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Long Live the HPC Parallel File System
When it comes to parallel file systems, few people understand the evolution of challenges better than Sven Oehme, who was part of the original team at IBM building GPFS. …
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The Critical And Pervasive Role HPC Plays At Procter & Gamble
Procter & Gamble, the massive multinational conglomerate and the world’s largest seller of consumer goods, has long been an advocate of computer modeling and simulation running atop HPC clusters. …
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Atos Retools Supercomputers, Adds AMD Rome CPUs
The BullSequana line of supercomputers from the Bull division of Atos offers some of the highest compute density available in the HPC realm. …
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Re-Architecting Storage Around HPC’s Mixed Workloads Problem
As we well know by now, workloads at supercomputing sites large and small are changing with the introduction of machine learning and more complex applications that require both large and small files. …
AI
Opening The Aperture On The World With Summit
We have spent the past several years speculating about what the “Summit” supercomputer built by IBM, Nvidia, and Mellanox Technologies for the US Department of Energy and installed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory might be. …
Cloud
Pratt & Whitney Launches HPC to The Cloud To Push Jet Engine Design
HPC and the cloud have an uneasy, lukewarm relationship. Some corporations running HPC environments take the view that they have the infrastructure and software capabilities they need to run their own often massive workloads and taking on the networking costs, security concerns and management hassles of running applications and keep data in the cloud doesn’t make sense to them. …
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Scaling with Accuracy on CPU-Only HPC Infrastructure
It tends to get overlooked in favor of GPU acceleration but scaling deep learning on existing CPU-based HPC infrastructure is not just possible, but with the right level of optimization and fine-tuning, the performance and efficiency results can be comparable. …
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Machine Learning Sharpens Medical Imaging
Emerging technologies like machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing can promise significant improvements in an array of industries, including the healthcare field. …
Compute
One Linux Stack To Rule HPC And AI
It is amazing how fast open source Linux displaced open systems Unix from the HPC datacenters of the world. …
AI
Applying Machine Learning At The Front End Of HPC
IBM and the other vendors who are bidding on the CORAL2 systems for the US Department of Energy can’t talk about those bids, which are in flight, and Big Blue and its partners in building the “Summit” supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and “Sierra” at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory – that would be Nvidia for GPUs and Mellanox Technologies for InfiniBand interconnect – are all about publicly focusing on the present, since these two machines are at the top of the flops charts now. …