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Kathy Yelick Charts the Promise and Progress of Exascale Science
On Friday, Sept. 8, Kathy Yelick of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley, delivered the keynote address on “Breakthrough Science at the Exascale” a …
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NSF Awards $10M to Extend Chameleon Cloud Testbed Project
September 19, 2017
The National Science Foundation has awarded a second phase, $10 million grant to the Chameleon cloud computing testbed project led by University of Chicago with partners at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), Ren Read more…
NERSC Simulations Shed Light on Fusion Reaction Turbulence
September 19, 2017
Understanding fusion reactions in detail – particularly plasma turbulence – is critical to the effort to bring fusion power to reality. Recent work including roughly 70 million hours of compute time at the National E Read more…
U of Illinois, NCSA Launch First US Nanomanufacturing Node
September 14, 2017
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign together with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) have launched the United States's first computational node aimed at the development of nanomanufactu Read more…
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High performance computing (HPC) software is key to harnessing the full power of HPC environments. Development and management tools enable IT departments to streamline installation and maintenance of their systems as well as create, optimize, and run their HPC applications. Read more…
PGI Rolls Out Support for Volta 100 in its 2017 Compilers and Tools Suite
September 14, 2017
PGI today announced a fairly lengthy list of new features to version 17.7 of its 2017 Compilers and Tools. The centerpiece of the additions is support for the Tesla Volta 100 GPU, Nvidia’s newest flagship silicon annou Read more…
DARPA Pledges Another $300 Million for Post-Moore’s Readiness
September 14, 2017
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) launched a giant funding effort to ensure the United States can sustain the pace of electronic innovation vital to both a flourishing economy and a secure military. Under the banner of the Electronics Resurgence Initiative (ERI), some $500-$800 million will be invested in post-Moore’s Law technologies. Read more…
IBM Breaks Ground for Complex Quantum Chemistry
September 14, 2017
IBM has reported the use of a novel algorithm to simulate BeH2 (beryllium-hydride) on a quantum computer. This is the largest molecule so far simulated on a quantum computer. The technique, which used six qubits of a seven-qubit system, is an important step forward and may suggest an approach to simulating ever larger molecules. Read more…
Cubes, Culture, and a New Challenge: Trish Damkroger Talks about Life at Intel—and Why HPC Matters More Than Ever
September 13, 2017
Trish Damkroger wasn’t looking to change jobs when she attended SC15 in Austin, Texas. Capping a 15-year career within Department of Energy (DOE) laboratories, she was acting Associate Director for Computation at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). Her mission was to equip the lab’s scientists and research partners with resources that would advance their cutting-edge work... Read more…
EU Funds 20 Million Euro ARM+FPGA Exascale Project
September 7, 2017
At the Barcelona Supercomputer Centre on Wednesday (Sept. 6), 16 partners gathered to launch the EuroEXA project, which invests €20 million over three-and-a-half years into exascale-focused research and development. Led by the Horizon 2020 program, EuroEXA picks up the banner of a triad of partner projects — ExaNeSt, EcoScale and ExaNoDe — building on their work... Read more…
MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab Targets Algorithms, AI Physics
September 7, 2017
Investment continues to flow into artificial intelligence research, especially in key areas such as AI algorithms that promise to move the technology from speci Read more…
Need Data Science CyberInfrastructure? Check with RENCI’s xDCI Concierge
September 6, 2017
For about a year the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) has been assembling best practices and open source components around data-driven scientific researc Read more…
IBM Advances Web-based Quantum Programming
September 5, 2017
IBM Research is pairing its Jupyter-based Data Science Experience notebook environment with its cloud-based quantum computer, IBM Q, in hopes of encouraging a new class of entrepreneurial user to solve intractable problems that even exceed the capabilities of the best AI systems. Read more…
Unlocking Wind’s Potential: Supercomputing’s Grand Challenge
