May 10, 2022

Installation has begun on the Aurora supercomputer, Rick Stevens (associate director of Argonne National Laboratory) revealed today during the Intel Vision event keynote taking place in Dallas, Texas, and online. Joining Intel exec Raja Koduri on stage, Stevens confirmed that the Aurora build is underway – a major development for a system that is projected to deliver more... Read more…

April 26, 2022

In the third of a series of guest posts on heterogeneous computing, James Reinders shares experiences surrounding the creation of ASCI Red and ties that system' Read more…

April 13, 2022

Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Columbia University, the University of Connecticut, University of Edinburgh, Regensburg University, and the University of Southampton are seeking answers to physics mysteries at the highest energies and shortest distances. The team is devising new methods and enhancing their code in order to exploit the huge potential... Read more…

March 28, 2022

The Frontier supercomputer was installed at Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 2021, with the final cabinet rolled into place in October. While shakeout of the full 2-exaflops peak system continues – we have heard off-record about troubles with the fabric technology that connects the massive system – the Frontier project is running with a smaller testbed system of the same core design. Read more…

March 2, 2022

U.S. leadership computers today are giant GPU-based machines, whether you’re talking about the pre-exascale Summit supercomputer in operation today at the Oak Read more…

February 16, 2022

At a three-hour livestreamed launch event held today (Feb. 16) in Paris, French technology firm Atos unveiled its new supercomputer, the BullSequana XH3000, int Read more…

December 10, 2021

HPCwire catches up with SiPearl's Craig Prunty at SC21. They discuss SiPearl's role in developing foundational European exascale technology, recently announced partnerships with Intel and Graphcore and what's next for the French company. Read more…

November 29, 2021

HPCwire's Managing Editor sits down with Intel's Raja Koduri and Riken's Satoshi Matsuoka in St. Louis for an off-the-cuff conversation about their SC21 experience, what comes after exascale and why they are collaborating. Koduri, senior vice president and general manager of Intel's accelerated computing systems and graphics (AXG) group, leads the team... Read more…