HPC
Wringing Cost and Complexity Out of HPC
The race toward exascale supercomputing gets a lot of attention, as it should. …
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HPC
The Business Of HPC Is Evolving
With most of the year finished and a new one coming up fast, and a slew of new compute and networking technologies ramping for the past year and more on the horizon for a very exciting 2017, now is the natural time to take stock of what has happened in the HPC business and what is expected to happen in the coming years. …
Compute
Intel Sets Up Skylake Xeon For HPC, Knights Mill Xeon Phi For AI
With the “Skylake” Xeon E5 v5 processors not slated until the middle of next year and the “Knights Landing” Xeon Phi processors and Omni-Path interconnect still ramping after entering the HPC space a year ago, there are no blockbuster announcements coming out of Intel this year at the SC16 supercomputing conference in Salt Lake City. …
Compute
A Deep Learning Supercomputer Approach to Cancer Research
Deep learning and machine learning are major themes at this year’s annual Supercomputing Conference (SC16), both in terms of vendors showcasing systems that are a fit for both high performance computing and machine learning, and in the revelation of new efforts to combine traditional simulations with neural networks for greater efficiency and insight. …
Compute
How Nvidia’s Own Saturn V DGX-1 Cluster Stacks Up
Not all of the new and interesting high performance computing systems are always in the upper echelons of the Top 500 supercomputing list, which was announced at the opening of the SC16 supercomputing conference in Salt Lake City this week. …
HPC
HPC
Inside Six of the Newest Top 20 Supercomputers
The latest listing of the Top 500 rankings of the world’s most powerful supercomputers has just been released. …
Compute
IBM Shows Off AI And HPC Oomph On Power8 Tesla Hybrids
While the machine learning applications created by hyperscalers and the simulations and models run by HPC centers are very different animals, the kinds of hardware that help accelerate the performance for one is also helping to boost the other in many cases. …
Compute
Cray’s New Pascal XC50 Supercomputer Points to Richer HPC Future
Over the course of the last five years, GPU computing has featured prominently in supercomputing as an accelerator on some of the world’s fastest machines. …
SC16
SC16 for HPC Programmers: What to Watch
An event as large and diverse as the annual Supercomputing Conference (SC16) presents a daunting array of content, even for those who specialize in a particular area inside the wider HPC spectrum. …