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Leveraging Standards-Based Parallel Programming in HPC Applications
Last month I discussed why standards-based parallel programming should be in your HPC toolbox. Now, I am highlighting the successes of some of the developers who have already made standards-based parallelism an integral part of their strategy. As you will see, success with standards-based programming isn’t limited to just mini-apps. Fluid Simulation with Palabos […]
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DDN is excited to be back in full force for SC22 November 13th-17th in Dallas, TX. SC, The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, is the highlight event of the year for the HPC industry. SC22 features an exciting technical program, along with hundreds of vendors and institutions from around the […]
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HPC Career Notes: October 2022 Edition
October 3, 2022
In this monthly feature, we’ll keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments for individuals in the high-performance computing community. Whether it’s a promotion, new company hire, or even an accolade, we’ Read more…
Supercomputing Helps Explain the Milky Way’s Shape
September 30, 2022
If you look at the Milky Way from “above,” it almost looks like a cat’s eye: a circle of spiral arms with an oval “iris” in the middle. That iris — a starry bar that connects the spiral arms — has two stran Read more…
Top Supercomputers to Shake Up Earthquake Modeling
September 29, 2022
Two DOE-funded projects — and a bunch of top supercomputers — are converging to improve our understanding of earthquakes and enable the construction of more earthquake-resilient buildings and infrastructure. The firs Read more…
Intel Labs Launches Neuromorphic ‘Kapoho Point’ Board
September 28, 2022
Over the past five years, Intel has been iterating on its neuromorphic chips and systems, aiming to create devices (and software for those devices) that closely mimic the behavior of the human brain through the use of co Read more…
DOE Announces $42M ‘COOLERCHIPS’ Datacenter Cooling Program
September 28, 2022
With massive machines like Frontier guzzling tens of megawatts of power to operate, datacenters’ energy use is of increasing concern for supercomputer operations – and particularly for the U.S. Department of Energy ( Read more…
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Last Chance to Vote – AWS for Best Use of HPC in the 2022 Readers’ Choice Awards
AWS Once Again Showcasing its Reach Across Several Areas in HPC
Ten categories feature Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the 2022 HPCwire Readers’ Choice Awards. Read more…
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Improving Insurance Fraud Detection using AI Running on Cloud-based GPU-Accelerated Systems
Insurance is a highly regulated industry that is evolving as the industry faces changing customer expectations, massive amounts of data, and increased regulations. A major issue facing the industry is tracking insurance fraud. Read more…
Do You Believe in Science? Take the HPC Covid Safety Pledge
September 28, 2022
ISC 2022 was back in person, and the celebration was on. Frontier had been named the first exascale supercomputer on the Top500 list, and workshops, poster sessions, paper presentations, receptions, and booth meetings we Read more…
Intel Labs Launches Neuromorphic ‘Kapoho Point’ Board
September 28, 2022
Over the past five years, Intel has been iterating on its neuromorphic chips and systems, aiming to create devices (and software for those devices) that closely Read more…
HPE to Build 100+ Petaflops Shaheen III Supercomputer
September 27, 2022
The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia has announced that HPE has won the bid to build the Shaheen III supercomputer. Sh Read more…
Intel’s New Programmable Chips Next Year to Replace Aging Products
September 27, 2022
Intel shared its latest roadmap of programmable chips, and doesn't want to dig itself into a hole by following AMD's strategy in the area. "We're thankfully not matching their strategy," said Shannon Poulin, corporate vice president for the datacenter and AI group at Intel, in response to a question posed by HPCwire during a press briefing. The updated roadmap pieces together Intel's strategy for FPGAs... Read more…
Intel Ships Sapphire Rapids – to Its Cloud
September 27, 2022
Intel has had trouble getting its chips in the hands of customers on time, but is providing the next best thing – to try out those chips in the cloud. Delayed chips such as Sapphire Rapids server processors and Habana Gaudi 2 AI chip will be available on a platform called the Intel Developer Cloud, which was announced at the Intel Innovation event being held in San Jose, California. Read more…
More Details on ‘Half-Exaflop’ Horizon System, LCCF Emerge
September 26, 2022
Since 2017, plans for the Leadership-Class Computing Facility (LCCF) have been underway. Slated for full operation somewhere around 2026, the LCCF’s scope ext Read more…
Nvidia Shuts Out RISC-V Software Support for GPUs
September 23, 2022
Nvidia is not interested in bringing software support to its GPUs for the RISC-V architecture despite being an early adopter of the open-source technology in its GPU controllers. Nvidia has no plans to add RISC-V support for CUDA, which is the proprietary GPU software platform, a company representative... Read more…
Nvidia Introduces New Ada Lovelace GPU Architecture, OVX Systems, Omniverse Cloud
September 20, 2022
In his GTC keynote today, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang launched another new Nvidia GPU architecture: Ada Lovelace, named for the legendary mathematician regarded as Read more…
