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To keep pace with rapid and unrelenting data growth, high performance computing needs high performance data storage.
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AMD’s EPYC Road to Redemption in Six Slides
A year ago AMD returned to the server market with its EPYC processor line. The earth didn’t tremble but folks took notice. People remember the Opteron fondly but later versions of the Bulldozer …
European HPC Summit Week and PRACEdays 2018: Slaying Dragons and SHAPEing Futures One SME at a Time
The University of Ljubljana in Slovenia hosted the third annual EHPCSW18 and fifth annual PRACEdays18 events which opened May 29, 2018. The conference was chaired by PRACE Council Vice-Chair Serg …
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Why Student Cluster Competitions are Better than World Cup
June 21, 2018
My last article about the ISC18 Student Cluster Competition, titled “World Cup is Lame Compared to This Competition”, may have implied that I believe Student Cluster Competitions are better than World Cup soccer in s Read more…
An Overview of ‘OpenACC for Programmers’ from the Book’s Editors
June 20, 2018
In an era of multicore processors coupled with manycore accelerators in all kinds of devices from smartphones all the way to supercomputers, it is important to train current and future computational scientists of all dom Read more…
Cray Introduces All Flash Lustre Storage Solution Targeting HPC
June 19, 2018
Citing the rise of IOPS-intensive workflows and more affordable flash technology, Cray today introduced the L300F, a scalable all-flash storage solution whose primary use case is to support high IOPS rates to/from a scra Read more…
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HPC and AI Convergence is Accelerating New Levels of Intelligence
Data analytics is the most valuable tool in the digital marketplace – so much so that organizations are employing high performance computing (HPC) capabilities to rapidly collect, share, and analyze endless streams of data. Read more…
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Lenovo to Debut ‘Neptune’ Cooling Technologies at ISC
June 19, 2018
Lenovo today announced a set of cooling technologies, dubbed Neptune, that include direct to node (DTN) warm water cooling, rear door heat exchanger (RDHX), and hybrid solutions that combine air and liquid cooling. Lenov Read more…
Cray Introduces All Flash Lustre Storage Solution Targeting HPC
June 19, 2018
Citing the rise of IOPS-intensive workflows and more affordable flash technology, Cray today introduced the L300F, a scalable all-flash storage solution whose p Read more…
Sandia to Take Delivery of World’s Largest Arm System
June 18, 2018
While the enterprise remains circumspect on prospects for Arm servers in the datacenter, the leadership HPC community is taking a bolder, brighter view of the x86 server CPU alternative. Amongst current and planned Arm HPC installations – i.e., the innovative Mont-Blanc project, led by Bull/Atos, the 'Isambard’ Cray XC50 going into the University of Bristol, and commitments from both Japan and France among others -- HPE is announcing that it will be supply the United States National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) with a 2.3 petaflops peak Arm-based system, named Astra. Read more…
The Machine Learning Hype Cycle and HPC
June 14, 2018
Like many other HPC professionals I’m following the hype cycle around machine learning/deep learning with interest. I subscribe to the view that we’re probably approaching the ‘peak of inflated expectation’ but not quite yet starting the descent into the ‘trough of disillusionment. This still raises the probability that... Read more…
Xiaoxiang Zhu Receives the 2018 PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC
June 13, 2018
Xiaoxiang Zhu, who works for the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and Technical University of Munich (TUM), was awarded the 2018 PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC for her outstanding contributions in the field of high performance computing (HPC) in Europe. Read more…
U.S Considering Launch of National Quantum Initiative
June 11, 2018
Sometime this month the U.S. House Science Committee will introduce legislation to launch a 10-year National Quantum Initiative, according to a recent report by Read more…
ORNL Summit Supercomputer Is Officially Here
June 8, 2018
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) together with IBM and Nvidia celebrated the official unveiling of the Department of Energy (DOE) Summit supercomputer toda Read more…
Exascale USA – Continuing to Move Forward
June 6, 2018
The end of May 2018, saw several important events that continue to advance the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Exascale Computing Initiative (ECI) for the United Read more…
Exascale for the Rest of Us: Exaflops Systems Capable for Industry
June 6, 2018
Enterprise advanced scale computing – or HPC in the enterprise – is an entity unto itself, situated between (and with characteristics of) conventional enter Read more…
MLPerf – Will New Machine Learning Benchmark Help Propel AI Forward?
