Compute
Moving Graph Analytics Testing On Supercomputers Forward
If it’s the SC18 supercomputing conference, then there must be lists. …
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Cloud
Oracle Puts Together RDMA, Bare Metal for HPC
Oracle was famously behind the cloud computing curve, with co-founder and then-CEO Larry Ellison several years ago dismissing it as little more than an empty tag that was more on par with fashion trends than anything serious in the tech world. …
AI
Nvidia Pulls All Of The AI Pieces Together
More than five years ago, Nvidia, driven by its co-founder and CEO, Jensen Huang, turned its considerable focus to developing technologies for the revitalized and burgeoning artificial intelligence space. …
Code
OpenACC: Things Are Getting Simpler More Quickly
OpenACC is one of the prongs in a multi-prong strategy to get people to port the parallel portions of HPC applications to accelerators. …
Compute
The Widening Gyre Of Supercomputing
The twice-annual ranking of distributed computing systems based on the Linpack parallel Fortran benchmark, a widely used and sometimes maligned test, is as much a history lesson as it is an expectation always looking forward, with anticipation, to the next performance milestones in high performance computing. …
Compute
Intel Doubles Down On Doubled Up Xeons For HPC
These are challenging times for Intel. Long – and still – the dominant chip maker in the datacenter with its battle-tested Xeon processors, the company is now seeing challenges everywhere. …
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What to See at Supercomputing 2018
The countdown to the annual Supercomputing Conference has begun. As The Next Platform gears up to deliver in-depth analysis of this year’s most important HPC innovations, take a moment to plan your path at the show with some of our leading SC18 partners. …
Compute
Oil Immersion Cooling Cranks Up Oil Simulation HPC
Being at the forefront of high performance computing, as the oil and gas industry has been from the very beginning, also means always dealing with issues of power and cooling. …