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The preliminary competitions for the ASC19 Student Supercomputer Challenge have begun. 300+ teams from over 200 universities around the world will compete for the final Top 20 spots. They will ta …
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STAC Floats ML Benchmark for Financial Services Workloads
STAC (Securities Technology Analysis Center) recently released an ‘exploratory’ benchmark for machine learning which it hopes will evolve into a firm benchmark or suite of benchmarking tools …
A Big Data Journey While Seeking to Catalog our Universe
It turns out, astronomers have lots of photos of the sky but seek knowledge about what the photos mean. Sound familiar? Big data problems are often characterized as transforming data into insight …
HPCwire’s Readers’ Choice Awards
Celebrating the best and brightest in HPC in 2018.
Pfizer HPC Engineer Aims to Automate Software Stack Testing
January 17, 2019
Seeking to reign in the tediousness of manual software testing, Pfizer HPC Engineer Shahzeb Siddiqui is developing an open source software tool called buildtest, aimed at automating software stack testing by providing the community with a central repository of tests for common HPC apps and the ability to automate execution of testing. Read more…
Senegal Prepares to Take Delivery of Atos Supercomputer
January 16, 2019
Update (Jan. 21): HPCwire has received confirmation from Atos that the system will have a peak speed of 537.6 teraflops, not 320 teraflops as had previously been reported. We plan to report additional details as we recei Read more…
Intel Bets Big on 2-Track Quantum Strategy
January 15, 2019
Quantum computing has lived so long in the future it’s taken on a futuristic life of its own, with a Gartner-style hype cycle that includes triggers of innovation, inflated expectations and – though a useful quantum system is still years away – anticipatory troughs of disillusionment. Read more…
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Today’s high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) users value high performing clusters. And the higher the performance that their system can deliver, the better. Read more…
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Fueled by GPUs, big data, and rapid advances in software, the AI revolution is upon us. 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 existing 20-quibit platform into a more robust, self-contain Read more…
Intel Bets Big on 2-Track Quantum Strategy
January 15, 2019
Quantum computing has lived so long in the future it’s taken on a futuristic life of its own, with a Gartner-style hype cycle that includes triggers of innovation, inflated expectations and – though a useful quantum system is still years away – anticipatory troughs of disillusionment. 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…
IBM’s New Global Weather Forecasting System Runs on GPUs
January 9, 2019
Anyone who has checked a forecast to decide whether or not to pack an umbrella knows that weather prediction can be a mercurial endeavor. It is a Herculean task: the constant modeling of incredibly complex systems to a high degree of accuracy at a local level within very short spans of time. 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…
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…
HPCwire Awards Highlight Supercomputing Achievements in the Sciences
January 3, 2019
In November at SC18 in Dallas, HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice awards program commemorated its 15th year of honoring achievement in HPC, with categories ranging from Best Use of AI to the Workforce Diversity Leadership Award and recipients across a wide variety of industrial and research sectors. Read more…
White House Top Science Post Filled After Two-Year Vacancy
January 3, 2019
Half-way into Trump's term, the Senate has confirmed a director for the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), the agency that coordinates science poli Read more…
Batswana Gems
December 20, 2018
Most who work in the high-performance computing (HPC) industry agree; people problems are far more complicated than technical challenges. As I wrote in a 2015 HPCwire feature titled, “Women in HPC: Revelations and Reckoning,” diversity, or the lack thereof, is the HPC industry’s current grand challenge. Read more…
Quantum Computing Will Never Work
November 27, 2018
Amid the gush of money and enthusiastic predictions being thrown at quantum computing comes a proposed cold shower in the form of an essay by physicist Mikhail Read more…
Cray Unveils Shasta, Lands NERSC-9 Contract
October 30, 2018
Cray revealed today the details of its next-gen supercomputing architecture, Shasta, selected to be the next flagship system at NERSC. We've known of the code-name "Shasta" since the Argonne slice of the CORAL project was announced in 2015 and although the details of that plan have changed considerably, Cray didn't slow down its timeline for Shasta. Read more…
AMD Sets Up for Epyc Epoch
November 16, 2018
It’s been a good two weeks, AMD’s Gary Silcott and Andy Parma told me on the last day of SC18 in Dallas at the restaurant where we met to discuss their show news and recent successes. Heck, it’s been a good year. 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…
US Leads Supercomputing with #1, #2 Systems & Petascale Arm
November 12, 2018
The 31st Supercomputing Conference (SC) - commemorating 30 years since the first Supercomputing in 1988 - kicked off in Dallas yesterday, taking over the Kay Ba Read more…
Contract Signed for New Finnish Supercomputer
December 13, 2018
After the official contract signing yesterday, configuration details were made public for the new BullSequana system that the Finnish IT Center for Science (CSC Read more…
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang Delivers Vision for the New HPC
November 14, 2018
For nearly two hours on Monday at SC18, Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, presented his expansive view of the future of HPC (and computing in general) as only he can do. Animated. Backstopped by a stream of data charts, product photos, and even a beautiful image of supernovae... Read more…
HPE No. 1, IBM Surges, in ‘Bucking Bronco’ High Performance Server Market
September 27, 2018
Riding healthy U.S. and global economies, strong demand for AI-capable hardware and other tailwind trends, the high performance computing server market jumped 28 percent in the second quarter 2018 to $3.7 billion, up from $2.9 billion for the same period last year, according to industry analyst firm Hyperion Research. Read more…
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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…
Intel Confirms 48-Core Cascade Lake-AP for 2019
November 4, 2018
As part of the run-up to SC18, taking place in Dallas next week (Nov. 11-16), Intel is doling out info on its next-gen Cascade Lake family of Xeon processors, specifically the “Advanced Processor” version (Cascade Lake-AP), architected for high-performance computing, artificial intelligence and infrastructure-as-a-service workloads. Read more…
Germany Celebrates Launch of Two Fastest Supercomputers
September 26, 2018
The new high-performance computer SuperMUC-NG at the Leibniz Supercomputing Center (LRZ) in Garching is the fastest computer in Germany and one of the fastest i Read more…
Microsoft to Buy Mellanox?
December 20, 2018
Networking equipment powerhouse Mellanox could be an acquisition target by Microsoft, according to a published report in an Israeli financial publication. Microsoft has reportedly gone so far as to engage Goldman Sachs to handle negotiations with Mellanox. Read more…
Houston to Field Massive, ‘Geophysically Configured’ Cloud Supercomputer
October 11, 2018
Based on some news stories out today, one might get the impression that the next system to crack number one on the Top500 would be an industrial oil and gas mon 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…
Summit Supercomputer is Already Making its Mark on Science
September 20, 2018
Summit, now the fastest supercomputer in the world, is quickly making its mark in science – five of the six finalists just announced for the prestigious 2018 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…
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