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White House AI Regulatory Guidelines: ‘Remove Impediments to Private-sector AI Innovation’
When it comes to new technology, it’s been said government initially stays uninvolved – then gets too involved. The White House’s guidelines for federal agencies on AI regulations, issued this week as part of the American AI Initiative announced last February, can be viewed as a government still in the uninvolved stage. If companies pouring billions […]
IBM Touts Quantum Network Growth, Improving QC Quality, and Battery Research
IBM today announced its Q (quantum) Network community had grown to 100-plus – Delta Airlines and Los Alamos National Laboratory are among most recent additions – and that an IBM quantum computer had achieved a quantum volume (QV) benchmark of 32 in keeping with plans to double QV yearly. IBM also showcased POC work with […]
NSF Budget Approved for $8.3B in 2020, a 2.5% Increase
January 16, 2020
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has been spared a President Trump-proposed budget cut that would have rolled back its funding to 2012 levels. Congress passed legislation last month that sets the budget at $8.3 bill Read more…
NOAA Updates Its Massive, Supercomputer-Generated Climate Dataset
January 15, 2020
As Australia burns, understanding and mitigating the climate crisis is more urgent than ever. Now, by leveraging the computing resources at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has updated its 20th Century Reanalysis Project (20CR) dataset... Read more…
Quantum Computing, ML Drive 2019 Patent Awards
January 14, 2020
The dizzying pace of technology innovation often fueled by the growing availability of computing horsepower is underscored by the race to develop unique designs and application that can be patented. Among the goals of ma Read more…
Andrew Jones Joins Microsoft Azure HPC Team
January 13, 2020
Andrew Jones announced today he is joining Microsoft as part of the Azure HPC engineering & product team in early February. Jones makes the move after nearly 12 years at the UK HPC consultancy Numerical Algorithms Gr Read more…
New Tool from MIT Uses Machine Learning to Predict Code Performance on a Chip
January 13, 2020
Typically, code’s performance on a given computer chip is estimated using performance models that test the code on a variety of architectures, after which compilers are used to automatically optimize the code for those Read more…
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Challenging the barriers to High Performance Computing in the Cloud
Cloud computing helps democratize High Performance Computing by placing powerful computational capabilities in the hands of more researchers, engineers, and organizations who may lack access to sufficient on-premises infrastructure. Read more…
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Intelligent HPC – Keeping Hard Work at Bay(es)
Since the dawn of time, humans have looked for ways to make their lives easier. Over the centuries human ingenuity has given us inventions such as the wheel and simple machines – which help greatly with tasks that would otherwise be extremely laborious. Read more…
Study Examines Efforts (and Prospects) for ML Use in Computer Architecture Design
January 9, 2020
The rush to adopt machine learning (ML) in broad applications hasn’t yet been matched by efforts to use ML to inform computer architecture design. That’s now changing and a paper (A Survey of Machine Learning Applie Read more…
HPCwire Awards Highlight Supercomputing Achievements in the Sciences
January 7, 2020
In November at SC19 in Denver, the HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice awards program celebrated its 16th year of honoring remarkable achievements in high-performance computing. With categories ranging from Best Use of HPC in Energy to Top HPC-Enabled Scientific Achievement, many of the winners contributed to groundbreaking developments in the sciences. This editorial highlights those awards. Read more…
Blasts from the (Recent) Past and Hopes for the Future
December 23, 2019
What does 2020 look like to you? What did 2019 look like? Lots happened but the main trends were carryovers from 2018 – AI messaging again blanketed everything; the roll-out of new big machines and exascale announcements continued; processor diversity and system disaggregation kicked up a notch; hyperscalers continued flexing their muscles (think AWS and its Graviton2 processor); and the U.S. and China continued their awkward trade war. Read more…
ARPA-E Applies ML to Power Generation Designs
December 19, 2019
The U.S. Energy Department’s research arm is leveraging machine learning technologies to simplify the design process for energy systems ranging from photovolt Read more…
Focused on ‘Silicon TAM,’ Intel Puts Gary Patton, Former GlobalFoundries CTO, in Charge of Design Enablement
December 12, 2019
Change within Intel’s upper management – and to its company mission – has continued as a published report has disclosed that chip technology heavyweight G Read more…
Quantum Bits: Rigetti Debuts New Gates, D-Wave Cuts NEC Deal, AWS Jumps into the Quantum Pool
December 12, 2019
There’s been flurry of significant news in the quantum computing world. Yesterday, Rigetti introduced a new family of gates that reduces circuit depth require Read more…
RPI Powers Up ‘AiMOS’ AI Supercomputer
December 11, 2019
Designed to push the frontiers of computing chip and systems performance optimized for AI workloads, an 8 petaflops (Linpack) IBM Power9-based supercomputer has Read more…