Nvidia’s Hopper GPUs Enter ‘Full Production,’ DGXs Delayed Until Q1
September 20, 2022
Just about six months ago, Nvidia’s spring GTC event saw the announcement of its hotly anticipated Hopper GPU architecture. Now, the GPU giant is announcing t Read more…
Nvidia Shuts Out RISC-V Software Support for GPUs
September 23, 2022
Nvidia is not interested in bringing software support to its GPUs for the RISC-V architecture despite being an early adopter of the open-source technology in its GPU controllers. Nvidia has no plans to add RISC-V support for CUDA, which is the proprietary GPU software platform, a company representative... Read more…
AWS Takes the Short and Long View of Quantum Computing
August 30, 2022
It is perhaps not surprising that the big cloud providers – a poor term really – have jumped into quantum computing. Amazon, Microsoft Azure, Google, and th Read more…
US Senate Passes CHIPS Act Temperature Check, but Challenges Linger
July 19, 2022
The U.S. Senate on Tuesday passed a major hurdle that will open up close to $52 billion in grants for the semiconductor industry to boost manufacturing, supply chain and research and development. U.S. senators voted 64-34 in favor of advancing the CHIPS Act, which sets the stage for the final consideration... Read more…
Chinese Startup Biren Details BR100 GPU
August 22, 2022
Amid the high-performance GPU turf tussle between AMD and Nvidia (and soon, Intel), a new, China-based player is emerging: Biren Technology, founded in 2019 and headquartered in Shanghai. At Hot Chips 34, Biren co-founder and president Lingjie Xu and Biren CTO Mike Hong took the (virtual) stage to detail the company’s inaugural product: the Biren BR100 general-purpose GPU (GPGPU). “It is my honor to present... Read more…
Newly-Observed Higgs Mode Holds Promise in Quantum Computing
June 8, 2022
The first-ever appearance of a previously undetectable quantum excitation known as the axial Higgs mode – exciting in its own right – also holds promise for developing and manipulating higher temperature quantum materials... Read more…
Tesla Bulks Up Its GPU-Powered AI Super – Is Dojo Next?
August 16, 2022
Tesla has revealed that its biggest in-house AI supercomputer – which we wrote about last year – now has a total of 7,360 A100 GPUs, a nearly 28 percent uplift from its previous total of 5,760 GPUs. That’s enough GPU oomph for a top seven spot on the Top500, although the tech company best known for its electric vehicles has not publicly benchmarked the system. If it had, it would... Read more…
AMD’s MI300 APUs to Power Exascale El Capitan Supercomputer
June 21, 2022
Additional details of the architecture of the exascale El Capitan supercomputer were disclosed today by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL) Terri Read more…
Exclusive Inside Look at First US Exascale Supercomputer
July 1, 2022
HPCwire takes you inside the Frontier datacenter at DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Oak Ridge, Tenn., for an interview with Frontier Project Direc Read more…
AMD Opens Up Chip Design to the Outside for Custom Future
June 15, 2022
AMD is getting personal with chips as it sets sail to make products more to the liking of its customers. The chipmaker detailed a modular chip future in which customers can mix and match non-AMD processors in a custom chip package. "We are focused on making it easier to implement chips with more flexibility," said Mark Papermaster, chief technology officer at AMD during the analyst day meeting late last week. Read more…
Nvidia, Intel to Power Atos-Built MareNostrum 5 Supercomputer
June 16, 2022
The long-troubled, hotly anticipated MareNostrum 5 supercomputer finally has a vendor: Atos, which will be supplying a system that includes both Nvidia and Inte Read more…
UCIe Consortium Incorporates, Nvidia and Alibaba Round Out Board
August 2, 2022
The Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe) consortium is moving ahead with its effort to standardize a universal interconnect at the package level. The c Read more…
Using Exascale Supercomputers to Make Clean Fusion Energy Possible
September 2, 2022
Fusion, the nuclear reaction that powers the Sun and the stars, has incredible potential as a source of safe, carbon-free and essentially limitless energy. But Read more…
Is Time Running Out for Compromise on America COMPETES/USICA Act?
June 22, 2022
You may recall that efforts proposed in 2020 to remake the National Science Foundation (Endless Frontier Act) have since expanded and morphed into two gigantic bills, the America COMPETES Act in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act in the U.S. Senate. So far, efforts to reconcile the two pieces of legislation have snagged and recent reports... Read more…
Nvidia, Qualcomm Shine in MLPerf Inference; Intel’s Sapphire Rapids Makes an Appearance.
September 8, 2022
The steady maturation of MLCommons/MLPerf as an AI benchmarking tool was apparent in today’s release of MLPerf v2.1 Inference results. Twenty-one organization Read more…
Not Just Cash for Chips – The New Chips and Science Act Boosts NSF, DOE, NIST
August 3, 2022
After two-plus years of contentious debate, several different names, and final passage by the House (243-187) and Senate (64-33) last week, the Chips and Science Act will soon become law. Besides the $54.2 billion provided to boost US-based chip manufacturing, the act reshapes US science policy in meaningful ways. NSF’s proposed budget... Read more…
AMD Lines Up Alternate Chips as It Eyes a ‘Post-exaflops’ Future
June 10, 2022
Close to a decade ago, AMD was in turmoil. The company was playing second fiddle to Intel in PCs and datacenters, and its road to profitability hinged mostly on Read more…
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