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AI Self-Training Goes Forward at Google DeepMind
DeepMind, Google’s AI research organization, announced today in a blog that AlphaGo Zero, the latest evolution of AlphaGo (the first computer program to defeat a Go world champion) trained its …
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2017 Gordon Bell Prize Finalists Named
October 23, 2017
The three finalists for this year’s Gordon Bell Prize in High Performance Computing have been announced. They include two papers on projects run on China’s Sunway TaihuLight system and a third paper on 3D image recon Read more…
Researchers Scale COSMO Climate Code to 4888 GPUs on Piz Daint
October 17, 2017
Effective global climate simulation, sorely needed to anticipate and cope with global warming, has long been computationally challenging. Two of the major obstacles are the needed resolution and prolonged time to compute Read more…
UCSD Web-based Tool Tracking CA Wildfires Generates 1.5M Views
October 16, 2017
Tracking the wildfires raging in northern CA is an unpleasant but necessary part of guiding efforts to fight the fires and safely evacuate affected residents. One such tool – Firemap – is a web-based tool developed b Read more…
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Transforming Genomic Analytics with HPC-Accelerated Insights
Advancements in the field of genomics are revolutionizing our understanding of human biology, rapidly accelerating the discovery and treatment of genetic diseases, and dramatically improving human health. Read more…
Exascale Imperative: New Movie from HPE Makes a Compelling Case
October 13, 2017
Why is pursuing exascale computing so important? In a new video – Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Eighteen Zeros – four HPE executives, a prominent national lab HPC researcher, and HPCwire managing editor Tiffany Trader Read more…
Intel Delivers 17-Qubit Quantum Chip to European Research Partner
October 10, 2017
On Tuesday, Intel delivered a 17-qubit superconducting test chip to research partner QuTech, the quantum research institute of Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands. The announcement marks a major milestone in the 10-year, $50-million collaborative relationship with TU Delft and TNO, the Dutch Organization for Applied Research, to accelerate advancements in quantum computing. Read more…
Fujitsu Tapped to Build 37-Petaflops ABCI System for AIST
October 10, 2017
Fujitsu announced today it will build the long-planned AI Bridging Cloud Infrastructure (ABCI) which is set to become the fastest supercomputer system in Japan Read more…
HPC Chips – A Veritable Smorgasbord?
October 10, 2017
For the first time since AMD's ill-fated launch of Bulldozer the answer to the question, 'Which CPU will be in my next HPC system?' doesn't have to be 'Whichever variety of Intel Xeon E5 they are selling when we procure'. Read more…
Delays, Smoke, Records & Markets – A Candid Conversation with Cray CEO Peter Ungaro
October 5, 2017
Earlier this month, Tom Tabor, publisher of HPCwire and I had a very personal conversation with Cray CEO Peter Ungaro. Cray has been on something of a Cinderell Read more…
Intel Debuts Programmable Acceleration Card
October 5, 2017
With a view toward supporting complex, data-intensive applications, such as AI inference, video streaming analytics, database acceleration and genomics, Intel i Read more…
OLCF’s 200 Petaflops Summit Machine Still Slated for 2018 Start-up
October 3, 2017
The Department of Energy’s planned 200 petaflops Summit computer, which is currently being installed at Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, is on track t Read more…
US Exascale Program – Some Additional Clarity
September 28, 2017
The last time we left the Department of Energy’s exascale computing program in July, things were looking very positive. Both the U.S. House and Senate had pas Read more…
US Coalesces Plans for First Exascale Supercomputer: Aurora in 2021
September 27, 2017
At the Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee (ASCAC) meeting, in Arlington, Va., yesterday (Sept. 26), it was revealed that the "Aurora" supercompute Read more…
Reinders: “AVX-512 May Be a Hidden Gem” in Intel Xeon Scalable Processors
June 29, 2017
