Next Platform TV for July 16, 2020

On today’s program we talk AI chip innovations with Graphcore co-founder and CEO, Nigel Toon, tap into the Barcelona Supercomputing Center to talk Arm server performance, check in with Sandia for brain-inspired computing advances; talk HDD technologies that keep disk relevant, and also discuss RISC-V with the foundation’s CEO. …

Next Platform TV for July 16, 2020 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

The Elegance (And Limitations Of) Precisely Engineered Accelerators

Let’s leave aside all the questions about the long-term viability of AI ASICs and appliances and focus instead on the beauty of a good architecture. …

The Elegance (And Limitations Of) Precisely Engineered Accelerators was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Next Platform TV for July 14, 2020

A wide-ranging program for you today with everything from neuromorphic hardware and software research; some impressive FPGA acceleration for Caffe from Samsung AI Research; why the datacenter industry is booming (the answers might surprise you); the state of Lustre and OpenSFS; and where some unique opportunities are in HPC on the pandemic modeling front. …

Next Platform TV for July 14, 2020 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Next Platform TV for July 9, 2020

From Arm server chip market and technology momentum to the future of spin wave computing, as well as some insight about current situation and subsequent (too quick?) …

Next Platform TV for July 9, 2020 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Next Platform TV for July 7, 2020

Welcome to Next Platform TV for today, July 7, 2020.

We are featuring an in-depth interview with Dr. …

Next Platform TV for July 7, 2020 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Next Platform TV for July 1, 2020

Thanks for tuning into Next Platform TV for today, July 1. …

Next Platform TV for July 1, 2020 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Next Platform TV for Monday, June 28

Today we look at an evaluation of AMD versus Nvidia GPUs for HPC applications, we also consider infrastructure for AI in production drug discovery, and in a completely different direction, we talk to Danny Shapiro, head of automotive at Nvidia about the datacenter requirements for future autonomous vehicles. …

Next Platform TV for Monday, June 28 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Next Platform TV for Wednesday, June 24

On today’s show we talk to Dr. Jack Dongarra, co-founder of the Top 500 supercomputer list and creator of several companion benchmarks, including HPCG. …

Next Platform TV for Wednesday, June 24 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Bioinformatics To CLIMB Higher With AI

Bioinformatics research that targets infectious diseases is more important now than ever. …

Bioinformatics To CLIMB Higher With AI was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Next Platform TV for June 22, 2020

Today on Next Platform TV, we take a distinct look at the world of HPC with the release of the annual Top 500 list of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. …

Next Platform TV for June 22, 2020 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Next Platform TV for Friday, June 19, 2020

On this wide-ranging episode of Next Platform we move in several directions; from the world of bioinformatics infrastructure in the pandemic era to what’s ahead for HPC to what the largest cloud vendors are buying—and what that means for the market. …

Next Platform TV for Friday, June 19, 2020 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Composing ’Expanse’: Building Blocks for Future HPC

The composable systems trend has taken root in some of the world’s largest datacenters, most notably among hyperscale companies, but has been less quick to catch on in traditional high performance computing (HPC) environments. …

Composing ’Expanse’: Building Blocks for Future HPC was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Building Bulletproof Bioinformatics Storage

Going from sequence data based on millions of lines of short DNA fragments to the final, simplified report for clinicians is no small undertaking from IT standpoint. …

Building Bulletproof Bioinformatics Storage was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

What Could Stifle American AI Innovation?

There are many things the U.S. government can do, but innovating at a rapid pace in the ever-evolving world of artificial intelligence is not necessarily one of them. …

What Could Stifle American AI Innovation? was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

For UK Genomics Initiative, Compute is the Easy Part

Let’s face it. There is nothing simple about large-scale sequencing and targeted analysis of genomic data. …

For UK Genomics Initiative, Compute is the Easy Part was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Where AI Might Fit in the Supercomputers of 2030

One reason we’re watching Lawrence Livermore National Lab closely is because they are at the forefront when it comes to blending emerging HPC, deep learning, and edge technologies for applications that are representative of what’s next. …

Where AI Might Fit in the Supercomputers of 2030 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

The GPU “Expanse”: HPC Acceleration for the Masses

In the early days of GPU-accelerated supercomputers, accelerators were installed with the mission of delivering ultra-high performance for a few select codes. …

The GPU “Expanse”: HPC Acceleration for the Masses was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Building Innovative HPC for Massively Mixed Workloads

Several years ago, the HPC systems designed for wide-ranging scientific computing were quite a bit different than those built for intense scalability and maximum peak performance. …

Building Innovative HPC for Massively Mixed Workloads was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Changing Conditions for Neural Network Processing

Over the last few years the idea of “conditional computation” has been key to making neural network processing more efficient, even though much of the hardware ecosystem has focused on general purpose approaches that rely on matrix math operations that brute force the problem instead of selectively operate on only the required pieces. …

Changing Conditions for Neural Network Processing was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Wind Energy to Get an Exascale Boost

The U.S. Department of Energy is backing a sweeping software to bring wind turbine and wind farm modeling into the exascale era with the open source “ExaWind” modeling and simulation environment. …

Wind Energy to Get an Exascale Boost was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.