To a certain way of looking at it, Nvidia has always been engaged in the high performance computing business and it has always been subject to the same kinds of cyclical waves that affect makers of supercomputers and enterprise systems. …
If you look at the very long history of Cray, the company has done a remarkable job expanding its market, not just participating in it. …
When it comes to weather forecasting and climate modeling, supercomputer maker Cray has plenty of stories to tell. …
Historically, high performance computing has operated in a closed loop, enclosed in its own software cocoon. …
History and economics – as if you could separate the two – are burgeoning with examples of products being developed for one task and then being used, perhaps after some tweaking, for an entirely new and usually unexpected task. …
Earlier this week, the RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS) announced that in August it will pull the plug on its flagship HPC system, the K computer. …
In 2018 the Leadership Computing Facility at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee installed Summit, the world’s most powerful supercomputer ever built, to help it break new ground in scientific research. …
Moore’s Law has underwritten a remarkable period of growth and stability for the computer industry. …
TensorFlow, probably the most popular of the dozen or so deep learning frameworks, is typically used to develop neural networks on small or medium-sized clusters, and sometimes on just a single GPU-accelerated node. …
A research collaboration between the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is demonstrating the value of using machine learning to overcome daunting computational challenges. …
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