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Trovares Drives Memory-Driven, Property Graph Analytics Strategy with HPE
Trovares, a high performance property graph analytics company, has partnered with HPE and its Superdome Flex memory-driven servers on a cybersecurity capability the companies say “routinely” runs near-time workloads on 24TB-capacity systems...
Unleashing Seismic Modeling at Scale: We Can’t Stop Quakes, But We Can Be Better Prepared
It has been a scary July so far for many residents of California. A magnitude 6.4 quake struck on July 4 near Ridgecrest (about 200 kilometers northeast of Los Angeles), followed by a magnitude 7.1 quake in the on July 5. And there have been many aftershocks since. Scientists all across the state and the […]
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What’s New in HPC Research: Rabies, Smog, Robots & More
October 14, 2019
In this bimonthly feature, HPCwire highlights newly published research in the high-performance computing community and related domains. From parallel programming to exascale to quantum computing, the details are here. Read more…
Chaminade University’s Immersion Program Builds Capacity for Data Science in Hawaii, Pacific Region
October 10, 2019
Kuleana is a uniquely Hawaiian value and practice which embodies responsibility to self, community, and the ‘aina' (land). At Chaminade University, a federally designated Native Hawaiian serving university in Hawai‘i Read more…
Intel, Lenovo Join Forces on HPC Cluster for Flatiron
October 9, 2019
An HPC cluster with deep learning techniques will be used to process petabytes of scientific data as part of workload-intensive projects spanning astrophysics to genomics. AI partners Intel and Lenovo said they are providing... Read more…
Optimizing Offshore Wind Farms with Supercomputer Simulations
October 9, 2019
Offshore wind farms offer a number of benefits; many of the areas with the strongest winds are located offshore, and siting wind farms offshore ameliorates many of the land use concerns associated with onshore wind farms. Some estimates say that, if leveraged, offshore wind power... Read more…
Harvard Deploys Cannon, New Lenovo Water-Cooled HPC Cluster
October 9, 2019
Harvard's Faculty of Arts & Sciences Research Computing (FASRC) center announced a refresh of their primary HPC resource. The new cluster, called Cannon after the pioneering American astronomer Annie Jump Cannon, is supplied by Lenovo... Read more…
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Making High Performance Computing Affordable and Accessible for Small and Medium Businesses with HPC on AWS
High performance computing (HPC) brings a powerful set of tools to a broad range of industries, helping to drive innovation and boost revenue in finance, genomics, oil and gas extraction, and other fields. Read more…
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Intel FPGAs: More Than Just an Accelerator Card
FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) acceleration cards are not new, as they’ve been commercially available since 1984. Typically, the emphasis around FPGAs has centered on the fact that they’re programmable accelerators, and that they can truly offer workload specific hardware acceleration solutions without requiring custom silicon. Read more…
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HPC in the Cloud: Avoid These Common Pitfalls
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It seems that everyone is experimenting about cloud computing. Read more…
NSF Announces New AI Program; Plans $120M in Funding Next Year
October 8, 2019
As the saying goes, when you’re hot, you’re hot. Right now, AI is scalding. Today the National Science Foundation announced a new AI initiative – The National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes program – with plans to invest about “$120 million in grants next year... Read more…
Intel, Lenovo Join Forces on HPC Cluster for Flatiron
October 9, 2019
An HPC cluster with deep learning techniques will be used to process petabytes of scientific data as part of workload-intensive projects spanning astrophysics to genomics. AI partners Intel and Lenovo said they are providing... Read more…
Optimizing Offshore Wind Farms with Supercomputer Simulations
October 9, 2019
Offshore wind farms offer a number of benefits; many of the areas with the strongest winds are located offshore, and siting wind farms offshore ameliorates many of the land use concerns associated with onshore wind farms. Some estimates say that, if leveraged, offshore wind power... Read more…
Harvard Deploys Cannon, New Lenovo Water-Cooled HPC Cluster
October 9, 2019
Harvard's Faculty of Arts & Sciences Research Computing (FASRC) center announced a refresh of their primary HPC resource. The new cluster, called Cannon after the pioneering American astronomer Annie Jump Cannon, is supplied by Lenovo... Read more…
NSF Announces New AI Program; Plans $120M in Funding Next Year
October 8, 2019
As the saying goes, when you’re hot, you’re hot. Right now, AI is scalding. Today the National Science Foundation announced a new AI initiative – The National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes program – with plans to invest about “$120 million in grants next year... Read more…
DOE Sets Sights on Accelerating AI (and other) Technology Transfer
October 3, 2019
For the past two days DOE leaders along with ~350 members from academia and industry gathered in Chicago to discuss AI development and the ways in which industr Read more…
Summit Has Real-Time Analytics: Here’s How It Happened and What’s Next
October 3, 2019
