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Tweaked Math Libraries Exploit AI Hardware For Traditional HPC
At our HPC Day event ahead of the SC19 conference, supercomputing expert and Linpack creator Jack Dongarra talked about his new HPL-AI benchmark. …
Articles by Michael Feldman
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Exascale Density Pushes The Boundaries Of Cooling
The first crop of exascale supercomputers in the United States will be powered by some of the most computationally dense hardware ever assembled. …
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New Applications, More Users Drive Bright Outlook for HPC
According to Hyperion Research, 2018 was a banner year for the high performance computing industry. …
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Arm Supercomputer Captures The Energy Efficiency Crown
When it comes to energy-efficient supercomputing, sometimes less is more. That was illustrated this week by Fujitsu with its A64FX prototype, which captured the top spot on the Green500 list. …
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First European Pre-Exascale Supercomputers Forgo Homegrown CPUs
It is now pretty much assured that the first three pre-exascale systems being installed in the European Union will not be powered by processors being developed under the European Processor Initiative (EPI). …
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Speeding I/O for Multi-GPU Clusters
As GPU-accelerated servers go, Nvidia’s DGX-2 box is hard to beat. …
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The Calm Before The Exascale Storm
The latest list of the world’s top 500 floppiest supercomputers was released this week and the biggest news to report is that there is almost no news to report. …
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Europe Opens Second Front For Domestic HPC Processors
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center has launched the European Laboratory for Open Computer Architecture (LOCA), a five-year effort aimed at developing energy efficient, high performance computing chips based on open architectures. …
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Tooling Up For Exascale
The importance of achieving exascale computing has been discussed at great length in this publication and elsewhere. …
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Arm’s Methodical March to HPC Adoption
For those who have expressed concern about the slow pace of Arm’s adoption in HPC, Brent Gorda is advocating the need for patience. …