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- Cascade supercomputer launches
- AMD releases Opteron 6300 series
- SC12 preview
Cray Shakes Up Supercomputing Biz; A Look Ahead to SC12
November 9, 2012
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At Long Last, Supercomputing Helps to Map the Poles
August 22, 2019
“For years,” Paul Morin wrote, “those of us that made maps of the Poles apologized. We apologized for the blank spaces on maps, we apologized for mountains being in the wrong place and out-of-date information.” Read more…
Xilinx Says Its New FPGA is World’s Largest
August 21, 2019
In this age of exploding “technology disaggregation” – in which the Big Bang emanating from the Intel x86 CPU has produced significant advances in CPU chips and a raft of alternative, accelerated architectures... Read more…
Supercomputers Generate Universes to Illuminate Galactic Formation
August 20, 2019
With advanced imaging and satellite technologies, it’s easier than ever to see a galaxy – but understanding how they form (a process that can take billions of years) is a different story. Now, a team of researchers f Read more…
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Efficiency and Cost-Optimization for HPC Workloads – AWS Batch and Amazon EC2 Spot Instances
High Performance Computing on AWS leverages the power of cloud computing and the extreme scale it offers to achieve optimal HPC price/performance. With AWS you can right size your services to meet exactly the capacity requirements you need without having to overprovision or compromise capacity. Read more…
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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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Keys to Attracting the Newest HPC Talent – Post-Millennials
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For engineers and scientists growing up in the 80s, the current state of HPC makes perfect sense. Read more…
Singularity Moves Up the Container Value Chain
August 20, 2019
The enterprise version of the Singularity HPC container platform released this week by Sylabs is designed to allow users to create, secure and share the high-end containers in self-hosted production deployments. The e Read more…
At Long Last, Supercomputing Helps to Map the Poles
August 22, 2019
“For years,” Paul Morin wrote, “those of us that made maps of the Poles apologized. We apologized for the blank spaces on maps, we apologized for mountains being in the wrong place and out-of-date information.” Read more…
IBM Deepens Plunge into Open Source; OpenPOWER to Join Linux Foundation
August 20, 2019
IBM today announced it was contributing the instruction set (ISA) for its Power microprocessor and the designs for the Open Coherent Accelerator Processor Inter 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…
Scientists to Tap Exascale Computing to Unlock the Mystery of our Accelerating Universe
August 14, 2019
The universe and everything in it roared to life with the Big Bang approximately 13.8 billion years ago. It has continued expanding ever since. While we have a Read more…
AI is the Next Exascale – Rick Stevens on What that Means and Why It’s Important
August 13, 2019
Twelve years ago the Department of Energy (DOE) was just beginning to explore what an exascale computing program might look like and what it might accomplish. Today, DOE is repeating that process for AI, once again starting with science community town halls to gather input and stimulate conversation. The town hall program... 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…
Lenovo Drives Single-Socket Servers with AMD Epyc Rome CPUs
August 7, 2019
No summer doldrums here. As part of the AMD Epyc Rome launch event in San Francisco today, Lenovo announced two new single-socket servers, the ThinkSystem SR635 Read more…
High Performance (Potato) Chips
May 5, 2006
In this article, we focus on how Procter & Gamble is using high performance computing to create some common, everyday supermarket products. Tom Lange, a 27-year veteran of the company, tells us how P&G models products, processes and production systems for the betterment of consumer package goods. 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…
Cray, AMD to Extend DOE’s Exascale Frontier
May 7, 2019
Cray and AMD are coming back to Oak Ridge National Laboratory to partner on the world’s largest and most expensive supercomputer. The Department of Energy’s Read more…
Graphene Surprises Again, This Time for Quantum Computing
May 8, 2019
Graphene is fascinating stuff with promise for use in a seeming endless number of applications. This month researchers from the University of Vienna and Institu Read more…
AMD Verifies Its Largest 7nm Chip Design in Ten Hours
June 5, 2019
AMD announced last week that its engineers had successfully executed the first physical verification of its largest 7nm chip design – in just ten hours. The AMD Radeon Instinct Vega20 – which boasts 13.2 billion transistors – was tested using a TSMC-certified Calibre nmDRC software platform from Mentor. Read more…
TSMC and Samsung Moving to 5nm; Whither Moore’s Law?
June 12, 2019
With reports that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TMSC) and Samsung are moving quickly to 5nm manufacturing, it’s a good time to again ponder whither goes the venerable Moore’s law. Shrinking feature size has of course been the primary hallmark of achieving Moore’s law... 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…
Deep Learning Competitors Stalk Nvidia
May 14, 2019
There is no shortage of processing architectures emerging to accelerate deep learning workloads, with two more options emerging this week to challenge GPU leader Nvidia. First, Intel researchers claimed a new deep learning record for image classification on the ResNet-50 convolutional neural network. Separately, Israeli AI chip startup Hailo.ai... Read more…
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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…
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…
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…
Cray – and the Cray Brand – to Be Positioned at Tip of HPE’s HPC Spear
May 22, 2019
More so than with most acquisitions of this kind, HPE’s purchase of Cray for $1.3 billion, announced last week, seems to have elements of that overused, often 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…
Qualcomm Invests in RISC-V Startup SiFive
June 7, 2019
Investors are zeroing in on the open standard RISC-V instruction set architecture and the processor intellectual property being developed by a batch of high-flying chip startups. Last fall, Esperanto Technologies announced a $58 million funding round. 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…
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