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- Previewing the ISC13 Conference
- Looking ahead to upcoming HPC trends
ISC13 Preview and A Look Ahead at HPC Trends to Watch
April 26, 2013
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AMD Epyc CPUs Now on Bare Metal IBM Cloud Servers
April 1, 2020
AMD’s expanding presence in the datacenter and cloud computing markets took a step forward with today’s announcement that its 7nm 2nd Gen Epyc 7642 CPUs are now available on IBM Cloud bare metal servers. AMD, whose Read more…
Supercomputer Testing Probes Viral Transmission in Airplanes
April 1, 2020
It might be a long time before the general public is flying again, but the question remains: how high-risk is air travel in terms of viral infection? In an article for the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), Faith Si Read more…
ECP Milestone Report Details Progress and Directions
April 1, 2020
The Exascale Computing Project (ECP) milestone report issued last week presents a good snapshot of progress in preparing applications for exascale computing. There are roughly 30 ECP application development (AD) subproj Read more…
Russian Supercomputer Employed to Develop COVID-19 Treatment
March 31, 2020
From Summit to [email protected], global supercomputing is continuing to mobilize against the coronavirus pandemic by crunching massive problems like epidemiology, therapeutic development and vaccine development. The latest a Read more…
What’s New in HPC Research: Supersonic Jets, Skin Modeling, Astrophysics & More
March 31, 2020
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…
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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…
Pandemic ‘Wipes Out’ 2020 HPC Market Growth, Flat to 12% Drop Expected
March 31, 2020
As the world battles the still accelerating novel coronavirus, the HPC community has mounted a forceful response to the pandemic on many fronts. But these efforts won't inoculate the HPC industry from the economic effects of COVID-19. Market watcher Intersect360 Research has revised its 2020 forecast for HPC products and services, projecting... Read more…
Pandemic ‘Wipes Out’ 2020 HPC Market Growth, Flat to 12% Drop Expected
March 31, 2020
As the world battles the still accelerating novel coronavirus, the HPC community has mounted a forceful response to the pandemic on many fronts. But these efforts won't inoculate the HPC industry from the economic effects of COVID-19. Market watcher Intersect360 Research has revised its 2020 forecast for HPC products and services, projecting... 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…
[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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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