Computing power and big data are fundamental to the bioinformatic research being carried out by the Leadership Computing Facility at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee. …
There is no shortage of data in the life sciences. Every talk about bioinformatics and genomics has to include the now ubiquitous hockey stick growth graph of digital DNA. …
Supercomputer makers have been on their exascale marks, and they have been getting ready, and now the US Department of Energy has just said “Go!” …
The first step in rolling out a massive supercomputer installed at a government sponsored HPC laboratory is to figure out when you want to get it installed and doing useful work. …
On today’s episode of “The Interview” with The Next Platform, we take a look at the evolution of the NAMD molecular dynamics and how the introduction of GPU computing upended performance expectations and set the stage for new metrics now that the Volta GPU architecture will be available on large supercomputers like the Summit machine coming to Oak Ridge National Lab. …
It is difficult to shed a tear for Moore’s Law when there are so many interesting architectural distractions on the systems horizon. …
It is one thing to scale a neural network on a single GPU or even a single system with four or eight GPUs. …
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. …
When a top-ranked supercomputer falls from the number one spot, the world tends to stop taking notice, even if those machines remain some of the most remarkable due to architectural, power, application, or other features. …
When it comes to national priorities for funding leading class supercomputers, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) tends to have a strong case to make. …
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