HPC
Frontier: Step By Step, Over Decades, To Exascale
Any time you build anything with more than 60 million parts, it is going to be a headache. …
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HPC
First Look At Oak Ridge’s “Frontier” Exascaler, Contrasted To Argonne’s “Aurora”
The fiscal year of the federal government in the United States ends on September 30, and whether we all knew it or not, the US Department of Energy had a revised goal of beginning the deployment of at least one exascale-class supercomputing system before fiscal 2021 ended and fiscal 2022 began on October 1. …
HPC
First Look at “Frontier” Supercomputer’s Storage Infrastructure
Oak Ridge National Lab’s forthcoming “Frontier” supercomputer will be blazing a multitude of new trails when it goes live in 2022. …
Compute
Software Evolution on ORNL’s Summit Supercomputer
Yesterday with the announcement of the forthcoming El Capitan supercomputer, which is set to be more powerful than the top 200 supercomputers combined, we got to thinking about a critical issue that is far less attention-capturing than big performance numbers. …
HPC
Expanding The Search For A Range Of New Materials
Finding new functional materials for batteries and catalysts and lots of other uses is a major goal of researchers around the world. …
AI
Sometimes The Best AI Accelerator Is The 37,888 GPUs You Already Have
For traditional HPC workloads, AMD’s MI250X is still a powerhouse when it comes to double precision floating point grunt. …
HPC
Sky-High Hurdles, Clouded Judgements for IaaS at Exascale
Back in 2009, I was the editor of a mini-side publication from supercomputing magazine, HPCwire, called HPC in the Cloud. …
Code
Julia Still Not Grown Up Enough to Ride Exascale Train
We’ve been watching Julia, an HPC-oriented programming language designed for technical and scientific computing for a number of years to see it can make inroads into supercomputing. …
HPC
The Race for the First Gordon Bell Climate Supercomputing Prize
At SC23 in November, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) will give out its first-ever ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling at a ceremony in Denver. …
HPC
Facilities Investments Loom Large for Exascale Sites
Exascale systems are expensive but for labs retrofitting existing facilities for novel cooling, the compute, storage, network, and software are only the beginning of high costs. …