HPC
Solving Society’s Big Problems Means Funding More Than Supercomputers
Data science, AI/ML, and HPC have been influential in tackling complex issues like the coronavirus pandemic. …
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Cloud
Pulling All the Levers For HPC In The Cloud
The acquisitions last year of Nimbix, Visual BI, and Ideal GRP by Atos signaled a more aggressive push by the European HPC vendor into the cloud and tech services space and coincided with a plan to expand beyond its legacy business and into such new growth areas. …
HPC
With Cloud HPC Toolkit, Google Pursues HPC, Intel Pushes OneAPI
The people running Google Cloud can see the tides of HPC changing and know that, as we discussed only a few months ago, there is a fairly good chance that more HPC workloads will move to cloud builders over time as their sheer scale increasingly dictates future chip and system designs and the economics of processing. …
HPC
So, You Think You Can Design A 20 Exaflops Supercomputer?
UPDATED* Perhaps Janet Jackson should be the official spokesperson of the supercomputing industry. …
HPC
NOAA Gets 3X More Oomph For Weather Forecasting; It Needs 3,300X
UPDATED* Until exascale supercomputers get a lot cheaper, which will allow weather forecasting models to run at a much smaller resolution – and more frequently – to deliver hyper-local weather forecasts, the actual weather forecasting is still going to be done by people. …
HPC
Lawrence Livermore’s “El Capitan” To Take AMD’s Instinct APU Mainstream
In March 2020, when Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announced the exascale “El Capitan” supercomputer contract had been awarded to system builder Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which was also kicking in its “Rosetta” Slingshot 11 interconnect and which was tapping future CPU and GPU compute engines from AMD, the HPC center was very clear that it would be using off-the-shelf, commodity parts from AMD, not custom compute engines. …
HPC
For HPC Cloud, The Underlying Hardware Will Always Matter
Decades of cloud collaborations and optimizations have brought solid performance and cost efficiencies to cloud. …
HPC
Atos Wins MareNostrum 5 Deal At Barcelona Supercomputing Center
UPDATED: The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, which is steering the development and funding for pre-exascale and exascale supercomputing in the European Union, has had a busy week. …
HPC
Who Will Build Europe’s First Exascale Supercomputer – And With What, And Why?
Exascale supercomputing is just as important to Europe as it is to the United States and China, but each of these geopolitical regions on Earth has its own way of developing architectures, funding their development and production, and figuring out where the best HPC centers are to host such machines to maximize their effectiveness. …
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Strong Showing for First Experimental RISC-V Supercomputer
A European team of university students has cobbled together the first RISC-V supercomputer capable of showing balanced power consumption and performance. …