Summit – the world’s fastest publicly-ranked supercomputer – now has real-time streaming analytics. At the 2019 HPC User Forum at Argonne National Laborat Read more…
Bitcoin Mining on Russian Nuclear Supercomputer Proves Costly
October 2, 2019
One of three Russian scientists arrested in February 2018, on charges of using a classified government computer to mine cryptocurrency has been fined 450,000 rubles, equivalent to US$7,000. Denis Baykov, a former employee of the Federal Nuclear Center in Sarov... Read more…
DARPA Looks to Unclog Networks
October 1, 2019
DARPA will seek to unclog the networking bottlenecks that are hindering wider use of powerful hardware in computing-intensive applications. The Pentagon research agency has unveiled another in a series of post-Moore’s Law computing initiatives... Read more…
Supercomputer-Powered AI Tackles a Key Fusion Energy Challenge
August 7, 2019
Fusion energy is the Holy Grail of the energy world: low-radioactivity, low-waste, zero-carbon, high-output nuclear power that can run on hydrogen or lithium. T Read more…
DARPA Looks to Propel Parallelism
September 4, 2019
As Moore’s law runs out of steam, new programming approaches are being pursued with the goal of greater hardware performance with less coding. The Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency is launching a new programming effort aimed at leveraging the benefits of massive distributed parallelism with less sweat. Read more…
Cray Wins NNSA-Livermore ‘El Capitan’ Exascale Contract
August 13, 2019
Cray has won the bid to build the first exascale supercomputer for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and Lawrence Livermore National Laborator Read more…
AMD Launches Epyc Rome, First 7nm CPU
August 8, 2019
From a gala event at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco yesterday (Aug. 7), AMD launched its second-generation Epyc Rome x86 chips, based on its 7nm proce Read more…
Ayar Labs to Demo Photonics Chiplet in FPGA Package at Hot Chips
August 19, 2019
Silicon startup Ayar Labs continues to gain momentum with its DARPA-backed optical chiplet technology that puts advanced electronics and optics on the same chip Read more…
Nvidia Embraces Arm, Declares Intent to Accelerate All CPU Architectures
June 17, 2019
As the Top500 list was being announced at ISC in Frankfurt today with an upgraded petascale Arm supercomputer in the top third of the list, Nvidia announced its Read more…
Top500 Purely Petaflops; US Maintains Performance Lead
June 17, 2019
With the kick-off of the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) in Frankfurt this morning, the 53rd Top500 list made its debut, and this one's for petafl Read more…
Chinese Company Sugon Placed on US ‘Entity List’ After Strong Showing at International Supercomputing Conference
June 26, 2019
After more than a decade of advancing its supercomputing prowess, operating the world’s most powerful supercomputer from June 2013 to June 2018, China is keep Read more…
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D-Wave’s Path to 5000 Qubits; Google’s Quantum Supremacy Claim
September 24, 2019
On the heels of IBM’s quantum news last week come two more quantum items. D-Wave Systems today announced the name of its forthcoming 5000-qubit system, Advantage (yes the name choice isn’t serendipity), at its user conference being held this week in Newport, RI. Read more…
A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Hardware That Powered the Black Hole Image
June 24, 2019
Two months ago, the first-ever image of a black hole took the internet by storm. A team of scientists took years to produce and verify the striking image – an Read more…
Intel Confirms Retreat on Omni-Path
August 1, 2019
Intel Corp.’s plans to make a big splash in the network fabric market for linking HPC and other workloads has apparently belly-flopped. The chipmaker confirmed to us the outlines of an earlier report by the website CRN that it has jettisoned plans for a second-generation version of its Omni-Path interconnect... Read more…
Kubernetes, Containers and HPC
September 19, 2019
Software containers and Kubernetes are important tools for building, deploying, running and managing modern enterprise applications at scale and delivering enterprise software faster and more reliably to the end user — while using resources more efficiently and reducing costs. Read more…
Intel Debuts Pohoiki Beach, Its 8M Neuron Neuromorphic Development System
July 17, 2019
Neuromorphic computing has received less fanfare of late than quantum computing whose mystery has captured public attention and which seems to have generated mo Read more…
Rise of NIH’s Biowulf Mirrors the Rise of Computational Biology
July 29, 2019
The story of NIH’s supercomputer Biowulf is fascinating, important, and in many ways representative of the transformation of life sciences and biomedical res Read more…
Quantum Bits: Neven’s Law (Who Asked for That), D-Wave’s Steady Push, IBM’s Li-O2- Simulation
July 3, 2019
Quantum computing’s (QC) many-faceted R&D train keeps slogging ahead and recently Japan is taking a leading role. Yesterday D-Wave Systems announced it ha Read more…
With the Help of HPC, Astronomers Prepare to Deflect a Real Asteroid
September 26, 2019
For years, NASA has been running simulations of asteroid impacts to understand the risks (and likelihoods) of asteroids colliding with Earth. Now, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) are preparing for the next, crucial step in planetary defense against asteroid impacts: physically deflecting a real asteroid. Read more…
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