Imagine if we could use vector processing on something other than just floating point problems. Today, GPUs and CPUs work tirelessly to accelerate algorithms Read more…
NERSC Scales Scientific Deep Learning to 15 Petaflops
August 28, 2017
A collaborative effort between Intel, NERSC and Stanford has delivered the first 15-petaflops deep learning software running on HPC platforms and is, according Read more…
Oracle Layoffs Reportedly Hit SPARC and Solaris Hard
September 7, 2017
Oracle’s latest layoffs have many wondering if this is the end of the line for the SPARC processor and Solaris OS development. As reported by multiple sources Read more…
US Coalesces Plans for First Exascale Supercomputer: Aurora in 2021
September 27, 2017
At the Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee (ASCAC) meeting, in Arlington, Va., yesterday (Sept. 26), it was revealed that the "Aurora" supercompute Read more…
How ‘Knights Mill’ Gets Its Deep Learning Flops
June 22, 2017
Intel, the subject of much speculation regarding the delayed, rewritten or potentially canceled “Aurora” contract (the Argonne Lab part of the CORAL “ Read more…
Google Releases Deeplearn.js to Further Democratize Machine Learning
August 17, 2017
Spreading the use of machine learning tools is one of the goals of Google’s PAIR (People + AI Research) initiative, which was introduced in early July. Last w Read more…
Nvidia Responds to Google TPU Benchmarking
April 10, 2017
Nvidia highlights strengths of its newest GPU silicon in response to Google's report on the performance and energy advantages of its custom tensor processor. Read more…
GlobalFoundries Puts Wind in AMD’s Sails with 12nm FinFET
September 24, 2017
From its annual tech conference last week (Sept. 20), where GlobalFoundries welcomed more than 600 semiconductor professionals (reaching the Santa Clara venue Read more…
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Graphcore Readies Launch of 16nm Colossus-IPU Chip
July 20, 2017
A second $30 million funding round for U.K. AI chip developer Graphcore sets up the company to go to market with its “intelligent processing unit” (IPU) in Read more…
Amazon Debuts New AMD-based GPU Instances for Graphics Acceleration
September 12, 2017
Last week Amazon Web Services (AWS) streaming service, AppStream 2.0, introduced a new GPU instance called Graphics Design intended to accelerate graphics. The Read more…
EU Funds 20 Million Euro ARM+FPGA Exascale Project
September 7, 2017
At the Barcelona Supercomputer Centre on Wednesday (Sept. 6), 16 partners gathered to launch the EuroEXA project, which invests €20 million over three-and-a-half years into exascale-focused research and development. Led by the Horizon 2020 program, EuroEXA picks up the banner of a triad of partner projects — ExaNeSt, EcoScale and ExaNoDe — building on their work... Read more…
Delays, Smoke, Records & Markets – A Candid Conversation with Cray CEO Peter Ungaro
October 5, 2017
Earlier this month, Tom Tabor, publisher of HPCwire and I had a very personal conversation with Cray CEO Peter Ungaro. Cray has been on something of a Cinderell Read more…
Cray Moves to Acquire the Seagate ClusterStor Line
July 28, 2017
This week Cray announced that it is picking up Seagate's ClusterStor HPC storage array business for an undisclosed sum. "In short we're effectively transitioning the bulk of the ClusterStor product line to Cray," said CEO Peter Ungaro. Read more…
Intel Launches Software Tools to Ease FPGA Programming
September 5, 2017
Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have a reputation for being difficult to program, requiring expertise in specialty languages, like Verilog or VHDL. Easin Read more…
IBM Advances Web-based Quantum Programming
September 5, 2017
IBM Research is pairing its Jupyter-based Data Science Experience notebook environment with its cloud-based quantum computer, IBM Q, in hopes of encouraging a new class of entrepreneurial user to solve intractable problems that even exceed the capabilities of the best AI systems. Read more…
HPC Chips – A Veritable Smorgasbord?
October 10, 2017
For the first time since AMD's ill-fated launch of Bulldozer the answer to the question, 'Which CPU will be in my next HPC system?' doesn't have to be 'Whichever variety of Intel Xeon E5 they are selling when we procure'. Read more…
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