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

In this bimonthly feature, HPCwire highlights newly published research in the high-performance computing community and related domains. From parallel programming to exascale to quantum computin …

By Oliver Peckham

Working Together for a Better Future

Introduction / Executive Summary
Data has been traditionally processed and analyzed using servers in data centers or by onsite IT staff with tools such as spreadsheets. The growth of the Interne …

Cray, AMD to Extend DOE’s Exascale Frontier

Cray and AMD are coming back to Oak Ridge National Laboratory to partner on the world’s largest and most expensive supercomputer. The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has …

By Tiffany Trader

Google Cloud Goes Global with Nvidia T4 GPUs

Nvidia’s T4 GPUs unveiled earlier this year for accelerating workloads such as AI inference and training are making their “global” debut as cloud instances on Google Cloud. …

By George Leopold

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SDSC Gateway Wins NSF Grant to Allow Bursting to AWS for Speedup

April 10, 2019

Increasingly, leading edge technology is turning up first in the big public clouds which can be frustrating for academic users. The San Diego Supercomputer Cent Read more…

By John Russell

Google Cloud Helps Bring Optane, Cascade Lake to Market

April 3, 2019

Intel’s drive to solidify its stranglehold on the datacenter via its Optane DC persistent memory architecture was on full display this week during the chipmaker’s “data-centric” event. Navin Shenoy, general manager of Intel’s Data Center Group, touted the growing ecosystem emerging around Optane, including more than 50 OEMs, ISVs and cloud service providers. Among them is Google... Read more…

By George Leopold

AWS to Offer Nvidia’s T4 GPUs for AI Inferencing

March 19, 2019

The AI inference market is booming, prompting well-known hyperscaler and Nvidia partner Amazon Web Services to offer a new cloud instance that addresses the growing cost of scaling inference. The new “G4” instances... Read more…

By George Leopold

D-Wave Previews Next-Gen Platform; Debuts Pegasus Topology; Targets 5000 Qubits

February 27, 2019

Quantum computing pioneer D-Wave Systems today “previewed” plans for its next-gen adiabatic annealing quantum computing platform which will feature a new un Read more…

By John Russell

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

Arm Unveils Neoverse N1 Platform with up to 128-Cores

February 20, 2019

Following on its Neoverse roadmap announcement last October, Arm today revealed its next-gen Neoverse microarchitecture with compute and throughput-optimized si Read more…

By Tiffany Trader

UC Berkeley Paper Heralds Rise of Serverless Computing in the Cloud – Do You Agree?

February 13, 2019

Almost exactly ten years to the day from publishing of their widely-read, seminal paper on cloud computing, UC Berkeley researchers have issued another ambitious examination of cloud computing - Cloud Programming Simplified: A Berkeley View on Serverless Computing. The new work heralds the rise of ‘serverless computing’ as the next dominant phase of cloud computing. Read more…

By John Russell

IBM Posts Positive Earnings; ‘Strategic Imperatives’ Above 50% of Business

January 23, 2019

For IBM watchers at the advanced scale/HPC/open source/cloud/AI-related end of the technology industry, Big Blue’s release late yesterday of Q4 and 2018 earni Read more…