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Most Of HPC Happens Under The Radar
While supercomputers are arguably the most exciting segment of the high performance computing market, the majority of systems deployed in any given year do not fit into this elite category. …
Most Of HPC Happens Under The Radar was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
Academia Gets The First Production Cray “Shasta” Supercomputer
Indiana University is the proud owner of the first operational Cray “Shasta” supercomputer on the planet. …
Academia Gets The First Production Cray “Shasta” Supercomputer was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
Neuromorphic Chip Maker Takes Aim At The Edge
Neuromorphic computing has garnered a lot of attention over the past few years, largely driven by its potential to deliver low-power artificial intelligence to the masses. …
Neuromorphic Chip Maker Takes Aim At The Edge was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
European Processor Initiative Readies Prototype
Europe is trailing the other major HPC powers in its quest to field exascale supercomputers. …
European Processor Initiative Readies Prototype was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
HPC In 2020: The Cloud’s Growth Spurt Begins in Earnest
As we roll into 2020, it’s shaping up to be a banner year for cloud-based high performance computing. …
HPC In 2020: The Cloud’s Growth Spurt Begins in Earnest was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
HPC In 2020: Acquisitions And Mergers As The New Normal
After a decade of vendor consolidation that saw some of the world’s biggest IT firms acquire first-class HPC providers such as SGI, Cray, and Sun Microsystems, as well as smaller players like Penguin Computing, WhamCloud, Appro, and Isilon, it is natural to wonder who is next. …
HPC In 2020: Acquisitions And Mergers As The New Normal was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
European Weather Center Breaks Tradition With Upcoming Supercomputer
Weather forecasting in Europe is going to get a big boost later this year when the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) installs its next-generation supercomputer. …
European Weather Center Breaks Tradition With Upcoming Supercomputer was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
HPC In 2020: Compute Engine Diversity Gets Real
The choice of processors available for high performance computing has been on growing for a number of years. …
HPC In 2020: Compute Engine Diversity Gets Real was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
HPC In 2020: AI Is No Longer An Experiment
If we could sum up the near-term future of high performance computing in a single phrase, it would be more of the same and then some. …
HPC In 2020: AI Is No Longer An Experiment was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
Quantum Computing Providers Pick Their Dance Partners
Toward the end of 2019, a flurry of announcements by some of the most prominent IT companies suggests that collaborations will become increasingly important in the quantum computing space as the players jockey for position in the nascent market. …
Quantum Computing Providers Pick Their Dance Partners was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
A European Dialect For Exascale Programming
The European Commission has anted up €3.9 million to create a set of tools and runtime frameworks that will be used to support the exascale supercomputers to be deployed across the continent in the coming decade. …
A European Dialect For Exascale Programming was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
AI Recommendation Systems Get A GPU Makeover
Like their US-based counterparts, Google and Amazon, the Chinese Internet giants Baidu and Alibaba rely on GPU acceleration to drive critical parts of their AI-based services. …
AI Recommendation Systems Get A GPU Makeover was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
Intel Hedges Its AI Bets With Habana Labs Buy
Intel has made another big move toward its ambition to dominate the artificial intelligence space in the datacenter, acquiring Israeli AI chipmaker Habana Labs for $2 billion. …
Intel Hedges Its AI Bets With Habana Labs Buy was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
HPC In The Cloud Rolls Through An Inflection Point
Hyperion Research has declared 2019 as the year that high performance computing in the cloud hit a “tipping point.” Cloud spending for HPC work is projected to jump from just under $2.5 billion in 2018 to approximately $4 billion by the end of 2019. …
HPC In The Cloud Rolls Through An Inflection Point was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
Cloud-Based Engineering is Poised for Takeoff
High performance computing has yet to fully embrace the cloud, but the benefits of the pay-as-you-go model is drawing in more HPC users with each passing year. …
Cloud-Based Engineering is Poised for Takeoff was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
Fugaku Remakes Exascale Computing In Its Own Image
When originally conceived, Japan’s Post-K supercomputer was supposed to be the country’s first exascale system. …
Fugaku Remakes Exascale Computing In Its Own Image was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
OpenACC Cozies Up To C, C++, and Fortran Standards
Not so long ago, there was a question whether exascale supercomputers would be built from a very large number of thin nodes containing only modest amounts of parallelism or a smaller number of fat nodes powered by specialized accelerators and powerful manycore processors. …
OpenACC Cozies Up To C, C++, and Fortran Standards was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
Arm Aligns Its Server Ambitions To Those Of Its Partners
There are just two Arm-powered supercomputers on the latest TOP500 rankings: the “Astra” system at Sandia National Laboratories and Fujitsu’s new A64FX prototype. …
Arm Aligns Its Server Ambitions To Those Of Its Partners was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
Edging Toward Distributed HPC
The confluence of big data, AI, and edge computing is reshaping the contours of high performance computing. …
Edging Toward Distributed HPC was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
Tweaked Math Libraries Exploit AI Hardware For Traditional HPC
At our HPC Day event ahead of the SC19 conference, supercomputing expert and Linpack creator Jack Dongarra talked about his new HPL-AI benchmark. …
Tweaked Math Libraries Exploit AI Hardware For Traditional HPC was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.