After a decade of vendor consolidation that saw some of the world’s biggest IT firms acquire first-class HPC providers such as SGI, Cray, and Sun Microsystems, as well as smaller players like Penguin Computing, WhamCloud, Appro, and Isilon, it is natural to wonder who is next. …
Weather forecasting in Europe is going to get a big boost later this year when the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) installs its next-generation supercomputer. …
The choice of processors available for high performance computing has been on growing for a number of years. …
Things get a little wonky at exascale and hyperscale. Things that don’t matter quite as much at enterprise scale, such as the cost or the performance per watt or the performance per dollar per watt for a system or a cluster, end up dominating the buying decisions. …
At every key leap in processing capacity in high performance computing – and just rattling off more than two decades from teraflops through petaflops, and now on the verge of exaflops in two years or so – there has been this tension between custom-built systems that break through performance barriers and more general purpose machines based on more off of the shelf components that cost less and tend to be fast followers. …
If we could sum up the near-term future of high performance computing in a single phrase, it would be more of the same and then some. …
One of the benefits of the public cloud is that it allows HPC centers to experiment and push the limits of scalability in a way they could never do if they had to requisition, budget, and install machinery on premises. …
The European Commission has anted up €3.9 million to create a set of tools and runtime frameworks that will be used to support the exascale supercomputers to be deployed across the continent in the coming decade. …
Hyperion Research has declared 2019 as the year that high performance computing in the cloud hit a “tipping point.” …
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