Compute
Compute Is The Boon And The Bane Of Supercomputing
Compute drives supercomputing, and networking is the chassis and storage just comes along for the ride. …
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HPC
Cray XC50 Accelerates Astrophysics In Japan
Researchers for centuries have relied on observational and theoretical astronomy for studying the stars, using telescopes and mathematical calculations to view planets and other objects, determine how they relate to each other, delve into mysteries like black holes and dark matter, and put into perspective the Earth’s place in the universe. …
Connect
Teasing Out The Top 500 Truth Through Networking
If you really want to know what is going on in the HPC market, you have to be careful about using the Top 500 rankings of “supercomputers” as a yardstick. …
Compute
Quantum Has Its Role, But In-Memory Is the Way To Go
A lot of money and time is being thrown at quantum computing by vendors, including IBM, Google, Microsoft, and Intel, and there is the normal competitiveness between the United States and China and Europe as well as work in Japan. …
HPC
The Art Of Supercomputing War
The shenanigans with the Top 500 rankings of the world’s most powerful supercomputers continues, but there are a bunch of real supercomputers that were added to the list for the June 2018 rankings, and we are thankful, as always, to gain the insight we can glean from the Top 500 on these new machines that are clearly used for HPC workloads. …
Compute
BSC Fires Up Power9-V100 Hybrid Compute On MareNostrum 4
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center is one of the flagship HPC facilities in Europe and it arguably has the most elegant and spiritual of datacenters in the world, located inside of Torre Girona Chapel. …
AI
Making AI Users Accountable For Their Algorithms
Any new and powerful technology always cuts both ways.
The rapid rise of the machine learning flavor of artificial intelligence is due to the fact that, unlike prior approaches, it actually works and therefore can be embraced by a wide swath of businesses, research and educational institutions, and technology companies. …
Compute
EU Swaps JuQueen BlueGene/Q For Modular Xeon JUWELS Supercomputer
The European Union has never been willing to cede the exascale computing race to the United States, Japan, or China. …
AI
China’s Global Cloud and AI Ambitions Keep Extending
Gone are the days of early warehouse scale computing pioneers that were based in the U.S.. …
HPC
US Exascale Efforts Benefit in FY 2019 Budget
There was concern in some scientific quarters last year that President Trump’s election could mean budget cuts to the Department of Energy (DoE) that could cascade down to the country’s exascale program at a time when China was ramping up investments in its own initiatives. …