HPC
Dennard Scaling Demise Puts Permanent Dent in Supercomputing
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. …
HPC
HPC
Doing The Math: The Reality Of HPC And AI Convergence
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. …
HPC
Nvidia Makes Arm A Peer To X86 And Power For GPU Acceleration
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. …
HPC
Supercomputing Coiled To Spring To Exascale
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. …
Compute
Europe’s Homegrown HPC Compute Begins To Take Shape
At the recent EuroHPC Summit in Poland, the nature of Europe’s first homegrown HPC processor was described in some detail. …
HPC
AMD Garners Academic Credentials With New Supercomputer Wins
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. …
AI
Where Does Nvidia Go In The Datacenter From Here?
We have to admit that it is often a lot more fun watching an upstart carve out whole new slices of business, or create them out of what appears to be thin air, in the datacenter than it is to watch how it will respond to intense competitive pressures and somehow manage to keep growing despite that. …
HPC
The Shape of Storage for the Exascale Era
When most people speak of exascale supercomputers, they tend to focus on the computational aspect of these systems. …
Code
Maintaining Europe’s Edge in Supercomputing Software
As the era of exascale supercomputing approaches, Europe is making a concerted effort to become a first-class HPC power, on par with that of the United States, China, and Japan. …
Compute
AMD Puts Epyc In The HPC Driver’s Seat
It was a long time coming but AMD is finding its footing again in the high performance computing space. …