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The Mainstreaming of MLPerf? Nvidia Dominates Training v2.0 but Challengers Are Rising
MLCommons’ latest MLPerf Training results (v2.0) issued today are broadly similar to v1.1 released last December. Nvidia still dominates, but less so (no grand sweep of wins). Relative newcomers to the exercise – AI chip/system makers Graphcore and Habana Labs/Intel – along with Google again posted strong showings. Google had four top scores basically splitting […]
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Summit Spins Up Research for Streamlined Carbon Fiber Production
July 1, 2022
Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s exascale Frontier system may be stealing some of the spotlight, but the lab’s 148.6 Linpack petaflops Summit system is still churning out powerful science. Recently, for instance, the Read more…
HPC Career Notes: July 2022 Edition
July 1, 2022
In this monthly feature, we’ll keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments for individuals in the high-performance computing community. Whether it’s a promotion, new company hire, or even an accolade, we’ Read more…
NOAA Launches Twin Supercomputers, Tripling Operational Forecasting Capacity
June 29, 2022
In February 2020, the United States’ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced that it would be procuring two HPE Cray systems, allowing the organization to triple its operational supercomputing capacity for weather and climate applications. Now, those efforts have come to fruition: NOAA has inaugurated the two systems, which are... Read more…
US Pursues Next-gen Exascale Systems with 5-10x the Performance of Frontier
June 28, 2022
With the Linpack exaflops milestone achieved by the Frontier supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the United States is turning its attention to the next crop of exascale machines, some 5-10x more performant than Frontier. At least one such system is being planned for the 2025-2030 timeline, and the DOE is soliciting input from the vendor community... Read more…
HPE’s New Arm Server Signals Shift in x86 Mindset
June 28, 2022
HPE's early stab at ARM servers close to a decade ago didn't pan out, but the company is hoping the second time is a charm. The company introduced the ProLiant RL300 Gen11 server, which has Ampere's ARM server processor. The one-socket server is designed for cloud-based applications, with the ability to scale up applications in a power efficient... Read more…
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Hamburg-based Indivumed specializes in using the highest quality biospecimen and comprehensive clinical data to advance research and development in precision oncology. Its IndivuType discovery solution uses AWS to store data and support analysis to decipher the complexity of cancer. Read more…
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Using Cloud-Based, GPU-Accelerated AI to Track Identity Fraud
Consumers use many accounts for financial transactions, ordering products, and social media—a customer’s identity can be stolen using any of these accounts. Identity fraud can happen when setting up or using financial accounts, but it can also occur with communications such as audio, images, and chats. Read more…
What’s New in HPC Research: EXA2PRO, DQRA, and HiCMA-PaRSE Frameworks & More
June 28, 2022
In this regular feature, HPCwire highlights newly published research in the high-performance computing community and related domains. From parallel programming to exascale to quantum computing, the details are here. Read more…
NOAA Launches Twin Supercomputers, Tripling Operational Forecasting Capacity
June 29, 2022
In February 2020, the United States’ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced that it would be procuring two HPE Cray systems, allowing the organization to triple its operational supercomputing capacity for weather and climate applications. Now, those efforts have come to fruition: NOAA has inaugurated the two systems, which are... Read more…
US Pursues Next-gen Exascale Systems with 5-10x the Performance of Frontier
June 28, 2022
With the Linpack exaflops milestone achieved by the Frontier supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the United States is turning its attention to the next crop of exascale machines, some 5-10x more performant than Frontier. At least one such system is being planned for the 2025-2030 timeline, and the DOE is soliciting input from the vendor community... Read more…
HPE’s New Arm Server Signals Shift in x86 Mindset
June 28, 2022
HPE's early stab at ARM servers close to a decade ago didn't pan out, but the company is hoping the second time is a charm. The company introduced the ProLiant RL300 Gen11 server, which has Ampere's ARM server processor. The one-socket server is designed for cloud-based applications, with the ability to scale up applications in a power efficient... Read more…
What’s New in HPC Research: EXA2PRO, DQRA, and HiCMA-PaRSE Frameworks & More
June 28, 2022
In this regular feature, HPCwire highlights newly published research in the high-performance computing community and related domains. From parallel programmin Read more…
Is Time Running Out for Compromise on America COMPETES/USICA Act?
