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When you’re running compute-bound or memory-bound applications for high performance computing or large, data-dependent machine learning training workloads on GPU clusters, you need the right mi …
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Interview with 2019 Person to Watch Michela Taufer
Today, as part of our ongoing HPCwire People to Watch focus series, we are highlighting our interview with 2019 Person to Watch Michela Taufer. Michela -- the General Chair of SC19 -- is an ACM …
Intel Gold U-Series SKUs Reveal Single Socket Intentions
Intel plans to jump into the single socket market with a portion of its just announced Cascade Lake microprocessor line according to one media report. This isn’t a shocking surprise as many obs …
Is Data Science the Fourth Pillar of the Scientific Method?
April 18, 2019
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang revived a decade-old debate last month when he said that modern data science (AI plus HPC) has become the fourth pillar of the scientific method. While some disagree with the notion that statistic Read more…
Google Open Sources TensorFlow Version of MorphNet DL Tool
April 18, 2019
Designing optimum deep neural networks remains a non-trivial exercise. “Given the large search space of possible architectures, designing a network from scratch for your specific application can be prohibitively expens Read more…
Startup Trovares Brings HPC to Graph Analytics
April 16, 2019
A startup launched by HPC veterans is combining supercomputers and graph analytics to forge a new suite of tools for applications ranging from cyber security to scientific research. Along with the launch of its xGT gr Read more…
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HPE and Intel® Omni-Path Architecture: How to Power a Cloud
Learn how HPE and Intel® Omni-Path Architecture provide critical infrastructure for leading Nordic HPC provider’s HPCFLOW cloud service.
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Bridging HPC and Cloud Native Development with Kubernetes
The HPC community has historically developed its own specialized software stack including schedulers, filesystems, developer tools, container technologies tuned for performance and large-scale on-premises deployments. Read more…
Researchers Develop Quantum Device to Generate Possible Futures
April 16, 2019
In the 2018 movie Infinity War, a scene featured Dr. Strange looking into 14 million possible futures to search for a single timeline where the heroes would be victorious. Perhaps he would have had an easier time with h Read more…
BSC Researchers Shrink Floating Point Formats to Accelerate Deep Neural Network Training
April 15, 2019
Sometimes calculating solutions as precisely as a computer can wastes more CPU resources than is necessary. A case in point is with deep learning. In early stag Read more…
Intel Extends FPGA Ecosystem with 10nm Agilex
April 11, 2019
The insatiable appetite for higher throughput and lower latency – particularly where edge analytics and AI, network functions, or for a range of datacenter ac Read more…
Nvidia Doubles Down on Medical AI
April 9, 2019
Nvidia is collaborating with medical groups to push GPU-powered AI tools into clinical settings, including radiology and drug discovery. The GPU leader said Monday it will collaborate with the American College of Radiology (ACR) to provide clinicians with its Clara AI tool kit. The partnership would allow radiologists to leverage AI techniques for diagnostic imaging using their own clinical data. Read more…
Digging into MLPerf Benchmark Suite to Inform AI Infrastructure Decisions
April 9, 2019
With machine learning and deep learning storming into the datacenter, the new challenge is optimizing infrastructure choices to support diverse ML and DL workfl Read more…
AI and Enterprise Datacenters Boost HPC Server Revenues Past Expectations – Hyperion
April 9, 2019
Building on the big year of 2017 and spurred in part by the convergence of AI and HPC, global revenue for high performance servers jumped 15.6 percent last year Read more…
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…
Systems Vendors Refresh Product Lines as Intel Launches New Xeon, Optane
April 2, 2019
Five of the biggest systems vendors – Dell EMC, Lenovo, Supermicro, Cisco and Cray – in concert with Intel’s launch this morning of its second-generation Xeon Scalable processors (Cascade Lake) and Optane persistent memory – announced the refresh of server portfolios leveraging the new Intel technologies. Read more…
