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Nvidia Buys HPC Cluster Management Company Bright Computing
Graphics chip powerhouse Nvidia today announced that it has acquired HPC cluster management company Bright Computing for an undisclosed sum. Unlike Nvidia’s bid to purchase semiconductor IP company Arm, which has been stymied by regulatory challenges, the Bright deal is a straightforward acquisition that aims to expand...
SC21 Panel on Programming Models – Tackling Data Movement, DSLs, More
How will programming future systems differ from current practice? This is an ever-present question in computing. Yet it has, perhaps, never been more pressing given the rise of heterogeneous architectures and diverse hardware, the steady incorporation of AI technology, and the proliferation of new programming languages and models. At SC21, a distinguished panel tackled this […]
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New Algorithm Overcomes Hurdle in Fusion Energy Simulation
January 15, 2022
The exascale era has brought with it a bevy of fusion energy simulation projects, aiming to stabilize the notoriously delicate—and so far, unmastered—clean energy source that would transform the world virtually overn Read more…
Summit Powers Novel Protein Function Prediction Work
January 13, 2022
There are hundreds of millions of sequenced proteins and counting—but only 170,000 have had their structures solved by researchers, bottlenecking our understanding of proteins and their functions across organisms’ ge Read more…
SDSC Supercomputers Helped Enable Safer School Reopenings
January 13, 2022
The omicron variant of Covid-19 is sending cases skyrocketing around the world. Still, many national and local governments are hesitant to disrupt society in major ways as they did in 2020, opting instead to leave school Read more…
Voyager AI Supercomputer Gives Investigators New Deep Learning Experimental Platform
January 13, 2022
As human-caused climate change warms the planet, creating drier conditions across the Western U.S., wildfire intensity has grown. California’s wildfires over the last few years have devastated land, families, and commu Read more…
Newcomer Conduit Leverages Frontera to Understand SARS-CoV-2 ‘Budding’
January 10, 2022
Conduit, created by MIT graduate (and current CEO) Ryan Robinson, was founded in 2017. But it might not have been until a few years later, when the pandemic started, that Conduit may have found its true calling. While Conduit’s commercial division is busy developing a Covid-19 test called nanoSPLASH, its nonprofit arm was granted access to... Read more…
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New – Amazon EC2 Hpc6a Instance Optimized for High Performance Computing
High Performance Computing (HPC) allows scientists and engineers to solve complex, compute-intensive problems such as computational fluid dynamics (CFD), weather forecasting, and genomics. Read more…
Edge to Exascale: A Trend to Watch in 2022
January 5, 2022
Edge computing is an approach in which the data is processed and analyzed at the point of origin – the place where the data is generated. This is done to make data more accessible to end-point devices, or users, and to reduce the response time for data requests. HPC-class computing and networking technologies are critical to many edge use cases, and the intersection of HPC and ‘edge’ promises to be a hot topic in 2022. Read more…
Edge to Exascale: A Trend to Watch in 2022
January 5, 2022
Edge computing is an approach in which the data is processed and analyzed at the point of origin – the place where the data is generated. This is done to make data more accessible to end-point devices, or users, and to reduce the response time for data requests. HPC-class computing and networking technologies are critical to many edge use cases, and the intersection of HPC and ‘edge’ promises to be a hot topic in 2022. Read more…
Citing ‘Shortfalls,’ NOAA Targets Hundred-Fold HPC Increase Over Next Decade
January 5, 2022
From upgrading the Global Forecast System (GFS) to acquiring new supercomputers, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has been making big moves in the HPC sphere over the last few years—but now it’s setting the bar even higher. In a new report, NOAA’s Science Advisory Board (SAB) highlighted... Read more…
HPC Career Notes: January 2022 Edition
January 4, 2022
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†Read more…
Climavision Targets Weather Forecasting Through HPC Cloud Bursts
January 4, 2022
If Climavision isn’t on your radar just yet, that’s understandable: the company launched from stealth just six months ago, emerging in June with a formidable $100 million in funding. Its promise: to roll out a combination of numerical weather prediction (NWP), AI, traditional weather observations, satellite data... Read more…
Lessons from LLVM: An SC21 Fireside Chat with Chris Lattner
December 27, 2021
Today, the LLVM compiler infrastructure world is essentially inescapable in HPC. But back in the 2000 timeframe, LLVM (low level virtual machine) was just getting its start as a new way of thinking about how to overcome shortcomings in the Java Virtual Machine. At the time, Chris Lattner was a graduate student of... Read more…
EuroHPC Restarts Procurement for MareNostrum5
December 21, 2021
Call it a New Year’s resolution: the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking—which serves as the concerted supercomputing play of the European Union—has issued a new ca Read more…
Nvidia Touts BlueField-2 Performance, Disputes Fungible Claim; Are DPU Wars Ahead?
December 21, 2021
Nvidia today reported its BlueField-2 DPU delivered 41.5M IOPS on a storage benchmarking test and declared that it delivers “more than 4x more IOPS than any o Read more…
Solar Power Research Enlists US’s and Europe’s Most Powerful Supercomputers
December 20, 2021
Photovoltaic solar – what most people know as solar panels – generated a record 821 terawatt-hours in 2020, a 23 percent increase over 2019 and an impressiv Read more…
IonQ Is First Quantum Startup to Go Public; Will It be First to Deliver Profits?
