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The Exascale FY18 Budget – The Next Step
On July 12, 2017, the U.S. federal budget for its Exascale Computing Initiative (ECI) took its next step forward. On that day, the full Appropriations Committee of the House of Representatives vo …
Women in HPC Luncheon Shines Light on Female-Friendly Hiring Practices
The second annual Women in HPC luncheon was held on June 20, 2017, during the International Supercomputing Conference in Frankfurt, Germany. The luncheon provides participants the opportunity to …
Highlights from ISC High Performance 2017
View the news and highlights from this year’s ISC High Performance 2017 in Frankfurt, Germany.
Trinity Supercomputer’s Haswell and KNL Partitions Are Merged
July 19, 2017
Trinity supercomputer’s two partitions – one based on Intel Xeon Haswell processors and the other on Xeon Phi Knights Landing – have been fully integrated are now available for use on classified work in the Nationa Read more…
Summer Reading: IEEE Spectrum’s Chip Hall of Fame
July 17, 2017
Take a trip down memory lane – the Mostek MK4096 4-kilobit DRAM, for instance. Perhaps processors are more to your liking. Remember the Sh-Boom processor (1988), created by Russell Fish and Chuck Moore, and named after Read more…
Satellite Advances, NSF Computation Power Rapid Mapping of Earth’s Surface
July 13, 2017
New satellite technologies have completely changed the game in mapping and geographical data gathering, reducing costs and placing a new emphasis on time series and timeliness in general, according to Paul Morin, directo Read more…
Intel Skylake: Xeon Goes from Chip to Platform
July 13, 2017
With yesterday’s New York unveiling of the new “Skylake” Xeon Scalable processors, Intel made multiple runs at multiple competitive threats and strategic markets. Skylake will carry Intel's flag in the fight for le Read more…
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HPE Servers Deliver High Performance Remote Visualization
Whether generating seismic simulations, locating new productive oil reservoirs, or constructing complex models of the earth’s subsurface, energy, oil, and gas (EO&G) is a highly data-driven industry. Read more…
Stanford Researchers Tackle Cardiac Arrhythmia Detection with Machine Learning
July 12, 2017
Using machine learning techniques Stanford University researchers reported developing an algorithm for identifying cardiac arrhythmias that performs as well or better than cardiologists. Training the model, as usual, was Read more…
Perverse Incentives? How Economics (Mis-)shaped Academic Science
July 12, 2017
The unintended consequences of how we fund academic research—in the U.S. and elsewhere—are strangling innovation, putting universities into debt and creating numerous PhD graduates and postdoctoral fellows who will n Read more…
Why Tech is Failing at Diversity and How It Can Succeed
July 11, 2017
The sectors that are supposed to be all about innovation and the future continue to fail spectacularly at gender equity and diversity. UK, US and Canada still haven’t managed to break the average 20 percent threshold for gender equity across STEM academic disciplines. Read more…
DARPA Selects Five Teams for Neural Engineering Program
July 10, 2017
Interfacing directly with the human neural system to promote health and expand human capacities is an ongoing goal in brain research. Today, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced five contracts Read more…
Satellite Advances, NSF Computation Power Rapid Mapping of Earth’s Surface
July 13, 2017
New satellite technologies have completely changed the game in mapping and geographical data gathering, reducing costs and placing a new emphasis on time series Read more…
Intel Skylake: Xeon Goes from Chip to Platform
July 13, 2017
With yesterday’s New York unveiling of the new “Skylake” Xeon Scalable processors, Intel made multiple runs at multiple competitive threats and strategic Read more…
Perverse Incentives? How Economics (Mis-)shaped Academic Science
July 12, 2017
The unintended consequences of how we fund academic research—in the U.S. and elsewhere—are strangling innovation, putting universities into debt and creatin Read more…
Why Tech is Failing at Diversity and How It Can Succeed
July 11, 2017
The sectors that are supposed to be all about innovation and the future continue to fail spectacularly at gender equity and diversity. UK, US and Canada still haven’t managed to break the average 20 percent threshold for gender equity across STEM academic disciplines. Read more…
NSF Provides Status Report on U.S. Doctorate Education
July 6, 2017
The U.S. remains a potent factory for doctorate degrees according to the most recent National Science Foundation Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED). In 2015 the Read more…
Nvidia, Baidu Expand AI Partnership
July 5, 2017
