HPC

Sandia To Push Both HPC And AI With Cerebras “Kingfisher” Cluster

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, and Los Alamos National Laboratory are known by the shorthand “Tri-Labs” in the HPC community, but these HPC centers perhaps could be called “Try-Labs” because they historically have tried just about any new architecture to see what promise it might hold in advancing the missions of the US Department of Energy.

HPC

The Skills Gap For Fortran Looms Large In HPC

Back in the dawn of time, which is four decades ago in computer science and which was before technical computing went mainstream with the advent of Unix workstations and their beefy server cousins, the computer science students we knew at college had taught themselves BASIC on either TRS-80s or Commodore VICs and they went to college to learn something useful like COBOL and maybe got a smattering of C and Pascal, or occasionally even RPG, for variety.