AI
Machine Learning Storms Into Climate Research
The fields where machine learning and neural networks can have positive impacts seem almost limitless. …
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HPC
Argonne National Lab Lead Details Exascale Balancing Act
It’s easy when talking about the ongoing push toward exascale computing to focus on the hardware architecture that will form the foundation of the upcoming supercomputers. …
Compute
Keeping The Blue Waters Supercomputer Busy For Three Years
After years of planning and delays after a massive architectural change, the Blue Waters supercomputer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois finally went into production in 2013, giving scientists, engineers and researchers across the country a powerful tool to run and solve the most complex and challenging applications in a broad range of scientific areas, from astrophysics and neuroscience to biophysics and molecular research. …
Cloud
How AMD’s Naples X86 Server Chip Stacks Up To Intel’s Xeons
Ever so slowly, and not so fast as to give competitor Intel too much information about what it is up to, but just fast enough to build interest in the years of engineering smarts that has gone into its forthcoming “Naples” X86 server processor, AMD is lifting the veil on the product that will bring it back into the datacenter and that will bring direct competition to the Xeon platform that dominates modern computing infrastructure. …
HPC
The Rise of Flash Native Cache
Burst buffers are growing up—and growing out of the traditional realm of large-scale supercomputers, where they were devised primarily to solve the problems of failure at scale. …
Compute
AMD Researchers Eye APUs For Exascale
Exascale computing, which has been long talked about, is now – if everything remains on track – only a few years away. …
Code
Inside Exxon’s Effort to Scale Homegrown Codes, Keep Architectural Pace
Many oil and gas exploration shops have invested many years and many more millions of dollars into homegrown codes, which is critical internally (competitiveness, specialization, etc.) …
Compute
Cray Outpaces HPC Market, Books Historic Quarter
It is hard to tell which part of the systems market is lumpier – that for traditional HPC systems like supercomputers or that for massive cluster deployments for the hyperscalers that run public clouds and public facing applications on a massive scale. …
Compute
Stacking Up Software To Drive FPGAs Into The Datacenter
Every new hardware device that offers some kind of benefit compared to legacy devices faces the task of overcoming the immense inertia that is imparted to a platform by the software that runs upon it. …
Compute
IBM Shows Off AI And HPC Oomph On Power8 Tesla Hybrids
While the machine learning applications created by hyperscalers and the simulations and models run by HPC centers are very different animals, the kinds of hardware that help accelerate the performance for one is also helping to boost the other in many cases. …