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Argonne Supercomputer Accelerates Cancer Prediction Research

In the fight against cancer, early prediction, which drastically improves prognoses, is critical. Now, new research by a team from Northwestern University – and accelerated by supercomputing re …

By Oliver Peckham

Liquid Cooling Makes a Splash in Enterprise Data Centers

Direct liquid cooling is now gaining momentum in mainstream data centers — for many good reasons.

As servers get faster, they generate more heat, and that increases the need for innovative a …

What’s New in HPC Research: Railways, MPI, Medical Imaging & More

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 computin …

By Oliver Peckham

Building Diversity and Broader Engagement in the HPC Community

Increasing diversity and inclusion in HPC is a community-building effort. Representation of both issues and individuals matters - the more people see HPC in a way they can relate to, the more lik …

By AJ Lauer

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The Human Brain Project Takes Lumps Again

July 29, 2019

The European-funded Human Brain Project (HBP) has stirred its share of controversy over the years so perhaps it’s not surprising that The Atlantic should tak Read more…

By John Russell

Rise of NIH’s Biowulf Mirrors the Rise of Computational Biology

July 29, 2019

The story of NIH’s supercomputer Biowulf is fascinating, important, and in many ways representative of the transformation of life sciences and biomedical res Read more…

By John Russell

Berkeley Lab’s Kathy Yelick Looks Back and Ahead as She Contemplates Next Career Stage

July 25, 2019

In mid-April, Kathy Yelick announced she would step down as Associate Laboratory Director (ALD) for the Computing Sciences organization at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a position she has held since September 2010, in addition to heading NERSC from 2008 through 2012. Yelick will return to campus in January 2020... Read more…

By Jon Bashor

MLPerf Expands Toolset; Launches Inferencing Suite

June 24, 2019

MLPerf today launched a benchmark suite for inferencing, v0.5, which joins the MLPerf training suite launched a little over a year ago. The new inferencing benc Read more…

By John Russell

ISC Keynote: The Algorithms of Life – Scientific Computing for Systems Biology

June 19, 2019

Systems biology has existed loosely under many definitions for a couple of decades. It’s the notion of describing living systems using first-principle physics Read more…

By John Russell

By the Numbers: For the HPC Industry, These Are the Good Old Days

June 18, 2019

For technology vendors in HPC and HPC-related markets driven by increased demand for AI, enterprise and exascale solutions, this is the best of times – with better times likely in the offing. HPC analyst firm Hyperion Research took the occasion of its semi-annual HPC market update breakfast today in Frankfurt... Read more…

By Doug Black

Top500 Purely Petaflops; US Maintains Performance Lead

June 17, 2019

With the kick-off of the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) in Frankfurt this morning, the 53rd Top500 list made its debut, and this one's for petafl Read more…

By Tiffany Trader

NCSU Researchers Overcome Key DNA-Based Data Storage Obstacles

June 12, 2019

In the race for increasingly dense data storage solutions, DNA-based storage is surely one of the most curious – and a team of North Carolina State University Read more…