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Understanding Why AI and Analytics Have to Run on HPC Clusters
Data science is now a first-class citizen in the HPC data center, in the cloud, and on the workstation. The converse is also true, High Performance Computing (HPC) is now a high priority for data …
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Informing Designs of Safer, More Efficient Aircraft with Exascale Computing
During the process of designing an aircraft, aeronautical engineers must perform predictive simulations to understand how airflow around the plane impacts flight characteristics. However, modelin …
Intel Debuts Pohoiki Beach, Its 8M Neuron Neuromorphic Development System
Neuromorphic computing has received less fanfare of late than quantum computing whose mystery has captured public attention and which seems to have generated more efforts (academic, government, a …
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AWS Expands Worldwide Availability to AMD-based Instances
July 22, 2019
Setting aside potential setbacks caused by U.S. trade policies, the steady cadence of AMD’s revival in HPC and the datacenter continued last week with AWS expanding availability of its AMD Epyc-based instances. Recall Read more…
Researchers Use Supercomputing to Study Links Between Hurricanes and Climate Change
July 19, 2019
As climate change looms, researchers are scrambling to answer the question of how a warming planet will affect the frequency and severity of already-deadly hurricanes. Now, a team of researchers from the University of Il Read more…
San Diego Supercomputer Center to Welcome ‘Expanse’ Supercomputer in 2020
July 18, 2019
With a $10 million dollar award from the National Science Foundation, San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California San Diego is procuring a new supercomputer, called Expanse, to be deployed next Read more…
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Unleashing Seismic Modeling at Scale: We Can’t Stop Quakes, But We Can Be Better Prepared
It has been a scary July so far for many residents of California. A magnitude 6.4 quake struck on July 4 near Ridgecrest (about 194 kilometers northeast of Los Angeles), followed by a magnitude 7.1 quake in the same region on July 5. Read more…
HPE Extreme Performance Solutions
Bring the Combined Power of HPC and AI to Your Business Transformation
A growing number of commercial businesses are implementing HPC solutions to derive actionable business insights, to run higher performance applications and to gain a competitive advantage. Read more…
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Visual Capital: Seeing Digital Image and Video Archives as Potential Revenue Streams
As most business owners agree, cash is king. But what if there was a hidden source of revenue that companies are only starting to learn how to exploit? Read more…
How Fast is Your Rubik Solver; This One’s Probably Faster
July 18, 2019
In the race to solve Rubik’s Cube, the time-to-finish keeps shrinking. This year Philipp Weyer from Germany won the 10th World Cube Association (WCA) Championship held in Melbourne, Australia, with a 6.74-second perfo Read more…
Goonhilly Unveils New Immersion-Cooled Platform, Doubles Down on Sustainability Mission
July 16, 2019
Goonhilly Earth Station has opened its new datacenter – an enhancement to its existing tier 3 facility – in Cornwall, England, touting an ambitious commitme Read more…
ISC19 Cluster Competition: Application Results, Finally!
July 15, 2019
Our exhaustive coverage of the ISC19 Student Cluster Competition continues as we discuss the application scores below. While the scores were typically high, som Read more…
Nvidia Expands DGX-Ready AI Program to 19 Countries
July 11, 2019
Nvidia’s DGX-Ready Data Center Program, announced in January and designed to provide colo and public cloud-like options to access the company’s GPU-powered Read more…
Argonne Team Makes Record Globus File Transfer
July 10, 2019
A team of scientists at Argonne National Laboratory has broken a data transfer record by moving a staggering 2.9 petabytes of data for a research project. The data – from three large cosmological simulations – was generated and stored on the Summit supercomputer at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF)... Read more…
Nvidia, Google Tie in Second MLPerf Training ‘At-Scale’ Round
July 10, 2019
Results for the second round of the AI benchmarking suite known as MLPerf were published today with Google Cloud and Nvidia each picking up three wins in the at Read more…
Applied Materials Embedding New Memory Technologies in Chips
July 9, 2019
Applied Materials, the $17 billion Santa Clara-based materials engineering company for the semiconductor industry, today announced manufacturing systems enablin Read more…
ISC19 Cluster Competition: HPCC Deep Dive
July 7, 2019
The biggest benchmark the student warriors tackled during the ISC19 Student Cluster Competition was the colossal HPC Challenge. This is a collection of benchmar Read more…
