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Lustre: Stronger-than-Ever
Clearly, Lustre* will continue to dominate the persistent parallel file system arena, at least for a few years. The development of such complex technology doesn’t flow as quickly as for many ot …
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China’s TianHe-2A will Use Proprietary Accelerator and Boast 94 Petaflops Peak
The details of China’s upgrade to TianHe-2 (MilkyWay-2) – now TianHe-2A – were revealed last week at the Third International High Performance Computing Forum (IHPCF2017) in China. The TianH …
GlobalFoundries Puts Wind in AMD’s Sails with 12nm FinFET
From its annual tech conference last week (Sept. 20), where GlobalFoundries welcomed more than 600 semiconductor professionals (reaching the Santa Clara venue’s max capacity and doubling 2016 a …
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SC17 Preview: Invited Talk Lineup Includes Gordon Bell, Paul Messina and Many Others
September 25, 2017
With the addition of esteemed supercomputing pioneer Gordon Bell to its invited talk lineup, SC17 now boasts a total of 12 invited talks on its agenda. As SC explains, "Invited Talks are a premier component of the SC Read more…
Machine Learning at HPC User Forum: Drilling into Specific Use Cases
September 22, 2017
The 66th HPC User Forum held September 5-7, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at the elegant and historic Pfister Hotel, highlighting the 1893 Victorian décor and art of “The Grand Hotel Of The West,” contrasted nicely with Read more…
Google Cloud Makes Good on Promise to Add Nvidia P100 GPUs
September 21, 2017
Google has taken down the notice on its cloud platform website that says Nvidia Tesla P100s are “coming soon.” That's because the search giant has announced the beta launch of the high-end P100 Nvidia Tesla GPUs on t Read more…
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High performance computing (HPC) software is key to harnessing the full power of HPC environments. Development and management tools enable IT departments to streamline installation and maintenance of their systems as well as create, optimize, and run their HPC applications. Read more…
Cray Wins $48M Supercomputer Contract from KISTI
September 21, 2017
It was a good day for Cray which won a $48 million contract from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) for a 128-rack CS500 cluster supercomputer. The new system, equipped with Intel Xeon Scal Read more…
Machine Learning at HPC User Forum: Drilling into Specific Use Cases
September 22, 2017
The 66th HPC User Forum held September 5-7, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at the elegant and historic Pfister Hotel, highlighting the 1893 Victorian décor and art o Read more…
Stanford University and UberCloud Achieve Breakthrough in Living Heart Simulations
September 21, 2017
Cardiac arrhythmia can be an undesirable and potentially lethal side effect of drugs. During this condition, the electrical activity of the heart turns chaotic, Read more…
PNNL’s Center for Advanced Tech Evaluation Seeks Wider HPC Community Ties
September 21, 2017
Two years ago the Department of Energy established the Center for Advanced Technology Evaluation (CENATE) at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). CENAT Read more…
Exascale Computing Project Names Doug Kothe as Director
September 20, 2017
The Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) has named Doug Kothe as its new director effective October 1. He replaces Paul Messina, who is stepping down after two years to return to Argonne National Laboratory. Kothe is a 32-year veteran of DOE’s National Laboratory System. Read more…
Takeaways from the Milwaukee HPC User Forum
September 19, 2017
Milwaukee’s elegant Pfister Hotel hosted approximately 100 attendees for the 66th HPC User Forum (September 5-7, 2017). In the original home city of Pabst Blu Read more…
Kathy Yelick Charts the Promise and Progress of Exascale Science
September 15, 2017
On Friday, Sept. 8, Kathy Yelick of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley, delivered the keynote address on “Breakthrough Science at the Exascale” at the ACM Europe Conference in Barcelona. In conjunction with her presentation, Yelick agreed to a short Q&A discussion with HPCwire. Read more…
DARPA Pledges Another $300 Million for Post-Moore’s Readiness
September 14, 2017
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) launched a giant funding effort to ensure the United States can sustain the pace of electronic innovation vital to both a flourishing economy and a secure military. Under the banner of the Electronics Resurgence Initiative (ERI), some $500-$800 million will be invested in post-Moore’s Law technologies. Read more…
