Updated: There is some chatter – some might call it well-informed speculation – going on out there on the Intertubes that Japanese system maker NEC is shutting down its “Aurora” Vector Engine vector processor business. …
When it comes to chips, there is a big difference between a kicker and a fork. …
It’s rare in supercomputing to discover a paper that’s both insightful and amusing, but a distributed team led by Dr. …
After nearly six decades of getting smaller, faster, cooler, and cheaper, transistors are getting more and more expensive with each generation, and one could argue that this, more than any other factor, is going to drive system architecture choices for the foreseeable future. …
For those looking to try out Fujitsu’s Arm-based PRIMEHPC FX1000 system, the company is opening up the same capabilities via its own cloud service. …
…Is the inclusion of specialized matrix engines in general-purpose processors truly motivated and merited, or is the silicon better invested in other parts?
Welcome to Next Platform TV for today, July 7, 2020.
We are featuring an in-depth interview with Dr. …
Supercomputers are designed for a number of big jobs that can only be done by massively powerful machinery, and one of those jobs has been the modeling of chemical compounds and biological systems, often in concert to model diseases and to help find cures for them. …
When originally conceived, Japan’s Post-K supercomputer was supposed to be the country’s first exascale system. …
There are many good processors out there, but there are few that are excellent and elegant inasmuch as they are co-designed for specific workloads and then do them very well. …
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