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At SC18: AMD Sets Up for Epyc Epoch
It’s been a good two weeks, AMD’s Gary Silcott and Andy Parma told me on the last day of SC18 in Dallas at the restaurant where we met to discuss Read More…
Dell EMC’s HPC Chief on Strategy and Emerging Processor Diversity
Last January Thierry Pellegrino, a long-time Dell/Dell EMC veteran, became vice president of HPC. His tenure comes at a time when the very definition of HPC is blurring with AI Read More…
IBM’s AI-HPC Combine for ‘Intelligent Simulation’: Eliminating the Unnecessary
A powerhouse concept in attaining new knowledge is the notion of the “emergent property,” the combination of formerly stovepiped scientific disciplines and exploratory methods to form cross-disciplinary intelligence that generates Read More…
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Registration of ASC19 Student Supercomputer Challenge Now Open
DALLAS, Texas, Nov. 15, 2018 — the ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge announced the official launch of the new season at the 2018 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage Read More…
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How the United States Invests in Supercomputing
November 14, 2018
The CORAL supercomputers Summit and Sierra are now the world's fastest computers and are already contributing to science with early applications. Ahead of SC18, Maciej Chojnowski with ICM at the University of Warsaw discussed the details of the CORAL project with Dr. Dimitri Kusnezov from the U.S. Department of Energy. Read more…
At SC18: Humanitarianism Amid Boom Times for HPC
November 14, 2018
At SC18 in Dallas, the feeling on the ground is one of forward-looking buoyancy. Like boom times that cycle through the Texas oil fields, the HPC industry is enjoying a prosperity seen only every few decades, one driven Read more…
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang Delivers Vision for the New HPC
November 14, 2018
For nearly two hours on Monday at SC18, Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, presented his expansive view of the future of HPC (and computing in general) as only he can do. Animated. Backstopped by a stream of data charts, product photos, and even a beautiful image of supernovae... Read more…
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AI Can Be Scary. But Choosing the Wrong Partners Can Be Mortifying!
As you continue to dive deeper into AI, you will discover it is more than just deep learning. AI is an extremely complex set of machine learning, deep learning, reinforcement, and analytics algorithms with varying compute, storage, memory, and communications needs. Read more…
IBM Accelerated Insights
From Deep Blue to Summit – 30 Years of Supercomputing Innovation
This week, in honor of the 30th anniversary of the SC conference, we are highlighting some of the most significant IBM contributions to supercomputing over the past 30 years. Read more…
New Panasas High Performance Storage Straddles Commercial-Traditional HPC
November 13, 2018
High performance storage vendor Panasas has launched a new version of its ActiveStor product line this morning featuring what the company said is the industry’s first plug-and-play, portable parallel file system that delivers up to 75 Gb/s per rack on industry standard hardware combined with “enterprise-grade reliability and manageability.” Read more…
How the United States Invests in Supercomputing
November 14, 2018
The CORAL supercomputers Summit and Sierra are now the world's fastest computers and are already contributing to science with early applications. Ahead of SC18, Maciej Chojnowski with ICM at the University of Warsaw discussed the details of the CORAL project with Dr. Dimitri Kusnezov from the U.S. Department of Energy. Read more…
At SC18: Humanitarianism Amid Boom Times for HPC
November 14, 2018
At SC18 in Dallas, the feeling on the ground is one of forward-looking buoyancy. Like boom times that cycle through the Texas oil fields, the HPC industry is en Read more…
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang Delivers Vision for the New HPC
November 14, 2018
For nearly two hours on Monday at SC18, Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, presented his expansive view of the future of HPC (and computing in general) as only he can do. Animated. Backstopped by a stream of data charts, product photos, and even a beautiful image of supernovae... Read more…
New Panasas High Performance Storage Straddles Commercial-Traditional HPC
November 13, 2018
High performance storage vendor Panasas has launched a new version of its ActiveStor product line this morning featuring what the company said is the industry’s first plug-and-play, portable parallel file system that delivers up to 75 Gb/s per rack on industry standard hardware combined with “enterprise-grade reliability and manageability.” Read more…
SC18 Student Cluster Competition – Revealing the Field
November 13, 2018
It’s November again and we’re almost ready for the kick-off of one of the greatest computer sports events in the world – the SC Student Cluster Competitio Read more…
US Leads Supercomputing with #1, #2 Systems & Petascale Arm
November 12, 2018
The 31st Supercomputing Conference (SC) - commemorating 30 years since the first Supercomputing in 1988 - kicked off in Dallas yesterday, taking over the Kay Ba Read more…
