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InfiniBand Hits 100G; Winners and Losers at ISC’12
June 21, 2012
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LLNL Leverages Supercomputing to Identify COVID-19 Antibody Candidates
March 30, 2020
As COVID-19 sweeps the globe to devastating effect, supercomputers around the world are spinning up to fight back by working on diagnosis, epidemiology, treatment and vaccine development. Now, Lawrence Livermore National Read more…
Weather at Exascale: Load Balancing for Heterogeneous Systems
March 30, 2020
The first months of 2020 were dominated by weather and climate supercomputing news, with major announcements coming from the UK, the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts and the U.S. National Oceanic and At Read more…
Q&A Part Two: ORNL’s Pooser on Progress in Quantum Communication
March 30, 2020
Quantum computing seems to get more than its fair share of attention compared to quantum communication. That’s despite the fact that quantum networking may be nearer to becoming a practical reality. In this second inst Read more…
SiFive Accelerates Chip Design with Cloud Tools
March 25, 2020
Chip designers are drawing on new cloud resources along with conventional electronic design automation (EDA) tools to accelerate IC templates from tape-out to custom silicon. Among the challengers to chip design leade Read more…
What’s New in Computing vs. COVID-19: White House Initiative, Frontera, RIKEN & More
March 25, 2020
Supercomputing, big data and artificial intelligence are crucial tools in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. Around the world, researchers, corporations and governments are urgently devoting their computing reso Read more…
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Amazon FSx for Lustre Update: Persistent Storage for Long-Term, High-Performance Workloads
Last year I wrote about Amazon FSx for Lustre and told you how our customers can use it to create pebibyte-scale, highly parallel POSIX-compliant file systems that serve thousands of simultaneous clients driving millions of IOPS (Input/Output Operations per Second) with sub-millisecond latency. Read more…
DoE Expands on Role of COVID-19 Supercomputing Consortium
March 25, 2020
After announcing the launch of the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium on Sunday, the Department of Energy yesterday provided more details on its scope and operation in a briefing led by Undersecretary of Ener Read more…
Weather at Exascale: Load Balancing for Heterogeneous Systems
March 30, 2020
The first months of 2020 were dominated by weather and climate supercomputing news, with major announcements coming from the UK, the European Centre for Medium- Read more…
Q&A Part Two: ORNL’s Pooser on Progress in Quantum Communication
March 30, 2020
Quantum computing seems to get more than its fair share of attention compared to quantum communication. That’s despite the fact that quantum networking may be Read more…
DoE Expands on Role of COVID-19 Supercomputing Consortium
March 25, 2020
After announcing the launch of the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium on Sunday, the Department of Energy yesterday provided more details on its sco Read more…
[email protected] Rallies a Legion of Computers Against the Coronavirus
March 24, 2020
Last week, we highlighted [email protected], a massive, crowdsourced computer network that has turned its resources against the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the globe – but [email protected] isn’t the only game in town. The internet is buzzing with crowdsourced computing... Read more…
Conversation: ANL’s Rick Stevens on DoE’s AI for Science Project
March 23, 2020
With release of the Department of Energy’s AI for Science report in late February, the effort to build a national AI program, modeled loosely on the U.S. Exascale Initiative, enters a new phase. Project leaders have already had early discussions with Congress... Read more…
Servers Headed to Junkyard Find 2nd Life Fighting Cancer in Clusters
March 20, 2020
Ottawa-based charitable organization Cancer Computer is on a mission to stamp out cancer and other life-threatening diseases, including coronavirus, by putting Read more…
Kubernetes and HPC Applications in Hybrid Cloud Environments – Part II
March 19, 2020
With the rise of cloud services, CIOs are recognizing that applications, middleware, and infrastructure running in various compute environments need a common management and operating model. Maintaining different application and middleware stacks on-premises and in cloud environments, by possibly using different specialized infrastructure and application... Read more…
Intel’s Neuromorphic Chip Scales Up (and It Smells)
March 18, 2020
