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UCF, UCX and a Car Ride on the Road to Exascale
Until a few years ago, bringing a new network or new programming model onto the scene required an enormous amount of repetitious development that effectively shut out innovation opportunities. Th …
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Nvidia Accelerates AI Inference in the Datacenter with T4 GPU
Nvidia is upping its game for AI inference in the datacenter with a new platform consisting of an inference accelerator chip--the new Turing-based Tesla T4 GPU--and a refresh of its inference ser …
DeepSense Combines HPC and AI to Bolster Canada’s Ocean Economy
We often hear scientists say that we know less than 10 percent of the life of the oceans. This week, IBM and a group of Canadian industry and government partners launched a public-private project …
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Migration Tools Needed to Shift ML to Production
September 20, 2018
The confluence of accelerators like cloud GPUs along with the ability to handle data-rich HPC workloads will help push more machine learning projects into production, concludes a new study that also stresses the importan Read more…
Kyoto University ACCMS Implements Fine-grained Power Management
September 19, 2018
Data center power management is a ubiquitous challenge and in few places is it more so than at Kyoto University Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies (ACCMS)) where power consumption limits were imposed followi Read more…
What’s New in HPC Research: September (Part 1)
September 18, 2018
In this new bimonthly feature, HPCwire will highlight newly published research in the high-performance computing community and related domains. From exascale to quantum computing, the details are here. Check back every Read more…
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Introducing the First Integrated System Management Software for HPC Clusters from HPE
How do you manage your complex, growing cluster environments? Answer that big challenge with the new HPC cluster management solution: HPE Performance Cluster Manager. Read more…
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A Crystal Ball for HPC
People are notoriously bad at predicting the future. This very much includes experts. In the Forbes article “Why Most Predictions Are So Bad” Philip Tetlock discusses the largest and best-known test of the accuracy of expert predictions which show that any experts would do better if they make random guesses. Read more…
NSF Highlights Expanded Efforts for Broadening Participation in Computing
September 13, 2018
Today, the Directorate of Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) of the NSF released a letter highlighting the expansion of its broadening participation in computing efforts. The letter was penned by Jam Read more…
Rigetti (and Others) Pursuit of Quantum Advantage
September 11, 2018
Remember ‘quantum supremacy’, the much-touted but little-loved idea that the age of quantum computing would be signaled when quantum computers could tackle Read more…
How FPGAs Accelerate Financial Services Workloads
September 11, 2018
While FSI companies are unlikely, for competitive reasons, to disclose their FPGA strategies, James Reinders offers insights into the case for FPGAs as accelerators for FSI by discussing performance, power, size, latency, jitter and inline processing. Read more…
Update from Gregory Kurtzer on Singularity’s Push into FS and the Enterprise
September 11, 2018
Container technology is hardly new but it has undergone rapid evolution in the HPC space in recent years to accommodate traditional science workloads and HPC systems requirements. While Docker containers continue to dominate in the enterprise, other variants are becoming important and one alternative with distinctly HPC roots – Singularity – is making an enterprise push targeting advanced scale workload inclusive of HPC. Read more…
At HPC on Wall Street: AI-as-a-Service Accelerates AI Journeys
September 10, 2018
AIaaS – artificial intelligence-as-a-service – is the technology discipline that eases enterprise entry into the mysteries of the AI journey while lowering Read more…
No Go for GloFo at 7nm; and the Fujitsu A64FX post-K CPU
September 5, 2018
It’s been a news worthy couple of weeks in the semiconductor and HPC industry. There were several HPC relevant disclosures at Hot Chips 2018 to whet appetites Read more…
Weathering the Next ‘Great’ Storm in the Market
September 1, 2018
This is not an article about the joys and wonders of machine learning or big data. Instead, this article is about a pernicious, unsolved problem in investment f Read more…
The Convergence of Big Data and Extreme-Scale HPC
August 31, 2018
As we are heading towards extreme-scale HPC coupled with data intensive analytics like machine learning, the necessary integration of big data and HPC is a curr Read more…
TACC’s ‘Frontera’ Supercomputer Expands Horizon for Extreme-Scale Science
August 29, 2018
The National Science Foundation and the Texas Advanced Computing Center announced today that a new system, called Frontera, will overtake Stampede 2 as the fast Read more…
TACC Wins Next NSF-funded Major Supercomputer
July 30, 2018
The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) has won the next NSF-funded big supercomputer beating out rivals including the National Center for Supercomputing Ap Read more…
IBM at Hot Chips: What’s Next for Power
August 23, 2018
With processor, memory and networking technologies all racing to fill in for an ailing Moore’s law, the era of the heterogeneous datacenter is well underway, Read more…
Requiem for a Phi: Knights Landing Discontinued
July 25, 2018
On Monday, Intel made public its end of life strategy for the Knights Landing "KNL" Phi product set. The announcement makes official what has already been wide Read more…
CERN Project Sees Orders-of-Magnitude Speedup with AI Approach
August 14, 2018
An award-winning effort at CERN has demonstrated potential to significantly change how the physics based modeling and simulation communities view machine learni 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…
New Deep Learning Algorithm Solves Rubik’s Cube
July 25, 2018
Solving (and attempting to solve) Rubik’s Cube has delighted millions of puzzle lovers since 1974 when the cube was invented by Hungarian sculptor and archite Read more…
AMD’s EPYC Road to Redemption in Six Slides
June 21, 2018
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 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…
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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…
D-Wave Breaks New Ground in Quantum Simulation
July 16, 2018
Last Friday D-Wave scientists and colleagues published work in Science which they say represents the first fulfillment of Richard Feynman’s 1982 notion that 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…
House Passes $1.275B National Quantum Initiative
September 17, 2018
Last Thursday the U.S. House of Representatives passed the National Quantum Initiative Act (NQIA) intended to accelerate quantum computing research and developm 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…
Intel Announces Cooper Lake, Advances AI Strategy
August 9, 2018
Intel's chief datacenter exec Navin Shenoy kicked off the company's Data-Centric Innovation Summit Wednesday, the day-long program devoted to Intel's datacenter Read more…
TACC’s ‘Frontera’ Supercomputer Expands Horizon for Extreme-Scale Science
August 29, 2018
The National Science Foundation and the Texas Advanced Computing Center announced today that a new system, called Frontera, will overtake Stampede 2 as the fast Read more…
GPUs Power Five of World’s Top Seven Supercomputers
June 25, 2018
The top 10 echelon of the newly minted Top500 list boasts three powerful new systems with one common engine: the Nvidia Volta V100 general-purpose graphics proc Read more…
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