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A Hackathon To Battle The Coronavirus Pandemic
Public-private partnerships are common when responding to national or international crises and the current coronavirus pandemic that is expanding around the globe is no different. …
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Wind Energy to Get an Exascale Boost
The U.S. Department of Energy is backing a sweeping software to bring wind turbine and wind farm modeling into the exascale era with the open source “ExaWind” modeling and simulation environment. …
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OpenACC Cozies Up To C, C++, and Fortran Standards
Not so long ago, there was a question whether exascale supercomputers would be built from a very large number of thin nodes containing only modest amounts of parallelism or a smaller number of fat nodes powered by specialized accelerators and powerful manycore processors. …
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Deep Divides Between AI Chip Startups, Developers
It’s par for the course for AI chip startups to focus on peak performance on outdated benchmarks to appeal to the hardware folks who might give their gear a go for deep learning training or inference. …
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Maintaining Europe’s Edge in Supercomputing Software
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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Exascale Is An Opportunity To Advance The HPC Software Stack
Even though the race to the exascale computing is based entirely on an arbitrary milestone, it does serve to focus the attention of the HPC community to think about advancing the state-of-the-art for supercomputer hardware. …
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A Multi-Faceted Toolkit for Quantum Computing
Quantum computing hardware tends to garner the lion’s share of the attention from the press, but it’s the software toolkits for these devices that will be key to moving this technology out of the research lab. …
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Unified Memory: The Final Piece Of The GPU Programming Puzzle
Support for unified memory across CPUs and GPUs in accelerated computing systems is the final piece of a programming puzzle that we have been assembling for about ten years now. …
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DOE’s E4S Software Stack Takes An Extreme Step Towards Exascale
For exascale hardware to be useful, systems software is going to have to be stacked up and optimized to bend that hardware to the will of applications. …
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Burying The OpenMP Versus OpenACC Hatchet
I have been frequently asked when the OpenMP and OpenACC directive APIs for parallel programming will merge, or when will one of them (usually OpenMP) will replace the other. …