Compute
Momentum is Building for ARM in HPC
2011 marked ARM’s first step into the world of HPC with the European Mont-Blanc project. …
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AI
HPC to Deep Learning from an Asian Perspective
Big data, data science, machine learning, and now deep learning are all the rage and have tons of hype, for better—and in some ways, for worse. …
HPC
China Pushes Breadth-First Search Across Ten Million Cores
There is increasing interplay between the worlds of machine learning and high performance computing (HPC). …
Cloud
Open Hardware Pushes GPU Computing Envelope
The hyperscalers of the world are increasingly dependent on machine learning algorithms for providing a significant part of the user experience and operations of their massive applications, so it is not much of a surprise that they are also pushing the envelope on machine learning frameworks and systems that are used to deploy those frameworks. …
AI
Japan to Unveil Pascal GPU-Based AI Supercomputer
A shared appetite for high performance computing hardware and frameworks is pushing both supercomputing and deep learning into the same territory. …
HPC
Rise of China, Real-World Benchmarks Top Supercomputing Agenda
The United States for years was the dominant player in the high-performance computing world, with more than half of the systems on the Top 500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers being housed in the country. …
Compute
BSC Keeps Its HPC Options Open With MareNostrum 4
When it comes to supercomputing, you don’t only have to strike while the iron is hot, you have to spend while the money is available. …
Compute
Exascale Might Prove To Be More Than A Grand Challenge
The supercomputing industry is accustomed to 1,000X performance strides, and that is because people like to think in big round numbers and bold concepts. …
Compute
ARM Puts Some Muscle Into Vector Number Crunching
If the ARM processor in its many incarnations is to take on the reigning Xeon champ in the datacenter and the born again Power processor that is also trying to knock Xeons from the throne, it is going to need some bigger vector math capabilities. …
Compute
Inside Japan’s Future Exascale ARM Supercomputer
The rumors that supercomputer maker Fujitsu would be dropping the Sparc architecture and moving to ARM cores for its next generation of supercomputers have been going around since last fall, and at the International Supercomputing Conference in Frankfurt, Germany this week, officials at the server maker and RIKEN, the research and development arm of the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) that currently houses the mighty K supercomputer, confirmed that this is indeed true. …