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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. …
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New Applications, More Users Drive Bright Outlook for HPC
According to Hyperion Research, 2018 was a banner year for the high performance computing industry. …
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Arm Supercomputer Captures The Energy Efficiency Crown
When it comes to energy-efficient supercomputing, sometimes less is more. That was illustrated this week by Fujitsu with its A64FX prototype, which captured the top spot on the Green500 list. …
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Doing The Math On Future Exascale Supercomputers
We are not shy of playing guessing games here at The Next Platform, as you all well know. …
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First European Pre-Exascale Supercomputers Forgo Homegrown CPUs
It is now pretty much assured that the first three pre-exascale systems being installed in the European Union will not be powered by processors being developed under the European Processor Initiative (EPI). …
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The Calm Before The Exascale Storm
The latest list of the world’s top 500 floppiest supercomputers was released this week and the biggest news to report is that there is almost no news to report. …
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Europe Opens Second Front For Domestic HPC Processors
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center has launched the European Laboratory for Open Computer Architecture (LOCA), a five-year effort aimed at developing energy efficient, high performance computing chips based on open architectures. …
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A64FX Arm Chip Gets A Big Push From Cray
There are many good processors out there, but there are few that are excellent and elegant inasmuch as they are co-designed for specific workloads and then do them very well. …
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Oil And Gas Giants Build Up Their Strategic GPU Reserves
When you are always looking for what platform architecture will be mainstream, you have to look at what those on the bleeding edge are doing to see what the leading edge might do, which in turn tells you what everyone else might eventually do. …
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The HPC Community Should Lead In Composability
It is a rare HPC cluster that is actually upgraded – meaning some of the components in the servers or the networks or the storage that comprise the system are swapped out somewhere about halfway through its lifecycle and replaced with cheaper, faster, or more capacious components. …