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Exscalate4CoV Runs 70 Billion-Molecule Coronavirus Simulation
The winds of the pandemic are changing – for better and for worse. Three viable vaccines now teeter on the brink of regulatory approval, which will pave the way for broad distribution by April or May. But until then, COVID-19 cases are skyrocketing across the U.S. and Europe...
Alces Flight Launches HPC to the Cloud
Alces Flight is working to make high performance computing broadly available, via solutions built on bare-metal, virtualized, public cloud and hybrid platforms. There was a time when high performance computing was an exclusive resource whose use was limited to an elite group of scientists and engineers working in university, government and enterprise labs. Not so […]
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Azure Scaled to Record 86,400 Cores for Molecular Dynamics
November 20, 2020
A new record for HPC scaling on the public cloud has been achieved on Microsoft Azure. Led by Dr. Jer-Ming Chia, the cloud provider partnered with the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the Universi Read more…
Gordon Bell Special Prize Goes to Massive SARS-CoV-2 Simulations
November 19, 2020
2020 has proven a harrowing year – but it has produced remarkable heroes. To that end, this year, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) introduced the Gordon Bell Special Prize for High Performance Computing-Ba Read more…
Gordon Bell Prize Winner Breaks Ground in AI-Infused Ab Initio Simulation
November 19, 2020
The race to blend deep learning and first-principle simulation to speed up solutions and scale up problems tackled is one of the most exciting research areas in computational science today. This year’s ACM Gordon Bell Prize winner announced today at SC20 makes significant progress in that direction. Read more…
SC20 Keynote: Climate, Exascale & the Ultimate Answer
November 19, 2020
SC20’s keynote was delivered by renowned meteorologist and climatologist Bjorn Stevens, a director at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology since 2008 and a professor at the University of Hamburg. In his keynote, Stevens traced the history of climate science from its earliest days through... Read more…
EuroHPC Exec. Dir. Talks Procurement, EPI, and Europe’s Efforts to Control its HPC Destiny
November 19, 2020
While much of the HPC community’s attention is fixed on SC20’s flood of news and new product announcements, Anders Dam Jensen, the newly-minted executive director of the European High Performance Computing Joint Unde Read more…
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Introducing AWS ParallelCluster as an Intel Select Solution
High performance computing (HPC) system owners can spend weeks or months researching, procuring, and assembling components to build HPC clusters to run their workloads. Understanding and managing the complexities of compute, storage, networking, and software requirements can be confusing and time-consuming, slowing innovation and results. Read more…
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Intel Keynote Address
Intel is the foundation of HPC – from the workstation to the cloud to the backbone of the Top500. At SC20, Intel’s Trish Damkroger, VP and GM of high performance computing, addresses the audience to show how Intel and its partners are building the future of HPC today, through hardware and software technologies that accelerate the broad deployment of advanced HPC systems. Read more…
Hyperion Research: COVID-19 Changing the Global 2020 HPC Market Landscape
November 18, 2020
Before the COVID-19 pandemic essentially stopped the world in its tracks in March, the global HPC server market was expected to grow from $13.7 billion in 2019 to $14.5 billion in 2020, according to estimates from Hyperi Read more…
Azure Scaled to Record 86,400 Cores for Molecular Dynamics
November 20, 2020
A new record for HPC scaling on the public cloud has been achieved on Microsoft Azure. Led by Dr. Jer-Ming Chia, the cloud provider partnered with the Beckman I Read more…
Gordon Bell Special Prize Goes to Massive SARS-CoV-2 Simulations
November 19, 2020
2020 has proven a harrowing year – but it has produced remarkable heroes. To that end, this year, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) introduced the Read more…
Gordon Bell Prize Winner Breaks Ground in AI-Infused Ab Initio Simulation
November 19, 2020
The race to blend deep learning and first-principle simulation to speed up solutions and scale up problems tackled is one of the most exciting research areas in computational science today. This year’s ACM Gordon Bell Prize winner announced today at SC20 makes significant progress in that direction. Read more…
SC20 Keynote: Climate, Exascale & the Ultimate Answer
November 19, 2020
SC20’s keynote was delivered by renowned meteorologist and climatologist Bjorn Stevens, a director at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology since 2008 and a professor at the University of Hamburg. In his keynote, Stevens traced the history of climate science from its earliest days through... Read more…
EuroHPC Exec. Dir. Talks Procurement, EPI, and Europe’s Efforts to Control its HPC Destiny
November 19, 2020
While much of the HPC community’s attention is fixed on SC20’s flood of news and new product announcements, Anders Dam Jensen, the newly-minted executive di Read more…
Hyperion Research: COVID-19 Changing the Global 2020 HPC Market Landscape
November 18, 2020
Before the COVID-19 pandemic essentially stopped the world in its tracks in March, the global HPC server market was expected to grow from $13.7 billion in 2019 Read more…
MLPerf Debuts HPC Training Benchmark with Small but Impressive List of Participants
November 18, 2020
The AI benchmarking organization MLPerf.org dipped a toe into HPC-centric waters today with release of results from its first HPC training run – MLPerf HPC Tr Read more…
