HPC
Cascade Lake at Heart of 2019 TACC Supercomputer
The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) will soon be home to a top-tier supercomputer with the 2019 arrival of the “Frontera” system. …
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Compute
Fujitsu’s A64FX Arm Chip Waves The HPC Banner High
The processing world would be a whole lot less diverse and interesting if it were not for a healthy amount of nationalism. …
HPC
Argonne Leverages HPC And Machine Learning To Accelerate Science
In 2021, the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) is planning to deploy Aurora A21, a new Intel-Cray system, slated to be the first exascale supercomputer in the United States. …
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. …
Compute
The End Of Xeon Phi – It’s Xeon And Maybe GPUs From Here
To a certain extent, the “Knights” family of parallel processors, sold under the brand name Xeon Phi, by Intel were exactly what they were supposed to be: A non-mainstream product that tried out a different architecture than its mainstream Xeon family of server processors and that was aimed at the high performance computing jet set that is, by definition, supposed to take risks on new architectures. …
Compute
Awaiting IBM’s Power Systems Growth Spurt
Given the rollout of the “ZZ” and “Boston” variants of its Power9 systems, which are aimed at customers who are building clusters and at midrange enterprises that use a Power System server as their main back-end system, you might be expecting for the Power Systems line at IBM to have had a big bump in the second quarter of this year. …
HPC
HPC Finding Footing in AI Present
The relationship between the HPC and AI communities is not unlike sibling rivalry; both come from the same stock computationally speaking but are fundamentally different individuals. …
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Intel Opens Up About Next Generation Omni-Path Interconnect
If everything had played out as planned, then the original “Aurora” supercomputer planned by Intel and built by Cray for Argonne National Laboratory under contract from the US Department of Energy would probably have been at or near the top of the Top 500 charts this week at the International Supercomputing 2018 conference in Frankfurt, Germany. …
Compute
Details Emerge On Post-K Exascale System With First Prototype
This story has been updated with new information since it originally ran. …
Compute
HPE Boots Up Sandbox Of The Machine For Early Users
It has been four years since Kirk Bresniker, HPE Fellow, vice president, and chief architect at Hewlett Packard Labs, stood before a crowd of journalists and analysts at the company’s Discover show and announced plans to create a new computing architecture that puts the focus on memory and will eventually use such technologies as silicon photonics and memristors. …