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Startup Trovares Brings HPC to Graph Analytics

A startup launched by HPC veterans is combining supercomputers and graph analytics to forge a new suite of tools for applications ranging from cyber security to scientific research.

Along with …

By George Leopold

Announcing four new HPC capabilities in Google Cloud Platform

When you’re running compute-bound or memory-bound applications for high performance computing or large, data-dependent machine learning training workloads on GPU clusters, you need the right mi …

SDSC Gateway Wins NSF Grant to Allow Bursting to AWS for Speedup

Increasingly, leading edge technology is turning up first in the big public clouds which can be frustrating for academic users. The San Diego Supercomputer Center announced this week that its wid …

By John Russell

ANL Researchers Use ML to Improve Water Simulation

Every day there seems to be a new example of machine learning (ML) or deep learning (DL) speeding, simplifying, or improving what was previously an intractable or at least computationally-expensi …

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What’s New in HPC Research: Hurricane Harvey, Bioinformatics, the European Union & More

April 5, 2019

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

By Oliver Peckham

Semiconductor Industry Association 2019 Agenda Strikes Familiar Chords

April 2, 2019

The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) today issued its annual agenda – Winning the Future: A Blueprint for Sustained U.S. Leadership in Semiconductor T Read more…

By John Russell

ORNL Helps Identify Challenges of Extremely Heterogeneous Architectures

March 21, 2019

Exponential growth in classical computing over the last two decades has produced hardware and software that support lightning-fast processing speeds, but advanc Read more…

By Laurie Varma

DARPA, NSF Seek Real-Time ML Processor

March 18, 2019

A new U.S. research initiative seeks to develop a processor capable of real-time learning while operating with the “efficiency of the human brain.” The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency jointly announced a “Real Time Machine Learning” project on March 15 soliciting industry proposals for “foundational breakthroughs” in hardware required to “build systems that respond and adapt in real time.” Read more…

By George Leopold

It’s Official: Aurora on Track to Be First US Exascale Computer in 2021

March 18, 2019

The U.S. Department of Energy along with Intel and Cray confirmed today that an Intel/Cray supercomputer, "Aurora," capable of sustained performance of one exaf Read more…

By Tiffany Trader

NASA’s Pleiades Simulates Launch Abort Scenarios

March 15, 2019

NASA is using flow simulations running on its Pleiades supercomputer to help design the agency’s next manned spacecraft, Orion. Crew safety is paramount, s Read more…

By George Leopold

Quick Take: Trump’s 2020 Budget Spares DoE-funded HPC but Slams NSF and NIH

March 12, 2019

U.S. President Donald Trump’s 2020 budget request, released yesterday, proposes deep cuts in many science programs but seems to spare HPC funding by the Depar Read more…

By John Russell

MIT Lincoln Lab Offers Advice for Delivering On-Demand HPC

March 11, 2019

Looking for advice on how to deliver HPC to a diverse science user community? MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory has just posted a new paper – Lessons Learned from a Decade of Providing Interactive, On-Demand High Performance Computing to Scientists and Engineers – intended to fill the bill. Read more…