The Art Of System Design As HPC And AI Applications Diverge
Predicting the future is hard, even with supercomputers. And maybe specifically when you are talking about predicting the future of supercomputers. …
Predicting the future is hard, even with supercomputers. And maybe specifically when you are talking about predicting the future of supercomputers. …
Here is a simple algebraic equation that describes the relative computing oomph of two different CPU architectures over the past two decades: If Intel an X86 core is X, then an IBM Power core equals 2X. …
China is the world’s second largest economy, it has the world’s largest population, and it is only a matter of time before has a world-class technology ecosystem spanning the smallest transistors to the largest hyperscale and HPC systems. …
Imagine, if you will, that Nvidia had launched its forthcoming “Grace” Arm server CPU three years ago instead of early next year. …
It was absolutely inevitable that China would try to create its own GPU compute engines. …
We have been talking about silicon photonics so long that we are, probably like many of you, frustrated that it already is not ubiquitous. …
System architects are often impatient about the future, especially when they can see something good coming down the pike. …
Atos, for a long time a key IT services provider in Europe, stepped onto the HPC stage in a big way in 2014 when it bought systems maker Bull’s hardware business in $840 million, instantly making it a major supercomputer vendor on the continent. …
In March 2020, when Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announced the exascale “El Capitan” supercomputer contract had been awarded to system builder Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which was also kicking in its “Rosetta” Slingshot 11 interconnect and which was tapping future CPU and GPU compute engines from AMD, the HPC center was very clear that it would be using off-the-shelf, commodity parts from AMD, not custom compute engines. …
UPDATED: The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, which is steering the development and funding for pre-exascale and exascale supercomputing in the European Union, has had a busy week. …
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