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Japan Researchers Develop Algorithm to Improve D-Wave Systems Capability

Tohoku University researchers and scientists from automotive components manufacturer Denso report developing an algorithm that improves the ability of D-Wave Systems to handle complicated problem …

By John Russell

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 …

ANL Researchers Use ML to Improve Water Simulation

Every day there seems to be a new example of machine learning (ML) or deep learning (DL) speeding, simplifying, or improving what was previously an intractable or at least computationally-expensi …

By Staff

Digging into MLPerf Benchmark Suite to Inform AI Infrastructure Decisions

With machine learning and deep learning storming into the datacenter, the new challenge is optimizing infrastructure choices to support diverse ML and DL workflows. How many accelerators do you ( …

By John Russell

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What’s New in HPC Research: Hurricane Harvey, Bioinformatics, the European Union & More

April 5, 2019

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

Interview with 2019 Person to Watch Thierry Pellegrino

April 4, 2019

Today, as part of our ongoing HPCwire People to Watch focus series, we present our interview with 2019 Person to Watch Thierry Pellegrino. A 20-year Dell veter Read more…

By HPCwire Editorial Team

Intel Launches Cascade Lake Xeons with Up to 56 Cores

April 2, 2019

At Intel's Data-Centric Innovation Day in San Francisco (April 2), the company unveiled its second-generation Xeon Scalable (Cascade Lake) family and debuted it Read more…

By Tiffany Trader

Systems Vendors Refresh Product Lines as Intel Launches New Xeon, Optane

April 2, 2019

Five of the biggest systems vendors – Dell EMC, Lenovo, Supermicro, Cisco and Cray – in concert with Intel’s launch this morning of its second-generation Xeon Scalable processors (Cascade Lake) and Optane persistent memory – announced the refresh of server portfolios leveraging the new Intel technologies. Read more…

By Doug Black

Singapore to Dramatically Upgrade Its Supercomputing Capacity

April 2, 2019

Singapore’s National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) is poised to boost its supercomputing power by an order of magnitude. In December 2016, the NSCC launched it Read more…

By Oliver Peckham

Quantum Bits: IBM Tackles Noisy Machines; IonQ Issues Benchmarks; D-Wave Expands Leap

March 27, 2019

Keeping up with quantum computing announcements is increasingly challenging. Today, IBM issued a paper outlining a technique for error mitigation in today’s n Read more…

By John Russell

Top Ten Ways AI Affects HPC in 2019

March 26, 2019

AI workloads are becoming ubiquitous, including running on the world’s fastest computers — thereby changing what we call HPC forever. As every organization Read more…

By James Reinders

Nvidia Debuts Clara AI Toolkit with Pre-Trained Models for Radiology Use

March 19, 2019

AI’s push into healthcare got a boost yesterday with Nvidia’s release of the Clara Deploy AI toolkit which includes 13 pre-trained models for use in radiolo Read more…