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Mitigating MPI Message Matching Issues
Since the 1990s, MPI (Message Passing Interface) has been the dominant communications protocol for high-performance scientific and commercial distributed computing. …
Articles by Nicole Hemsoth Prickett
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HPC is Great for AI, But What Does Supercomputing Stand to Gain?
As we have written about extensively here at The Next Platform, there is no shortage of use cases in deep learning and machine learning where HPC hardware and software approaches have bled over to power next generation applications in image, speech, video, and other classification and learning tasks. …
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Measuring Top Supercomputer Performance in the Real World
When we cover the bi-annual listing of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, the metric at the heart of those results, the high performance Linpack benchmark, the gold standard for over two decades, is the basis. …
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Knights Landing Proves Solid Ground for Intel’s Stake in Deep Learning
Intel has finally opened the first public discussions of its investment in the future of machine learning and deep learning and while some might argue it is a bit late in the game with its rivals dominating the training market for such workloads, the company had to wait for the official rollout of Knights Landing and extensions to the scalable system framework to make it official—and meaty enough to capture real share from the few players doing deep learning at scale. …
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A Look Inside China’s Chart-Topping New Supercomputer
Much to the surprise of the supercomputing community, which is gathered in Germany for the International Supercomputing Conference this morning, news arrived that a new system has dramatically topped the Top 500 list of the world’s fastest and largest machines. …
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What Will GPU Accelerated AI Lend to Traditional Supercomputing?
This week at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC ’16) we are expecting a wave of vendors and high performance computing pros to blur the borders between traditional supercomputing and what is around the corner on the application front—artificial intelligence and machine learning. …
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Framing Questions for Optimized I/O Subsystems
Building high performance systems at the bleeding edge hardware-wise without considering the way data actually moves through such a system is too common—and woefully so, given the fact that understanding and articulating an application’s requirements can lead to dramatic I/O improvements. …
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NERSC Preps for Next Generation “Cori” Supercomputer
The powerful Cori supercomputer, now being readied for deployment at NERSC (The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center), has been named in honor of Gerty Cori. …
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The Weather Company Seeks Next Data-Driven Platform
When considering system and software needs at massive scale, one application area that tends to shed light on what lies ahead is weather prediction and modeling. …
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What’s Fueling the Move to a Converged Data Platform?
The datacenter is going through tremendous change, and many long-held assumptions are now being called into question. …