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VAST Data Makes the Case for All-Flash Storage; Do you Agree?
Founded in 2016, all-flash storage startup VAST Data says it is on the verge of upending storage practices in line with its original mission which was and remains “to kill the hard drive,” says Jeff Denworth, one of three founders and VP of products and marketing. That’s a big claim and mission. Indeed, there are […]
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Exascale Climate Model Used to Examine the Climate Consequences of Nuclear War
December 3, 2020
Often, we can tend to examine global crises in isolation – however, they can have surprising feedback effects on one another. The COVID-19 pandemic, for instance, has led to a small global decrease in emissions, and cl Read more…
Natural Compounds, Identified via HPC, Move Forward in COVID-19 Therapeutic Testing
December 2, 2020
Nearly six months ago, HPCwire reported on efforts by researchers at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) to identify natural compounds that could be useful in the fight against COVID-19. At the time, the resear Read more…
HPC Career Notes: December 2020 Edition
December 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’ Read more…
What’s New in Computing vs. COVID-19: SC20 Edition
November 30, 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…
GENCI Supercomputer Simulation Illuminates the Dark Universe
November 30, 2020
What we can see and touch are, in the scheme of the universe, relatively minor components, with visible matter and tangible mass constituting just 16 percent of the universe’s mass and 30 percent of its energy, respect Read more…
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Intel is the foundation of HPC – from the workstation to the cloud to the backbone of the Top500. At SC20, Intel’s Trish Damkroger, VP and GM of high performance computing, addresses the audience to show how Intel and its partners are building the future of HPC today, through hardware and software technologies that accelerate the broad deployment of advanced HPC systems. Read more…
The Present and Future of AI: A Discussion with HPC Visionary Dr. Eng Lim Goh
November 27, 2020
As HPE’s chief technology officer for artificial intelligence, Dr. Eng Lim Goh devotes much of his time talking and consulting with enterprise customers about how AI can benefit their business operations and products. Read more…
The Present and Future of AI: A Discussion with HPC Visionary Dr. Eng Lim Goh
November 27, 2020
As HPE’s chief technology officer for artificial intelligence, Dr. Eng Lim Goh devotes much of his time talking and consulting with enterprise customers about Read more…
SC20 Panel – OK, You Hate Storage Tiering. What’s Next Then?
November 25, 2020
Tiering in HPC storage has a bad rep. No one likes it. It complicates things and slows I/O. At least one storage technology newcomer – VAST Data – advocates dumping the whole idea. One large-scale user, NERSC storage architect Glenn Lockwood sort of agrees. The challenge, of course, is that tiering... Read more…
Exscalate4CoV Runs 70 Billion-Molecule Coronavirus Simulation
November 25, 2020
The winds of the pandemic are changing – for better and for worse. Three viable vaccines now teeter on the brink of regulatory approval, which will pave the way for broad distribution by April or May. But until then, COVID-19 cases are skyrocketing across the U.S. and Europe... Read more…
Azure Scaled to Record 86,400 Cores for Molecular Dynamics
November 20, 2020
A new record for HPC scaling on the public cloud has been achieved on Microsoft Azure. Led by Dr. Jer-Ming Chia, the cloud provider partnered with the Beckman I Read more…
Gordon Bell Prize Winner Breaks Ground in AI-Infused Ab Initio Simulation
November 20, 2020
The race to blend deep learning and first-principle simulation to speed up solutions and scale up problems tackled is one of the most exciting research areas in computational science today. This year’s ACM Gordon Bell Prize winner announced today at SC20 makes significant progress in that direction. Read more…
Gordon Bell Special Prize Goes to Massive SARS-CoV-2 Simulations
November 19, 2020
2020 has proven a harrowing year – but it has produced remarkable heroes. To that end, this year, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) introduced the Read more…
SC20 Keynote: Climate, Exascale & the Ultimate Answer
November 19, 2020
SC20’s keynote was delivered by renowned meteorologist and climatologist Bjorn Stevens, a director at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology since 2008 and a professor at the University of Hamburg. In his keynote, Stevens traced the history of climate science from its earliest days through... Read more…
EuroHPC Exec. Dir. Talks Procurement, EPI, and Europe’s Efforts to Control its HPC Destiny
November 19, 2020
While much of the HPC community’s attention is fixed on SC20’s flood of news and new product announcements, Anders Dam Jensen, the newly-minted executive di Read more…
Azure Scaled to Record 86,400 Cores for Molecular Dynamics
November 20, 2020
A new record for HPC scaling on the public cloud has been achieved on Microsoft Azure. Led by Dr. Jer-Ming Chia, the cloud provider partnered with the Beckman I Read more…
Supercomputer-Powered Research Uncovers Signs of ‘Bradykinin Storm’ That May Explain COVID-19 Symptoms
July 28, 2020
Doctors and medical researchers have struggled to pinpoint – let alone explain – the deluge of symptoms induced by COVID-19 infections in patients, and what Read more…
Google Hires Longtime Intel Exec Bill Magro to Lead HPC Strategy
September 18, 2020
In a sign of the times, another prominent HPCer has made a move to a hyperscaler. Longtime Intel executive Bill Magro joined Google as chief technologist for hi Read more…
Nvidia Said to Be Close on Arm Deal
August 3, 2020
GPU leader Nvidia Corp. is in talks to buy U.K. chip designer Arm from parent company Softbank, according to several reports over the weekend. If consummated 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…
Is the Nvidia A100 GPU Performance Worth a Hardware Upgrade?
