The husband and wife team of Abdurrahman and Tülay Ateşin are experimental scientists who unexpectedly became involved with supercomputers when they moved to Texas in 2013. …
Exploring The Frontiers of Chemistry With HPC was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
For more than a decade, datacenter system administrators have been trying to figure out how to get their increasingly complex infrastructure under control and to manage them in a way that allows them to keep up with, adapt to, and scale with the rapid changes that are the new norm. …
Pulling The Puppet Strings In HPC was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
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 .
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 .
Barefoot Networks is on a mission, and it is a simple one: To give datacenter switches the same kind of openness and programmability that X86 servers have enjoyed for decades in the datacenter. …
Programmable Networks Get a Bigger Foot In The Datacenter Door was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
What if a hyperscale rack designer decided not to locally optimize legacy form factors for thermal management, but instead to start over and design a rack based on optimizing thermal efficiency? …
The Leading Edge Of Air-Cooled Servers Leads To The Edge was written by Paul Teich at .
Proctor & Gamble, the massive multinational conglomerate and the world’s largest seller of consumer goods, has long been an advocate of computer modeling and simulation running atop HPC clusters. …
The Critical And Pervasive Role HPC Plays At Proctor & Gamble was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
The Sequana line of supercomputers from the Bull division of Atos offers some of the highest compute density available in the HPC realm. …
Atos Rejiggers Sequana Supercomputers, Adds AMD Rome CPUs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
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 .
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 .
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 .
HPC and the cloud have an uneasy, lukewarm relationship. Some corporations running HPC environments take the view that they have the infrastructure and software capabilities they need to run their own often massive workloads and taking on the networking costs, security concerns and management hassles of running applications and keep data in the cloud doesn’t make sense to them. …
Pratt & Whitney Launches HPC to The Cloud To Push Jet Engine Design was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
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 .
Emerging technologies like machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing can promise significant improvements in an array of industries, including the healthcare field. …
Machine Learning Sharpens Medical Imaging was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
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 .
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 .
Over the year, Dell EMC has always had a hand in HPC and supercomputing. …
Dell EMC Gets Serious About HPC – Again was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
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 .
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 .