Academia & Research

Cerebras to Supply DOE with Wafer-Scale AI Supercomputing Technology

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 Labo …

By Tiffany Trader

Researchers accelerate workloads and fuel new discoveries with Google’s HPC capabilities

Today’s IT leaders face many challenges in keeping their infrastructure up to date. Maintaining and upgrading on-premise infrastructure consumes time and resources, but migrating to the cloud c …

HPC Perspectives with Dr. Seid Koric

Brendan McGinty, director of Industry for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, kicks off the first in a series of pieces profili …

By Brendan McGinty

IDAS: ‘Automagic’ HPC With Training Wheels

High-performance computing (HPC) for research is notorious for having steep barriers to entry. For this reason, high-tech disciplines were early adopters, have used the most cycles and typically …

By Elizabeth Leake

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What’s New in HPC Research: Transfer Learning, Radio Astronomy, FPGAs and More

September 12, 2019

In this bimonthly feature, HPCwire highlights newly published research in the high-performance computing community and related domains. From parallel programm Read more…

By Oliver Peckham

Univa Brings Cloud Automation to Slurm Users with Navops Launch 2.0

September 11, 2019

Univa, the company behind Grid Engine, announced today its HPC cloud-automation platform NavOps Launch will support the popular open-source workload scheduler Slurm. With the release of NavOps Launch 2.0, “Slurm users will have access to the same cloud automation capabilities... Read more…

By Tiffany Trader

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…

By James Reinders

Eyes on the Prize: TACC’s Frontera Quickly Ramps up Science Agenda

September 9, 2019

Announced a year ago and officially launched a week ago, the Texas Advanced Computing Center’s Frontera – now the fastest academic supercomputer (~25 petefl Read more…

By John Russell

Supercomputers Help Uncover the Link Between Earthquakes and Tsunamis

September 9, 2019

In 2018, a powerful earthquake hit Sulawesi in Indonesia. Palu – the capital of Central Sulawesi – was struck by an unexpected ensuing tsunami. In total, ov Read more…

By Oliver Peckham

MIT Researchers Build Carbon Nanotube Microprocessor

September 5, 2019

A years-long mission to build a microprocessor out of carbon nanotube transistors has finally succeeded thanks to a team of MIT researchers. The development comes as the sustainability of Moore’s Law is increasingly called into question. Silicon-based transistors are nearing the point when they will be unable to shrink anymore, delivering increasingly marginal improvements. Read more…

By Oliver Peckham

Quantum Roundup: IBM Goes to School, Delft Tackles Networking, Rigetti Updates

September 5, 2019

IBM today announced a new open source quantum ‘textbook’, a series of quantum education videos, and plans to expand its nascent quantum hackathon program. L Read more…

By John Russell

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…