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HPE Wins Another European HPC Center With Cray EX Plus AMD Compute

November 16, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Per aspera, ad astra, an old Latin adage that means “through striving, to the stars,” is the root of the name for a hybrid HPC and AI supercomputer that the Grand Équipment National de Calcul Intensif (GENCI), working in conjunction with the Centre Informatique National de l’Enseignement Supérieur (CINES), one of three national HPC centers in France, will be building next year to bring a factor of 20X more compute power to bear on scientific applications. …

Why Did China Keep Its Exascale Supercomputers Quiet?

November 15, 2021 Nicole Hemsoth 5

There are no greater bragging rights in supercomputing than those that come with top ten listing on the bi-annual list of the world’s most powerful systems – the Top500. …

Top500 Supercomputers: Hungry For The Exascale Feast

November 15, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Let’s just cut right to the chase scene. The latest Top500 ranking of supercomputers, announced today at the SC21 supercomputing conference being held in St Louis, needed the excitement of an actual 1 exaflops sustained performance machine running the High Performance Linpack benchmark at 64-bit precision. …

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Want To Get Your Hands On AWS’ Latest HPC Services? Here’s How

November 10, 2021 David Gordon Comments Off

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You won’t be surprised that AWS serves up some of the most powerful HPC products and services on the planet. …

The Microcosm Of Global HPC In The Lone Star State

November 3, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

The HPC community spends a lot of time tracking the development of and production use of the flagship machines deployed by the major national and academic labs of the world. …

Real-World HPC Gets the Benchmark It Deserves

October 28, 2021 Nicole Hemsoth 0

While nothing can beat the notoriety of the long-standing LINPACK benchmark, the metric by which supercomputer performance is gauged, there is ample room for a more practical measure. …

Intel Aims For Zettaflops By 2027, Pushes Aurora Above 2 Exaflops

October 27, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 10

Just because Intel is no longer interested in being a prime contractor on the largest supercomputing deals in the United States and Europe — China and Japan are drawing their own roadmaps and building their own architectures — does not mean that Intel does not have aspirations in HPC and AI supercomputing. …

China Has Already Reached Exascale – On Two Separate Systems

October 26, 2021 Nicole Hemsoth 10

More analysis “Why Did China Keep Its Exascale Supercomputers Quiet?

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HPC

How High-Bandwidth Memory Will Break Performance Bottlenecks

October 21, 2021 Rob Farber 2

Intel recently announced that High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM) will be available on select “Sapphire Rapids” Xeon SP processors and will provide the CPU backbone for the “Aurora” exascale supercomputer to be sited at Argonne National Laboratory. …

Prime Contracting No Longer One Of Intel’s HPC Aspirations

October 20, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

Intel has spent the past nine months reorganizing itself in the wake of Pat Gelsinger becoming its chief executive officer in January, including new groups and divisions and new managers for them that were revealed in June. …