IBM Breaks Ground for Complex Quantum Chemistry
September 14, 2017
IBM has reported the use of a novel algorithm to simulate BeH2 (beryllium-hydride) on a quantum computer. This is the largest molecule so far simulated on a quantum computer. The technique, which used six qubits of a seven-qubit system, is an important step forward and may suggest an approach to simulating ever larger molecules. Read more…
How ‘Knights Mill’ Gets Its Deep Learning Flops
June 22, 2017
Intel, the subject of much speculation regarding the delayed, rewritten or potentially canceled “Aurora” contract (the Argonne Lab part of the CORAL “ Read more…
Reinders: “AVX-512 May Be a Hidden Gem” in Intel Xeon Scalable Processors
June 29, 2017
Imagine if we could use vector processing on something other than just floating point problems. Today, GPUs and CPUs work tirelessly to accelerate algorithms Read more…
NERSC Scales Scientific Deep Learning to 15 Petaflops
August 28, 2017
A collaborative effort between Intel, NERSC and Stanford has delivered the first 15-petaflops deep learning software running on HPC platforms and is, according Read more…
Oracle Layoffs Reportedly Hit SPARC and Solaris Hard
September 7, 2017
Oracle’s latest layoffs have many wondering if this is the end of the line for the SPARC processor and Solaris OS development. As reported by multiple sources Read more…
Six Exascale PathForward Vendors Selected; DoE Providing $258M
June 15, 2017
The much-anticipated PathForward awards for hardware R&D in support of the Exascale Computing Project were announced today with six vendors selected – AMD Read more…
Top500 Results: Latest List Trends and What’s in Store
June 19, 2017
Greetings from Frankfurt and the 2017 International Supercomputing Conference where the latest Top500 list has just been revealed. Although there were no major Read more…
IBM Clears Path to 5nm with Silicon Nanosheets
June 5, 2017
Two years since announcing the industry’s first 7nm node test chip, IBM and its research alliance partners GlobalFoundries and Samsung have developed a proces 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…
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Graphcore Readies Launch of 16nm Colossus-IPU Chip
July 20, 2017
A second $30 million funding round for U.K. AI chip developer Graphcore sets up the company to go to market with its “intelligent processing unit” (IPU) in Read more…
Google Releases Deeplearn.js to Further Democratize Machine Learning
August 17, 2017
Spreading the use of machine learning tools is one of the goals of Google’s PAIR (People + AI Research) initiative, which was introduced in early July. Last w Read more…
Russian Researchers Claim First Quantum-Safe Blockchain
May 25, 2017
The Russian Quantum Center today announced it has overcome the threat of quantum cryptography by creating the first quantum-safe blockchain, securing cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, along with classified government communications and other sensitive digital transfers. Read more…
EU Funds 20 Million Euro ARM+FPGA Exascale Project
September 7, 2017
At the Barcelona Supercomputer Centre on Wednesday (Sept. 6), 16 partners gathered to launch the EuroEXA project, which invests €20 million over three-and-a-half years into exascale-focused research and development. Led by the Horizon 2020 program, EuroEXA picks up the banner of a triad of partner projects — ExaNeSt, EcoScale and ExaNoDe — building on their work... Read more…
Google Debuts TPU v2 and will Add to Google Cloud
May 25, 2017
Not long after stirring attention in the deep learning/AI community by revealing the details of its Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), Google last week announced the Read more…
Amazon Debuts New AMD-based GPU Instances for Graphics Acceleration
September 12, 2017
Last week Amazon Web Services (AWS) streaming service, AppStream 2.0, introduced a new GPU instance called Graphics Design intended to accelerate graphics. The Read more…
Cray Moves to Acquire the Seagate ClusterStor Line
July 28, 2017
This week Cray announced that it is picking up Seagate's ClusterStor HPC storage array business for an undisclosed sum. "In short we're effectively transitioning the bulk of the ClusterStor product line to Cray," said CEO Peter Ungaro. Read more…
IBM Advances Web-based Quantum Programming
September 5, 2017
IBM Research is pairing its Jupyter-based Data Science Experience notebook environment with its cloud-based quantum computer, IBM Q, in hopes of encouraging a new class of entrepreneurial user to solve intractable problems that even exceed the capabilities of the best AI systems. Read more…
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