OpenACC Talks Up Summit and Community Momentum at SC18
November 12, 2018
OpenACC – the directives-based parallel programing model for optimizing applications on heterogeneous architectures – is showcasing user traction and HPC im Read more…
How ASCI Revolutionized the World of High-Performance Computing and Advanced Modeling and Simulation
November 9, 2018
The 1993 Supercomputing Conference was held in Portland, Oregon. That conference and it’s show floor provided a good snapshot of the uncertainty that U.S. supercomputing was facing in the early 1990s. Many of the companies exhibiting that year would soon be gone, either bankrupt or acquired by somebody else. Read more…
Cray Unveils Shasta, Lands NERSC-9 Contract
October 30, 2018
Cray revealed today the details of its next-gen supercomputing architecture, Shasta, selected to be the next flagship system at NERSC. We've known of the code-name "Shasta" since the Argonne slice of the CORAL project was announced in 2015 and although the details of that plan have changed considerably, Cray didn't slow down its timeline for Shasta. Read more…
TACC Wins Next NSF-funded Major Supercomputer
July 30, 2018
The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) has won the next NSF-funded big supercomputer beating out rivals including the National Center for Supercomputing Ap Read more…
IBM at Hot Chips: What’s Next for Power
August 23, 2018
With processor, memory and networking technologies all racing to fill in for an ailing Moore’s law, the era of the heterogeneous datacenter is well underway, Read more…
Requiem for a Phi: Knights Landing Discontinued
July 25, 2018
On Monday, Intel made public its end of life strategy for the Knights Landing "KNL" Phi product set. The announcement makes official what has already been wide Read more…
House Passes $1.275B National Quantum Initiative
September 17, 2018
Last Thursday the U.S. House of Representatives passed the National Quantum Initiative Act (NQIA) intended to accelerate quantum computing research and developm Read more…
CERN Project Sees Orders-of-Magnitude Speedup with AI Approach
August 14, 2018
An award-winning effort at CERN has demonstrated potential to significantly change how the physics based modeling and simulation communities view machine learni Read more…
Summit Supercomputer is Already Making its Mark on Science
September 20, 2018
Summit, now the fastest supercomputer in the world, is quickly making its mark in science – five of the six finalists just announced for the prestigious 2018 Read more…
New Deep Learning Algorithm Solves Rubik’s Cube
July 25, 2018
Solving (and attempting to solve) Rubik’s Cube has delighted millions of puzzle lovers since 1974 when the cube was invented by Hungarian sculptor and archite Read more…
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US Leads Supercomputing with #1, #2 Systems & Petascale Arm
November 12, 2018
The 31st Supercomputing Conference (SC) - commemorating 30 years since the first Supercomputing in 1988 - kicked off in Dallas yesterday, taking over the Kay Ba Read more…
TACC’s ‘Frontera’ Supercomputer Expands Horizon for Extreme-Scale Science
August 29, 2018
The National Science Foundation and the Texas Advanced Computing Center announced today that a new system, called Frontera, will overtake Stampede 2 as the fast Read more…
HPE No. 1, IBM Surges, in ‘Bucking Bronco’ High Performance Server Market
September 27, 2018
Riding healthy U.S. and global economies, strong demand for AI-capable hardware and other tailwind trends, the high performance computing server market jumped 28 percent in the second quarter 2018 to $3.7 billion, up from $2.9 billion for the same period last year, according to industry analyst firm Hyperion Research. Read more…
Intel Announces Cooper Lake, Advances AI Strategy
August 9, 2018
Intel's chief datacenter exec Navin Shenoy kicked off the company's Data-Centric Innovation Summit Wednesday, the day-long program devoted to Intel's datacenter Read more…
Germany Celebrates Launch of Two Fastest Supercomputers
September 26, 2018
The new high-performance computer SuperMUC-NG at the Leibniz Supercomputing Center (LRZ) in Garching is the fastest computer in Germany and one of the fastest i Read more…
Houston to Field Massive, ‘Geophysically Configured’ Cloud Supercomputer
October 11, 2018
Based on some news stories out today, one might get the impression that the next system to crack number one on the Top500 would be an industrial oil and gas mon Read more…
Google Releases Machine Learning “What-If” Analysis Tool
September 12, 2018
Training machine learning models has long been time-consuming process. Yesterday, Google released a “What-If Tool” for probing how data point changes affect a model’s prediction. The new tool is being launched as a new feature of the open source TensorBoard web application... Read more…
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang Delivers Vision for the New HPC
November 14, 2018
For nearly two hours on Monday at SC18, Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, presented his expansive view of the future of HPC (and computing in general) as only he can do. Animated. Backstopped by a stream of data charts, product photos, and even a beautiful image of supernovae... Read more…
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