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The European Processor Initiative’s Ambitious Vision of the Future

With the EuroHPC program well underway, much of the European Union’s ambition to be a leader in the exascale era rests with the European Processor Initiative (EPI). The project – which has a …

By Oliver Peckham

IBM Opens Quantum Computing Center; Announces 53-Qubit Machine

Gauging progress in quantum computing is a tricky thing. IBM yesterday announced the opening of the IBM Quantum Computing Center in New York, with five 20-qubit systems up and running and a 53-qu …

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

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, importa …

By John Russell

Dell’s AMD-Powered Server Line Targets High-End Jobs

Dell Technologies rolled out five new servers this week based on AMD’s latest Epyc processor that are geared toward data-driven workloads running on increasingly popular multi-cloud platforms a …

By George Leopold

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What’s New in HPC Research: Transfer Learning, Radio Astronomy, FPGAs and More

September 12, 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

MIT Researchers Build Carbon Nanotube Microprocessor

September 5, 2019

A years-long mission to build a microprocessor out of carbon nanotube transistors has finally succeeded thanks to a team of MIT researchers. The development comes as the sustainability of Moore’s Law is increasingly called into question. Silicon-based transistors are nearing the point when they will be unable to shrink anymore, delivering increasingly marginal improvements. Read more…

By Oliver Peckham

Quantum Roundup: IBM Goes to School, Delft Tackles Networking, Rigetti Updates

September 5, 2019

IBM today announced a new open source quantum ‘textbook’, a series of quantum education videos, and plans to expand its nascent quantum hackathon program. L Read more…

By John Russell

DARPA Looks to Propel Parallelism

September 4, 2019

As Moore’s law runs out of steam, new programming approaches are being pursued with the goal of greater hardware performance with less coding. The Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency is launching a new programming effort aimed at leveraging the benefits of massive distributed parallelism with less sweat. Read more…

By George Leopold

Baidu Embraces Intel Optane for In-Memory Databases

August 29, 2019

Chinese e-commerce giant Baidu is building a new platform based on Intel Corp.’s Optane DC persistent memory as a means of upgrading search engine results del Read more…

By George Leopold

At Hot Chips, Intel Shows New Nervana AI Training, Inference Chips

August 27, 2019

At the Hot Chips conference last week, Intel showcased its latest neural network processor accelerators for both AI training and inference, along with details o Read more…

By Doug Black

Cerebras Debuts AI Supercomputer-on-a-Wafer

August 27, 2019

Could wafer scale silicon from Cerebras Systems be the first “supercomputer on a chip” worthy of the designation? Last week at Hot Chips at Stanford Univers Read more…

By Tiffany Trader

Deep Learning on GPUs: Successes and Promises

August 27, 2019

The rise of deep-learning (DL) has been fueled by the improvements in accelerators. Accelerators allow DL models to crunch a large amount of data, which is vita Read more…