June 22, 2022
You may recall that efforts proposed in 2020 to remake the National Science Foundation (Endless Frontier Act) have since expanded and morphed into two gigantic bills, the America COMPETES Act in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act in the U.S. Senate. So far, efforts to reconcile the two pieces of legislation have snagged and recent reports... Read more…
Cerebras Systems Thinks Forward on AI Chips as it Claims Performance Win
June 22, 2022
Cerebras Systems makes the largest chip in the world, but is already thinking about its upcoming AI chips as learning models continue to grow at breakneck speed. The company’s latest Wafer Scale Engine chip is indeed the size of a wafer, and is made using TSMC’s 7nm process. The next chip will pack in more cores to handle the fast-growing compute needs of AI, said Andrew Feldman, CEO of Cerebras Systems. Read more…
AMD’s MI300 APUs to Power Exascale El Capitan Supercomputer
June 21, 2022
Additional details of the architecture of the exascale El Capitan supercomputer were disclosed today by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL) Terri Read more…
IDC Perspective on Integration of Quantum Computing and HPC
June 20, 2022
The insatiable need to compress time to insights from massive and complex datasets is fueling the demand for quantum computing integration into high performance computing (HPC) environments. Such an integration would allow enterprises to accelerate and optimize current HPC applications and processes by simulating and emulating them on today’s noisy... Read more…
Nvidia R&D Chief on How AI is Improving Chip Design
April 18, 2022
Getting a glimpse into Nvidia’s R&D has become a regular feature of the spring GTC conference with Bill Dally, chief scientist and senior vice president of research, providing an overview of Nvidia’s R&D organization and a few details on current priorities. This year, Dally focused mostly on AI tools that Nvidia is both developing and using in-house to improve... Read more…
Intel Says UCIe to Outpace PCIe in Speed Race
May 11, 2022
Intel has shared more details on a new interconnect that is the foundation of the company’s long-term plan for x86, Arm and RISC-V architectures to co-exist in a single chip package. The semiconductor company is taking a modular approach to chip design with the option for customers to cram computing blocks such as CPUs, GPUs and AI accelerators inside a single chip package. Read more…
The Final Frontier: US Has Its First Exascale Supercomputer
May 30, 2022
In April 2018, the U.S. Department of Energy announced plans to procure a trio of exascale supercomputers at a total cost of up to $1.8 billion dollars. Over the ensuing four years, many announcements were made, many deadlines were missed, and a pandemic threw the world into disarray. Now, at long last, HPE and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have announced that the first of those... Read more…
AMD/Xilinx Takes Aim at Nvidia with Improved VCK5000 Inferencing Card
March 8, 2022
AMD/Xilinx has released an improved version of its VCK5000 AI inferencing card along with a series of competitive benchmarks aimed directly at Nvidia’s GPU line. AMD says the new VCK5000 has 3x better performance than earlier versions and delivers 2x TCO over Nvidia T4. AMD also showed favorable benchmarks against several Nvidia GPUs, claiming its VCK5000 achieved... Read more…
Top500: Exascale Is Officially Here with Debut of Frontier
May 30, 2022
The 59th installment of the Top500 list, issued today from ISC 2022 in Hamburg, Germany, officially marks a new era in supercomputing with the debut of the first-ever exascale system on the list. Frontier, deployed at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, achieved 1.102 exaflops in its fastest High Performance Linpack run, which was completed... Read more…
Newly-Observed Higgs Mode Holds Promise in Quantum Computing
June 8, 2022
The first-ever appearance of a previously undetectable quantum excitation known as the axial Higgs mode – exciting in its own right – also holds promise for developing and manipulating higher temperature quantum materials... Read more…
Nvidia Launches Hopper H100 GPU, New DGXs and Grace Superchips
March 22, 2022
The battle for datacenter dominance keeps getting hotter. Today, Nvidia kicked off its spring GTC event with new silicon, new software and a new supercomputer. Speaking from a virtual environment in the Nvidia Omniverse 3D collaboration and simulation platform, CEO Jensen Huang introduced the new Hopper GPU architecture and the H100 GPU... Read more…
PsiQuantum’s Path to 1 Million Qubits
April 21, 2022
PsiQuantum, founded in 2016 by four researchers with roots at Bristol University, Stanford University, and York University, is one of a few quantum computing startups that’s kept a moderately low PR profile. (That’s if you disregard the roughly $700 million in funding it has attracted.) The main reason is PsiQuantum has eschewed the clamorous public chase for... Read more…
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AMD Opens Up Chip Design to the Outside for Custom Future
June 15, 2022
AMD is getting personal with chips as it sets sail to make products more to the liking of its customers. The chipmaker detailed a modular chip future in which customers can mix and match non-AMD processors in a custom chip package. "We are focused on making it easier to implement chips with more flexibility," said Mark Papermaster, chief technology officer at AMD during the analyst day meeting late last week. Read more…
AMD’s MI300 APUs to Power Exascale El Capitan Supercomputer
June 21, 2022
Additional details of the architecture of the exascale El Capitan supercomputer were disclosed today by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL) Terri Read more…
Intel Reiterates Plans to Merge CPU, GPU High-performance Chip Roadmaps
May 31, 2022
Intel reiterated it is well on its way to merging its roadmap of high-performance CPUs and GPUs as it shifts over to newer manufacturing processes and packaging technologies in the coming years. The company is merging the CPU and GPU lineups into a chip (codenamed Falcon Shores) which Intel has dubbed an XPU. Falcon Shores... Read more…
India Launches Petascale ‘PARAM Ganga’ Supercomputer
March 8, 2022
Just a couple of weeks ago, the Indian government promised that it had five HPC systems in the final stages of installation and would launch nine new supercomputers this year. Now, it appears to be making good on that promise: the country’s National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) has announced the deployment of “PARAM Ganga” petascale supercomputer at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)... Read more…
Nvidia, Intel to Power Atos-Built MareNostrum 5 Supercomputer
June 16, 2022
The long-troubled, hotly anticipated MareNostrum 5 supercomputer finally has a vendor: Atos, which will be supplying a system that includes both Nvidia and Inte Read more…
Nvidia Dominates MLPerf Inference, Qualcomm also Shines, Where’s Everybody Else?
April 6, 2022
MLCommons today released its latest MLPerf inferencing results, with another strong showing by Nvidia accelerators inside a diverse array of systems. Roughly fo Read more…
Covid Policies at HPC Conferences Should Reflect HPC Research
June 6, 2022
Supercomputing has been indispensable throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, from modeling the virus and its spread to designing vaccines and therapeutics. But, desp Read more…
AMD Lines Up Alternate Chips as It Eyes a ‘Post-exaflops’ Future
June 10, 2022
Close to a decade ago, AMD was in turmoil. The company was playing second fiddle to Intel in PCs and datacenters, and its road to profitability hinged mostly on Read more…
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