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Racism and HPC: a Special Podcast
Promoting greater diversity in HPC is a much-discussed goal and ostensibly a long-sought goal in HPC. Yet it seems clear HPC is far from achieving this goal. Recent U.S. events, most poignantly the killing of George Floyd, have again stirred unrest and discomfiture, forcing the U.S. to face entrenched, explicit and implicit racism. Like all […]
The world’s fastest computer now runs on Arm
Back in the day, supercomputers were built for a specific purpose, usually deep research and modeling, and run for 4-5 years before being replaced by a new design but for another specific purpose. But thanks to rapid advances in microprocessor architecture, cost and energy pressures and a demand for more flexible compute in high-performance compute […]
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What’s New in Computing vs. COVID-19: Fugaku, Congress, De Novo Design & More
July 2, 2020
Supercomputing, big data and artificial intelligence are crucial tools in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. Around the world, researchers, corporations and governments are urgently devoting their computing reso Read more…
HPC Career Notes: July 2020 Edition
July 1, 2020
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've got Read more…
Supercomputers Enable Radical, Promising New COVID-19 Drug Development Approach
July 1, 2020
Around the world, innumerable supercomputers are sifting through billions of molecules in a desperate search for a viable therapeutic to treat COVID-19. Those molecules are pulled from enormous databases of known compoun Read more…
HPC-Powered Simulations Reveal a Looming Climatic Threat to Vital Monsoon Seasons
June 30, 2020
As June draws to a close, eyes are turning to the latter half of the year – and with it, the monsoon and hurricane seasons that can prove vital or devastating for many of the world’s coastal communities. Now, climate Read more…
What’s New in HPC Research: Mosquitoes, [email protected], the Last Journey & More
June 29, 2020
In this bimonthly 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…
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Maxar Builds HPC on AWS to Deliver Forecasts 58% Faster Than Weather Supercomputer
When weather threatens drilling rigs, refineries, and other energy facilities, oil and gas companies want to move fast to protect personnel and equipment. And for firms that trade commodity shares in oil, precious metals, crops, and livestock, the weather can significantly impact their buy-sell decisions. Read more…
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Supercomputing the Pandemic: Scientific Community Tackles COVID-19 from Multiple Perspectives
Since their inception, supercomputers have taken on the biggest, most complex, and most data-intensive computing challenges—from confirming Einstein’s theories about gravitational waves to predicting the impacts of climate change. Read more…
Chip Proposals Seek to Revive US Manufacturing
June 26, 2020
Legislation introduced in the U.S. House and Senate seeks to revive the U.S. semiconductor industry via a roughly $12 billion spending package and tax incentives designed to promote technology innovation across the chip Read more…
Top500 Trends: Movement on Top, but Record Low Turnover
June 25, 2020
The 55th installment of the Top500 list saw strong activity in the leadership segment with four new systems in the top ten and a crowning achievement from the f Read more…
ISC 2020 Keynote: Hope for the Future, Praise for Fugaku and HPC’s Pandemic Response
June 24, 2020
In stark contrast to past years Thomas Sterling’s ISC20 keynote today struck a more somber note with the COVID-19 pandemic as the central character in Sterling’s annual review of worldwide trends in HPC. Better known for his engaging manner and occasional willingness to poke prickly egos, Sterling instead strode through the numbing statistics associated... Read more…
ISC 2020’s Student Cluster Competition Winners Announced
June 24, 2020
Normally, the Student Cluster Competition involves teams of students building real computing clusters on the show floors of major supercomputer conferences and Read more…
Hoefler’s Whirlwind ISC20 Virtual Tour of ML Trends in 9 Slides
June 23, 2020
The ISC20 experience this year via livestreaming and pre-recordings is interesting and perhaps a bit odd. That said presenters’ efforts to condense their comments makes for economic use of your time. Torsten Hoefler’s whirlwind 12-minute tour of ML is a great example. Hoefler, leader of the planned ISC20 Machine Learning... Read more…
At ISC, the Fight Against COVID-19 Took the Stage – and Yes, Fugaku Was There
June 23, 2020
With over nine million infected and nearly half a million dead, the COVID-19 pandemic has seized the world’s attention for several months. It has also dominat Read more…
Japan’s Fugaku Tops Global Supercomputing Rankings
June 22, 2020
A new Top500 champ was unveiled today. Supercomputer Fugaku, the pride of Japan and the namesake of Mount Fuji, vaulted to the top of the 55th edition of the To Read more…
The Green500 Has a New Leader – and It’s a Newcomer
June 22, 2020
While the Top500 list ranks the most powerful benchmarked supercomputers in the world, the Green500 reorders the list to rank the most energy-efficient supercom Read more…
Nvidia Goes Deep with Mellanox Datacenter Net Security
