There are two different Auroras right now in supercomputing. There is the shape-shifting, legendary, and maybe even mythical “Aurora” and now “Aurora A21” exascale supercomputer that was being built by Intel with “Knights” many core processors and now, if Intel can get them out the door, with a combination of “Sapphire Rapids” Xeon SP processors and “Ponte Vecchio” Xe GPU accelerators, for Argonne National Laboratory. …
Czech Republic Sticks With NEC Vector Engines For Weather Modeling was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There is a new challenge workload on the horizon, one where few can afford to compete. …
The Billion Dollar AI Problem That Just Keeps Scaling was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
The trade war between the United States and China is not just a top-down political and economic one, but also a technical one. …
A First Peek At China’s Sunway Exascale Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Dutch national supercomputer, called “Cartesius,” which is used for HPC education and research, is getting rather long in the tooth with some of its components being installed as far back as 2013. …
AMD Takes Down Another Supercomputer Deal In Europe was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
We live in a world of stratification, social, economic, and technical. …
High-End Chipmakers to Fare Far Better During Semiconductor Crisis was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
BioTeam, the famous HPC consulting practice, is using the quad-socket large memory nodes at the Texas Advanced Computing Center to speed alignment and HMM (Hidden Markov Model) inference workflows to find biological “synonyms” in biological databases like GenBank. …
BioTeam Leverages TACC Fat Nodes To Get Around I/O Bottlenecks was written by Rob Farber at The Next Platform.
Jupyter may have had its beginnings in enterprise data problems but some in the high performance computing community has been adopting it as the prime platform for both data science and AI at massive scale. …
Jupyter Expands Orbit in Supercomputing was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
The future has a nasty habit of being very hard to predict. …
The Most Volatile IT Spending Year Is In The Rear View Mirror was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
We talk about big money being spent on GPU-accelerated HPC and AI systems all the time here at The Next Platform, and we have been clear that we think another area where such acceleration will take off is with databases and related analytics, and particularly with data warehouses that have trillions of rows of data. …
US Air Force Spends $100 Million To Accelerate Data Warehouses was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If time was any judge, no amount of money in the world could break through problems with poor CPU and server utilization. …
$45 Million in Funding to Fix Low Server Utilization was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
When it comes to large companies with significant investments in quantum computing for a broad user base, no one has the momentum IBM currently does. …
IBM Traces Quantum Productivity, Usability Roadmap to 2025 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
If the datacenter has been taken over by InfiniBand, as was originally intended back in the late 1990s, then PCI-Express peripheral buses and certainly PCI-Express switching – and maybe even Ethernet switching itself – would not have been necessary at all. …
PCI-Express 5.0: The Unintended But Formidable Datacenter Interconnect was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
We are in the midst of numerous foundational technological shifts in communications infrastructure that represents a generational opportunity for consumers, businesses, and providers alike. …
The Arc That Networks On-Prem, Multi-Cloud, And The Edge was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There are a few unignorable trends in high performance computing, especially in the exascale age. …
Can SYCL Slice into Broader Supercomputing? was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
The battle for HPC centers and national labs is underway among the leading AI chip startups in the high-end datacenter space (Graphcore, Cerebras, and SambaNova in particular). …
Waferscale Makes Further AI Supercomputing Inroads was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Watching Amazon Web Services explode on the scene and grow to ginormous size has been a thing to behold. …
Even The World’s Largest Multiuser System Has Its Financial Limits was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Businesses will need to adopt AI technologies not just because they can, but because they must – AI is the technology that will help businesses to be agile, innovate, and scale. …
Why Future Advances In AI Need A New Architecture was written by Daniel Robinson at The Next Platform.
No matter if you are talking about compute or networking, there are two opposing forces that are constantly at interplay on a field of green money. …
Why There’s Hard, Cold Cash For Soft, Disaggregated Routing was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In the current quantum computing landscape, there are hardware and software providers with the most prominent players doing both. …
One Company Could Own the Quantum Product Spectrum was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Investigations, conducted together with scientists at CERN, show promising results – with breakthrough performance – in their pursuit of faster Monte Carlo based simulations, which are an important part of many scientific, engineering, and financial applications. …
CERN Uses DLBoost, oneAPI To Juice Inference Without Accuracy Loss was written by James Reinders at The Next Platform.