August 30, 2017
A report released last week by the DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) asserts that supercomputing-led scientific advances could cut the unsubsidized cost of wind energy in half by the year 2030. Read more…
How ‘Knights Mill’ Gets Its Deep Learning Flops
June 22, 2017
Intel, the subject of much speculation regarding the delayed, rewritten or potentially canceled “Aurora” contract (the Argonne Lab part of the CORAL “ Read more…
Reinders: “AVX-512 May Be a Hidden Gem” in Intel Xeon Scalable Processors
June 29, 2017
Imagine if we could use vector processing on something other than just floating point problems. Today, GPUs and CPUs work tirelessly to accelerate algorithms Read more…
NERSC Scales Scientific Deep Learning to 15 Petaflops
August 28, 2017
A collaborative effort between Intel, NERSC and Stanford has delivered the first 15-petaflops deep learning software running on HPC platforms and is, according Read more…
Russian Researchers Claim First Quantum-Safe Blockchain
May 25, 2017
The Russian Quantum Center today announced it has overcome the threat of quantum cryptography by creating the first quantum-safe blockchain, securing cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, along with classified government communications and other sensitive digital transfers. Read more…
Oracle Layoffs Reportedly Hit SPARC and Solaris Hard
September 7, 2017
Oracle’s latest layoffs have many wondering if this is the end of the line for the SPARC processor and Solaris OS development. As reported by multiple sources Read more…
Google Debuts TPU v2 and will Add to Google Cloud
May 25, 2017
Not long after stirring attention in the deep learning/AI community by revealing the details of its Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), Google last week announced the Read more…
Six Exascale PathForward Vendors Selected; DoE Providing $258M
June 15, 2017
The much-anticipated PathForward awards for hardware R&D in support of the Exascale Computing Project were announced today with six vendors selected – AMD Read more…
Top500 Results: Latest List Trends and What’s in Store
June 19, 2017
Greetings from Frankfurt and the 2017 International Supercomputing Conference where the latest Top500 list has just been revealed. Although there were no major Read more…
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IBM Clears Path to 5nm with Silicon Nanosheets
June 5, 2017
Two years since announcing the industry’s first 7nm node test chip, IBM and its research alliance partners GlobalFoundries and Samsung have developed a proces Read more…
Nvidia Responds to Google TPU Benchmarking
April 10, 2017
Nvidia highlights strengths of its newest GPU silicon in response to Google's report on the performance and energy advantages of its custom tensor processor. Read more…
Graphcore Readies Launch of 16nm Colossus-IPU Chip
July 20, 2017
A second $30 million funding round for U.K. AI chip developer Graphcore sets up the company to go to market with its “intelligent processing unit” (IPU) in Read more…
Google Releases Deeplearn.js to Further Democratize Machine Learning
August 17, 2017
Spreading the use of machine learning tools is one of the goals of Google’s PAIR (People + AI Research) initiative, which was introduced in early July. Last w Read more…
EU Funds 20 Million Euro ARM+FPGA Exascale Project
September 7, 2017
At the Barcelona Supercomputer Centre on Wednesday (Sept. 6), 16 partners gathered to launch the EuroEXA project, which invests €20 million over three-and-a-half years into exascale-focused research and development. Led by the Horizon 2020 program, EuroEXA picks up the banner of a triad of partner projects — ExaNeSt, EcoScale and ExaNoDe — building on their work... Read more…
Amazon Debuts New AMD-based GPU Instances for Graphics Acceleration
September 12, 2017
Last week Amazon Web Services (AWS) streaming service, AppStream 2.0, introduced a new GPU instance called Graphics Design intended to accelerate graphics. The Read more…
Cray Moves to Acquire the Seagate ClusterStor Line
July 28, 2017
This week Cray announced that it is picking up Seagate's ClusterStor HPC storage array business for an undisclosed sum. "In short we're effectively transitioning the bulk of the ClusterStor product line to Cray," said CEO Peter Ungaro. Read more…
IBM Advances Web-based Quantum Programming
September 5, 2017
IBM Research is pairing its Jupyter-based Data Science Experience notebook environment with its cloud-based quantum computer, IBM Q, in hopes of encouraging a new class of entrepreneurial user to solve intractable problems that even exceed the capabilities of the best AI systems. Read more…
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