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Gearing Up For Exascale And Its Trickle Down With Lenovo

November 19, 2018 0

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 […]

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OpenMP Reaches Into The Parallel Universe Of GPUs

November 18, 2018 0

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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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, […]

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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 […]

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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 […]