October 16, 2020
Over the last decade, accelerators have seen an increasing rate of adoption in high-performance computing (HPC) platforms, and in the June 2020 Top500 list, eig Read more…
NICS Unleashes ‘Kraken’ Supercomputer
April 4, 2008
A Cray XT4 supercomputer, dubbed Kraken, is scheduled to come online in mid-summer at the National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS). The soon-to-be petascale system, and the resulting NICS organization, are the result of an NSF Track II award of $65 million to the University of Tennessee and its partners to provide next-generation supercomputing for the nation's science community. Read more…
Aurora’s Troubles Move Frontier into Pole Exascale Position
October 1, 2020
Intel’s 7nm node delay has raised questions about the status of the Aurora supercomputer that was scheduled to be stood up at Argonne National Laboratory next year. Aurora was in the running to be the United States’ first exascale supercomputer although it was on a contemporaneous timeline with... Read more…
European Commission Declares €8 Billion Investment in Supercomputing
September 18, 2020
Just under two years ago, the European Commission formalized the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (JU): a concerted HPC effort (comprising 32 participating states at c Read more…
HPE Keeps Cray Brand Promise, Reveals HPE Cray Supercomputing Line
August 4, 2020
The HPC community, ever-affectionate toward Cray and its eponymous founder, can breathe a (virtual) sigh of relief. The Cray brand will live on, encompassing th Read more…
Top500: Fugaku Keeps Crown, Nvidia’s Selene Climbs to #5
November 16, 2020
With the publication of the 56th Top500 list today from SC20's virtual proceedings, Japan's Fugaku supercomputer – now fully deployed – notches another win, Read more…
Texas A&M Announces Flagship ‘Grace’ Supercomputer
November 9, 2020
Texas A&M University has announced its next flagship system: Grace. The new supercomputer, named for legendary programming pioneer Grace Hopper, is replacing the Ada system (itself named for mathematician Ada Lovelace) as the primary workhorse for Texas A&M’s High Performance Research Computing (HPRC). Read more…
At Oak Ridge, ‘End of Life’ Sometimes Isn’t
October 31, 2020
Sometimes, the old dog actually does go live on a farm. HPC systems are often cursed with short lifespans, as they are continually supplanted by the latest and Read more…
Microsoft Azure Adds A100 GPU Instances for ‘Supercomputer-Class AI’ in the Cloud
August 19, 2020
Microsoft Azure continues to infuse its cloud platform with HPC- and AI-directed technologies. Today the cloud services purveyor announced a new virtual machine Read more…
Nvidia and EuroHPC Team for Four Supercomputers, Including Massive ‘Leonardo’ System
October 15, 2020
The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (JU) serves as Europe’s concerted supercomputing play, currently comprising 32 member states and billions of euros in funding. I Read more…
Nvidia-Arm Deal a Boon for RISC-V?
October 26, 2020
The $40 billion blockbuster acquisition deal that will bring chipmaker Arm into the Nvidia corporate family could provide a boost for the competing RISC-V architecture. As regulators in the U.S., China and the European Union begin scrutinizing the impact of the blockbuster deal on semiconductor industry competition and innovation, the deal has at the very least... Read more…
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