November 3, 2021
On October 1 of this year, IonQ became the first pure-play quantum computing start-up to go public. At this writing, the stock (NYSE: IONQ) was around $15 and its market capitalization was roughly $2.89 billion. Co-founder and chief scientist Chris Monroe says it was fun to have a few of the company’s roughly 100 employees travel to New York to ring the opening bell of the New York Stock... Read more…
US Closes in on Exascale: Frontier Installation Is Underway
September 29, 2021
At the Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee (ASCAC) meeting, held by Zoom this week (Sept. 29-30), it was revealed that the Frontier supercomputer is currently being installed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tenn. The staff at the Oak Ridge Leadership... Read more…
AMD Launches Milan-X CPU with 3D V-Cache and Multichip Instinct MI200 GPU
November 8, 2021
At a virtual event this morning, AMD CEO Lisa Su unveiled the company’s latest and much-anticipated server products: the new Milan-X CPU, which leverages AMD’s new 3D V-Cache technology; and its new Instinct MI200 GPU, which provides up to 220 compute units across two Infinity Fabric-connected dies, delivering an astounding 47.9 peak double-precision teraflops. “We're in a high-performance computing megacycle, driven by the growing need to deploy additional compute performance... Read more…
Intel Reorgs HPC Group, Creates Two ‘Super Compute’ Groups
October 15, 2021
Following on changes made in June that moved Intel’s HPC unit out of the Data Platform Group and into the newly created Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics (AXG) business unit, led by Raja Koduri, Intel is making further updates to the HPC group and announcing... Read more…
Nvidia Buys HPC Cluster Management Company Bright Computing
January 10, 2022
Graphics chip powerhouse Nvidia today announced that it has acquired HPC cluster management company Bright Computing for an undisclosed sum. Unlike Nvidia’s bid to purchase semiconductor IP company Arm, which has been stymied by regulatory challenges, the Bright deal is a straightforward acquisition that aims to expand... Read more…
D-Wave Embraces Gate-Based Quantum Computing; Charts Path Forward
October 21, 2021
Earlier this month D-Wave Systems, the quantum computing pioneer that has long championed quantum annealing-based quantum computing (and sometimes taken heat fo Read more…
Killer Instinct: AMD’s Multi-Chip MI200 GPU Readies for a Major Global Debut
October 21, 2021
AMD’s next-generation supercomputer GPU is on its way – and by all appearances, it’s about to make a name for itself. The AMD Radeon Instinct MI200 GPU (a successor to the MI100) will, over the next year, begin to power three massive systems on three continents: the United States’ exascale Frontier system; the European Union’s pre-exascale LUMI system; and Australia’s petascale Setonix system. Read more…
Three Chinese Exascale Systems Detailed at SC21: Two Operational and One Delayed
November 24, 2021
Details about two previously rumored Chinese exascale systems came to light during last week’s SC21 proceedings. Asked about these systems during the Top500 media briefing on Monday, Nov. 15, list author and co-founder Jack Dongarra indicated he was aware of some very impressive results, but withheld comment when asked directly if he had... Read more…
The Latest MLPerf Inference Results: Nvidia GPUs Hold Sway but Here Come CPUs and Intel
September 22, 2021
The latest round of MLPerf inference benchmark (v 1.1) results was released today and Nvidia again dominated, sweeping the top spots in the closed (apples-to-ap Read more…
Lessons from LLVM: An SC21 Fireside Chat with Chris Lattner
December 27, 2021
Today, the LLVM compiler infrastructure world is essentially inescapable in HPC. But back in the 2000 timeframe, LLVM (low level virtual machine) was just getting its start as a new way of thinking about how to overcome shortcomings in the Java Virtual Machine. At the time, Chris Lattner was a graduate student of... Read more…
2021 Gordon Bell Prize Goes to Exascale-Powered Quantum Supremacy Challenge
November 18, 2021
Today at the hybrid virtual/in-person SC21 conference, the organizers announced the winners of the 2021 ACM Gordon Bell Prize: a team of Chinese researchers leveraging the new exascale Sunway system to simulate quantum circuits. The Gordon Bell Prize, which comes with an award of $10,000 courtesy of HPC pioneer Gordon Bell, is awarded annually... Read more…
Julia Update: Adoption Keeps Climbing; Is It a Python Challenger?
January 13, 2021
The rapid adoption of Julia, the open source, high level programing language with roots at MIT, shows no sign of slowing according to data from Julialang.org. I Read more…
Three Universities Team for NSF-Funded ‘ACES’ Reconfigurable Supercomputer Prototype
September 23, 2021
As Moore’s law slows, HPC developers are increasingly looking for speed gains in specialized code and specialized hardware – but this specialization, in turn, can make testing and deploying code trickier than ever. Now, researchers from Texas A&M University, the University of Illinois at Urbana... Read more…
Top500: No Exascale, Fugaku Still Reigns, Polaris Debuts at #12
November 15, 2021
No exascale for you* -- at least, not within the High-Performance Linpack (HPL) territory of the latest Top500 list, issued today from the 33rd annual Supercomputing Conference (SC21), held in-person in St. Louis, Mo., and virtually, from Nov. 14–19. "We were hoping to have the first exascale system on this list but that didn’t happen," said Top500 co-author... Read more…
TACC Unveils Lonestar6 Supercomputer
November 1, 2021
The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) is unveiling its latest supercomputer: Lonestar6, a three peak petaflops Dell system aimed at supporting researchers 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…
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