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Thursday’s ISC’12 topics include:
- Mellanox launches 4th-generation InfiniBand adapter
- ISC winner’s and losers
InfiniBand Hits 100G; Winners and Losers at ISC’12
June 21, 2012
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NIST/Xanadu Researchers Report Photonic Quantum Computing Advance
March 3, 2021
Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Xanadu, a young Canada-based quantum computing company, have reported developing a full-stack, photonic quantum computer able to carry out th Read more…
Can Deep Learning Replace Numerical Weather Prediction?
March 3, 2021
Numerical weather prediction (NWP) is a mainstay of supercomputing. Some of the first applications of the first supercomputers dealt with climate modeling, and even to this day, the largest climate models are heavily con Read more…
Deloitte Outfits New AI Computing Center with Nvidia DGX Gear
March 3, 2021
With AI use continuing to grow in adoption throughout enterprise IT, Deloitte is creating a new Deloitte Center for AI Computing to advise its customers, explain the technology and help them use it in their ongoing busin Read more…
HPE Names Justin Hotard New HPC Chief as Pete Ungaro Departs
March 2, 2021
HPE CEO Antonio Neri announced today (March 2, 2020) the appointment of Justin Hotard as general manager of HPC, mission critical solutions and labs, effective immediately. Hotard replaces long-time Cray exec Pete Ungaro Read more…
ORNL’s Jeffrey Vetter on How IRIS Runtime will Help Deal with Extreme Heterogeneity
March 2, 2021
Jeffery Vetter is a familiar figure in HPC. Last year he became one of the new section heads in a reorganization at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He had been founding director of ORNL's Future Technologies Group which i Read more…
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Moderna Accelerates COVID-19 Vaccine Development on AWS
Marcello Damiani, Chief Digital and Operational Excellence Officer at Moderna, joins Todd Weatherby, Vice President of AWS Professional Services Worldwide, for a discussion on developing Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine, scaling systems to enable global distribution, and leveraging cloud technologies to accelerate processes. Read more…
HPC Career Notes: March 2021 Edition
March 1, 2021
In this monthly feature, we’ll keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments for individuals in the high-performance computing community. Whether it’s a promotion, new company hire, or even an accolade, we’ Read more…
Can Deep Learning Replace Numerical Weather Prediction?
March 3, 2021
Numerical weather prediction (NWP) is a mainstay of supercomputing. Some of the first applications of the first supercomputers dealt with climate modeling, and Read more…
HPE Names Justin Hotard New HPC Chief as Pete Ungaro Departs
March 2, 2021
HPE CEO Antonio Neri announced today (March 2, 2020) the appointment of Justin Hotard as general manager of HPC, mission critical solutions and labs, effective Read more…
ORNL’s Jeffrey Vetter on How IRIS Runtime will Help Deal with Extreme Heterogeneity
March 2, 2021
Jeffery Vetter is a familiar figure in HPC. Last year he became one of the new section heads in a reorganization at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He had been f Read more…
HPC Career Notes: March 2021 Edition
March 1, 2021
In this monthly feature, we’ll keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments for individuals in the high-performance computing community. Whether it Read more…
African Supercomputing Center Inaugurates ‘Toubkal,’ Most Powerful Supercomputer on the Continent
February 25, 2021
Historically, Africa hasn’t exactly been synonymous with supercomputing. There are only a handful of supercomputers on the continent, with few ranking on the Read more…
Japan to Debut Integrated Fujitsu HPC/AI Supercomputer This Spring
February 25, 2021
The integrated Fujitsu HPC/AI Supercomputer, Wisteria, is coming to Japan this spring. The University of Tokyo is preparing to deploy a heterogeneous computing Read more…
Xilinx Launches Alveo SN1000 SmartNIC
February 24, 2021
FPGA vendor Xilinx has debuted its latest SmartNIC model, the Alveo SN1000, with integrated “composability” features that allow enterprise users to add their own custom networking functions to supplement its built-in networking. By providing deep flexibility... Read more…
ASF Keynotes Showcase How HPC and Big Data Have Pervaded the Pandemic
February 24, 2021
Last Thursday, a range of experts joined the Advanced Scale Forum (ASF) in a rapid-fire roundtable to discuss how advanced technologies have transformed the way humanity responded to the COVID-19 pandemic in indelible ways. The roundtable, held near the one-year mark of the first... Read more…
Julia Update: Adoption Keeps Climbing; Is It a Python Challenger?
