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Extreme Scale HPC: How Western Digital Corporation leveraged the virtually unlimited HPC capacity on AWS in their quest to speed up innovation and build better products
Recently, AWS and Western Digital embarked on a very fun, challenging project of evaluating the impact of running their electro-magnetic simulations on a massive HPC cluster built on AWS using Am …
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Nvidia Leads Alpha MLPerf Benchmarking Round
Seven months after the launch of its AI benchmarking suite, the MLPerf consortium is releasing the first round of results based on submissions from Nvidia, Google and Intel. Of the seven benchmar …
IBM, Nvidia in AI Data Pipeline, Processing, Storage Union
IBM and Nvidia today announced a new turnkey AI solution that combines IBM Spectrum Scale scale-out file storage with Nvidia’s GPU-based DGX-1 AI server to provide what the companies call the …
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NSF Extends Access to Its Leadership Systems Blue Waters & Frontera
December 14, 2018
The National Science Foundation is seeking supplemental requests for access on its leadership-class computers Blue Waters and Frontera to enable "fundamental science and engineering research that would otherwise not be p Read more…
CFD on ORNL’s Titan Simulates Cleaner, Low-MPG ‘Opposed Piston’ Engine
December 13, 2018
Pinnacle Engines is out to substantially improve vehicle gasoline efficiency and cut greenhouse gas emissions with a new motor based on an “opposed piston” design that the company hopes will be widely adopted while t Read more…
Neural Network ‘Synapse’ Technology Showcased at IEEE Meeting
December 12, 2018
There’s nice snapshot of advancing work to develop improved neural network “synapse” technologies posted yesterday on IEEE Spectrum. Lower power, ease of use, manufacturability, and performance are all key paramete Read more…
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AI Can Be Scary. But Choosing the Wrong Partners Can Be Mortifying!
As you continue to dive deeper into AI, you will discover it is more than just deep learning. AI is an extremely complex set of machine learning, deep learning, reinforcement, and analytics algorithms with varying compute, storage, memory, and communications needs. Read more…
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4 Ways AI Analytics Projects Fail — and How to Succeed
“How do I de-risk my AI-driven analytics projects?” This is a common question for organizations ready to modernize their analytics portfolio. Here are four ways AI analytics projects fail—and how you can ensure success. Read more…
Supermicro: Investigation Shows No Motherboard Hack
December 12, 2018
Supermicro, the subject of media reports two months ago alleging that spies in China hacked Supermicro servers widely distributed throughout the U.S. technology supply chain, has followed up its initial vehement denials with a letter sent yesterday to customers stating a third party investigations firm had “found absolutely no evidence of malicious hardware on our motherboards.” Read more…
Mellanox Uses Univa to Extend Silicon Design HPC Operation to Azure
December 11, 2018
Call it a corollary to Murphy’s Law: When a system is most in demand, when end users are most dependent on the system performing as required, when it’s crunch time – that’s when the system is most likely to blow up. Or make you wait in line to use it. Read more…
Topology Can Help Us Find Patterns in Weather
December 6, 2018
Topology--the study of shapes--seems to be all the rage. You could even say that data has shape, and shape matters. Shapes are comfortable and familiar concepts, so it is intriguing to see that many applications are being recast to use topology. For instance, looking for weather and climate patterns. Read more…
Zettascale by 2035? China Thinks So
December 6, 2018
Exascale machines (of at least a 1 exaflops peak) are anticipated to arrive by around 2020, a few years behind original predictions; and given extreme-scale performance challenges are not getting any easier, it makes sense that researchers are already looking ahead to the next big 1,000x performance goal post: zettascale computing. Read more…
Robust Quantum Computers Still a Decade Away, Says Nat’l Academies Report
December 5, 2018
The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine yesterday released a report – Quantum Computing: Progress and Prospects – whose optimism about Read more…
Revisiting the 2008 Exascale Computing Study at SC18
November 29, 2018
A report published a decade ago conveyed the results of a study aimed at determining if it were possible to achieve 1000X the computational power of the the Read more…
AWS Debuts Lustre as a Service, Accelerates Data Transfer
November 28, 2018
From the Amazon re:Invent main stage in Las Vegas today, Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy introduced Amazon FSx for Lustre, citing a growing body of applicati Read more…
AWS Launches First Arm Cloud Instances
November 28, 2018
AWS, a macrocosm of the emerging high-performance technology landscape, wants to be everywhere you want to be and offer everything you want to use (or at least Read more…
Move Over Lustre & Spectrum Scale – Here Comes BeeGFS?
November 26, 2018
Is BeeGFS – the parallel file system with European roots – on a path to compete with Lustre and Spectrum Scale worldwide in HPC environments? Frank Herold 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Google Releases Machine Learning “What-If” Analysis Tool
September 12, 2018
Training machine learning models has long been time-consuming process. Yesterday, Google released a “What-If Tool” for probing how data point changes affect a model’s prediction. The new tool is being launched as a new feature of the open source TensorBoard web application... 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…
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