More than five years ago, Nvidia, driven by its co-founder and CEO, Jensen Huang, turned its considerable focus to developing technologies for the revitalized and burgeoning artificial intelligence space. …
Nvidia Pulls All Of The AI Pieces Together was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
OpenACC is one of the prongs in a multi-prong strategy to get people to port the parallel portions of HPC applications to accelerators. …
OpenACC: Things Are Getting Simpler More Quickly was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The twice-annual ranking of distributed computing systems based on the Linpack parallel Fortran benchmark, a widely used and sometimes maligned test, is as much a history lesson as it is an expectation always looking forward, with anticipation, to the next performance milestones in high performance computing. …
The Widening Gyre Of Supercomputing was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
These are challenging times for Intel. Long – and still – the dominant chip maker in the datacenter with its battle-tested Xeon processors, the company is now seeing challenges everywhere. …
Intel Doubles Down On Doubled Up Xeons For HPC was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
The countdown to the annual Supercomputing Conference has begun. As The Next Platform gears up to deliver in-depth analysis of this year’s most important HPC innovations, take a moment to plan your path at the show with some of our leading SC18 partners. …
What to See at Supercomputing 2018 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Being at the forefront of high performance computing, as the oil and gas industry has been from the very beginning, also means always dealing with issues of power and cooling. …
Oil Immersion Cooling Cranks Up Oil Simulation HPC was written by Dan Olds at .
AMD’s “Rome” processors, the second generation of Epyc processors that the company will be putting into the field, are a key step for the company on its path back to the datacenter. …
Competition Finally Comes To Datacenter GPU Compute was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
It might have been difficult to see this happening a mere few years ago, but the National Nuclear Security Administration and one of its key supercomputing sites are looking past Intel to Arm-based supercomputers in hopes of reaching efficiency and memory bandwidth targets needed for nuclear stockpile simulations. …
ARM is the NNSA’s New Secret Weapon was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
AMD president and chief executive officer Lisa Su is fond of saying that the road to Rome goes through Naples as a way of reminding everyone that they can’t sit on the sidelines and wait for the second generation “Rome” Epyc processors to come to market in 2019. …
AMD’s Long Road From Naples To Milan Centers On Rome was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
IBM, Google, and D-Wave tend to garner the headlines about quantum computing, but aside from a brief hubbub around the Tangle Lake quantum chip announcement earlier this year, insight into Intel’s quantum strategy tends to lag. …
Intel’s Spin on Qubits and Quantum Manufacturability was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
AMD is hosting its “Next Horizon” datacenter event in San Francisco this week, and archrival Intel, which is losing some market share to AMD but not feeling the pain on its books yet thanks to a massive buildout in server infrastructure at hyperscalers, cloud builders, and smaller service providers like telcos, is hitting back by divulging some of its plans for next year’s “Cascade Lake” Xeon lineup. …
Intel To Challenge AMD With 48 Core “Cascade Lake” Xeon AP was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
If you want to understand where we are going with computer architectures and the compilers that drive them, it is instructive to look at how compilers have made the leap from architecture to architecture starting six decades ago. …
Compiling History To Understand The Future was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Having multiple related but distinct product lines turns a company into an economic engine that runs a lot smoother than an it would run with a single cylinder. …
Datacenter 25G Ethernet Upgrade Wave Lifts Mellanox was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
People have been talking about software defined networking and its related network function virtualization for so long that it must appear to many organizations that everyone else is doing it. …
Delivering On The Promise Of Network Function Virtualization was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The Ohio Supercomputer Center’s mission to supply supercomputing capabilities to educational institutions and companies throughout the state is about to get a significant boost in the form of a powerful and highly-efficient cluster based on Dell EMC servers and leveraging liquid-cooling technology from CoolIT. …
Ohio Supercomputer Center Picks CPUs, GPUs, and Liquid Cooling For Pitzer Cluster was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
NVM-Express has been creating a quiet revolution in servers for several years now, providing a way for flash storage to bypass the traditional storage stack and the limitations of interfaces such as SATA and SAS, and instead pipe data directly into and out of the CPU through the high-speed PCI Express bus. …
Broadening The Appeal Of Distributed NVM-Express Storage was written by Daniel Robinson at .
Computing power and big data are fundamental to the bioinformatic research being carried out by the Leadership Computing Facility at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL) in Tennessee. …
How NVIDIA’s Tensor Core GPUs Power Pioneering Biometric Discoveries was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
While processors and now GPUs tend to get all of the glory when it comes to high performance computing, for the past three decades as distributed computing architectures became the norm in supercomputing, it has been the interconnects that made all the difference in how well – or poorly – these systems perform. …
Cray Slingshots Back Into HPC Interconnects With Shasta Systems was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
For the past five years, supercomputer maker Cray has been diligently at work not only creating a new system architecture that allows for a mix of different interconnects and compute for its future “Shasta” systems, but has also brought long-time Cray chief technology officer, Steve Scott, back into the company after two stints spent at Nvidia and Google to create a new interconnect, called “Slingshot,” that is the beating heart of the Shasta system and that signals a return of the Cray that we know and love. …
Berkeley Lab First In Line for Cray “Shasta” Supercomputers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
There are two key barriers to fully exploring the emerging use of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) at the scale found in data centers: capital investment for private equipment, and gaining full, unfettered access to shared equipment. …
Bringing Researchers to the Frontier of FPGA Development was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .