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COVID-19 Drives the Need for Supercomputing Resources in Research
While supercomputers have played a significant role in advancing life sciences research, the COVID-19 pandemic has crystalized just how important they are to dealing with this crisis. In an unprecedented move, the COVID-19 HPC Consortium has launched to provide access to the world’s most powerful high-performance computing resources in support of COVID-19 research. The consortium is […]
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ROCm™ – Open Software Ecosystem for Accelerated Compute
Welcome developers to the first in a series of blogs about AMD ROCm. I’m Terry Deem, Product Manager for ROCm. In these blogs, I will let you know about upcoming new releases, features, training, and case studies surrounding ROCm. The ROCm SDK is a set of tools, libraries, and API for developing HPC applications using GPUs for computing. You can learn more about ROCm with this introduction video located here. After watching the introduction […]
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Xilinx Announces First Adaptive Computing Challenge
July 9, 2020
A new contest is challenging the computing world. Xilinx has announced the first Xilinx Adaptive Computing Challenge, a competition that will task developers and startups with finding creative workload acceleration solutions. Xilinx is running the Adaptive Computing Challenge in partnership with Hackster.io, a developing community... Read more…
Reviving Moore’s Law? LBNL Researchers See Promise in Heterostructure Oxides
July 9, 2020
The reality of Moore’s law’s decline is no longer doubted for good empirical reasons. That said, never say never. Recent work by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory researchers suggests heterostructure oxides may b Read more…
Penguin Computing Brings Cascade Lake-AP to OCP Form Factor
July 7, 2020
Penguin Computing, a subsidiary of SMART Global Holdings, Inc., announced yesterday (July) a new Tundra server, Tundra AP, that is the first to implement the Intel Xeon Scalable 9200 series processors (codenamed Cascade Read more…
Google Cloud Debuts 16-GPU Ampere A100 Instances
July 7, 2020
On the heels of the Nvidia’s Ampere A100 GPU launch in May, Google Cloud is announcing alpha availability of the A100 “Accelerator Optimized” VM A2 instance family on Google Compute Engine. The instances are powered by the HGX A100 16-GPU platform, which combines two HGX A100 8-GPU baseboards using... Read more…
Q&A: HLRS’s Bastian Koller Tackles HPC and Industry in Germany and Europe
July 6, 2020
In this exclusive interview for HPCwire – sadly not face to face – Steve Conway, senior advisor for Hyperion Research, talks with Dr.-Ing Bastian Koller about the state of HPC and its collaboration with Industry in Europe. Koller is a familiar figure in HPC. He is the managing director at High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) and also serves... Read more…
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Best Practices for Running Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Workloads on AWS
The scalable nature and variable demand of CFD workloads makes them well-suited for a cloud computing environment. Many of the AWS instance types, such as the compute family instance types, are designed to include support for this type of workload. 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…
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center Offers a Virtual Tour of Its MareNostrum Supercomputer
July 6, 2020
With the COVID-19 pandemic continuing to threaten the world and disrupt normal operations, facility tours remain a little difficult to operate, with many supercomputing centers having shuttered facility tours for visitor Read more…
Google Cloud Debuts 16-GPU Ampere A100 Instances
July 7, 2020
On the heels of the Nvidia’s Ampere A100 GPU launch in May, Google Cloud is announcing alpha availability of the A100 “Accelerator Optimized” VM A2 instance family on Google Compute Engine. The instances are powered by the HGX A100 16-GPU platform, which combines two HGX A100 8-GPU baseboards using... Read more…
Q&A: HLRS’s Bastian Koller Tackles HPC and Industry in Germany and Europe
July 6, 2020
In this exclusive interview for HPCwire – sadly not face to face – Steve Conway, senior advisor for Hyperion Research, talks with Dr.-Ing Bastian Koller about the state of HPC and its collaboration with Industry in Europe. Koller is a familiar figure in HPC. He is the managing director at High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) and also serves... Read more…
OpenPOWER Reboot – New Director, New Silicon Partners, Leveraging Linux Foundation Connections
July 2, 2020
Earlier this week the OpenPOWER Foundation announced the contribution of IBM’s A21 Power processor core design to the open source community. Roughly this time Read more…
Hyperion Forecast – Headwinds in 2020 Won’t Stifle Cloud HPC Adoption or Arm’s Rise
June 30, 2020
The semiannual taking of HPC’s pulse by Hyperion Research – late fall at SC and early summer at ISC – is a much-watched indicator of things come. This yea Read more…
Racism and HPC: a Special Podcast
June 29, 2020
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. Re 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…
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…
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…
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…
‘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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Terabytes: Image Generators in Life Sciences
Next-generation imaging technologies are producing a wealth of rich data to advance Life Sciences research. Artificial intelligence and machine learning can help researchers quickly derive insights from such data. However, many organizations do not have the infrastructures to handle the combination of enormous imaging data volumes and demanding analysis compute requirements.
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