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Improving the Performance and Uptime of HPC Clusters
InfiniBand is pervasively used in high-performance computing (HPC) to remove data exchange bottlenecks, delivering very high throughput and very low latency. As HPC becomes more mainstream and em …
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Oil and Gas Supercloud Clears Out Remaining Knights Landing Inventory: All 38,000 Wafers
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 this year, providing 250 single-preci …
Quick Take: Trump’s 2020 Budget Spares DoE-funded HPC but Slams NSF and NIH
U.S. President Donald Trump’s 2020 budget request, released yesterday, proposes deep cuts in many science programs but seems to spare HPC funding by the Department of Energy. Less fortunate wer …
NASA’s Pleiades Simulates Launch Abort Scenarios
March 15, 2019
NASA is using flow simulations running on its Pleiades supercomputer to help design the agency’s next manned spacecraft, Orion. Crew safety is paramount, so NASA engineers are using the HPC cluster to simulate and v Read more…
CXL Consortium Launches CPU-to-Anything High Speed Interconnect Protocol
March 14, 2019
Another front has been opened in the long campaign to enable any-to-any connectivity in high performance datacenter computing. The Compute Express Link (CXL) consortium – with tech heavies Intel, Google, HPE, Dell EMC, Microsoft, Facebook, Cisco, Huawei and Alibaba – has ratified version 1.0 of the CXL specification... Read more…
Interview with 2019 Person to Watch Gopal Hegde
March 14, 2019
Today, as part of our ongoing HPCwire People to Watch interview series, we are highlighting our interview with 2019 Person to Watch Gopal Hegde. As head of Marvell's Server Processor Business Unit, Gopal is responsible f Read more…
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Learn how HPE and Intel® Omni-Path Architecture provide critical infrastructure for leading Nordic HPC provider’s HPCFLOW cloud service.
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The Spark That Ignited A New World of Real-Time Analytics
High Performance Computing has always been about Big Data. It’s not uncommon for research datasets to contain millions of files and many terabytes, even petabytes of data, or more. Read more…
IBM, Intel Papers Report AI Breakthroughs for Quantum Science
March 13, 2019
Fascinatingly, two announcements today show how AI (machine and deep learning) can influence quantum computing in quite different ways. IBM (et. al) reported developing ‘AI’ algorithms that “demonstrate how noisy q Read more…
Nvidia Wins Mellanox Stakes for $6.9 Billion
March 11, 2019
The long-rumored acquisition of Mellanox came to fruition this morning with GPU chipmaker Nvidia’s announcement that it has purchased the high-performance net Read more…
Optalysys Rolls Commercial Optical Processor
March 7, 2019
Optalysys, Ltd., a U.K. company seeking to advance it optical co-processor technology, moved a step closer this week with the unveiling of what it claims is th Read more…
Intel Responds to White House AI Initiative
March 6, 2019
The Trump Administration’s release last month of the “American AI Initiative,” aimed at prioritizing federal R&D investments in machine intelligence, Read more…
IBM Pitches Quantum Volume as Benchmarking Tool for Gate-based Quantum Computers
March 6, 2019
IBM this week announced it had achieved its highest Quantum Volume number to date at the American Physical Society (APS) March meeting being held in Boston. Wha 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…
D-Wave Previews Next-Gen Platform; Debuts Pegasus Topology; Targets 5000 Qubits
February 27, 2019
Quantum computing pioneer D-Wave Systems today “previewed” plans for its next-gen adiabatic annealing quantum computing platform which will feature a new un Read more…
Panasas Secures Growth Investment, Jorge Titinger Joins Board
February 26, 2019
HPC storage supplier Panasas, maker of scale-out NAS appliances, today announced a funding round and an expansion to its board of directors that it says will en Read more…
HPC in Life Sciences Part 2: Penetrating AI’s Hype and the Cloud’s Haze
February 25, 2019
Weary of the constant din of AI hype. So is Ari Berman, vice president and general manager of consulting services for BioTeam, a research computing consultancy specializing in life sciences. “Every vendor is selling AI. I think it has become the gluten-free tag of life sciences because it is everywhere.... 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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