Cloud
What Rescale’s $105M Funding Round Says About HPC Cloud
Patience in a slow-growing market is tough, but supercomputing cloud startup, Rescale, is reaping rewards for its persistence. …
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China’s Exascale Quantum Simulation Not All It Appears
And actually, one could say it is also far more than it appears. …
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Xilinx Tunes Up FPGAs For HPC, Graph Analytics
High performance computing hardware is really a software game, and the software we are referring to is at a very low level where deep expertise in libraries and solvers can make the difference between a capable device performing up to its specifications and, well, not so much. …
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Making Exascale Accessible To Everyone
Paid Post Intel has been at the forefront of democratizing high performance computing (HPC) for the past three decades, and the HPC leader is taking its efforts up several more notches with the Aurora exascale HPC and AI supercomputer being designed and built by Intel and Hewlett Packard Enterprise for Argonne National Laboratory. …
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HPE Wins Another European HPC Center With Cray EX Plus AMD Compute
Per aspera, ad astra, an old Latin adage that means “through striving, to the stars,” is the root of the name for a hybrid HPC and AI supercomputer that the Grand Équipment National de Calcul Intensif (GENCI), working in conjunction with the Centre Informatique National de l’Enseignement Supérieur (CINES), one of three national HPC centers in France, will be building next year to bring a factor of 20X more compute power to bear on scientific applications. …
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Why Did China Keep Its Exascale Supercomputers Quiet?
There are no greater bragging rights in supercomputing than those that come with top ten listing on the bi-annual list of the world’s most powerful systems – the Top500. …
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Top500 Supercomputers: Hungry For The Exascale Feast
Let’s just cut right to the chase scene. The latest Top500 ranking of supercomputers, announced today at the SC21 supercomputing conference being held in St Louis, needed the excitement of an actual 1 exaflops sustained performance machine running the High Performance Linpack benchmark at 64-bit precision. …
Cloud
Want To Get Your Hands On AWS’ Latest HPC Services? Here’s How
Visit SC21 virtually AND enter to win $200 in AWS credits
You won’t be surprised that AWS serves up some of the most powerful HPC products and services on the planet. …
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The Microcosm Of Global HPC In The Lone Star State
The HPC community spends a lot of time tracking the development of and production use of the flagship machines deployed by the major national and academic labs of the world. …
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Real-World HPC Gets the Benchmark It Deserves
While nothing can beat the notoriety of the long-standing LINPACK benchmark, the metric by which supercomputer performance is gauged, there is ample room for a more practical measure. …