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The New Number One on TOP500; Intel Pushes Forward on Manycore Plans
June 20, 2011
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Hyperion: HPC Server Market Ekes 1 Percent Gain in 2020, Storage Poised for ‘Tipping Point’
May 12, 2021
The HPC User Forum meeting taking place virtually this week (May 11-13) kicked off with Hyperion Research’s market update, covering the 2020 period. Although the HPC server market had been facing a 6.7 percent COVID-re Read more…
Finland’s CSC Chronicles the COVID Research Performed on Its ‘Puhti’ Supercomputer
May 11, 2021
CSC, Finland’s IT Center for Science, is home to a variety of computing resources, including the 1.7 petaflops Puhti supercomputer. The 682-node, Intel Cascade Lake-powered system, which places about halfway down the T Read more…
IBM Debuts Qiskit Runtime for Quantum Computing; Reports Dramatic Speed-up
May 11, 2021
In conjunction with its virtual Think event, IBM today introduced an enhanced Qiskit Runtime Software for quantum computing, which it says demonstrated 120x speedup in simulating molecules. Qiskit is IBM’s quantum soft Read more…
AMD Chipmaker TSMC to Use AMD Chips for Chipmaking
May 8, 2021
TSMC has tapped AMD to support its major manufacturing and R&D workloads. AMD will provide its Epyc Rome 7702P CPUs – with 64 cores operating at a base clock of 2.0GHz – implemented in HPE's single-socket ProLian Read more…
Supercomputer Research Tracks the Loss of the World’s Glaciers
May 7, 2021
British Columbia – which is over twice the size of California – contains around 17,000 glaciers that cover three percent of its landmass. These glaciers are crucial for the Canadian province, which relies on its many Read more…
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FLYING WHALES runs CFD workloads 15 times faster on AWS
FLYING WHALES is a French startup that is developing a 60-ton payload cargo airship for the heavy lift and outsize cargo market. The project was born out of France’s ambition to provide efficient, environmentally friendly transportation for collecting wood in remote areas. Read more…
Meet Dell’s Pete Manca, an HPCwire Person to Watch in 2021
May 7, 2021
Pete Manca heads up Dell's newly formed HPC and AI leadership group. As senior vice president of the integrated solutions engineering team, he is focused on custom design, technology alliances, high-performance computing Read more…
Hyperion: HPC Server Market Ekes 1 Percent Gain in 2020, Storage Poised for ‘Tipping Point’
May 12, 2021
The HPC User Forum meeting taking place virtually this week (May 11-13) kicked off with Hyperion Research’s market update, covering the 2020 period. Although Read more…
IBM Debuts Qiskit Runtime for Quantum Computing; Reports Dramatic Speed-up
May 11, 2021
In conjunction with its virtual Think event, IBM today introduced an enhanced Qiskit Runtime Software for quantum computing, which it says demonstrated 120x spe Read more…
AMD Chipmaker TSMC to Use AMD Chips for Chipmaking
May 8, 2021
TSMC has tapped AMD to support its major manufacturing and R&D workloads. AMD will provide its Epyc Rome 7702P CPUs – with 64 cores operating at a base cl Read more…
Fast Pass Through (Some of) the Quantum Landscape with ORNL’s Raphael Pooser
May 7, 2021
In a rather remarkable way, and despite the frequent hype, the behind-the-scenes work of developing quantum computing has dramatically accelerated in the past f Read more…
IBM Research Debuts 2nm Test Chip with 50 Billion Transistors
May 6, 2021
IBM Research today announced the successful prototyping of the world's first 2 nanometer chip, fabricated with silicon nanosheet technology on a standard 300mm Read more…
LRZ Announces New Phase of SuperMUC-NG Supercomputer with Intel’s ‘Ponte Vecchio’ GPU
May 5, 2021
At the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) in München, Germany – one of the constituent centers of the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) – the SuperMUC Read more…
Crystal Ball Gazing at Nvidia: R&D Chief Bill Dally Talks Targets and Approach
May 4, 2021
There’s no quibbling with Nvidia’s success. Entrenched atop the GPU market, Nvidia has ridden its own inventiveness and growing demand for accelerated computing to meet the needs of HPC and AI. Recently it embarked on an ambitious expansion by acquiring Mellanox (interconnect)... Read more…
Intel Invests $3.5 Billion in New Mexico Fab to Focus on Foveros Packaging Technology
May 3, 2021
Intel announced it is investing $3.5 billion in its Rio Rancho, New Mexico, facility to support its advanced 3D manufacturing and packaging technology, Foveros. 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…
AMD Chipmaker TSMC to Use AMD Chips for Chipmaking
May 8, 2021
TSMC has tapped AMD to support its major manufacturing and R&D workloads. AMD will provide its Epyc Rome 7702P CPUs – with 64 cores operating at a base cl Read more…
Intel Launches 10nm ‘Ice Lake’ Datacenter CPU with Up to 40 Cores
April 6, 2021
The wait is over. Today Intel officially launched its 10nm datacenter CPU, the third-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor, codenamed Ice Lake. With up to 40 Read more…
CERN Is Betting Big on Exascale
April 1, 2021
The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) involves 23 countries, 15,000 researchers, billions of dollars a year, and the biggest machine in the worl Read more…
HPE Launches Storage Line Loaded with IBM’s Spectrum Scale File System
April 6, 2021
HPE today launched a new family of storage solutions bundled with IBM’s Spectrum Scale Erasure Code Edition parallel file system (description below) and featu 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…
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…
Quantum Computer Start-up IonQ Plans IPO via SPAC
March 8, 2021
IonQ, a Maryland-based quantum computing start-up working with ion trap technology, plans to go public via a Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) merger a 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…
AMD Launches Epyc ‘Milan’ with 19 SKUs for HPC, Enterprise and Hyperscale
March 15, 2021
At a virtual launch event held today (Monday), AMD revealed its third-generation Epyc “Milan” CPU lineup: a set of 19 SKUs -- including the flagship 64-core, 280-watt 7763 part -- aimed at HPC, enterprise and cloud workloads. Notably, the third-gen Epyc Milan chips achieve 19 percent... 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…
GTC21: Nvidia Launches cuQuantum; Dips a Toe in Quantum Computing
April 13, 2021
Yesterday Nvidia officially dipped a toe into quantum computing with the launch of cuQuantum SDK, a development platform for simulating quantum circuits on GPU-accelerated systems. As Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang emphasized in his keynote, Nvidia doesn’t plan to build... 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…
The History of Supercomputing vs. COVID-19
March 9, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic poses a greater challenge to the high-performance computing community than any before. HPCwire's coverage of the supercomputing response t Read more…
HPE Names Justin Hotard New HPC Chief as Pete Ungaro Departs
March 2, 2021
HPE CEO Antonio Neri announced today (March 2, 2021) the appointment of Justin Hotard as general manager of HPC, mission critical solutions and labs, effective Read more…
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