ORNL’s Summit Supercomputer Targets Opioid Addiction

Computing power and big data are fundamental to the bioinformatic research being carried out by the Leadership Computing Facility at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL) in Tennessee. …

ORNL’s Summit Supercomputer Targets Opioid Addiction was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .

HiPEAC: Shifting Focal Points in European HPC Research

This week we delved into a wide variety of European projects that address future needs of systems in research and industry at HiPEAC in Valencia, Spain. …

HiPEAC: Shifting Focal Points in European HPC Research was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .

Deep Learning Hardware for the Next Big AI Framework

It might be a bit early to call generative adversarial networks (GANs) the next platform for AI evolution, but there is little doubt we will hear much more about this beefed up approach to deep learning over the next year and beyond. …

Deep Learning Hardware for the Next Big AI Framework was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .

Reducing Managed Memcache Cost with NVM

Memcache has become the ubiquitous way of loading objects quickly for most of the world’s largest websites and for that matter, for plenty of smaller enterprises that need to store and retrieve other objects from dense data stores. …

Reducing Managed Memcache Cost with NVM was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .

The Winding Road to Quantum Computing ROI, Competition

With a timeline to early production sometime in the next decade (if not longer), the business model for quantum computing has been nebulous from the beginning. …

The Winding Road to Quantum Computing ROI, Competition was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .

Re-Architecting Parallel File Systems in the Post-Disk Era

We spent some time at the end of 2018 getting a handle on how parallel file systems in HPC need to evolve to meet the shifting demands in workloads driven by machine learning. …

Re-Architecting Parallel File Systems in the Post-Disk Era was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .

Intel’s Quantum Efforts Tied to Next-Gen Materials Applications

A few months ago, we took an in-depth look at Intel’s quantum hardware strategy—from qubits to device manufacturability and commercial viability. …

Intel’s Quantum Efforts Tied to Next-Gen Materials Applications was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .

GPUs Gather Force in Large-Scale Weather Forecasting

As the list of the most powerful supercomputers on the planet reveal, GPU accelerated high performance computing is alive in well across many technical and scientific domains. …

GPUs Gather Force in Large-Scale Weather Forecasting was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .

Reading Between the MLPerf Lines

Every important benchmark needs to start somewhere.

The first round of MLperf results are in and while they might not deliver on what we would have expected in terms of processor diversity and a complete view into scalability and performance, they do shed light on some developments that go beyond sheer hardware when it comes to deep learning training. …

Reading Between the MLPerf Lines was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .

File Systems Go Private to Meet Evolving HPC Demands

The idea of a “private” file system—one that runs within a user’s specific job and is tailored to the I/O requirements of a particular workload—is not necessarily new, but it is gaining steam given changing hardware capabilities and workload demands in large HPC environments. …

File Systems Go Private to Meet Evolving HPC Demands was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .

Long Live the HPC Parallel File System

When it comes to parallel file systems, few people understand the evolution of challenges better than Sven Oehme, who was part of the original team at IBM building GPFS. …

Long Live the HPC Parallel File System was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .

Re-Architecting Storage Around HPC’s Mixed Workloads Problem

As we well know by now, workloads at supercomputing sites large and small are changing with the introduction of machine learning and more complex applications that require both large and small files. …

Re-Architecting Storage Around HPC’s Mixed Workloads Problem was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .

Scaling with Accuracy on CPU-Only HPC Infrastructure

It tends to get overlooked in favor of GPU acceleration but scaling deep learning on existing CPU-based HPC infrastructure is not just possible, but with the right level of optimization and fine-tuning, the performance and efficiency results can be comparable. …

Scaling with Accuracy on CPU-Only HPC Infrastructure was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .

HPC Just Changed IndyCar Races For the Long Haul

Those who follow commercial supercomputing already know that automotive design is a hot area for high performance computing, but Indycar is taking modeling and simulation in unexpected directions—and it could change both the cars and how drivers approach the sport in the near term. …

HPC Just Changed IndyCar Races For the Long Haul was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .

What to See at Supercomputing 2018

The countdown to the annual Supercomputing Conference has begun. As The Next Platform gears up to deliver in-depth analysis of this year’s most important HPC innovations, take a moment to plan your path at the show with some of our leading SC18 partners. …

What to See at Supercomputing 2018 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .

ARM is the NNSA’s New Secret Weapon

It might have been difficult to see this happening a mere few years ago, but the National Nuclear Security Administration and one of its key supercomputing sites are looking past Intel to Arm-based supercomputers in hopes of reaching efficiency and memory bandwidth targets needed for nuclear stockpile simulations. …

ARM is the NNSA’s New Secret Weapon was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .

Intel’s Spin on Qubits and Quantum Manufacturability

IBM, Google, and D-Wave tend to garner the headlines about quantum computing, but aside from a brief hubbub around the Tangle Lake quantum chip announcement earlier this year, insight into Intel’s quantum strategy tends to lag. …

Intel’s Spin on Qubits and Quantum Manufacturability was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .

How NVIDIA’s Tensor Core GPUs Power Pioneering Biometric Discoveries

Computing power and big data are fundamental to the bioinformatic research being carried out by the Leadership Computing Facility at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL) in Tennessee. …

How NVIDIA’s Tensor Core GPUs Power Pioneering Biometric Discoveries was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .

Bringing Researchers to the Frontier of FPGA Development

There are two key barriers to fully exploring the emerging use of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) at the scale found in data centers: capital investment for private equipment, and gaining full, unfettered access to shared equipment. …

Bringing Researchers to the Frontier of FPGA Development was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .

Broader Reduced Precision HPC on Horizon

The rise in interest in deep learning chips for training and inference has reignited interest in how reduced precision compute can cut down on energy, bandwidth, and other constraints inherent to double-precision. …

Broader Reduced Precision HPC on Horizon was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .