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Nvidia Embraces Arm, Declares Intent to Accelerate All CPU Architectures

As the Top500 list was being announced at ISC in Frankfurt today with an upgraded petascale Arm supercomputer in the top third of the list, Nvidia announced its intention to make Arm a full citiz …

By Tiffany Trader

First All-Petaflops Top500 List Debuts; US Maintains Performance Lead

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 petafloppers only. The entry point for th …

MareNostrum Supercomputer Boosts SEAT’s Vehicle Aerodynamics

Spain’s MareNostrum 4, housed at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), is helping to design the aerodynamics of every new car that Spanish automobile manufacturer SEAT is building, optimiz …

By Mariana Iriarte

RFI: Help U.S. Catalyze Quantum Information Science

Quantum information science is likely to have applications in many domains stretching from sensor technology and communications to quantum computing. Building an U.S. ecosystem to foster QIS was …

By John Russell

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Exploring Exascale Science: Fusion Energy, X-ray Free-Electron Lasers, Quantum Chromodynamics

May 28, 2019

While 10^18 flops hardware is super exciting, this series of articles from the Exascale Computing Project, by science writer Scott Gibson, reminds us once again, the really cool and important stuff is what you can do with all those (ones and) zeros. Read more…

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Cray’s Emerging Market & Technology Director Arti Garg Peers Around HPC/AI Corner

May 23, 2019

In her position as emerging market and technology director at Cray, Arti Garg doesn't just have a front-row seat to the future of computing, she plays an active role in making that future happen. Key to Garg's role is understanding how deep learning scientists are using state-of-the-art HPC infrastructures and figuring out how to push those limits further. Read more…

By Tiffany Trader

Combining Machine Learning and Supercomputing to Ferret out Phishing Attacks

May 23, 2019

The relentless ingenuity that drives cyber hacking is a global engine that knows no rest. Anyone with a laptop and run-of-the-mill computer smarts can buy or re Read more…

By Doug Black

China Establishes Seventh National Supercomputing Center

May 16, 2019

Chinese media is reporting that China will construct a new National Supercomputer Center in Zhengzhou, in central China's Henan Province. The new Zhengzhou faci Read more…

By Staff report

What’s New in HPC Research: Image Classification, Crowd Computing, Genome Informatics & More

May 15, 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

Deep Learning Competitors Stalk Nvidia

May 14, 2019

There is no shortage of processing architectures emerging to accelerate deep learning workloads, with two more options emerging this week to challenge GPU leader Nvidia. First, Intel researchers claimed a new deep learning record for image classification on the ResNet-50 convolutional neural network. Separately, Israeli AI chip startup Hailo.ai... Read more…

By George Leopold

CCC Offers Draft 20-Year AI Roadmap; Seeks Comments

May 14, 2019

Artificial Intelligence in all its guises has captured much of the conversation in HPC and general computing today. The White House, DARPA, IARPA, and Departmen Read more…

By John Russell

Cascade Lake Shows Up to 84 Percent Gen-on-Gen Advantage on STAC Benchmarking

May 13, 2019

The Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC) issued a report Friday comparing the performance of Intel's Cascade Lake processors with previous-gen Skylake u Read more…