Arm Holdings has announced that the next revision of its ArmV8-A architecture will include support for bfloat16, a floating point format that is increasingly being used to accelerate machine learning applications. …
At the ISC conference this week, HPC market analyst firm Hyperion Research offered its mid-year HPC market update, which recapped what happened in 2018 and provided some particularly interesting observations on the exascale space. …
The Barcelona Supercomputer Center will soon be the proud owners of the Europe’s first pre-exascale supercomputer. …
Creating the Tesla GPU compute platform has taken Nvidia the better part of a decade and a half, and it has culminated in a software stack comprised of various HPC and AI frameworks, the CUDA parallel programming environment, compilers from Nvidia’s PGI division and their OpenACC extensions as well as open source GCC compilers, and various other tools that together account for tens of millions of lines of code and tens of thousands of individual APIs. …
At the recent EuroHPC Summit in Poland, the nature of Europe’s first homegrown HPC processor was described in some detail. …
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