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 .
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 .