HPC
Operating A Campus-Wide HPC Center Like An Enterprise
For those involved with large-scale system planning, design, and procurement for campus-wide supercomputers, the target is balance. …
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Mythbusting Containers, The Los Alamos Way
As is the case with any new technology, there is a lot of hype and misunderstanding that comes along with something that actually improves some aspect of the system. …
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Fugaku Remakes Exascale Computing In Its Own Image
When originally conceived, Japan’s Post-K supercomputer was supposed to be the country’s first exascale system. …
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Time Is Always Money, Especially With HPC On The Cloud
Systems management has always been in a race to catch up with the innovation in systems, and it is always nipping at the heels. …
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OpenACC Cozies Up To C, C++, and Fortran Standards
Not so long ago, there was a question whether exascale supercomputers would be built from a very large number of thin nodes containing only modest amounts of parallelism or a smaller number of fat nodes powered by specialized accelerators and powerful manycore processors. …
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Arm Aligns Its Server Ambitions To Those Of Its Partners
There are just two Arm-powered supercomputers on the latest TOP500 rankings: the “Astra” system at Sandia National Laboratories and Fujitsu’s new A64FX prototype. …
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Edging Toward Distributed HPC
The confluence of big data, AI, and edge computing is reshaping the contours of high performance computing. …
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Tweaked Math Libraries Exploit AI Hardware For Traditional HPC
At our HPC Day event ahead of the SC19 conference, supercomputing expert and Linpack creator Jack Dongarra talked about his new HPL-AI benchmark. …
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Bending The Supercomputing Cost Curve Down
One of the recurring themes at the recent HPC Day event that we hosted ahead of the SC19 supercomputing conference in Denver was that capability class supercomputers are getting more and more expensive. …
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Exascale Density Pushes The Boundaries Of Cooling
The first crop of exascale supercomputers in the United States will be powered by some of the most computationally dense hardware ever assembled. …