June 22, 2020
When Nvidia announced its acquisition of Mellanox, the GPU leader noted that datacenters would eventually be built like high performance computers. Hence, it’ Read more…
Supercomputer Modeling Tests How COVID-19 Spreads in Grocery Stores
April 8, 2020
In the COVID-19 era, many people are treating simple activities like getting gas or groceries with caution as they try to heed social distancing mandates and protect their own health. Still, significant uncertainty surrounds the relative risk of different activities, and conflicting information is prevalent. A team of Finnish researchers set out to address some of these uncertainties by... Read more…
[email protected] Turns Its Massive Crowdsourced Computer Network Against COVID-19
March 16, 2020
For gamers, fighting against a global crisis is usually pure fantasy – but now, it’s looking more like a reality. As supercomputers around the world spin up Read more…
[email protected] Rallies a Legion of Computers Against the Coronavirus
March 24, 2020
Last week, we highlighted [email protected], a massive, crowdsourced computer network that has turned its resources against the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the globe – but [email protected] isn’t the only game in town. The internet is buzzing with crowdsourced computing... Read more…
Global Supercomputing Is Mobilizing Against COVID-19
March 12, 2020
Tech has been taking some heavy losses from the coronavirus pandemic. Global supply chains have been disrupted, virtually every major tech conference taking place over the next few months has been canceled... Read more…
Supercomputer Simulations Reveal the Fate of the Neanderthals
May 25, 2020
For hundreds of thousands of years, neanderthals roamed the planet, eventually (almost 50,000 years ago) giving way to homo sapiens, which quickly became the do Read more…
DoE Expands on Role of COVID-19 Supercomputing Consortium
March 25, 2020
After announcing the launch of the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium on Sunday, the Department of Energy yesterday provided more details on its sco Read more…
Steve Scott Lays Out HPE-Cray Blended Product Roadmap
March 11, 2020
Last week, the day before the El Capitan processor disclosures were made at HPE's new headquarters in San Jose, Steve Scott (CTO for HPC & AI at HPE, and former Cray CTO) was on-hand at the Rice Oil & Gas HPC conference in Houston. He was there to discuss the HPE-Cray transition and blended roadmap, as well as his favorite topic, Cray's eighth-gen networking technology, Slingshot. Read more…
Honeywell’s Big Bet on Trapped Ion Quantum Computing
April 7, 2020
Honeywell doesn’t spring to mind when thinking of quantum computing pioneers, but a decade ago the high-tech conglomerate better known for its control systems waded deliberately into the then calmer quantum computing (QC) waters. Fast forward to March when Honeywell announced plans to introduce an ion trap-based quantum computer whose ‘performance’ would... Read more…
Neocortex Will Be First-of-Its-Kind 800,000-Core AI Supercomputer
June 9, 2020
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC - a joint research organization of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh) has won a $5 million award Read more…
‘Billion Molecules Against COVID-19’ Challenge to Launch with Massive Supercomputing Support
April 22, 2020
Around the world, supercomputing centers have spun up and opened their doors for COVID-19 research in what may be the most unified supercomputing effort in hist Read more…
Australian Researchers Break All-Time Internet Speed Record
May 26, 2020
If you’ve been stuck at home for the last few months, you’ve probably become more attuned to the quality (or lack thereof) of your internet connection. Even Read more…
15 Slides on Programming Aurora and Exascale Systems
May 7, 2020
Sometime in 2021, Aurora, the first planned U.S. exascale system, is scheduled to be fired up at Argonne National Laboratory. Cray (now HPE) and Intel are the k Read more…
Nvidia’s Ampere A100 GPU: Up to 2.5X the HPC, 20X the AI
May 14, 2020
Nvidia's first Ampere-based graphics card, the A100 GPU, packs a whopping 54 billion transistors on 826mm2 of silicon, making it the world's largest seven-nanom 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…
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…
TACC Supercomputers Run Simulations Illuminating COVID-19, DNA Replication
March 19, 2020
As supercomputers around the world spin up to combat the coronavirus, the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) is announcing results that may help to illumina Read more…
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In this webinar, Martijn de Vries, CTO at Bright Computing and Robert Stober, Director of Product Management at Bright Computing, discuss the convergence of HPC and AI in the context of current industry trends and practices being used by organizations. They will discuss and demonstrate the convergence of HPC and AI on a shared infrastructure using Bright auto-scaler to enable efficient use of compute resources based on workload demand and policies, and also cover how to extend HPC/A.I. infrastructure to edge locations. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to gain valuable insight into innovative ways HPC and AI are being used together today.
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