A Skeleton Key for AI Hardware Experimentation

For those are the intersection of AI hardware and software, the open source Apache TVM effort is already well known and used among a number of chipmakers as well as developers. …

A Skeleton Key for AI Hardware Experimentation was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

What’s Behind One NVMe Storage Company’s Meteoric Rise

There is plenty of potential to upset traditional storage via leveraging on-board NVMe devices and while the competition is thick and fierce, there are a few companies that are already standing out in 2021. …

What’s Behind One NVMe Storage Company’s Meteoric Rise was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

A Five-Year Challenge Roadmap for Photonics-Based Computing

Silicon photonics has been proving its worth in telco and communications but there is a much brighter opportunity photonics-based computing. …

A Five-Year Challenge Roadmap for Photonics-Based Computing was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

The Weather Company Raises GPU, Storage Forecasts

For those who follow supercomputing, weather forecasting is one area to watch for systems that are designed for maximum capability. …

The Weather Company Raises GPU, Storage Forecasts was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

2021 Could Be the Year of Quantum Drug Discovery

While this new year might not mark the moment when the first drugs are discovered via molecular dynamics simulations running on a full-scale quantum, there are several signs that a number of important collaborations between the few quantum vendors and major biotech companies are announced. …

2021 Could Be the Year of Quantum Drug Discovery was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Who Shoulders the Supercomputing Resiliency Burden?

While the related topics of fault tolerance and resiliency do not garner the same attention as performance and efficiency, being able to recover from and work around failures, especially as applications take over ever-large and increasingly heterogenous machines, is more important than ever. …

Who Shoulders the Supercomputing Resiliency Burden? was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

The Power of AR and AI in Medical Context

Medical imaging technologies are invaluable tools in the diagnosis and treatment of patients, allowing healthcare professionals to non-invasively see what lies deep inside the body, identify any disease and/or abnormalities, and determine appropriate treatments. …

The Power of AR and AI in Medical Context was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

The Right Hammer for “Cobbled Storage”

Unless you work at an IT-sophisticated HPC or enterprise shop with a long-term view on high performance storage, you probably well understand the “just in time” nature of storage procurement. …

The Right Hammer for “Cobbled Storage” was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Reimagining Accelerators with Sparsity at the Core

There could be a new era of codesign dawning for machine learning, one that moves away from the training and inference separations and toward far less dense networks with highly sparse weights and activations. …

Reimagining Accelerators with Sparsity at the Core was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Evolving GPUs Power Content Recommendation at Scale

Although there are now well-engineered systems that tightly package compute, acceleration, and data movement for deep learning training, for some users, working on time-critical AI training (and constant retraining), the backend applications and frameworks require a different way of thinking. …

Evolving GPUs Power Content Recommendation at Scale was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

U.S. Air Force Research Locates Possibilities in Quantum at the Edge

Global positioning systems (GPS) are in the crosshairs for quantum computing investment from the U.S. …

U.S. Air Force Research Locates Possibilities in Quantum at the Edge was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

What COVID Means for Biotech Compute Investments in 2021

Don’t expect big on-prem HPC hardware investments from biotech companies given COVID drivers.

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What COVID Means for Biotech Compute Investments in 2021 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

“Wombat” Puts Arm’s SVE Instruction Set to the Test

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.

Exploiting the “Legacy Tax” Loophole for HPC Storage

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.

Nvidia Doubles Down on AI Supercomputing

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.

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Nvidia Doubles Down on AI Supercomputing was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

What Put LLNL at the Center of U.S. Supercomputing in 2020?

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.

Spack Packs Deployment Boost for Top Supercomputers

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.

South Korea Funds First Supercomputing CPU Designed for AI, HPC

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.

HBM2, Tensor Units Key to Intel’s New AI Centric FPGA

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.

Winds of Change Finally Hitting Large Weather Supercomputers

“GPUs and machine learning are essential to our survival,” says ECMWF lead.

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Winds of Change Finally Hitting Large Weather Supercomputers was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.