November 30, 2020

Supercomputing, big data and artificial intelligence are crucial tools in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. Around the world, researchers, corporation Read more…

November 19, 2020

While much of the HPC community’s attention is fixed on SC20’s flood of news and new product announcements, Anders Dam Jensen, the newly-minted executive di Read more…

November 18, 2020

Before the COVID-19 pandemic essentially stopped the world in its tracks in March, the global HPC server market was expected to grow from $13.7 billion in 2019 Read more…

November 18, 2020

The AI benchmarking organization MLPerf.org dipped a toe into HPC-centric waters today with release of results from its first HPC training run – MLPerf HPC Tr Read more…

November 18, 2020

Even with the unprecedented computing power currently at our disposal, a tenfold increase in supercomputing capacity is needed to solve many of today's scientific grand challenge problems. Starting in 2019, TACC was formally invited by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a plan for a Leadership... Read more…

November 18, 2020

The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) and its juggernaut Frontera system (ranked ninth on the most recent Top500 list) have been on the front lines of COVI Read more…

November 17, 2020

At SC20, Intel announced that it is making its Xe-HP high performance discrete GPUs available to early access developers. Notably, the new chips have been deplo Read more…

November 17, 2020

At SC20 this week, Intel teased its forthcoming third-generation Xeon "Ice Lake-SP" server processor, claiming competitive benchmarking results against AMD's second-generation Epyc "Rome" processor. Ice Lake-SP, Intel's first server processor with 10nm technology... Read more…

November 17, 2020

COVID-19 isn’t over – not even close. With about six months until broad vaccine distribution is expected, the world will likely face a long, difficult winte Read more…

November 17, 2020

At SC19, IBM laid out a vision for accelerating installed HPC infrastructures with a small but potent dose of IBM AI expertise using Bayesian techniques package Read more…

November 16, 2020

Currently, there’s a lot on DDN’s plate as the long-time leader in HPC storage integrates recent acquisitions and strives to become a comprehensive HPC-plus-enterprise storage technology supplier. SC20 is providing a showcase for those efforts as DDN rolls out product updates, impressive... Read more…

November 16, 2020

With the publication of the 56th Top500 list today from SC20's virtual proceedings, Japan's Fugaku supercomputer – now fully deployed – notches another win, Read more…

November 16, 2020

Nvidia has doubled the memory of its previous supercomputing GPUs with its new A100 80GB GPU, which aims to drive new levels of supercomputing performance in a wide variety of uses, from AI and ML research to engineering and more. The new A100 80GB GPU comes just six months... Read more…

November 16, 2020

In March, IBM, the U.S. Department of Energy and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy launched an unprecedented initiative: the COVID-19 HPC Consortium. The wide-ranging consortium, aimed at leveraging worldwide supercomputing to fight the coronavirus, has since... Read more…

November 16, 2020

Nvidia today introduced its Mellanox NDR 400 gigabit-per-second InfiniBand family of interconnect products, which are expected to be available in Q2 of 2021. Th Read more…

November 16, 2020

AMD today announced the new MI100 Instinct accelerator, billing it as "the world's fastest HPC GPU" with 11.5 teraflops of peak double-precision floating point performance. A follow on to the MI50 and MI60 Instinct accelerators launched two years ago (the "world's first 7nm datacenter GPUs")... Read more…

November 13, 2020

The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) has unveiled a virtual tour of its Coda datacenter. The tour includes 360-degree looks at two supercomputers, including the shiny new Phoenix cluster, which is expected to make its Top500 debut in just a few days. The Coda walkthrough is... Read more…

November 12, 2020

In the following Q&A, Christine Cuicchi, SC20 Conference General Chair, discusses this year’s unifying theme (More Than HPC, see Nov. 16 plenary details), expounds on HPC trends, and walks us through the activities of her "day job" as director of the Navy DoD Supercomputing Resource Center. Read more…

November 11, 2020

Intel today provided greater detail around its plans to bring a full line of GPUs (Xe) and associated programming environment to market. The biggest news from a Read more…

November 9, 2020

It’s time to meet the competitors at the SC20 Virtual Student Cluster Competition (VSCC). We’re going to introduce the teams, look at their records, and break down their games. We also have connected with our cluster competition bookie, Johnny Aces (pictured right) to see what he thinks... Read more…

November 9, 2020

Fugaku is currently the most powerful publicly ranked supercomputer in the world – but we weren’t supposed to have it yet. The supercomputer, situated at Japan’s Riken scientific research institute, was scheduled to come online in 2021. When the pandemic struck... Read more…

November 5, 2020

There was much to unpack in Intersect360 Research’s pre-SC20 Market Update presented by Addison Snell, cofounder and CEO, in a webinar yesterday. The COVID-19 Read more…

November 5, 2020

The first official Arm HPC User Group (AHUG) proceedings have begun with ~25 presentations now available, and three live (virtual) roundtable panels set to take place next week. AHUG is hosting the virtual event in partnership with Arm and in tandem with SC20 to promote the work done by Arm users over the past year. Yesterday (Nov. 4)... Read more…

September 9, 2020

In advance of the SC20 conference, now fully virtual and extended from November 9-19, HPCwire interviewed two of the people leading the effort to put on the 32nd annual, and first virtual, SC. In this special video edition... Read more…