TACC Advances Plans for NSF Leadership-Class Computing Facility for 10X Science
November 18, 2020
Even with the unprecedented computing power currently at our disposal, a tenfold increase in supercomputing capacity is needed to solve many of today's scientific grand challenge problems. Starting in 2019, TACC was formally invited by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a plan for a Leadership... Read more…
Nvidia Said to Be Close on Arm Deal
August 3, 2020
GPU leader Nvidia Corp. is in talks to buy U.K. chip designer Arm from parent company Softbank, according to several reports over the weekend. If consummated Read more…
Supercomputer-Powered Research Uncovers Signs of ‘Bradykinin Storm’ That May Explain COVID-19 Symptoms
July 28, 2020
Doctors and medical researchers have struggled to pinpoint – let alone explain – the deluge of symptoms induced by COVID-19 infections in patients, and what Read more…
Azure Scaled to Record 86,400 Cores for Molecular Dynamics
November 20, 2020
A new record for HPC scaling on the public cloud has been achieved on Microsoft Azure. Led by Dr. Jer-Ming Chia, the cloud provider partnered with the Beckman I Read more…
Google Hires Longtime Intel Exec Bill Magro to Lead HPC Strategy
September 18, 2020
In a sign of the times, another prominent HPCer has made a move to a hyperscaler. Longtime Intel executive Bill Magro joined Google as chief technologist for hi Read more…
HPE Keeps Cray Brand Promise, Reveals HPE Cray Supercomputing Line
August 4, 2020
The HPC community, ever-affectionate toward Cray and its eponymous founder, can breathe a (virtual) sigh of relief. The Cray brand will live on, encompassing th 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…
NICS Unleashes ‘Kraken’ Supercomputer
April 4, 2008
A Cray XT4 supercomputer, dubbed Kraken, is scheduled to come online in mid-summer at the National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS). The soon-to-be petascale system, and the resulting NICS organization, are the result of an NSF Track II award of $65 million to the University of Tennessee and its partners to provide next-generation supercomputing for the nation's science community. Read more…
Is the Nvidia A100 GPU Performance Worth a Hardware Upgrade?
October 16, 2020
Over the last decade, accelerators have seen an increasing rate of adoption in high-performance computing (HPC) platforms, and in the June 2020 Top500 list, eig Read more…
Aurora’s Troubles Move Frontier into Pole Exascale Position
October 1, 2020
Intel’s 7nm node delay has raised questions about the status of the Aurora supercomputer that was scheduled to be stood up at Argonne National Laboratory next year. Aurora was in the running to be the United States’ first exascale supercomputer although it was on a contemporaneous timeline with... Read more…
European Commission Declares €8 Billion Investment in Supercomputing
September 18, 2020
Just under two years ago, the European Commission formalized the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (JU): a concerted HPC effort (comprising 32 participating states at c Read more…
Top500: Fugaku Keeps Crown, Nvidia’s Selene Climbs to #5
November 16, 2020
With the publication of the 56th Top500 list today from SC20's virtual proceedings, Japan's Fugaku supercomputer – now fully deployed – notches another win, Read more…
Texas A&M Announces Flagship ‘Grace’ Supercomputer
November 9, 2020
Texas A&M University has announced its next flagship system: Grace. The new supercomputer, named for legendary programming pioneer Grace Hopper, is replacing the Ada system (itself named for mathematician Ada Lovelace) as the primary workhorse for Texas A&M’s High Performance Research Computing (HPRC). Read more…
At Oak Ridge, ‘End of Life’ Sometimes Isn’t
October 31, 2020
Sometimes, the old dog actually does go live on a farm. HPC systems are often cursed with short lifespans, as they are continually supplanted by the latest and Read more…
Nvidia and EuroHPC Team for Four Supercomputers, Including Massive ‘Leonardo’ System
October 15, 2020
The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (JU) serves as Europe’s concerted supercomputing play, currently comprising 32 member states and billions of euros in funding. I Read more…
Microsoft Azure Adds A100 GPU Instances for ‘Supercomputer-Class AI’ in the Cloud
August 19, 2020
Microsoft Azure continues to infuse its cloud platform with HPC- and AI-directed technologies. Today the cloud services purveyor announced a new virtual machine Read more…
Nvidia-Arm Deal a Boon for RISC-V?
October 26, 2020
The $40 billion blockbuster acquisition deal that will bring chipmaker Arm into the Nvidia corporate family could provide a boost for the competing RISC-V architecture. As regulators in the U.S., China and the European Union begin scrutinizing the impact of the blockbuster deal on semiconductor industry competition and innovation, the deal has at the very least... Read more…
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Current studies and trends indicate a shift beyond HPC experimentation in public clouds to increasing adoption and maturation in cloud HPC offerings. This webcast focuses on how to unleash the on-demand compute power of cloud HPC and ensure a successful workload-based approach. Join AWS; Western Digital; and Flux7, an NTT DATA Company, for a transparent and in-depth discussion on the latest innovations
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In this SpotlightON we take a look at the fast-expanding world of AI use cases. In some sense it’s harder to identify what won’t be a potential use case for AI. Today, finance, internet commerce, healthcare, energy discovery and management, and IoT applications are all hot beds of AI development and deployment. Many more will follow. Learn how your work day and business may benefit from these experiences.
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