At the ISC conference this week, HPC market analyst firm Hyperion Research offered its mid-year HPC market update, which recapped what happened in 2018 and provided some particularly interesting observations on the exascale space. …
GPU chip maker Nvidia doesn’t just make the devices that end up in some of the largest supercomputers in the world. …
We have followed a fair number of system trends for the oil and gas industry over the years. …
The Barcelona Supercomputer Center will soon be the proud owners of the Europe’s first pre-exascale supercomputer. …
When the TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers comes out twice a year, the top-ranked machines receive the lion’s share of attention. …
Throughout the many different types of system architecture in the past six decades, one thing has always remained true: Hardware always gets ahead of software, and rather than be too annoyed about it, there is another thing that is also true. …
Creating the Tesla GPU compute platform has taken Nvidia the better part of a decade and a half, and it has culminated in a software stack comprised of various HPC and AI frameworks, the CUDA parallel programming environment, compilers from Nvidia’s PGI division and their OpenACC extensions as well as open source GCC compilers, and various other tools that together account for tens of millions of lines of code and tens of thousands of individual APIs. …
If you want to rank in the world of supercomputing – as national and state governments as well as academic and research institutions most certainly do to prove their worth for research and development – then you need to have at least a petaflops ante now to play the game. …
At the recent EuroHPC Summit in Poland, the nature of Europe’s first homegrown HPC processor was described in some detail. …
AMD’s second-generation Epyc processor, code-named “Rome,” has yet to be released into the wild, but it is already racking up some impressive wins in academic supercomputing. …
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