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Academia Gets The First Production Cray “Shasta” Supercomputer
Indiana University is the proud owner of the first operational Cray “Shasta” supercomputer on the planet. …
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Oak Ridge Trials Arm-GPU Combo On HPC Testbed
The GPU has become a standard platform for accelerating high performance computing workloads, at least for those that have had their code tweaked to support acceleration at all. …
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European Processor Initiative Readies Prototype
Europe is trailing the other major HPC powers in its quest to field exascale supercomputers. …
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Dallara Races To The Future Of HPC
When talking about auto racing, everything eventually boils down to speed. …
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HPC In 2020: The Cloud’s Growth Spurt Begins in Earnest
As we roll into 2020, it’s shaping up to be a banner year for cloud-based high performance computing. …
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The University of Michigan Gets Serious About Supercomputing ROI
The University of Michigan is one of the top academic centers in the United States with over $1.5 …
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HPC In 2020: Acquisitions And Mergers As The New Normal
After a decade of vendor consolidation that saw some of the world’s biggest IT firms acquire first-class HPC providers such as SGI, Cray, and Sun Microsystems, as well as smaller players like Penguin Computing, WhamCloud, Appro, and Isilon, it is natural to wonder who is next. …
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European Weather Center Breaks Tradition With Upcoming Supercomputer
Weather forecasting in Europe is going to get a big boost later this year when the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) installs its next-generation supercomputer. …
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HPC In 2020: Compute Engine Diversity Gets Real
The choice of processors available for high performance computing has been on growing for a number of years. …
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The Supercomputing Efficiency Curve Bends In The Right Direction
Things get a little wonky at exascale and hyperscale. Things that don’t matter quite as much at enterprise scale, such as the cost or the performance per watt or the performance per dollar per watt for a system or a cluster, end up dominating the buying decisions. …