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Turning The CPU-GPU Hybrid System On Its Head

November 16, 2018 0

Sales of various kinds of high performance computing – not just technical simulation and modeling applications, but also cryptocurrency mining, massively multiplayer gaming, video rendering, […]

China Navigating The Homegrown Waters For Exascale

November 15, 2018 1

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 […]

Nvidia Pulls All Of The AI Pieces Together

November 13, 2018 1

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 […]

Code

OpenACC: Things Are Getting Simpler More Quickly

November 12, 2018 0

OpenACC is one of the prongs in a multi-prong strategy to get people to port the parallel portions of HPC applications to accelerators. And now, […]

Compute

The Widening Gyre Of Supercomputing

November 12, 2018 0

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 […]

Moving Graph Analytics Testing On Supercomputers Forward

November 14, 2018 0

If it’s the SC18 supercomputing conference, then there must be lists. Lots of them. The twice-yearly show is most famous for the Top500 list of […]

Oracle Puts Together RDMA, Bare Metal for HPC

November 13, 2018 1

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 […]

Compute

Intel Doubles Down On Doubled Up Xeons For HPC

November 12, 2018 1

These are challenging times for Intel. Long – and still – the dominant chip maker in the datacenter with its battle-tested Xeon processors, the company […]

What to See at Supercomputing 2018

November 11, 2018 0

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 […]

Compute

Oil Immersion Cooling Cranks Up Oil Simulation HPC

November 9, 2018 0

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 […]

Competition Finally Comes To Datacenter GPU Compute

November 7, 2018 8

Updated: 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 […]

ARM is the NNSA’s New Secret Weapon

November 7, 2018 0

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 […]

Cloud

AMD’s Long Road From Naples To Milan Centers On Rome

November 6, 2018 7

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 […]

Intel’s Spin on Qubits and Quantum Manufacturability

November 6, 2018 1

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 […]