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ConocoPhillips Sparks Tooling For Seismic HPC, Cloud, AI/ML
Seismic processing and analysis at scale take scalable HPC resources but also need an analytics backend that can scale with massive datasets. …
HPC
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Rethinking MPI for GPU Accelerated Supercomputers
In the accelerated era of exascale supercomputing, MPI is being pushed to its logical limits. …
Compute
A Simultaneous Boost for AI, Traditional HPC
SPONSORED In our first article in this short series we explored SambaNova Systems’ thesis that future advances in AI require a new architecture to handle new and highly demanding workloads. …
HPC
Czech Republic Sticks With NEC Vector Engines For Weather Modeling
There are two different Auroras right now in supercomputing. There is the shape-shifting, legendary, and maybe even mythical “Aurora” and now “Aurora A21” exascale supercomputer that was being built by Intel with “Knights” many core processors and now, if Intel can get them out the door, with a combination of “Sapphire Rapids” Xeon SP processors and “Ponte Vecchio” Xe GPU accelerators, for Argonne National Laboratory. …
HPC
A First Peek At China’s Sunway Exascale Supercomputer
The trade war between the United States and China is not just a top-down political and economic one, but also a technical one. …
HPC
AMD Takes Down Another Supercomputer Deal In Europe
The Dutch national supercomputer, called “Cartesius,” which is used for HPC education and research, is getting rather long in the tooth with some of its components being installed as far back as 2013. …
HPC
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Jupyter Expands Orbit in Supercomputing
Jupyter may have had its beginnings in enterprise data problems but some in the high performance computing community has been adopting it as the prime platform for both data science and AI at massive scale. …
Code
Can SYCL Slice into Broader Supercomputing?
There are a few unignorable trends in high performance computing, especially in the exascale age. …
AI
Waferscale Makes Further AI Supercomputing Inroads
The battle for HPC centers and national labs is underway among the leading AI chip startups in the high-end datacenter space (Graphcore, Cerebras, and SambaNova in particular). …