Today at its developer conference in Beijing, Baidu announced a broadening of its AI partnership with Nvidia, including plans to bring Nvidia’s recently annou Read more…
Intersect360 Survey Shows Continued InfiniBand Dominance
July 4, 2017
There were few surprises in Intersect360 Research’s just released report on interconnect use in HPC. InfiniBand and Ethernet remain the dominant protocols acr Read more…
Optimizing Codes for Heterogeneous HPC Clusters Using OpenACC
July 3, 2017
Looking at the Top500 and Green500 ranks, one clearly realizes that most HPC systems are heterogeneous architecture using COTS (Commercial Off-The-Shelf) hardware, combining traditional multi-core CPUs with massively parallel accelerators, such as GPUs and MICs. With processor frequencies now hitting a solid wall, the only truly open avenue for riding today the Moore’s law is increasing hardware parallelism in several different ways: more computing nodes, more processors in each node, more cores within each processor, and longer vector instructions in each core. Read more…
HPC Compiler Company PathScale Seeks Life Raft
March 23, 2017
HPCwire has learned that HPC compiler company PathScale has fallen on difficult times and is asking the community for help or actively seeking a buyer for its a Read more…
Quantum Bits: D-Wave and VW; Google Quantum Lab; IBM Expands Access
March 21, 2017
For a technology that’s usually characterized as far off and in a distant galaxy, quantum computing has been steadily picking up steam. Just how close real-wo Read more…
Google Pulls Back the Covers on Its First Machine Learning Chip
April 6, 2017
This week Google released a report detailing the design and performance characteristics of the Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), its custom ASIC for the inference 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…
Trump Budget Targets NIH, DOE, and EPA; No Mention of NSF
March 16, 2017
President Trump’s proposed U.S. fiscal 2018 budget issued today sharply cuts science spending while bolstering military spending as he promised during the cam Read more…
CPU-based Visualization Positions for Exascale Supercomputing
March 16, 2017
In this contributed perspective piece, Intel’s Jim Jeffers makes the case that CPU-based visualization is now widely adopted and as such is no longer a contrarian view, but is rather an exascale requirement. Read more…
Nvidia’s Mammoth Volta GPU Aims High for AI, HPC
May 10, 2017
At Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference (GTC17) in San Jose, Calif., this morning, CEO Jensen Huang announced the company's much-anticipated Volta architecture a Read more…
Facebook Open Sources Caffe2; Nvidia, Intel Rush to Optimize
April 18, 2017
From its F8 developer conference in San Jose, Calif., today, Facebook announced Caffe2, a new open-source, cross-platform framework for deep learning. Caffe2 is the successor to Caffe, the deep learning framework developed by Berkeley AI Research and community contributors. Read more…
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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…
MIT Mathematician Spins Up 220,000-Core Google Compute Cluster
April 21, 2017
On Thursday, Google announced that MIT math professor and computational number theorist Andrew V. Sutherland had set a record for the largest Google Compute Engine (GCE) job. Sutherland ran the massive mathematics workload on 220,000 GCE cores using preemptible virtual machine instances. 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…
Google Debuts TPU v2 and will Add to Google Cloud
May 25, 2017
Not long after stirring attention in the deep learning/AI community by revealing the details of its Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), Google last week announced the Read more…
Russian Researchers Claim First Quantum-Safe Blockchain
May 25, 2017
The Russian Quantum Center today announced it has overcome the threat of quantum cryptography by creating the first quantum-safe blockchain, securing cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, along with classified government communications and other sensitive digital transfers. Read more…
Groq This: New AI Chips to Give GPUs a Run for Deep Learning Money
April 24, 2017
CPUs and GPUs, move over. Thanks to recent revelations surrounding Google’s new Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), the computing world appears to be on the cusp of Read more…
Top500 Results: Latest List Trends and What’s in Store
June 19, 2017
Greetings from Frankfurt and the 2017 International Supercomputing Conference where the latest Top500 list has just been revealed. Although there were no major Read more…
Six Exascale PathForward Vendors Selected; DoE Providing $258M
June 15, 2017
The much-anticipated PathForward awards for hardware R&D in support of the Exascale Computing Project were announced today with six vendors selected – AMD Read more…
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