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Opening Up The Aperture On The World With Summit
We have spent the past several years speculating about what the “Summit” supercomputer built by IBM, Nvidia, and Mellanox Technologies for the US Department of Energy and installed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory might be. …
Opening Up The Aperture On The World With Summit was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
AWS Tests The Waters With Homegrown Arm Servers
What is the difference between a SmartNIC and a server processor? …
AWS Tests The Waters With Homegrown Arm Servers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
One Linux Stack To Rule HPC And AI
It is amazing how fast open source Linux displaced open systems Unix from the HPC datacenters of the world. …
One Linux Stack To Rule HPC And AI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Applying Machine Learning At The Front End Of HPC
IBM and the other vendors who are bidding on the CORAL2 systems for the US Department of Energy can’t talk about those bids, which are in flight, and Big Blue and its partners in building the “Summit” supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and “Sierra” at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory – that would be Nvidia for GPUs and Mellanox Technologies for InfiniBand interconnect – are all about publicly focusing on the present, since these two machines are at the top of the flops charts now. …
Applying Machine Learning At The Front End Of HPC was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The Confluence Of HPC And AI Flows Through The GPU
Nvidia co-founder and chief executive officer, Jensen Huang, would be the first one to tell you that the graphics chip maker was an unintended innovator in supercomputing, that what the engineers who created the first Nvidia GPUs were really trying to do was enable 3D video games. …
The Confluence Of HPC And AI Flows Through The GPU was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Interconnect Pioneer On Bridging HPC, Hyperscale Divide
The HPC market is opening up in a lot of different ways these days, and Cray is right smack dab in the middle of all of this change, embracing it. …
Interconnect Pioneer On Bridging HPC, Hyperscale Divide was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Gearing Up For Exascale And Its Trickle Down With Lenovo
Lenovo is, among all of the major suppliers of HPC systems in the world, perhaps uniquely positioned to have a very large share of the HPC market. …
Gearing Up For Exascale And Its Trickle Down With Lenovo was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
OpenMP Reaches Into The Parallel Universe Of GPUs
OpenMP is probably the most popular tool in the world to parallelize applications running on processors, but ironically it is not a product, but rather a specification that those who make compilers and middleware use to implement their own ways of parallelizing code to run on multicore processors and now, GPU accelerators. …
OpenMP Reaches Into The Parallel Universe Of GPUs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Turning The CPU-GPU Hybrid System On Its Head
Sales of various kinds of high performance computing – not just technical simulation and modeling applications, but also cryptocurrency mining, massively multiplayer gaming, video rendering, visualization, machine learning, and data analytics – run on little boom-bust cycles that make it difficult for all suppliers to this market to make projections when they look ahead. …
Turning The CPU-GPU Hybrid System On Its Head was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
OpenACC: Things Are Getting Simpler More Quickly
OpenACC is one of the prongs in a multi-prong strategy to get people to port the parallel portions of HPC applications to accelerators. …
OpenACC: Things Are Getting Simpler More Quickly was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The Widening Gyre Of Supercomputing
The twice-annual ranking of distributed computing systems based on the Linpack parallel Fortran benchmark, a widely used and sometimes maligned test, is as much a history lesson as it is an expectation always looking forward, with anticipation, to the next performance milestones in high performance computing. …
The Widening Gyre Of Supercomputing was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Competition Finally Comes To Datacenter GPU Compute
AMD’s “Rome” processors, the second generation of Epyc processors that the company will be putting into the field, are a key step for the company on its path back to the datacenter. …
Competition Finally Comes To Datacenter GPU Compute was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
AMD’s Long Road From Naples To Milan Centers On Rome
AMD president and chief executive officer Lisa Su is fond of saying that the road to Rome goes through Naples as a way of reminding everyone that they can’t sit on the sidelines and wait for the second generation “Rome” Epyc processors to come to market in 2019. …
AMD’s Long Road From Naples To Milan Centers On Rome was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Intel To Challenge AMD With 48 Core “Cascade Lake” Xeon AP
AMD is hosting its “Next Horizon” datacenter event in San Francisco this week, and archrival Intel, which is losing some market share to AMD but not feeling the pain on its books yet thanks to a massive buildout in server infrastructure at hyperscalers, cloud builders, and smaller service providers like telcos, is hitting back by divulging some of its plans for next year’s “Cascade Lake” Xeon lineup. …
Intel To Challenge AMD With 48 Core “Cascade Lake” Xeon AP was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Compiling History To Understand The Future
If you want to understand where we are going with computer architectures and the compilers that drive them, it is instructive to look at how compilers have made the leap from architecture to architecture starting six decades ago. …
Compiling History To Understand The Future was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Datacenter 25G Ethernet Upgrade Wave Lifts Mellanox
Having multiple related but distinct product lines turns a company into an economic engine that runs a lot smoother than an it would run with a single cylinder. …
Datacenter 25G Ethernet Upgrade Wave Lifts Mellanox was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Delivering On The Promise Of Network Function Virtualization
People have been talking about software defined networking and its related network function virtualization for so long that it must appear to many organizations that everyone else is doing it. …
Delivering On The Promise Of Network Function Virtualization was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Cray Slingshots Back Into HPC Interconnects With Shasta Systems
While processors and now GPUs tend to get all of the glory when it comes to high performance computing, for the past three decades as distributed computing architectures became the norm in supercomputing, it has been the interconnects that made all the difference in how well – or poorly – these systems perform. …
Cray Slingshots Back Into HPC Interconnects With Shasta Systems was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Berkeley Lab First In Line for Cray “Shasta” Supercomputers
For the past five years, supercomputer maker Cray has been diligently at work not only creating a new system architecture that allows for a mix of different interconnects and compute for its future “Shasta” systems, but has also brought long-time Cray chief technology officer, Steve Scott, back into the company after two stints spent at Nvidia and Google to create a new interconnect, called “Slingshot,” that is the beating heart of the Shasta system and that signals a return of the Cray that we know and love. …
Berkeley Lab First In Line for Cray “Shasta” Supercomputers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Big Blue Dons A $34 Billion Red Hat
In one fell swoop that is going to cost Big Blue a whopping $34 billion, IBM is going to become a modern software powerhouse in the datacenter that has to be contended with in an entirely different way. …
Big Blue Dons A $34 Billion Red Hat was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .