Compute
A Look Inside TGEN’s Approach to Genomics Infrastructure
The Translational Genomics Research Institute in Arizona is one of a handful of non-profit centers in the U.S. …
HPC
Compute
Mont-Blanc Sets The Stage For ARM HPC
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center, which has done a significant amount of research and development on alternative architectures for supercomputers over the years, has just fired up a prototype system based on the kinds of ARM chips that are typically found in smartphones and other client devices. …
HPC
A Dead Heat in the Supercomputing Storage Race
On the one hand, it might seem, from the outside at least, that supercomputing systems at both the national lab and Fortune 500 level would require a great number of specialized pieces to fit with the high performance applications and system profiles. …
HPC
For Next Generation Supercomputers, What’s Old is New Again
When one thinks about the largest supercomputing sites on the planet and the approach to examining future technologies for next-generation systems, it might seem logical to guess they are at the bleeding edge of exploring entirely new, under-the-radar architectures and approaches that could spike the curve of Moore’s Law. …
Cloud
Life Sciences Clouds Raise More Cluster Questions
When it comes to using the public cloud, few market segments have a better story to tell than the life sciences sector. …
Control
An Old Platform Finds New Life Outside IBM Walls
William Lu was witness to one of the most successful business and technology stories in modern supercomputing from his long-term position as one of the first developers of the Load Sharing Facility (LSF) software from Platform Computing. …
HPC
Behind The UK’s Bleeding Edge Supercomputing Plan
Just as the fervor died down around the massive deals for forthcoming pre-exascale supercomputers in the United States following the CORAL procurements (most recently, with the announcement of Aurora—the only one of three such HPC deals that is not betting the future on IBM OpenPower systems) the supercomputing spark was stoked again, this time, from across the pond. …
Cloud
The Cloud Versus HPC Cluster Cost Conundrum
The build versus buy argument for high performance computing clusters has gathered steam lately, in part because some of the critical missing pieces both performance and software ecosystem-wise are snapping into place. …
Compute
Flexing ARM to Reach a New Generation of CERN Machines
CERN is set to go dark for a brief period in the 2018 timeframe to allow for a new sweep of technology upgrades, including the build-out of new datacenters, some of which might leverage non-standard architectures, including ARM processors. …
Cloud
Rescale’s Political Stance Boosts Cloud Based Supercomputing
If one had to make a guess about which of the big cloud infrastructure providers is sitting on eight million servers globally with a potential 1,400 petaflops of compute capacity, the list of companies is relatively short. …