Neuromorphic chips attempt to directly mimic the behavior of the human brain. Intel, which introduced its Loihi neuromorphic chip in 2017, has just announced that Loihi has been scaled up into a system that simulates over 100 million neurons. Furthermore, it announced that the chip smells. Read more…
[email protected] Turns Its Massive Crowdsourced Computer Network Against COVID-19
March 16, 2020
For gamers, fighting against a global crisis is usually pure fantasy – but now, it’s looking more like a reality. As supercomputers around the world spin up Read more…
Julia Programming’s Dramatic Rise in HPC and Elsewhere
January 14, 2020
Back in 2012 a paper by four computer scientists including Alan Edelman of MIT introduced Julia, A Fast Dynamic Language for Technical Computing. At the time, t Read more…
Global Supercomputing Is Mobilizing Against COVID-19
March 12, 2020
Tech has been taking some heavy losses from the coronavirus pandemic. Global supply chains have been disrupted, virtually every major tech conference taking place over the next few months has been canceled... Read more…
[email protected] Rallies a Legion of Computers Against the Coronavirus
March 24, 2020
Last week, we highlighted [email protected], a massive, crowdsourced computer network that has turned its resources against the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the globe – but [email protected] isn’t the only game in town. The internet is buzzing with crowdsourced computing... Read more…
Steve Scott Lays Out HPE-Cray Blended Product Roadmap
March 11, 2020
Last week, the day before the El Capitan processor disclosures were made at HPE's new headquarters in San Jose, Steve Scott (CTO for HPC & AI at HPE, and former Cray CTO) was on-hand at the Rice Oil & Gas HPC conference in Houston. He was there to discuss the HPE-Cray transition and blended roadmap, as well as his favorite topic, Cray's eighth-gen networking technology, Slingshot. Read more…
DoE Expands on Role of COVID-19 Supercomputing Consortium
March 25, 2020
After announcing the launch of the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium on Sunday, the Department of Energy yesterday provided more details on its sco Read more…
Fujitsu A64FX Supercomputer to Be Deployed at Nagoya University This Summer
February 3, 2020
Japanese tech giant Fujitsu announced today that it will supply Nagoya University Information Technology Center with the first commercial supercomputer powered Read more…
Tech Conferences Are Being Canceled Due to Coronavirus
March 3, 2020
Several conferences scheduled to take place in the coming weeks, including Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) and the Strata Data + AI conference, have Read more…
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Cray to Provide NOAA with Two AMD-Powered Supercomputers
February 24, 2020
The United States’ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) last week announced plans for a major refresh of its operational weather forecasting supercomputers, part of a 10-year, $505.2 million program, which will secure two HPE-Cray systems for NOAA’s National Weather Service to be fielded later this year and put into production in early 2022. Read more…
Exascale Watch: El Capitan Will Use AMD CPUs & GPUs to Reach 2 Exaflops
March 4, 2020
HPE and its collaborators reported today that El Capitan, the forthcoming exascale supercomputer to be sited at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and serve Read more…
Summit Supercomputer is Already Making its Mark on Science
September 20, 2018
Summit, now the fastest supercomputer in the world, is quickly making its mark in science – five of the six finalists just announced for the prestigious 2018 Read more…
IBM Unveils Latest Achievements in AI Hardware
December 13, 2019
“The increased capabilities of contemporary AI models provide unprecedented recognition accuracy, but often at the expense of larger computational and energet Read more…
IBM Debuts IC922 Power Server for AI Inferencing and Data Management
January 28, 2020
IBM today launched a Power9-based inference server – the IC922 – that features up to six Nvidia T4 GPUs, PCIe Gen 4 and OpenCAPI connectivity, and can accom Read more…
TACC Supercomputers Run Simulations Illuminating COVID-19, DNA Replication
March 19, 2020
As supercomputers around the world spin up to combat the coronavirus, the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) is announcing results that may help to illumina Read more…
University of Stuttgart Inaugurates ‘Hawk’ Supercomputer
February 20, 2020
This week, the new “Hawk” supercomputer was inaugurated in a ceremony at the High-Performance Computing Center of the University of Stuttgart (HLRS). Offici Read more…
Summit Joins the Fight Against the Coronavirus
March 6, 2020
With the coronavirus sweeping the globe, tech conferences and supply chains are being hit hard – but now, tech is hitting back. Oak Ridge National Laboratory Read more…
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