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Mythbusting Containers, The Los Alamos Way

December 11, 2019 Dan Olds Comments Off on Mythbusting Containers, The Los Alamos Way

As is the case with any new technology, there is a lot of hype and misunderstanding that comes along with something that actually improves some aspect of the system. …

Connect

In-Depth at SC18: The Early Adopters of Quantum Switches

November 20, 2018 Dan Olds Comments Off on In-Depth at SC18: The Early Adopters of Quantum Switches

The “Great Lakes” supercomputer at the University of Michigan is the first cluster in the world to make use of 200 Gb/sec HDR InfiniBand switching from Mellanox Technology, which is sold under the Quantum brand. …

SC18

In-Depth with The Next Platform: Machine Learning, HPC with Univa

November 20, 2018 Dan Olds Comments Off on In-Depth with The Next Platform: Machine Learning, HPC with Univa

There is a very strong correlation between HPC simulation and modeling and machine learning, but it is not the one that you may be thinking. …

Compute

Oil Immersion Cooling Cranks Up Oil Simulation HPC

November 9, 2018 Dan Olds 1

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 issues of power and cooling. …

Compute

The Plan For Europe’s Homegrown Exascale HPC

October 24, 2018 Dan Olds Comments Off on The Plan For Europe’s Homegrown Exascale HPC

It has been a long time since Europe has had indigenous suppliers of the core components that go into high performance computing systems. …

AI

A Closer Look: Inspur at the GPU Technology Conference

June 11, 2018 Dan Olds Comments Off on A Closer Look: Inspur at the GPU Technology Conference

This year at the GPU Technology Conference (GTC18) our roaming camera crew was lucky enough to catch Dolly Wu, vice president and general manager of Inspur’s Datacenter/Cloud division. …

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