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

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 exaflops, will be delivered by the end …

By Tiffany Trader

Announcing four new HPC capabilities in Google Cloud Platform

When you’re running compute-bound or memory-bound applications for high performance computing or large, data-dependent machine learning training workloads on GPU clusters, you need the right mi …

NASA’s Pleiades Simulates Launch Abort Scenarios

NASA is using flow simulations running on its Pleiades supercomputer to help design the agency’s next manned spacecraft, Orion.

Crew safety is paramount, so NASA engineers are using the HPC …

By George Leopold

Quick Take: Trump’s 2020 Budget Spares DoE-funded HPC but Slams NSF and NIH

U.S. President Donald Trump’s 2020 budget request, released yesterday, proposes deep cuts in many science programs but seems to spare HPC funding by the Department of Energy. Less fortunate wer …

By John Russell

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Deep500: ETH Researchers Introduce New Deep Learning Benchmark for HPC

February 5, 2019

ETH researchers have developed a new deep learning benchmarking environment – Deep500 – they say is “the first distributed and reproducible benchmarking s Read more…

By John Russell

INTERVIEW: EuroHPC Director Kalbe on Plans to Ramp Up Europe’s HPC Infrastructure

January 29, 2019

This exclusive interview with Gustav Kalbe, interim executive director of the European High Performance Computing JU tackles, near- and long-term goals, machine procurement plans, and aspirations for a European processor. Read more…

By Steve Conway

What’s New in HPC Research: Power, Pathology, Drug Discovery & More

January 23, 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

HPC Reflections and (Mostly Hopeful) Predictions

December 19, 2018

So much ‘spaghetti’ gets tossed on walls by the technology community (vendors and researchers) to see what sticks that it is often difficult to peer through Read more…

By John Russell

What’s New in HPC Research: Reconfigurable Systems, Cooperative Preprocessing, Exascale and Beyond

December 18, 2018

In this bimonthly feature, HPCwire highlights newly published research in the high-performance computing community and related domains. From parallel programmin Read more…

By Oliver Peckham

Robust Quantum Computers Still a Decade Away, Says Nat’l Academies Report

December 5, 2018

The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine yesterday released a report – Quantum Computing: Progress and Prospects – whose optimism about Read more…

By John Russell

Revisiting the 2008 Exascale Computing Study at SC18

November 29, 2018

A report published a decade ago conveyed the results of a study aimed at determining if it were possible to achieve 1000X the computational power of the the Read more…

By Scott Gibson

What’s New in HPC Research: Thrill for Big Data, Scaling Resilience and More

November 19, 2018

In this bimonthly feature, HPCwire will highlight newly published research in the high-performance computing community and related domains. From exascale to q Read more…