Semiconductor Industry Association 2019 Agenda Strikes Familiar Chords
April 2, 2019
The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) today issued its annual agenda – Winning the Future: A Blueprint for Sustained U.S. Leadership in Semiconductor T Read more…
The Case Against ‘The Case Against Quantum Computing’
January 9, 2019
It’s not easy to be a physicist. Richard Feynman (basically the Jimi Hendrix of physicists) once said: “The first principle is that you must not fool yourse Read more…
Why Nvidia Bought Mellanox: ‘Future Datacenters Will Be…Like High Performance Computers’
March 14, 2019
“Future datacenters of all kinds will be built like high performance computers,” said Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang during a phone briefing on Monday after Nvidia revealed scooping up the high performance networking company Mellanox for $6.9 billion. Read more…
ClusterVision in Bankruptcy, Fate Uncertain
February 13, 2019
ClusterVision, European HPC specialists that have built and installed over 20 Top500-ranked systems in their nearly 17-year history, appear to be in the midst o Read more…
Intel Reportedly in $6B Bid for Mellanox
January 30, 2019
The latest rumors and reports around an acquisition of Mellanox focus on Intel, which has reportedly offered a $6 billion bid for the high performance interconn Read more…
It’s Official: Aurora on Track to Be First US Exascale Computer in 2021
March 18, 2019
The U.S. Department of Energy along with Intel and Cray confirmed today that an Intel/Cray supercomputer, "Aurora," capable of sustained performance of one exaf Read more…
Looking for Light Reading? NSF-backed ‘Comic Books’ Tackle Quantum Computing
January 28, 2019
Still baffled by quantum computing? How about turning to comic books (graphic novels for the well-read among you) for some clarity and a little humor on QC. The Read more…
IBM Quantum Update: Q System One Launch, New Collaborators, and QC Center Plans
January 10, 2019
IBM made three significant quantum computing announcements at CES this week. One was introduction of IBM Q System One; it’s really the integration of IBM’s Read more…
Deep500: ETH Researchers Introduce New Deep Learning Benchmark for HPC
February 5, 2019
ETH researchers have developed a new deep learning benchmarking environment – Deep500 – they say is “the first distributed and reproducible benchmarking s Read more…
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IBM Bets $2B Seeking 1000X AI Hardware Performance Boost
February 7, 2019
For now, AI systems are mostly machine learning-based and “narrow” – powerful as they are by today's standards, they're limited to performing a few, narro Read more…
The Deep500 – Researchers Tackle an HPC Benchmark for Deep Learning
January 7, 2019
How do you know if an HPC system, particularly a larger-scale system, is well-suited for deep learning workloads? Today, that’s not an easy question to answer Read more…
Arm Unveils Neoverse N1 Platform with up to 128-Cores
February 20, 2019
Following on its Neoverse roadmap announcement last October, Arm today revealed its next-gen Neoverse microarchitecture with compute and throughput-optimized si Read more…
France to Deploy AI-Focused Supercomputer: Jean Zay
January 22, 2019
HPE announced today that it won the contract to build a supercomputer that will drive France’s AI and HPC efforts. The computer will be part of GENCI, the Fre Read more…
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…
Oil and Gas Supercloud Clears Out Remaining Knights Landing Inventory: All 38,000 Wafers
March 13, 2019
The McCloud HPC service being built by Australia’s DownUnder GeoSolutions (DUG) outside Houston is set to become the largest oil and gas cloud in the world th Read more…
HPC Reflections and (Mostly Hopeful) Predictions
December 19, 2018
So much ‘spaghetti’ gets tossed on walls by the technology community (vendors and researchers) to see what sticks that it is often difficult to peer through Read more…
Air Force Research Laboratory Unveils First Shared, Classified DoD HPC Capability
February 28, 2019
In a ceremony on Tuesday, the Air Force Research Laboratory unveiled four new computing clusters, providing the capability for what it is calling the first-ever Read more…
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