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Europe Clears Path to 2023 Exascale Supercomputer
While the U.S., China, Japan and other countries have laid out, or even achieved, exascale supercomputing goals, the European continent has been less clear on its own path. …
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China’s Exascale Quantum Simulation Not All It Appears
And actually, one could say it is also far more than it appears. …
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Making Exascale Accessible To Everyone
Paid Post Intel has been at the forefront of democratizing high performance computing (HPC) for the past three decades, and the HPC leader is taking its efforts up several more notches with the Aurora exascale HPC and AI supercomputer being designed and built by Intel and Hewlett Packard Enterprise for Argonne National Laboratory. …
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Why Did China Keep Its Exascale Supercomputers Quiet?
There are no greater bragging rights in supercomputing than those that come with top ten listing on the bi-annual list of the world’s most powerful systems – the Top500. …
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Top500 Supercomputers: Hungry For The Exascale Feast
Let’s just cut right to the chase scene. The latest Top500 ranking of supercomputers, announced today at the SC21 supercomputing conference being held in St Louis, needed the excitement of an actual 1 exaflops sustained performance machine running the High Performance Linpack benchmark at 64-bit precision. …
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The AMD “Aldebaran” GPU That Won Exascale
If you want to know how and why AMD motors have been chosen for so many of the pre-exascale and exascale HPC and AI systems, despite the dominance of Intel in CPUs and the dominance of Nvidia in GPUs, you need look no further for an answer than the new “Aldebaran” Instinct MI200 GPU accelerator from AMD and its Infinity Fabric 3.0 coherent interconnect that is being also added to selected Epyc CPUs. …
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First Look At Oak Ridge’s “Frontier” Exascaler, Contrasted To Argonne’s “Aurora”
The fiscal year of the federal government in the United States ends on September 30, and whether we all knew it or not, the US Department of Energy had a revised goal of beginning the deployment of at least one exascale-class supercomputing system before fiscal 2021 ended and fiscal 2022 began on October 1. …
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A Status Check on Global Exascale Ambitions
As we head toward the annual Supercomputing Conference season we wanted to take a moment for a level-set on exascale. …
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NFS Might Be the Only Foundation for Exascale
SPONSORED If you’ve been living in a world of heavy-duty parallel file systems and scale-out NAS, chances are good you have been there for a while. …