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Kubernetes, Containers and HPC

Software containers and Kubernetes are important tools for building, deploying, running and managing modern enterprise applications at scale and delivering enterprise software faster and more rel …

By Daniel Gruber，Burak Yenier and Wolfgang Gentzsch

IBM Opens Quantum Computing Center; Announces 53-Qubit Machine

Gauging progress in quantum computing is a tricky thing. IBM yesterday announced the opening of the IBM Quantum Computing Center in New York, with five 20-qubit systems up and running and a 53-qu …

Cerebras to Supply DOE with Wafer-Scale AI Supercomputing Technology

Cerebras Systems, which debuted its wafer-scale AI silicon at Hot Chips last month, has entered into a multi-year partnership with Argonne National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Labo …

By Tiffany Trader

Univa Brings Cloud Automation to Slurm Users with Navops Launch 2.0

Univa, the company behind Grid Engine, announced today its HPC cloud-automation platform NavOps Launch will support the popular open-source workload scheduler Slurm. With the release of NavOps La …

By Tiffany Trader

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When Dense Matrix Representations Beat Sparse

September 9, 2019

In our world filled with unintended consequences, it turns out that saving memory space to help deal with GPU limitations, knowing it introduces performance pen Read more…

By James Reinders

Eyes on the Prize: TACC’s Frontera Quickly Ramps up Science Agenda

September 9, 2019

Announced a year ago and officially launched a week ago, the Texas Advanced Computing Center’s Frontera – now the fastest academic supercomputer (~25 petefl Read more…

By John Russell

HPC & AI on Wall Street: Covering the High Performance FinTech Landscape

September 5, 2019

HPC & AI on Wall Street, one of the most important annual fintech conferences of the year, will take place next week at the Roosevelt Hotel, 45 E 45th St, New York City on Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 11 and 12. The conference this year has added a major focus... Read more…

By Doug Black

DARPA Looks to Propel Parallelism

September 4, 2019

As Moore’s law runs out of steam, new programming approaches are being pursued with the goal of greater hardware performance with less coding. The Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency is launching a new programming effort aimed at leveraging the benefits of massive distributed parallelism with less sweat. Read more…

By George Leopold

Fastest Academic Supercomputer Enters Full Production at TACC, Just in Time for Hurricane Season

September 3, 2019

Frontera, the NSF supercomputer installed at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) in June, passed its formal acceptance last week and is now officially la Read more…

By Tiffany Trader

MIT Prepares for Satori…and a New 2 Petaflops Computer Too

August 27, 2019

Sometime this fall, MIT will fire up Satori – an $11.6 million compute cluster donated by IBM and coinciding with the opening of the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzma Read more…

By John Russell

Deep Learning on GPUs: Successes and Promises

August 27, 2019

The rise of deep-learning (DL) has been fueled by the improvements in accelerators. Accelerators allow DL models to crunch a large amount of data, which is vita Read more…

By Sparsh Mittal

Researchers Tap Microsoft Brainwave FPGAs to Speed Physics Research

August 26, 2019

The rise of machine learning bolstered by heterogeneous computing as an important tool in science seems to gather more evidence daily. Recently a group of scien Read more…