May 2, 2018
Let the AI benchmarking wars begin. Today, a diverse group from academia and industry – Google, Baidu, Intel, AMD, Harvard, and Stanford among them – releas Read more…
How the Cloud Is Falling Short for HPC
March 15, 2018
The last couple of years have seen cloud computing gradually build some legitimacy within the HPC world, but still the HPC industry lies far behind enterprise I Read more…
US Plans $1.8 Billion Spend on DOE Exascale Supercomputing
April 11, 2018
On Monday, the United States Department of Energy announced its intention to procure up to three exascale supercomputers at a cost of up to $1.8 billion with th Read more…
Deep Learning at 15 PFlops Enables Training for Extreme Weather Identification at Scale
March 19, 2018
Petaflop per second deep learning training performance on the NERSC (National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center) Cori supercomputer has given climate Read more…
Lenovo Unveils Warm Water Cooled ThinkSystem SD650 in Rampup to LRZ Install
February 22, 2018
This week Lenovo took the wraps off the ThinkSystem SD650 high-density server with third-generation direct water cooling technology developed in tandem with par Read more…
ORNL Summit Supercomputer Is Officially Here
June 8, 2018
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) together with IBM and Nvidia celebrated the official unveiling of the Department of Energy (DOE) Summit supercomputer toda 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…
Hennessy & Patterson: A New Golden Age for Computer Architecture
April 17, 2018
On Monday June 4, 2018, 2017 A.M. Turing Award Winners John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson will deliver the Turing Lecture at the 45th International Sympo Read more…
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Google Chases Quantum Supremacy with 72-Qubit Processor
March 7, 2018
Google pulled ahead of the pack this week in the race toward "quantum supremacy," with the introduction of a new 72-qubit quantum processor called Bristlecone. Read more…
Google I/O 2018: AI Everywhere; TPU 3.0 Delivers 100+ Petaflops but Requires Liquid Cooling
May 9, 2018
All things AI dominated discussion at yesterday’s opening of Google’s I/O 2018 developers meeting covering much of Google's near-term product roadmap. The e Read more…
Nvidia Ups Hardware Game with 16-GPU DGX-2 Server and 18-Port NVSwitch
March 27, 2018
Nvidia unveiled a raft of new products from its annual technology conference in San Jose today, and despite not offering up a new chip architecture, there were still a few surprises in store for HPC hardware aficionados. Read more…
Pattern Computer – Startup Claims Breakthrough in ‘Pattern Discovery’ Technology
May 23, 2018
If it weren’t for the heavy-hitter technology team behind start-up Pattern Computer, which emerged from stealth today in a live-streamed event from San Franci Read more…
Part One: Deep Dive into 2018 Trends in Life Sciences HPC
March 1, 2018
Life sciences is an interesting lens through which to see HPC. It is perhaps not an obvious choice, given life sciences’ relative newness as a heavy user of H Read more…
Intel Pledges First Commercial Nervana Product ‘Spring Crest’ in 2019
May 24, 2018
At its AI developer conference in San Francisco yesterday, Intel embraced a holistic approach to AI and showed off a broad AI portfolio that includes Xeon processors, Movidius technologies, FPGAs and Intel’s Nervana Neural Network Processors (NNPs), based on the technology it acquired in 2016. Read more…
Google Charts Two-Dimensional Quantum Course
April 26, 2018
Quantum error correction, essential for achieving universal fault-tolerant quantum computation, is one of the main challenges of the quantum computing field and it’s top of mind for Google’s John Martinis. At a presentation last week at the HPC User Forum in Tucson, Martinis, one of the world's foremost experts in quantum computing, emphasized... Read more…
Cray Rolls Out AMD-Based CS500; More to Follow?
April 18, 2018
Cray was the latest OEM to bring AMD back into the fold with introduction today of a CS500 option based on AMD’s Epyc processor line. The move follows Cray’ Read more…
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