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Cerebras to Supply DOE with Wafer-Scale AI Supercomputing Technology
Cerebras Systems, which debuted its wafer-scale AI silicon at Hot Chips last month, has entered into a multi-year partnership with Argonne National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Labo …
IDAS: ‘Automagic’ HPC With Training Wheels
High-performance computing (HPC) for research is notorious for having steep barriers to entry. For this reason, high-tech disciplines were early adopters, have used the most cycles and typically …
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Dell’s AMD-Powered Server Line Targets High-End Jobs
September 17, 2019
Dell Technologies rolled out five new servers this week based on AMD’s latest Epyc processor that are geared toward data-driven workloads running on increasingly popular multi-cloud platforms as well as in the HPC data Read more…
Better Scientific Software: Turn Your Passion into Cash
September 13, 2019
Do you know your way around scientific software and programming? You think you can contribute to the community by making scientific software better? If so, then the Better Scientific Software (BSSW) organization wants yo Read more…
Google’s ML Compiler Initiative Advances
September 12, 2019
Machine learning models running on everything from cloud platforms to mobile phones are posing new challenges for developers faced with growing tool complexity. Google’s TensorFlow team unveiled an open-source machine Read more…
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A Guide to Discovering the Best AWS Instances and Configurations for Your HPC Workload
The flexibility and heterogeneity of HPC cloud services provide a welcome contrast to the constraints of on-premises HPC. Every HPC configuration is potentially accessible to any given workload in a well-resourced cloud HPC deployment, with vast scalability to spin up as much compute as that workload demands in any given moment. Read more…
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Intel FPGAs: More Than Just an Accelerator Card
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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Rumors of My Death Are Still Exaggerated: The Mainframe
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As of 2017, 92 of the world’s top 100 banks used mainframes. Read more…
HPC Perspectives with Dr. Seid Koric
September 12, 2019
Brendan McGinty, director of Industry for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, kicks off the first in a series of pieces profiling leaders in high performance computing (HPC), writing for the... Read more…
Univa Brings Cloud Automation to Slurm Users with Navops Launch 2.0
September 11, 2019
Univa, the company behind Grid Engine, announced today its HPC cloud-automation platform NavOps Launch will support the popular open-source workload scheduler Slurm. With the release of NavOps Launch 2.0, “Slurm users will have access to the same cloud automation capabilities... Read more…
When Dense Matrix Representations Beat Sparse
September 9, 2019
In our world filled with unintended consequences, it turns out that saving memory space to help deal with GPU limitations, knowing it introduces performance pen Read more…
Eyes on the Prize: TACC’s Frontera Quickly Ramps up Science Agenda
September 9, 2019
Announced a year ago and officially launched a week ago, the Texas Advanced Computing Center’s Frontera – now the fastest academic supercomputer (~25 petefl Read more…
Quantum Roundup: IBM Goes to School, Delft Tackles Networking, Rigetti Updates
September 5, 2019
IBM today announced a new open source quantum ‘textbook’, a series of quantum education videos, and plans to expand its nascent quantum hackathon program. L Read more…
DARPA Looks to Propel Parallelism
September 4, 2019
As Moore’s law runs out of steam, new programming approaches are being pursued with the goal of greater hardware performance with less coding. The Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency is launching a new programming effort aimed at leveraging the benefits of massive distributed parallelism with less sweat. Read more…
Fastest Academic Supercomputer Enters Full Production at TACC, Just in Time for Hurricane Season
September 3, 2019
Frontera, the NSF supercomputer installed at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) in June, passed its formal acceptance last week and is now officially la Read more…
MIT Prepares for Satori…and a New 2 Petaflops Computer Too
August 27, 2019
Sometime this fall, MIT will fire up Satori – an $11.6 million compute cluster donated by IBM and coinciding with the opening of the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzma Read more…
At Hot Chips, Intel Shows New Nervana AI Training, Inference Chips
August 27, 2019
At the Hot Chips conference last week, Intel showcased its latest neural network processor accelerators for both AI training and inference, along with details o 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…
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…
DARPA Looks to Propel Parallelism
September 4, 2019
As Moore’s law runs out of steam, new programming approaches are being pursued with the goal of greater hardware performance with less coding. The Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency is launching a new programming effort aimed at leveraging the benefits of massive distributed parallelism with less sweat. Read more…
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…
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…
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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Ayar Labs to Demo Photonics Chiplet in FPGA Package at Hot Chips
August 19, 2019
Silicon startup Ayar Labs continues to gain momentum with its DARPA-backed optical chiplet technology that puts advanced electronics and optics on the same chip 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…
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…
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…
Intel Confirms Retreat on Omni-Path
August 1, 2019
Intel Corp.’s plans to make a big splash in the network fabric market for linking HPC and other workloads has apparently belly-flopped. The chipmaker confirmed to us the outlines of an earlier report by the website CRN that it has jettisoned plans for a second-generation version of its Omni-Path interconnect... Read more…
Intel Debuts Pohoiki Beach, Its 8M Neuron Neuromorphic Development System
July 17, 2019
Neuromorphic computing has received less fanfare of late than quantum computing whose mystery has captured public attention and which seems to have generated mo Read more…
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