HPC
Liquid Cooling Means More Performance And Less Heat For Supercomputing
If there was ever a demonstration of Jevons’ paradox, it’s the supercomputing sector. …
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Driving HPC Performance Up Is Easier Than Keeping The Spending Constant
We are still mulling over all of the new HPC-AI supercomputer systems that were announced in recent months before and during the SC25 supercomputing conference in St Louis, particularly how the slew of new machines announced by the HPC national labs will be advancing not just the state of the art, but also pushing down the cost of the FP64 floating point operations that still drives a lot of HPC simulation and modeling work. …
AI
The Road To HPC And AI Profits Is Paved With Good Intentions
With a profitable PC business that has 25 percent of global shipments (thanks in large part to its acquisition of IBM’s PC business two decades ago) plus a respectable smartphone business (by virtue of its Motorola acquisition), the client device business at Lenovo is finally back to where it was during the peak of the coronavirus pandemic and is consistently delivering what are decent profits for this cut-throat part of the IT sector. …
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TACC’s “Horizon” Supercomputer Sets The Pace For Academic Science
Updated: As we expected, the “Vista” supercomputer that the Texas Advanced Computing Center installed last year as a bridge between the current “Stampede-3” and “Frontera” production system and its future “Horizon” system coming next year was indeed a precursor of the architecture that TACC would choose for the Horizon machine. …
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HPC Is Not Just Riding The Coattails Of AI
The cluster architectures for AI training and inference are driving unprecedented growth in the datacenter infrastructure spending, but they are also having a reflective and beneficial impact on HPC architectures thanks to the relative ease with which one can get funding for AI initiatives and the need to upgrade existing HPC systems to do traditional simulation and modeling. …
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Inside HPE’s Blueprint For Next-Generation Supercomputing
SPONSORED POST Hewlett Packard Enterprise sets out its latest advances in large-scale computing at the SC25 high performance computing conference in November. …
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Nvidia Brings Together Quantum And AI For HPC Centers
Nvidia has spent much of the year launching new products and partnerships that aim to ensure it keeps its place atop the wild west that is still the AI market while establishing its place in the emerging quantum computing space, where co-founder and chief executive officer Jensen Huang sees Nvidia being a key infrastructure provider and accelerator. …
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Modest HPC Centers Drive Top500 Supercomputer Rankings This Time Around
For the past two years now, we have been picking apart the semi-annual rankings of supercomputers known as the Top500 is a different way, focusing on the new machines that come into each list in either June or November. …
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Oak Ridge “Discovery” Supercomputer Spearheads New HPE Cray GX5000 Design
Hewlett Packard Enterprise PE has a long history in supercomputing, with efforts like its Apollo family of systems aimed at data-intensive workloads like HPC, data analytics, and storage, and its $275 million acquisition in 2016 of SGI to help expand its presence in HPC. …
Compute
NextSilicon Takes Aim At CPUs And GPUs With “Maverick-2” Dataflow Engine
It has taken eight years and $303 million in seed and three rounds of venture funding, but NextSilicon is today delivering several incarnations of its 64-bit dataflow engine, called Maverick-2, which was revealed this time last year when the company dropped out of stealth mode. …