Evolving the HPC Software Stack with Fresh Hardware
There is a gentle touch of hypocrisy about the supercomputing world. …
There is a gentle touch of hypocrisy about the supercomputing world. …
Back in 2000, Ian Buck and a small computer graphics team at Stanford University were watching the steady evolution of computer graphics processors for gaming and thinking about how such devices could be extended to fit a wider class of applications. …
Every evolution in computing hardware brings with it big challenges for software developers. …
In the course of tracking commercial and research supercomputers here at The Next Platform, it has become apparent that this is the year for massive refreshes and updates to existing weather prediction systems. …
Although the performance and efficiency gain of using accelerators, including GPUs, can be quite staggering, programming for boosted systems still presents some challenges, despite the large amount of work over the years to streamline the process. …
There has been a great deal of investment and research into making HPC speak Hadoop over the last couple of years. …
When one thinks about the largest supercomputing sites on the planet and the approach to examining future technologies for next-generation systems, it might seem logical to guess they are at the bleeding edge of exploring entirely new, under-the-radar architectures and approaches that could spike the curve of Moore’s Law. …
For those who marveled at the $16.7 billion deal Intel made to acquire field programmable gate array maker, Altera, an equal number raised eyebrows at the estimate given by Intel CEO to announce the purchase that one-third of cloud workloads would take advantage of FPGA acceleration by 2020. …
As we have heard time and again, one of the greatest challenges for future exascale class computing—the one that falls right under power consumption–is how codes are ever going to evolve to take advantage of that much compute. …
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