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AI is the Next Exascale – Rick Stevens on What that Means and Why It’s Important

August 13, 2019

Twelve years ago the Department of Energy (DOE) was just beginning to explore what an exascale computing program might look like and what it might accomplish. Today, DOE is repeating that process for AI, once again starting with science community town halls to gather input and stimulate conversation. The town hall program... Read more…

By Tiffany Trader and John Russell

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

August 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

Building Diversity and Broader Engagement in the HPC Community

August 7, 2019

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 w Read more…

By AJ Lauer

Intel Adds 56-core Socketed Cooper Lake to Lineup

August 6, 2019

Intel today announced that its forthcoming Cooper Lake Xeon Scalable processors, based on Intel's 14nm++ process, will come with up to 56-cores in a socketed fo Read more…

By John Russell

Convergence of HPC, AI and Cloud Computing Charted at PEARC19 Keynote

August 1, 2019

A trio of keynote presentations from Intel, Google and Microsoft at the PEARC19 conference in Chicago on July 31 charted out the likely future of academic and h Read more…

By Ken Chiacchia, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center/XSEDE

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

AWS Expands Worldwide Availability to AMD-based Instances

July 22, 2019

Setting aside potential setbacks caused by U.S. trade policies, the steady cadence of AMD’s revival in HPC and the datacenter continued last week with AWS exp Read more…