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Fireside Chat with LBNL’s Advanced Quantum Testbed Director
October 26, 2021
Last week, Irfan Siddiqi led a “fireside chat” with a few media and analysts to introduce the Department of Energy’s relatively new Advanced Quantum Testbed (AQT), which is based at Lawrence Berkeley National Labor Read more…
Graphcore Introduces Larger-Than-Ever IPU-Based Pods
October 22, 2021
After launching its second-generation intelligence processing units (IPUs) in 2020, four years after emerging from stealth, Graphcore is now boosting its product line with its largest commercially-available IPU-based sys Read more…
Quantum Chemistry Project to Be Among the First on EuroHPC’s LUMI System
October 22, 2021
Finland’s CSC has just installed the first module of LUMI, a 550-peak petaflops system supported by the European Union’s EuroHPC Joint Undertaking. While LUMI -- pictured in the header -- isn’t slated to complete i 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…
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 for that approach), announced it was expanding into gate-based Read more…
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Recently, we talked about the advances NICE DCV has made to push pixels from cloud-hosted desktops or applications over the internet even more efficiently than before. Read more…
LLNL Prepares the Water and Power Infrastructure for El Capitan
October 21, 2021
When it’s (ostensibly) ready in early 2023, El Capitan is expected to deliver in excess of two exaflops of peak computing power – around four times the power of Fugaku, the current top-ranked supercomputer in the wor Read more…
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October 26, 2021
Last week, Irfan Siddiqi led a “fireside chat” with a few media and analysts to introduce the Department of Energy’s relatively new Advanced Quantum Testb 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…
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…
LLNL Prepares the Water and Power Infrastructure for El Capitan
October 21, 2021
When it’s (ostensibly) ready in early 2023, El Capitan is expected to deliver in excess of two exaflops of peak computing power – around four times the powe 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…
Quantum Workforce – NSTC Report Highlights Need for International Talent
October 13, 2021
Attracting and training the needed quantum workforce to fuel the ongoing quantum information sciences (QIS) revolution is a hot topic these days. Last week, the U.S. National Science and Technology Council issued a report – The Role of International Talent in Quantum Information Science... Read more…
Eni Returns to HPE for ‘HPC4’ Refresh via GreenLake
October 13, 2021
Italian energy company Eni is upgrading its HPC4 system with new gear from HPE that will be installed in Eni’s Green Data Center in Ferrera Erbognone (a provi Read more…
The Blueprint for the National Strategic Computing Reserve
October 12, 2021
Over the last year, the HPC community has been buzzing with the possibility of a National Strategic Computing Reserve (NSCR). An in-utero brainchild of the COVID-19 High-Performance Computing Consortium, an NSCR would serve as a Merchant Marine for urgent computing... Read more…
Enter Dojo: Tesla Reveals Design for Modular Supercomputer & D1 Chip
August 20, 2021
Two months ago, Tesla revealed a massive GPU cluster that it said was “roughly the number five supercomputer in the world,” and which was just a precursor to Tesla’s real supercomputing moonshot: the long-rumored, little-detailed Dojo system. Read more…
Esperanto, Silicon in Hand, Champions the Efficiency of Its 1,092-Core RISC-V Chip
August 27, 2021
Esperanto Technologies made waves last December when it announced ET-SoC-1, a new RISC-V-based chip aimed at machine learning that packed nearly 1,100 cores onto a package small enough to fit six times over on a single PCIe card. Now, Esperanto is back, silicon in-hand and taking aim... 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…
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…
Ahead of ‘Dojo,’ Tesla Reveals Its Massive Precursor Supercomputer
June 22, 2021
In spring 2019, Tesla made cryptic reference to a project called Dojo, a “super-powerful training computer” for video data processing. Then, in summer 2020, Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted: “Tesla is developing a [neural network] training computer... Read more…
Intel Completes LLVM Adoption; Will End Updates to Classic C/C++ Compilers in Future
August 10, 2021
Intel reported in a blog this week that its adoption of the open source LLVM architecture for Intel’s C/C++ compiler is complete. The transition is part of In Read more…
Hot Chips: Here Come the DPUs and IPUs from Arm, Nvidia and Intel
August 25, 2021
The emergence of data processing units (DPU) and infrastructure processing units (IPU) as potentially important pieces in cloud and datacenter architectures was Read more…
AMD-Xilinx Deal Gains UK, EU Approvals — China’s Decision Still Pending
July 1, 2021
AMD’s planned acquisition of FPGA maker Xilinx is now in the hands of Chinese regulators after needed antitrust approvals for the $35 billion deal were receiv Read more…
Intel Unveils New Node Names; Sapphire Rapids Is Now an ‘Intel 7’ CPU
July 27, 2021
What's a preeminent chip company to do when its process node technology lags the competition by (roughly) one generation, but outmoded naming conventions make i Read more…
HPE Wins $2B GreenLake HPC-as-a-Service Deal with NSA
September 1, 2021
In the heated, oft-contentious, government IT space, HPE has won a massive $2 billion contract to provide HPC and AI services to the United States’ National Security Agency (NSA). Following on the heels of the now-canceled $10 billion JEDI contract (reissued as JWCC) and a $10 billion... Read more…
Quantum Roundup: IBM, Rigetti, Phasecraft, Oxford QC, China, and More
July 13, 2021
IBM yesterday announced a proof for a quantum ML algorithm. A week ago, it unveiled a new topology for its quantum processors. Last Friday, the Technical Univer 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…
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…
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…
Frontier to Meet 20MW Exascale Power Target Set by DARPA in 2008
July 14, 2021
After more than a decade of planning, the United States’ first exascale computer, Frontier, is set to arrive at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) later this year. Crossing this “1,000x” horizon required overcoming four major challenges: power demand, reliability, extreme parallelism and data movement. 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…
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