
In the fight against cancer, early prediction, which drastically improves prognoses, is critical. Now, new research by a team from Northwestern University – and accelerated by supercomputing resources at Argonne Nation Read more…
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Efficiency and Cost-Optimization for HPC Workloads – AWS Batch and Amazon EC2 Spot Instances
High Performance Computing on AWS leverages the power of cloud computing and the extreme scale it offers to achieve optimal HPC price/performance. With AWS you can right size your services to meet exactly the capacity requirements you need without having to overprovision or compromise capacity. Read more…
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FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) acceleration cards are not new, as they’ve been commercially available since 1984. Typically, the emphasis around FPGAs has centered on the fact that they’re programmable accelerators, and that they can truly offer workload specific hardware acceleration solutions without requiring custom silicon. Read more…
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Cloudy with a Chance of Mainframes
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Rapid rates of change sometimes result in unexpected bedfellows. Read more…
What’s New in HPC Research: Railways, MPI, Medical Imaging & More
August 12, 2019
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…
AMD Launches Epyc Rome, First 7nm CPU
August 8, 2019
From a gala event at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco yesterday (Aug. 7), AMD launched its second-generation Epyc Rome x86 chips, based on its 7nm proce Read more…
Lenovo Drives Single-Socket Servers with AMD Epyc Rome CPUs
August 7, 2019
No summer doldrums here. As part of the AMD Epyc Rome launch event in San Francisco today, Lenovo announced two new single-socket servers, the ThinkSystem SR635 Read more…
Building Diversity and Broader Engagement in the HPC Community
August 7, 2019
Increasing diversity and inclusion in HPC is a community-building effort. Representation of both issues and individuals matters - the more people see HPC in a w Read more…
Xilinx vs. Intel: FPGA Market Leaders Launch Server Accelerator Cards
August 6, 2019
The two FPGA market leaders, Intel and Xilinx, both announced new accelerator cards this week designed to handle specialized, compute-intensive workloads and un Read more…
Upcoming NSF Cyberinfrastructure Projects to Support ‘Long-Tail’ Users, AI and Big Data
August 5, 2019
The National Science Foundation is well positioned to support national priorities, as new NSF-funded HPC systems to come online in the upcoming year promise to Read more…
LLNL, Purdue Researchers Harness GPU Mixed Precision for Accuracy-Performance Tradeoff
August 5, 2019
Computational scientists have long relied on high-precision arithmetic to accurately solve a wide range of problems, from modeling nuclear reactors to predictin Read more…
AI for Science Town Hall Series Kicks off at Argonne
August 2, 2019
Argonne National Lab, future home to the Intel-Cray Aurora supercomputer, recently hosted the first in a series of four AI for Science town hall meetings being convened by Department of Energy laboratories. The meetings are aimed at soliciting and collecting "community input on the opportunities and challenges facing the scientific community in the era of convergence of high-performance computing and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies." Read more…
Convergence of HPC, AI and Cloud Computing Charted at PEARC19 Keynote
August 1, 2019
A trio of keynote presentations from Intel, Google and Microsoft at the PEARC19 conference in Chicago on July 31 charted out the likely future of academic and h 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…
Supercomputer-Powered AI Tackles a Key Fusion Energy Challenge
August 7, 2019
Fusion energy is the Holy Grail of the energy world: low-radioactivity, low-waste, zero-carbon, high-output nuclear power that can run on hydrogen or lithium. T 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…
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…
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…
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…
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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Cray Wins NNSA-Livermore ‘El Capitan’ Exascale Contract
August 13, 2019
Cray has won the bid to build the first exascale supercomputer for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and Lawrence Livermore National Laborator Read more…
Top500 Purely Petaflops; US Maintains Performance Lead
June 17, 2019
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 petafl Read more…
A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Hardware That Powered the Black Hole Image
June 24, 2019
Two months ago, the first-ever image of a black hole took the internet by storm. A team of scientists took years to produce and verify the striking image – an 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…
AMD Launches Epyc Rome, First 7nm CPU
August 8, 2019
From a gala event at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco yesterday (Aug. 7), AMD launched its second-generation Epyc Rome x86 chips, based on its 7nm proce Read more…
Chinese Company Sugon Placed on US ‘Entity List’ After Strong Showing at International Supercomputing Conference
June 26, 2019
After more than a decade of advancing its supercomputing prowess, operating the world’s most powerful supercomputer from June 2013 to June 2018, China is keep 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…
Qualcomm Invests in RISC-V Startup SiFive
June 7, 2019
Investors are zeroing in on the open standard RISC-V instruction set architecture and the processor intellectual property being developed by a batch of high-flying chip startups. Last fall, Esperanto Technologies announced a $58 million funding round. Read more…
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