The interesting thing about the June 2023 rankings of the world’s most powerful supercomputers is not how it really has not changed all that much in the past six months, or that the June list is coming out in May. …
UPDATED* Perhaps Janet Jackson should be the official spokesperson of the supercomputing industry. …
There are many interpretations of the word venado, which means deer or stag in Spanish, and this week it gets another one: A supercomputer based on future Nvidia CPU and GPU compute engines, and quite possibly if Los Alamos National Laboratory can convince Hewlett Packard Enterprise to support InfiniBand interconnects in its capability class “Shasta” Cray EX machines, Nvidia’s interconnect as well. …
It is the nature of capability class supercomputers to try to push the envelope on as many different architectural fronts as possible. …
Nearly all non-classified supercomputers are being touted as “AI supercomputers” with the favor falling to reporting FP16 performance numbers alongside traditional FP64 HPC figures. …
In the accelerated era of exascale supercomputing, MPI is being pushed to its logical limits. …
Although hardware gets all the attention during Supercomputing week, much has been happening behind the scenes to make all the software run on the latest, fastest systems. …
…“GPUs and machine learning are essential to our survival,” says ECMWF lead.
For those who have followed supercomputing over several years, the Bull systems brand is familiar, especially in Europe. …
We are not shy of playing guessing games here at The Next Platform, as you all well know. …
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