At SC19: Developing a Digital Twin
December 11, 2019
In the not too distant future, we can expect to see our skies filled with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) delivering packages, maybe even people, from location to location. In such a world, there will also be a digital twin for each UAV in the fleet: a virtual model that will follow the UAV through its existence, evolving with time. Read more…
Intel’s Jim Clarke on its New Cryo-controller and why Intel isn’t Late to the Quantum Party
December 9, 2019
Intel today introduced the ‘first-of-its-kind’ cryo-controller chip for quantum computing and previewed a cryo-prober tool for characterizing quantum proces Read more…
Using AI to Solve One of the Most Prevailing Problems in CFD
October 17, 2019
How can artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) solve mesh generation, one of the most commonly referenced problems in computational engineering? A new study has set out to answer this question and create an industry-first AI-mesh application... Read more…
D-Wave’s Path to 5000 Qubits; Google’s Quantum Supremacy Claim
September 24, 2019
On the heels of IBM’s quantum news last week come two more quantum items. D-Wave Systems today announced the name of its forthcoming 5000-qubit system, Advantage (yes the name choice isn’t serendipity), at its user conference being held this week in Newport, RI. Read more…
SC19: IBM Changes Its HPC-AI Game Plan
November 25, 2019
It’s probably fair to say IBM is known for big bets. Summit supercomputer – a big win. Red Hat acquisition – looking like a big win. OpenPOWER and Power processors – jury’s out? At SC19, long-time IBMer Dave Turek sketched out a different kind of bet for Big Blue – a small ball strategy, if you’ll forgive the baseball analogy... Read more…
Cray, Fujitsu Both Bringing Fujitsu A64FX-based Supercomputers to Market in 2020
November 12, 2019
The number of top-tier HPC systems makers has shrunk due to a steady march of M&A activity, but there is increased diversity and choice of processing compon Read more…
Crystal Ball Gazing: IBM’s Vision for the Future of Computing
October 14, 2019
Dario Gil, IBM’s relatively new director of research, painted a intriguing portrait of the future of computing along with a rough idea of how IBM thinks we’ Read more…
Julia Programming’s Dramatic Rise in HPC and Elsewhere
January 14, 2020
Back in 2012 a paper by four computer scientists including Alan Edelman of MIT introduced Julia, A Fast Dynamic Language for Technical Computing. At the time, t Read more…
Intel Debuts New GPU – Ponte Vecchio – and Outlines Aspirations for oneAPI
November 17, 2019
Intel today revealed a few more details about its forthcoming Xe line of GPUs – the top SKU is named Ponte Vecchio and will be used in Aurora, the first plann Read more…
Dell Ramps Up HPC Testing of AMD Rome Processors
October 21, 2019
Dell Technologies is wading deeper into the AMD-based systems market with a growing evaluation program for the latest Epyc (Rome) microprocessors from AMD. In a Read more…
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IBM Unveils Latest Achievements in AI Hardware
December 13, 2019
“The increased capabilities of contemporary AI models provide unprecedented recognition accuracy, but often at the expense of larger computational and energet Read more…
SC19: Welcome to Denver
November 17, 2019
A significant swath of the HPC community has come to Denver for SC19, which began today (Sunday) with a rich technical program. As is customary, the ribbon cutt Read more…
With the Help of HPC, Astronomers Prepare to Deflect a Real Asteroid
September 26, 2019
For years, NASA has been running simulations of asteroid impacts to understand the risks (and likelihoods) of asteroids colliding with Earth. Now, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) are preparing for the next, crucial step in planetary defense against asteroid impacts: physically deflecting a real asteroid. Read more…
Jensen Huang’s SC19 – Fast Cars, a Strong Arm, and Aiming for the Cloud(s)
November 20, 2019
We’ve come to expect Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s annual SC keynote to contain stunning graphics and lively bravado (with plenty of examples) in support of GPU Read more…
Top500: US Maintains Performance Lead; Arm Tops Green500
November 18, 2019
The 54th Top500, revealed today at SC19, is a familiar list: the U.S. Summit (ORNL) and Sierra (LLNL) machines, offering 148.6 and 94.6 petaflops respectively, Read more…
51,000 Cloud GPUs Converge to Power Neutrino Discovery at the South Pole
November 22, 2019
At the dead center of the South Pole, thousands of sensors spanning a cubic kilometer are buried thousands of meters beneath the ice. The sensors are part of Ic Read more…
Azure Cloud First with AMD Epyc Rome Processors
November 6, 2019
At Ignite 2019 this week, Microsoft's Azure cloud team and AMD announced an expansion of their partnership that began in 2017 when Azure debuted Epyc-backed instances for storage workloads. The fourth-generation Azure D-series and E-series virtual machines previewed at the Rome launch in August are now generally available. Read more…
Kubernetes, Containers and HPC
September 19, 2019
Software containers and Kubernetes are important tools for building, deploying, running and managing modern enterprise applications at scale and delivering enterprise software faster and more reliably to the end user — while using resources more efficiently and reducing costs. Read more…
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