Compute
BSC Builds 21st Century HPC In A 19th Century Cathedral
This summer, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) added to its roster another of the world’s most powerful high performance computing systems. …
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HPC
Heterogeneous Supercomputing on Japan’s Most Powerful System
We continue with our second part of the series on the Tsubame supercomputer (first section here) with the next segment of our interview with Professor Satoshi Matsuoka, of the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech). …
HPC
Texas Advanced Supercomputing Center Taps Latest HPC Tech
Building on the successes of the Stampede1 supercomputer, the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) has rolled out its next-generation HPC system, Stampede2. …
HPC
OpenPower, Efficiency Tweaks Define Europe’s DAVIDE Supercomputer
When talking about the future of supercomputers and high-performance computing, the focus tends to fall on the ongoing and high-profile competition between the United States with its slowly eroding place as the kingpin in the industry and China and the tens of billions of dollars that the government has invested in recent years to rapidly expand the reach of the country’s tech community and the use of home-grown technologies in massive new systems. …
AI
The Biggest Shift in Supercomputing Since GPU Acceleration
For years, the pace of change in large-scale supercomputing neatly tracked with the curve of Moore’s Law. …
Cloud
Singularity is the Hinge To Swing HPC Cloud Adoption
For almost a decade now, the cloud has been pitched as a cost-effective way to bring supercomputing out of the queue and into public IaaS or HPC on-demand environments. …
Compute
Cineca’s HPC Systems Tackle Italy’s Biggest Computing Challenges
With over 700 employees, Cineca is Italy’s largest and most advanced high performance computing (HPC) center, channeling their systems expertise to benefit organizations across the nation. …
HPC
The Business Of HPC Is Evolving
With most of the year finished and a new one coming up fast, and a slew of new compute and networking technologies ramping for the past year and more on the horizon for a very exciting 2017, now is the natural time to take stock of what has happened in the HPC business and what is expected to happen in the coming years. …
Compute
A Deep Learning Supercomputer Approach to Cancer Research
Deep learning and machine learning are major themes at this year’s annual Supercomputing Conference (SC16), both in terms of vendors showcasing systems that are a fit for both high performance computing and machine learning, and in the revelation of new efforts to combine traditional simulations with neural networks for greater efficiency and insight. …
HPC
Inside Six of the Newest Top 20 Supercomputers
The latest listing of the Top 500 rankings of the world’s most powerful supercomputers has just been released. …