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 .
The “Great Lakes” supercomputer at the University of Michigan is the first cluster in the world to make use of 200 Gb/sec HDR InfiniBand switching from Mellanox Technology, which is sold under the Quantum brand. …
In-Depth at SC18: The Early Adopters of Quantum Switches was written by Dan Olds at .
There is a very strong correlation between HPC simulation and modeling and machine learning, but it is not the one that you may be thinking. …
In-Depth with The Next Platform: Machine Learning, HPC with Univa was written by Dan Olds at .
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 .
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 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 .
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 .
A major part of China’s several initiatives to build an exascale-class supercomputers has been the country’s determination to rely mostly on homegrown technologies – from processors and accelerators to interconnects and software – rather than turn to vendors outside of its borders, particularly those from the United States. …
China Navigating The Homegrown Waters For Exascale was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
If it’s the SC18 supercomputing conference, then there must be lists. …
Moving Graph Analytics Testing On Supercomputers Forward was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
Oracle was famously behind the cloud computing curve, with co-founder and then-CEO Larry Ellison several years ago dismissing it as little more than an empty tag that was more on par with fashion trends than anything serious in the tech world. …
Oracle Puts Together RDMA, Bare Metal for HPC was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
More than five years ago, Nvidia, driven by its co-founder and CEO, Jensen Huang, turned its considerable focus to developing technologies for the revitalized and burgeoning artificial intelligence space. …
Nvidia Pulls All Of The AI Pieces Together was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
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 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 .
These are challenging times for Intel. Long – and still – the dominant chip maker in the datacenter with its battle-tested Xeon processors, the company is now seeing challenges everywhere. …
Intel Doubles Down On Doubled Up Xeons For HPC was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
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 .
Being at the forefront of high performance computing, as the oil and gas industry has been from the very beginning, also means always dealing with issues of power and cooling. …
Oil Immersion Cooling Cranks Up Oil Simulation HPC was written by Dan Olds at .
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 .
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 .
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 .
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 .