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InfiniBand Breaks Through The 200G Barrier
Moore’s Law may be slowing down performance increases in compute capacity, but InfiniBand networking did not get the memo. …
HPC
HPC
DDN Turns The Crank On “Wolfcreek” Storage
In the high performance computing arena, the stress is always on performance. …
Code
Chasing The Dream Of Code HPC Once, Run Anywhere
In many ways, enterprises and hyperscalers have it easy. Very quickly in the wake of its announcement more than two decades ago, the Java programming language, a kind of virtualized C++, became the de facto standard for coding enterprise applications that run the business. …
Code
Physics Code Modifications Push Xeon Phi Peak Performance
In the worlds of high performance computing (HPC) and physics, seemingly straightforward challenges are frequently not what they seem at first glance. …
HPC
Advances in In Situ Processing Tie to Exascale Targets
Waiting for a simulation to complete before visualizing the results is often an unappealing prospect for researchers. …
Cloud
The State of HPC Cloud in 2016
We are pleased to announce that the first book from Next Platform Press, titled “The State of HPC Cloud: 2016 Edition,” is complete. …
Compute
It Takes a Lot of Supercomputing to Simulate Future Computing
The chip industry is quickly reaching the limits of traditional lithography in its effort to cram more transistors onto a piece of silicon at a pace consistent with Moore’s Law. …
HPC
How Long Before Burst Buffers Push Past Supercomputing?
Over the last couple of years, we have been watching how burst buffers might be deployed at some of the world’s largest supercomputer sites. …
Code
Turning OpenMP Programs into Parallel Hardware
Systems built from commodity hardware such as servers, desktops and laptops often contain so-called general-purpose processors (CPUs)—processors that specialize in doing many different things reasonably well. …
Compute
Opening Up The Server Bus For Coherent Acceleration
When IBM started to use the word “open” in conjunction with its Power architecture more than three years with the formation of the OpenPower Foundation three years ago, Big Blue was not confused about what that term meant. …