OLCF Bids Farewell to Its Titan Supercomputer
July 4, 2019
After seven years of faithful service, and a long reign as the United States' fastest supercomputer, the Cray XK7-based Titan supercomputer at the Oak Ridge Lea Read more…
High Performance (Potato) Chips
May 5, 2006
In this article, we focus on how Procter & Gamble is using high performance computing to create some common, everyday supermarket products. Tom Lange, a 27-year veteran of the company, tells us how P&G models products, processes and production systems for the betterment of consumer package goods. Read more…
Cray, AMD to Extend DOE’s Exascale Frontier
May 7, 2019
Cray and AMD are coming back to Oak Ridge National Laboratory to partner on the world’s largest and most expensive supercomputer. The Department of Energy’s Read more…
Graphene Surprises Again, This Time for Quantum Computing
May 8, 2019
Graphene is fascinating stuff with promise for use in a seeming endless number of applications. This month researchers from the University of Vienna and Institu Read more…
AMD Verifies Its Largest 7nm Chip Design in Ten Hours
June 5, 2019
AMD announced last week that its engineers had successfully executed the first physical verification of its largest 7nm chip design – in just ten hours. The AMD Radeon Instinct Vega20 – which boasts 13.2 billion transistors – was tested using a TSMC-certified Calibre nmDRC software platform from Mentor. Read more…
TSMC and Samsung Moving to 5nm; Whither Moore’s Law?
June 12, 2019
With reports that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TMSC) and Samsung are moving quickly to 5nm manufacturing, it’s a good time to again ponder whither goes the venerable Moore’s law. Shrinking feature size has of course been the primary hallmark of achieving Moore’s law... Read more…
Deep Learning Competitors Stalk Nvidia
May 14, 2019
There is no shortage of processing architectures emerging to accelerate deep learning workloads, with two more options emerging this week to challenge GPU leader Nvidia. First, Intel researchers claimed a new deep learning record for image classification on the ResNet-50 convolutional neural network. Separately, Israeli AI chip startup Hailo.ai... Read more…
Nvidia Embraces Arm, Declares Intent to Accelerate All CPU Architectures
June 17, 2019
As the Top500 list was being announced at ISC in Frankfurt today with an upgraded petascale Arm supercomputer in the top third of the list, Nvidia announced its Read more…
Top500 Purely Petaflops; US Maintains Performance Lead
June 17, 2019
With the kick-off of the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) in Frankfurt this morning, the 53rd Top500 list made its debut, and this one's for petafl Read more…
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Intel Launches Cascade Lake Xeons with Up to 56 Cores
April 2, 2019
At Intel's Data-Centric Innovation Day in San Francisco (April 2), the company unveiled its second-generation Xeon Scalable (Cascade Lake) family and debuted it Read more…
Cray – and the Cray Brand – to Be Positioned at Tip of HPE’s HPC Spear
May 22, 2019
More so than with most acquisitions of this kind, HPE’s purchase of Cray for $1.3 billion, announced last week, seems to have elements of that overused, often Read more…
A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Hardware That Powered the Black Hole Image
June 24, 2019
Two months ago, the first-ever image of a black hole took the internet by storm. A team of scientists took years to produce and verify the striking image – an Read more…
Announcing four new HPC capabilities in Google Cloud Platform
April 15, 2019
When you’re running compute-bound or memory-bound applications for high performance computing or large, data-dependent machine learning training workloads on Read more…
Chinese Company Sugon Placed on US ‘Entity List’ After Strong Showing at International Supercomputing Conference
June 26, 2019
After more than a decade of advancing its supercomputing prowess, operating the world’s most powerful supercomputer from June 2013 to June 2018, China is keep Read more…
In Wake of Nvidia-Mellanox: Xilinx to Acquire Solarflare
April 25, 2019
With echoes of Nvidia’s recent acquisition of Mellanox, FPGA maker Xilinx has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Solarflare Communications, provider Read more…
Qualcomm Invests in RISC-V Startup SiFive
June 7, 2019
Investors are zeroing in on the open standard RISC-V instruction set architecture and the processor intellectual property being developed by a batch of high-flying chip startups. Last fall, Esperanto Technologies announced a $58 million funding round. Read more…
Nvidia Claims 6000x Speed-Up for Stock Trading Backtest Benchmark
May 13, 2019
A stock trading backtesting algorithm used by hedge funds to simulate trading variants has received a massive, GPU-based performance boost, according to Nvidia, Read more…
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