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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. …
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Cray Revamps ClusterStor For The Exascale Era
Supercomputer-maker Cray has launched the ClusterStor E1000, a storage offering designed to serve the entire triumvirate of HPC workloads: simulations, artificial intelligence, and analytics. …
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Oracle Chases A Huge HPC Opportunity In The Cloud
A few years ago, about two dozen Oracle employees began work in downtown office space in Seattle to start mapping out how to make the enterprise software giant and occasional system maker a competitive player in a crowded public cloud space that is dominated by the likes of Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, and also includes a host of other high-profile companies, from Google to Salesforce to IBM. …
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Exascale Is Not Your Grandfather’s HPC
The first exaflops-capable supercomputers are just around the corner and to celebrate this milestone-to-be and talk about its ramifications, the US Department of Energy hosted a national “Exascale Day” discussion. …
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Understanding And Balancing HPC On-Premises And In The Cloud
HPC shops are used to doing math – it is what they do for a living, after all – and as they evaluate their hybrid computing and storage strategies, they will be doing a lot of math. …
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AMD CPUs Will Power UK’s Next-Generation ARCHER2 Supercomputer
AMD has picked up yet another big supercomputer win with the selection of its second-generation Epyc processors, aka Rome, as the compute engine for the ARCHER2 system to be installed at the University of Edinburgh next year. …
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Europeans Add 3D Integration To Exascale Technology Stack
The European Exascale Processor Memory Node Design (ExaNoDe) project has wrapped up, delivering a prototype multi-chip-module (MCM) that integrates Arm cores, FPGAs, and 3D active interposer/chiplet technology. …
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Growing Up In An HPC World
After more than two decades with Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Darren Cepulis came to Arm in 2013, becoming part of the small cadre of people working in the chip designer’s high-performance computing (HPC) business. …
Cloud
Cloudy Supercomputers Join the HPC Petascale Club
Living in the future, as we do now, you no longer have to expend huge amounts of capital to build a petaflops-scale supercomputer. …