HPC
The GPU “Expanse”: HPC Acceleration for the Masses
In the early days of GPU-accelerated supercomputers, accelerators were installed with the mission of delivering ultra-high performance for a few select codes. …
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Python Delivers Big On Complex Unlabeled Data
A collaboration of researchers from the University of California Davis, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, and Intel are working together on the DisCo project to extract insight from complex unlabeled data. …
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Building Innovative HPC for Massively Mixed Workloads
Several years ago, the HPC systems designed for wide-ranging scientific computing were quite a bit different than those built for intense scalability and maximum peak performance. …
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Wind Energy to Get an Exascale Boost
The U.S. Department of Energy is backing a sweeping software to bring wind turbine and wind farm modeling into the exascale era with the open source “ExaWind” modeling and simulation environment. …
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Bringing 330 Petaflops Of Supercomputing To Bear On The Outbreak
IBM, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are teaming with the White House, the US Department of Energy, and other federal agencies to bring a massive amount of supercomputing power and public cloud resources to scientists, engineers and researchers who are working to address the novel coronavirus global pandemic that is expected to bear down hard on the United States in the coming weeks. …
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Four Essential Strategies To Avoid HPC Cloud Lock-In
(Sponsored Content) HPC workloads are rapidly moving to the cloud. Market sizing from HPC analyst firm Hyperion Research shows a dramatic 60 percent rise in cloud spending from just under $2.5 …
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Isambard 2 Is About Driving Technology Diversity
It’s been just more than a decade since Arm executives began to talk about bringing the company’s system-on-a-chip (SoC) architecture, which has long been the dominant design for processors found in billions of smartphones and other mobile device, into the datacenter. …
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Lawrence Livermore To Surpass 2 Exaflops With AMD Compute
As the steward of the nuclear weapon arsenal for the United States government, it is probably not an overstatement to say that Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, one of the main supercomputer and scientific research facilities operated by the Department of Energy, is keenly interested in bang for the buck. …
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Weathering Heights: Of Resolutions And Ensembles
In the past year or so, watching supercomputer maker Cray, which is now part of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, has been a bit like playing a country and western song backwards on the record player. …
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The Softer Side Of Exascale
When talking about high-end HPC systems in the world, much of the attention often is paid to the massive supercomputers that are being developed by the likes of system makers Cray (now part of Hewlett Packard Enterprise and the main contractor on two exascale systems), Fujitsu, Atos, IBM, and others along with component makers Intel (which is a primary contractor on one exascale system), AMD, and Nvidia. …
