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NSB 2020 S&E Indicators Dig into Workforce and Education

Every two years the National Science Board is required by Congress to issue a report on the state of science and engineering in the U.S. This year, in a departure from past practice, the NSB has …

By John Russell

Crystal Ball Gazing: IBM’s Vision for the Future of Computing

Dario Gil, IBM’s relatively new director of research, painted a intriguing portrait of the future of computing along with a rough idea of how IBM thinks we’ll get there at last month’s MIT- …

By John Russell

DOE Sets Sights on Accelerating AI (and other) Technology Transfer

For the past two days DOE leaders along with ~350 members from academia and industry gathered in Chicago to discuss AI development and the ways in which industry and DOE could collaborate to fost …

By John Russell

HPC Career Notes: October 2019 Edition

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’s a promotion, new company hire, o …

By Oliver Peckham

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When in Rome: AMD Announces New Epyc CPU for HPC, Server and Cloud Wins

September 18, 2019

Where else but Rome could AMD hold the official Europe launch party for its second generation of Epyc microprocessors, codenamed Rome. Today, AMD did just that announcing key server wins, important cloud provider wins... Read more…

By John Russell

Server Market Contracts, HPE Gains Market Share

September 9, 2019

The global server market contacted for the first time since 2016 after a year of historic growth, signaling an abundance of IT capacity and economic uncertainty Read more…

By George Leopold

IBM Deepens Plunge into Open Source; OpenPOWER to Join Linux Foundation

August 20, 2019

IBM today announced it was contributing the instruction set (ISA) for its Power microprocessor and the designs for the Open Coherent Accelerator Processor Inter Read more…

By John Russell

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

Intel Confirms Retreat on Omni-Path

August 1, 2019

Intel Corp.’s plans to make a big splash in the network fabric market for linking HPC and other workloads has apparently belly-flopped. The chipmaker confirmed to us the outlines of an earlier report by the website CRN that it has jettisoned plans for a second-generation version of its Omni-Path interconnect... Read more…

By Staff report

Xilinx–SolarFlare Deal Closes, Combines FPGAs, High Performance Networks

July 31, 2019

In a year of major M&A activity in the high performance technology sector, Xilinx announced today the closing of its acquisition of low latency network prov Read more…

By Doug Black

IEEE Releases Expansive 2018 Roadmap for Devices and Systems

July 24, 2019

IEEE yesterday released the 2018 update to its International Roadmap for Devices and System (IRDS). It’s part history text, part crystal ball, and as IEEE emp Read more…