HPC
The Race for the First Gordon Bell Climate Supercomputing Prize
At SC23 in November, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) will give out its first-ever ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling at a ceremony in Denver. …
HPC
AI
Seismic Data Processing on Waferscale Has Gordon Bell Prize Potential
Scientists from KAUST and engineers from Cerebras Systems have fine-tuned an existing algorithm, Tile Low-Rank Matrix-Vector Multiplications (TLR-MVM), to improve the speed and accuracy of seismic data processing. …
HPC
It’s Been a Noteworthy Week for Practical Quantum Computing
Here at The Next Platform we are still casting a wary eye on how quantum computing will fit into the post-Moore landscape, especially in large-scale research and enterprise contexts. …
Compute
China’s 1.5 Exaflops Supercomputer Chases Gordon Bell Prize – Again
The Association for Computing Machinery has just put out the finalists for the Gordon Bell Prize award that will be given out at the SC23 supercomputing conference in Denver, and as you might expect, some of the biggest iron assembled in the world are driving the advanced applications that have their eyes on the prize. …
HPC
Stampede3: A Smaller HPC System That Will Get More Work Done
All of the major HPC centers of the world, whether they are funded by straight science or nuclear weapons management, have enough need and enough money to have two classes of supercomputers. …
AI
NCSA Builds Out Delta Supercomputer With An AI Extension
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois just fired up its Delta system back in April 2022, and now it has just been given $10 million by the National Science Foundation to expand that machine with an AI partition, called DeltaAI appropriately enough, that is based on Nvidia’s “Hopper” H100 GPU accelerators. …
AI
Lining Up The “El Capitan” Supercomputer Against The AI Upstarts
The question is no longer whether or not the “El Capitan” supercomputer that has been in the process of being installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for the past week – with photographic evidence to prove it – will be the most powerful system in the world. …
HPC
Argonne Aurora A21: All’s Well That Ends Better
When it comes to a lot of high performance computing systems we have seen over the decades, we are fond of saying that the hardware is the easy part. …
Compute
Move Over X86, Amazon’s Arm HPC instances Are Live
When it comes to deploying Arm in the cloud, a lot of the talk of late has centered on things like efficiency, core density, or predictability of performance. …
HPC
Talking Novel Architectures And El Capitan With Lawrence Livermore
The HPC gurus of the world may have started moving into the hyperscalers and cloud builders in recent years, but they don’t tend to work for vendors and they tend to stay in one place and lean in. …