Datanami
EnterpriseAI
HPCwire Japan
HPC & AI Wall Street
Nvidia Dominates (Again) Latest MLPerf Inference Results
The two-year-old AI benchmarking group MLPerf.org released its second set of inferencing results yesterday and again, as in the most recent MLPerf training results (July 2020), it was almost entirely The Nvidia Show, a point made clearest by the fact that 85 percent of the submissions used Nvidia accelerators. One wonders where the rest of […]
The academic engine that propels young companies
Like universities around the world, the University of Florida helps startup companies get off the ground with the support of a business incubator and leading-edge high performance computing. Around the world, universities are not just centers for teaching and research, but also engines for product innovation and business incubation. Countless numbers of startup companies have […]
Sponsored Content by Dell Technologies | Intel
Accelerating Research Innovation with Qumulo’s File Data Platform
Register to Watch
UT Dallas Grows HPC Storage Footprint for Animation and Game Development
October 28, 2020
Computer-generated animation and video game development are extraordinarily computationally intensive fields, with studios often requiring large server farms with hundreds of terabytes – or even petabytes – of storag Read more…
Frame by Frame, Supercomputing Reveals the Forms of the Coronavirus
October 27, 2020
From the start of the pandemic, supercomputing research has been targeting one particular protein of the coronavirus: the notorious “S” or “spike” protein, which allows the virus to pry its way into human cells a Read more…
Nvidia-Arm Deal a Boon for RISC-V?
October 26, 2020
The $40 billion blockbuster acquisition deal that will bring chip maker 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 Europe Read more…
NASA Uses Supercomputing to Measure Carbon in the World’s Trees
October 22, 2020
Trees constitute one of the world’s most important carbon sinks, pulling enormous amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing the carbon in their trunks and the surrounding soil. Measuring this carbon sto Read more…
With Optane Gaining, Intel Exits NAND Flash
October 21, 2020
In a sign that its 3D XPoint memory technology is gaining traction, Intel Corp. is departing the NAND flash memory and storage market with the sale of its manufacturing base in China to SK Hynix of South Korea. The $9 Read more…
AWS Solution Channel
Rapid Chip Design in the Cloud
Time-to-market and engineering efficiency are the most critical and expensive metrics for a chip design company. With this in mind, the team at Annapurna Labs selected Altair Accelerator™ Read more…
Intel® HPC + AI Pavilion
Berlin Institute of Health: Putting HPC to Work for the World
Researchers from the Center for Digital Health at the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) are using science to understand the pathophysiology of COVID-19, which can help to inform the development of targeted treatments. Read more…
HPE, AMD and EuroHPC Partner for Pre-Exascale LUMI Supercomputer
October 21, 2020
Not even a week after Nvidia announced that it would be providing hardware for the first four of the eight planned EuroHPC systems, HPE and AMD are announcing another major EuroHPC design win. Finnish supercomputing cent Read more…
HPE, AMD and EuroHPC Partner for Pre-Exascale LUMI Supercomputer
October 21, 2020
Not even a week after Nvidia announced that it would be providing hardware for the first four of the eight planned EuroHPC systems, HPE and AMD are announcing a Read more…
HPE to Build Australia’s Most Powerful Supercomputer for Pawsey
October 20, 2020
The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Perth, Western Australia, has had a busy year. Pawsey typically spends much of its time looking to the stars, working with a Read more…
DDN-Tintri Showcases Technology Integration with Two New Products
October 20, 2020
DDN, a long-time leader in HPC storage, announced two new products today and provided more detail around its strategy for integrating DDN HPC technologies with 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…
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…
ROI: Is HPC Worth It? What Can We Actually Measure?
