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IEEE Reboots, Scans for Future Architectures
If there is any organization on the planet that has had a closer view of the coming demise of Moore’s Law, it is the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). …
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HPC
Disruptive Technologies on the Post Exascale Horizon
Although the timeline for reaching exascale class computing continues to stretch farther into the future, research teams are keeping an eye on what technologies will shape the machines of the post-exascale timeframe, which is in the 2022-2030 timeframe. …
Compute
The New Dell Stops Trying To Be The Old IBM
It is week one of the new Dell Technologies, the conglomerate glued together with $60 billion from the remaining parts of the old Dell it has not sold off to raise cash to buy storage giant EMC and therefore server virtualization juggernaut VMware, which is owned mostly by EMC but remains a public company in the wake of the deal. …
Compute
Dreaming Of 100 Exaflops In 2030
The supercomputing industry is as insatiable as it is dreamy. We have not even reached our ambitions of hitting the exascale level of performance in a single system by the end of this decade, and we are stretching our vision out to the far future and wondering how the capacity of our largest machines will scale by many orders of magnitude more. …
HPC
Novel Architectures on the Far Horizon for Weather Prediction
Weather modeling and forecasting centers are among some of the top users of supercomputing systems and are at the top of the list when it comes to areas that could benefit from exascale-class compute power. …
Compute
Alchemy Can’t Save Moore’s Law
We don’t have a Moore’s Law problem so much as we have a materials science or alchemy problem. …
Compute
Nvidia Rounds Out Pascal Tesla Accelerator Lineup
Nvidia wants for its latest “Pascal” GP100 generation of GPUs to be broadly adopted in the market, not just used in capability-class supercomputers that push the limits of performance for traditional HPC workloads as well as for emerging machine learning systems. …
HPC
NERSC Preps for Next Generation “Cori” Supercomputer
The powerful Cori supercomputer, now being readied for deployment at NERSC (The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center), has been named in honor of Gerty Cori. …
Compute
The Challenge Of Coding Across HPC Architectures
With the International Supercomputing 2016 conference fast approaching, the HPC community is champing at the bit to share insights on the latest technologies and techniques to make simulation and modeling applications scale further and run faster. …
Cloud
Google And Friends Add Prometheus To Kubernetes Platform
There are a lot of moving parts in a modern platform, and in this regard, they are no different from the platforms made a generation earlier. …