DataDirect Networks (DDN) has launched EXA5, the company’s fifth-generation Exascaler Lustre file system platform, which will be used to populate the company’s all-flash, mid-range, and high-end storage appliances. …
When Oak Ridge National Laboratory installs its 1.5 exaflops Frontier supercomputer in a couple of years, it’s likely to be the most powerful system in the US, if not the world. …
At the ISC conference this week, HPC market analyst firm Hyperion Research offered its mid-year HPC market update, which recapped what happened in 2018 and provided some particularly interesting observations on the exascale space. …
The Barcelona Supercomputer Center will soon be the proud owners of the Europe’s first pre-exascale supercomputer. …
When the TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers comes out twice a year, the top-ranked machines receive the lion’s share of attention. …
Habana Labs has unveiled the Gaudi HL-2000, a custom-built AI processor that the company claims can outrun Nvidia’s best and brightest GPUs at training neural networks. …
At the recent EuroHPC Summit in Poland, the nature of Europe’s first homegrown HPC processor was described in some detail. …
AMD’s second-generation Epyc processor, code-named “Rome,” has yet to be released into the wild, but it is already racking up some impressive wins in academic supercomputing. …
When most people speak of exascale supercomputers, they tend to focus on the computational aspect of these systems. …
As the era of exascale supercomputing approaches, Europe is making a concerted effort to become a first-class HPC power, on par with that of the United States, China, and Japan. …
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