AI
IBM Research Lead Charts Scope of Watson AI Effort
Over the past few years, IBM has been devoting a great deal of corporate energy into developing Watson, the company’s Jeopardy-beating supercomputing platform. …
HPC
Compute
Shared Memory Pushes Wheat Genomics To Boost Crop Yields
Wheat has been an important part of the human diet for the past 9,000 years or so, and depending on the geography can comprise up to 40 percent to 50 percent of the diet within certain regions today. …
Compute
Intel Stretches Deep Learning on Scalable System Framework
The strong interest in deep learning neural networks lies in the ability of neural networks to solve complex pattern recognition tasks – sometimes better than humans. …
AI
Next Generation Supercomputing Strikes Data, Compute Balance
Although the future of exascale computing might be garnering the most deadlines in high performance computing, one of the most important stories unfolding in the supercomputing space, at least from a system design angle, is the merging of compute and data-intensive machines. …
HPC
EMC Shoots For Explosive Performance With Isilon Nitro
Storage giant EMC, soon to be part of the Dell Technologies conglomerate, declared that this would be the year of all flash for the company when it launched its DSSD D5 arrays back in February. …
HPC
Storage Performance Models Highlight Burst Buffers at Scale
For storage at scale, particularly for large scientific computing centers, burst buffers have become a hot topic for both checkpoint and application performance reasons. …
Compute
NVLink Takes GPU Acceleration To The Next Level
One of the breakthrough moments in computing, which was compelled by necessity, was the advent of symmetric multiprocessor, or SMP, clustering to make two or more processors look and act, as far as the operating system and applications were concerned, as a single, more capacious processor. …
HPC
Bolder Battle Lines Drawn At Extreme Scale Computing Borders
The race to reach exascale computing has been a point of national ambition in the United States, which is currently home to the highest number of top-performing supercomputers in the world. …
HPC
Exascale Timeline Pushed to 2023: What’s Missing in Supercomputing?
The roadmap to build and deploy an exascale computer has extended over the last few years–and more than once. …
AI
Emphasis on Data Wrangling Brings Materials Science Up to Speed
In 2011, the United States launched a multi-agency effort to discover, develop, and produce advanced materials under the Materials Genome Initiative as part of an overall push to get out from under the 20-year process typically involved with researching a new material and bringing it to market. …