October 15, 2020
HPC enables innovation and discovery. We all seem to agree on that. Is there a good way to quantify how much that’s worth? Thanks to a sponsored white pape Read more…
Preparing for Exascale Science on Day 1
October 14, 2020
Science simulation, visualization, data, and learning applications will greatly benefit from the massive computational resources available with future exascal Read more…
LLNL, ANL and GSK Provide Early Glimpse into Cerebras AI System Performance
October 13, 2020
AI chip and systems startup Cerebras was one of many AI companies showcased at the AI Hardware Summit which concluded last week. Rather than dwell on its techno 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…
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…
Intel’s 7nm Slip Raises Questions About Ponte Vecchio GPU, Aurora Supercomputer
July 30, 2020
During its second-quarter earnings call, Intel announced a one-year delay of its 7nm process technology, which it says it will create an approximate six-month shift for its CPU product timing relative to prior expectations. The primary issue is a defect mode in the 7nm process that resulted in yield degradation... 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Google Cloud Debuts 16-GPU Ampere A100 Instances
July 7, 2020
On the heels of the Nvidia’s Ampere A100 GPU launch in May, Google Cloud is announcing alpha availability of the A100 “Accelerator Optimized” VM A2 instance family on Google Compute Engine. The instances are powered by the HGX A100 16-GPU platform, which combines two HGX A100 8-GPU baseboards using... 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…
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Powers Fugaku’s Storage, Scores IO500 Win
August 28, 2020
In June, RIKEN shook the supercomputing world with its Arm-based, Fujitsu-built juggernaut: Fugaku. The system, which weighs in at 415.5 Linpack petaflops, topp Read more…
HPE, AMD and EuroHPC Partner for Pre-Exascale LUMI Supercomputer
October 21, 2020
Not even a week after Nvidia announced that it would be providing hardware for the first four of the eight planned EuroHPC systems, HPE and AMD are announcing a Read more…
DOD Orders Two AI-Focused Supercomputers from Liqid
August 24, 2020
The U.S. Department of Defense is making a big investment in data analytics and AI computing with the procurement of two HPC systems that will provide the High Read more…
Oracle Cloud Deepens HPC Embrace with Launch of A100 Instances, Plans for Arm, More
September 22, 2020
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) continued its steady ramp-up of HPC capabilities today with a flurry of announcements. Topping the list is general availabilit Read more…
- Click Here for More Headlines
Whitepaper
HPC Data Storage Enables Microbiome Research and Understanding of COVID-19 and Other Diseases
Microbiome research is on the rise because the microbiome is linked to a plethora of conditions and diseases, including COVID-19. Accelerating microbiome research is a priority at the UC San Diego Center for Microbiome Innovation (CMI). There, and at other research institutions, such research introduces new high-performance computing challenges due to the large volumes of data, the I/O-intensive demands of microbiome computational analysis, and the multi-disciplinary and collaborative nature of the research. Download this white paper to learn how CMI tackled these problems using an HPC storage infrastructure that delivers consistently high performance, speeds data exploration and discovery, and simplifies storage management for administrators.
Download Now
Sponsored by Panasas
Webcast
Accelerating Research Innovation with Qumulo’s File Data Platform
Current studies and trends indicate a shift beyond HPC experimentation in public clouds to increasing adoption and maturation in cloud HPC offerings. This webcast focuses on how to unleash the on-demand compute power of cloud HPC and ensure a successful workload-based approach. Join AWS; Western Digital; and Flux7, an NTT DATA Company, for a transparent and in-depth discussion on the latest innovations
Register to Watch
Sponsored by Qumulo
Webinar
Breaking Down the Barriers to HPC in the Cloud
In this SpotlightON we take a look at the fast-expanding world of AI use cases. In some sense it’s harder to identify what won’t be a potential use case for AI. Today, finance, internet commerce, healthcare, energy discovery and management, and IoT applications are all hot beds of AI development and deployment. Many more will follow. Learn how your work day and business may benefit from these experiences.
Watch Webinar
Sponsored by Flux7
SpotlightON
Popular AI Use Cases
Manufacturers face growing competition as new players enter the global market all the time. To stay ahead of rivals, manufacturers increasingly rely on digital modeling and simulation tools for product design, analysis and testing with the help of HPC and CAE. So how is HPC enabling innovation for manufacturers from small to large?
Download Compendium
Sponsored by NetApp
Advanced Scale Career Development & Workforce Enhancement Center
Featured Advanced Scale Jobs:
HPCwire Resource Library
-
Whitepaper: HPC Data Storage Enables Microbiome Research and Understanding of COVID-19 and Other Diseases
-
Webcasts and webinars: Accelerating Research Innovation with Qumulo’s File Data Platform
-
Webcasts and webinars: Breaking down the barriers to HPC in the Cloud
-
Whitepaper: Pure Vector Supercomputers for Your Desktop
-
Whitepaper: Increasing HPC Cluster Productivity Through System Resource Tracking
-
Whitepaper: HPC Data Management Solutions
HPCwire Product Showcase
© 2020 HPCwire. All Rights Reserved. A Tabor Communications Publication
HPCwire is a registered trademark of Tabor Communications, Inc. Use of this site is governed by our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without express written permission of Tabor Communications, Inc. is prohibited.