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Intel Gold U-Series SKUs Reveal Single Socket Intentions

Intel plans to jump into the single socket market with a portion of its just announced Cascade Lake microprocessor line according to one media report. This isn’t a shocking surprise as many obs …

By John Russell

ASC19 enters the final week with the participation of world renowned experts

The finals of ASC19 Student Supercomputer Challenge kicked off on April 21st, 2019 at Dalian University of Technology, China. Top 20 teams from around the world designed and built clusters of up …

TIOBE Index: C++ Regains its Shine; Python Slips but Still Hot

Python is still one of the fastest growing and most preferred programming languages but don’t count C++ out just yet. The TIOBE April 2019 Index released last week had C++ in the number three s …

By John Russell

Semiconductor Industry Association 2019 Agenda Strikes Familiar Chords

The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) today issued its annual agenda – Winning the Future: A Blueprint for Sustained U.S. Leadership in Semiconductor Technology– and to a considerable …

By John Russell

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GTC 2019: Chief Scientist Bill Dally Provides Glimpse into Nvidia Research Engine

March 22, 2019

Amid the frenzy of GTC this week – Nvidia’s annual conference showcasing all things GPU (and now AI) – William Dally, chief scientist and SVP of research, Read more…

By John Russell

Why Nvidia Bought Mellanox: ‘Future Datacenters Will Be…Like High Performance Computers’

March 14, 2019

“Future datacenters of all kinds will be built like high performance computers,” said Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang during a phone briefing on Monday after Nvidia revealed scooping up the high performance networking company Mellanox for $6.9 billion. Read more…

By Tiffany Trader

Nvidia Wins Mellanox Stakes for $6.9 Billion

March 11, 2019

The long-rumored acquisition of Mellanox came to fruition this morning with GPU chipmaker Nvidia’s announcement that it has purchased the high-performance net Read more…

By Doug Black

HPC Career Notes: March 2019 Edition

March 1, 2019

In this monthly feature, we’ll keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments for individuals in the high-performance computing community. Whether it� Read more…

By Oliver Peckham

Panasas Secures Growth Investment, Jorge Titinger Joins Board

February 26, 2019

HPC storage supplier Panasas, maker of scale-out NAS appliances, today announced a funding round and an expansion to its board of directors that it says will en Read more…

By Tiffany Trader

HPC in Life Sciences Part 2: Penetrating AI’s Hype and the Cloud’s Haze

February 25, 2019

Weary of the constant din of AI hype. So is Ari Berman, vice president and general manager of consulting services for BioTeam, a research computing consultancy specializing in life sciences. “Every vendor is selling AI. I think it has become the gluten-free tag of life sciences because it is everywhere.... Read more…

By John Russell

HPC in Life Sciences Part 1: CPU Choices, Rise of Data Lakes, Networking Challenges, and More

February 21, 2019

For the past few years HPCwire and leaders of BioTeam, a research computing consultancy specializing in life sciences, have convened to examine the state of HPC (and now AI) use in life sciences. Without HPC writ large, modern life sciences research would quickly grind to a halt. It’s true most life sciences research computing... Read more…

By John Russell

ClusterVision in Bankruptcy, Fate Uncertain

February 13, 2019

ClusterVision, European HPC specialists that have built and installed over 20 Top500-ranked systems in their nearly 17-year history, appear to be in the midst o Read more…