For more than three decades, researchers have used a particular simulation method for molecular dynamics called Ab initio molecular dynamics, or AIMD, which has proven itself to be the method most accurate for analyzing how atoms and molecules move and interact over a fixed time period. …
Gordon Bell Prize Winners Leverage Machine Learning For Molecular Dynamics was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
From the time Kubernetes was born in the labs at Google by engineers Joe Beda, Brendan Burns, and Craig McLuckie and then contributed to the open source community, it has become the de facto orchestration platform for containers, enabling easier development, scaling and movement of modern applications between on-premises datacenters and the cloud and between the multiple clouds – public and private – that enterprises are embracing. …
Taking Kubernetes Up To The Next Level was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
To one way of thinking about it, this is the best of times among the worst of times for Nvidia. …
Defying Supply Constraints, Nvidia Turns In Its Best Quarter Ever was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The shift by enterprise IT vendors from hardware box makers to software and services vendors has been ongoing for several years as OEMs have looked to adapt to the rapid changes in a tech world that is becoming application- and data-centric. …
Modern Networks For An Increasingly Distributed IT World was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
We’ve been closely following momentum with Fujitsu’s Arm-based A64FX processor, from its inception to its placement inside the world’s most powerful supercomputer. …
“Wombat” Puts Arm’s SVE Instruction Set to the Test was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Over the next few years, we can expect to hear even more about large-scale computing sites bumping up against the memory wall, although not necessarily where they might expect. …
Exploiting the “Legacy Tax” Loophole for HPC Storage was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
When it comes to advanced technologies at the high end of compute, networking, and storage, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is one of the world’s pathfinding testbeds. …
Blazing The Trail For Exascale Storage was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It is just plain weird to be attending an SC20 supercomputing conference virtually and to not be going to the IDC – now Hyperion Research – morning breakfast speed forecast just a little bit hungover. …
The Only Way To Predict The HPC Future Is To Live It was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If this is the middle of November, even during a global pandemic, this must be the SC20 supercomputing conference and there either must be a speed bump that is being previewed for the InfiniBand interconnect commonly used for HPC and AI or it is actually shipping in systems. …
InfiniBand Is Still Setting The Network Pace For HPC And AI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The compute engines keep changing as the decades pass, but the same old problems keep cropping up in slightly different form. …
Counting The Cost Of Under-Utilized GPUs – And Doing Something About It was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
For several years, IBM has been eyeing the hybrid cloud, remaking itself into a provider with the platform that can enable enterprises to more easily move their workloads and data between their on-premises datacenters and the public cloud, and the multiple public clouds they are using. …
OpenShift At The Center Of The Hybrid Cloud Storm was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
There may not be a lot of new systems on the November 2020 edition of the Top500 rankings of supercomputers, but there has been a bunch of upgrades and system tunings of machines that have been recently added, expanding their performance, as well as a handful of new machines that are interesting in their own right. …
The Many Facets Of Hybrid Supercomputing As Exascale Dawns was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It is hard enough to chase one competitor. Imagine how hard it is to chase two different ones in different but complementary markets while at the same time those two competitors are thinking about fighting each other in those two different markets and thus bringing even more intense competitive pressure on both fronts. …
AMD At A Tipping Point With Instinct MI100 GPU Accelerators was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Targeting HPC, AI, Analytics trifecta: A100 GPUs get double the memory with 80GB HBM2e for server, DGX, and appliances while Nvidia/Mellanox announce NDR 400G Infiniband.
Nvidia Doubles Down on AI Supercomputing was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
The HPC world, particularly in the U.S. is waiting for the next series of transitions to far larger machines with exascale capabilities. …
What Put LLNL at the Center of U.S. Supercomputing in 2020? was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
We have been waiting for years to see the first discrete Xe GPU from Intel that is aimed at the datacenter, and as it turns out, the first one is not the heavy compute engine we have been anticipating, but rather a souped up version of the Iris Xe LP and Iris Max Xe LP graphics cards that were launch at the end of October, which themselves are essentially the GPU extracted from the hybrid CPU-GPU “Tiger Lake” Core i9 processors for PC clients. …
Intel’s First Discrete Xe Server GPU Aimed At Hyperscalers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Although hardware gets all the attention during Supercomputing week, much has been happening behind the scenes to make all the software run on the latest, fastest systems. …
Spack Packs Deployment Boost for Top Supercomputers was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Researchers at South Korea’s Electronics and Telecommunications Institute (ETRI), in conjunction with Arm, are one step closer to designing and deploying a native CPU that can handle double-precision supercomputing applications and low-precision, low-power AI inference. …
South Korea Funds First Supercomputing CPU Designed for AI, HPC was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
We have written much over the last four or five years about the role FPGAs might play in the ever-expanding deep learning space, both in training and inference. …
HBM2, Tensor Units Key to Intel’s New AI Centric FPGA was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
We have nothing against disk drives. Seriously. And in fact, we are amazed at the amount of innovation that continues to go into the last electromechanical device still in use in computing, which from a commercial standpoint started out with the tabulating machines created by Herman Hollerith in 1884 and used to process the 1890 census in the United States, thus laying the foundation of International Machines Machines. …
176 Steps Closer To The Mythical All-Flash Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.