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- Cray to buy Appro
- 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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What’s New in HPC Research: Natural Gas, Precision Agriculture, Neural Networks and More
December 6, 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…
On the Spack Track @SC19
December 5, 2019
At the annual supercomputing conference, SC19 in Denver, Colorado, there were Spack events each day of the conference. As a reflection of its grassroots heritage, nine sessions were planned by more than a dozen thought leaders from seven organizations, including three U.S. national Department of Energy (DOE) laboratories and Sylabs... Read more…
Intel’s New Hyderabad Design Center Targets Exascale Era Technologies
December 3, 2019
Intel's Raja Koduri was in India this week to help launch a new 300,000 square foot design and engineering center in Hyderabad, which will focus on advanced computing technologies for the AI and exascale era. "Over th Read more…
AWS Debuts 7nm 2nd-Gen Graviton Arm Processor
December 3, 2019
The “x86 Big Bang,” in which market dominance of the venerable Intel CPU has exploded into fragments of processor options suited to varying workloads, has now encompassed CPUs offered by the leading public cloud serv Read more…
Medical Imaging Gets an AI Boost
December 3, 2019
AI technologies incorporated into diagnostic imaging tools have proven useful in eliminating confirmation bias, often outperforming human clinicians who may bring their own prejudices. Another issue slowing progress is t 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…
IBM Accelerated Insights
AI Needs Intelligent HPC infrastructure
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has revolutionized entire industries and enables humanity to solve some of the most daunting challenges. To accomplish this, it requires massive amounts of data from heterogeneous sources that is processed it new ways that differs significantly from HPC applications. Read more…
Ride on the Wild Side – Squyres SC19 Mars Rovers Keynote
December 2, 2019
Reminding us of the deep and enabling connection between HPC and modern science is an important part of the SC Conference mission. And yes, HPC is a science itself. At SC19, Steve Squyres’ opening keynote recounting th Read more…
On the Spack Track @SC19
December 5, 2019
At the annual supercomputing conference, SC19 in Denver, Colorado, there were Spack events each day of the conference. As a reflection of its grassroots heritage, nine sessions were planned by more than a dozen thought leaders from seven organizations, including three U.S. national Department of Energy (DOE) laboratories and Sylabs... Read more…
Intel’s New Hyderabad Design Center Targets Exascale Era Technologies
December 3, 2019
Intel's Raja Koduri was in India this week to help launch a new 300,000 square foot design and engineering center in Hyderabad, which will focus on advanced com Read more…
AWS Debuts 7nm 2nd-Gen Graviton Arm Processor
December 3, 2019
The “x86 Big Bang,” in which market dominance of the venerable Intel CPU has exploded into fragments of processor options suited to varying workloads, has n Read more…
Ride on the Wild Side – Squyres SC19 Mars Rovers Keynote
December 2, 2019
Reminding us of the deep and enabling connection between HPC and modern science is an important part of the SC Conference mission. And yes, HPC is a science its Read more…
NSCI Update – Adapting to a Changing Landscape
December 2, 2019
It was November of 2017 when we last visited the topic of the National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI). As you will recall, the NSCI was started with an Executive Order (E.O. No. 13702), that was issued by President Obama in July of 2015 and was followed by a Strategic Plan that was released in July of 2016. The question for November of 2017... Read more…
Tsinghua University Racks Up Its Ninth Student Cluster Championship Win at SC19
November 27, 2019
Tsinghua University has done it again. At SC19 last week, the eight-time gold medal-winner team took home the top prize in the 2019 Student Cluster Competition Read more…
SC19: IBM Changes Its HPC-AI Game Plan
November 25, 2019
It’s probably fair to say IBM is known for big bets. Summit supercomputer – a big win. Red Hat acquisition – looking like a big win. OpenPOWER and Power processors – jury’s out? At SC19, long-time IBMer Dave Turek sketched out a different kind of bet for Big Blue – a small ball strategy, if you’ll forgive the baseball analogy... Read more…
How the Gordon Bell Prize Winners Used Summit to Illuminate Transistors
November 22, 2019
At SC19, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) awarded the prestigious Gordon Bell Prize to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich. The Read more…
Using AI to Solve One of the Most Prevailing Problems in CFD
October 17, 2019
How can artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) solve mesh generation, one of the most commonly referenced problems in computational engineering? A new study has set out to answer this question and create an industry-first AI-mesh application... 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…
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…
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…
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…
SC19: IBM Changes Its HPC-AI Game Plan
November 25, 2019
It’s probably fair to say IBM is known for big bets. Summit supercomputer – a big win. Red Hat acquisition – looking like a big win. OpenPOWER and Power processors – jury’s out? At SC19, long-time IBMer Dave Turek sketched out a different kind of bet for Big Blue – a small ball strategy, if you’ll forgive the baseball analogy... Read more…
Cray, Fujitsu Both Bringing Fujitsu A64FX-based Supercomputers to Market in 2020
November 12, 2019
The number of top-tier HPC systems makers has shrunk due to a steady march of M&A activity, but there is increased diversity and choice of processing compon Read more…
Crystal Ball Gazing: IBM’s Vision for the Future of Computing
October 14, 2019
Dario Gil, IBM’s relatively new director of research, painted a intriguing portrait of the future of computing along with a rough idea of how IBM thinks we’ Read more…
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Intel Debuts New GPU – Ponte Vecchio – and Outlines Aspirations for oneAPI
November 17, 2019
Intel today revealed a few more details about its forthcoming Xe line of GPUs – the top SKU is named Ponte Vecchio and will be used in Aurora, the first plann 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…
Dell Ramps Up HPC Testing of AMD Rome Processors
October 21, 2019
Dell Technologies is wading deeper into the AMD-based systems market with a growing evaluation program for the latest Epyc (Rome) microprocessors from AMD. In a 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…
SC19: Welcome to Denver
November 17, 2019
A significant swath of the HPC community has come to Denver for SC19, which began today (Sunday) with a rich technical program. As is customary, the ribbon cutt Read more…
When Dense Matrix Representations Beat Sparse
September 9, 2019
In our world filled with unintended consequences, it turns out that saving memory space to help deal with GPU limitations, knowing it introduces performance pen 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…
Cerebras to Supply DOE with Wafer-Scale AI Supercomputing Technology
September 17, 2019
Cerebras Systems, which debuted its wafer-scale AI silicon at Hot Chips last month, has entered into a multi-year partnership with Argonne National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as part of a larger collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy... Read more…
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