January 13, 2021
The rapid adoption of Julia, the open source, high level programing language with roots at MIT, shows no sign of slowing according to data from Julialang.org. I Read more…
Esperanto Unveils ML Chip with Nearly 1,100 RISC-V Cores
December 8, 2020
At the RISC-V Summit today, Art Swift, CEO of Esperanto Technologies, announced a new, RISC-V based chip aimed at machine learning and containing nearly 1,100 low-power cores based on the open-source RISC-V architecture. Esperanto Technologies, headquartered in... Read more…
Azure Scaled to Record 86,400 Cores for Molecular Dynamics
November 20, 2020
A new record for HPC scaling on the public cloud has been achieved on Microsoft Azure. Led by Dr. Jer-Ming Chia, the cloud provider partnered with the Beckman I Read more…
Programming the Soon-to-Be World’s Fastest Supercomputer, Frontier
January 5, 2021
What’s it like designing an app for the world’s fastest supercomputer, set to come online in the United States in 2021? The University of Delaware’s Sunita Chandrasekaran is leading an elite international team in just that task. Chandrasekaran, assistant professor of computer and information sciences, recently was named... Read more…
NICS Unleashes ‘Kraken’ Supercomputer
April 4, 2008
A Cray XT4 supercomputer, dubbed Kraken, is scheduled to come online in mid-summer at the National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS). The soon-to-be petascale system, and the resulting NICS organization, are the result of an NSF Track II award of $65 million to the University of Tennessee and its partners to provide next-generation supercomputing for the nation's science community. Read more…
10nm, 7nm, 5nm…. Should the Chip Nanometer Metric Be Replaced?
June 1, 2020
The biggest cool factor in server chips is the nanometer. AMD beating Intel to a CPU built on a 7nm process node* – with 5nm and 3nm on the way – has been i Read more…
Top500: Fugaku Keeps Crown, Nvidia’s Selene Climbs to #5
November 16, 2020
With the publication of the 56th Top500 list today from SC20's virtual proceedings, Japan's Fugaku supercomputer – now fully deployed – notches another win, Read more…
Gordon Bell Special Prize Goes to Massive SARS-CoV-2 Simulations
November 19, 2020
2020 has proven a harrowing year – but it has produced remarkable heroes. To that end, this year, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) introduced the Read more…
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Texas A&M Announces Flagship ‘Grace’ Supercomputer
November 9, 2020
Texas A&M University has announced its next flagship system: Grace. The new supercomputer, named for legendary programming pioneer Grace Hopper, is replacing the Ada system (itself named for mathematician Ada Lovelace) as the primary workhorse for Texas A&M’s High Performance Research Computing (HPRC). Read more…
Saudi Aramco Unveils Dammam 7, Its New Top Ten Supercomputer
January 21, 2021
By revenue, oil and gas giant Saudi Aramco is one of the largest companies in the world, and it has historically employed commensurate amounts of supercomputing Read more…
Intel Xe-HP GPU Deployed for Aurora Exascale Development
November 17, 2020
At SC20, Intel announced that it is making its Xe-HP high performance discrete GPUs available to early access developers. Notably, the new chips have been deplo Read more…
Intel Teases Ice Lake-SP, Shows Competitive Benchmarking
November 17, 2020
At SC20 this week, Intel teased its forthcoming third-generation Xeon "Ice Lake-SP" server processor, claiming competitive benchmarking results against AMD's second-generation Epyc "Rome" processor. Ice Lake-SP, Intel's first server processor with 10nm technology... Read more…
New Deep Learning Algorithm Solves Rubik’s Cube
July 25, 2018
Solving (and attempting to solve) Rubik’s Cube has delighted millions of puzzle lovers since 1974 when the cube was invented by Hungarian sculptor and archite Read more…
Livermore’s El Capitan Supercomputer to Debut HPE ‘Rabbit’ Near Node Local Storage
February 18, 2021
A near node local storage innovation called Rabbit factored heavily into Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s decision to select Cray’s proposal for its CORAL-2 machine, the lab’s first exascale-class supercomputer, El Capitan. Details of this new storage technology were revealed... Read more…
African Supercomputing Center Inaugurates ‘Toubkal,’ Most Powerful Supercomputer on the Continent
February 25, 2021
Historically, Africa hasn’t exactly been synonymous with supercomputing. There are only a handful of supercomputers on the continent, with few ranking on the Read more…
It’s Fugaku vs. COVID-19: How the World’s Top Supercomputer Is Shaping Our New Normal
November 9, 2020
Fugaku is currently the most powerful publicly ranked supercomputer in the world – but we weren’t supposed to have it yet. The supercomputer, situated at Japan’s Riken scientific research institute, was scheduled to come online in 2021. When the pandemic struck... Read more…
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