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What’s New in HPC Research: Quantum Computing, Cold Plate Cooling, Smartphones & 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

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 …

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

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 stu …

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EuroHPC Summit Week Highlights Europe’s Plan for Supercomputing Leadership

The European Union’s EuroHPC Summit Week was held last week in Poznań, Poland, hosted by the Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC). At the event, European leaders highlighted the …

By Oliver Peckham

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Cray – and the Cray Brand – to Be Positioned at Tip of HPE’s HPC Spear

May 22, 2019

More so than with most acquisitions of this kind, HPE’s purchase of Cray for $1.3 billion, announced last week, seems to have elements of that overused, often Read more…

By Doug Black and Tiffany Trader

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

As the EuroHPC Era Dawns, Over 107 HPC Projects Are Funded Under Horizon 2020

May 10, 2019

The European supercomputing arena is picking up steam. According to EuroHPC.eu (a website that tracks public information on ongoing EU-funded supercomputing pro Read more…

By Oliver Peckham

Ten Great Reasons to Build the 1.5 Exaflops Frontier

May 7, 2019

It’s perhaps obvious that the fundamental reason for building expensive exascale computers is to drive science and industry forward, realizing the resulting b Read more…

By John Russell

Doug Kothe Delivers Whirlwind ECP Update in 70 (or so) Slides

May 2, 2019

So much attention is given to forthcoming exascale hardware – Aurora is scheduled to be the first U.S. exascale system to go live around 2021/22 – that the Read more…

By John Russell

LANL Researchers Simulate Billion-Atom Biomolecule

April 23, 2019

Simulating large biomolecules has long been challenging. Now, researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), RIKEN Center for Computational Science in Read more…

By John Russell

It’s Official: Aurora on Track to Be First US Exascale Computer in 2021

March 18, 2019

The U.S. Department of Energy along with Intel and Cray confirmed today that an Intel/Cray supercomputer, "Aurora," capable of sustained performance of one exaf Read more…

By Tiffany Trader

NASA’s Pleiades Simulates Launch Abort Scenarios

March 15, 2019

NASA is using flow simulations running on its Pleiades supercomputer to help design the agency’s next manned spacecraft, Orion. Crew safety is paramount, s Read more…