Multi-million dollar decisions about investing in high performance computing systems are never taken lightly, but in the oil and gas industry, which is going through one of its worst crises in history, uncertainty reigns—at least in terms of the future outlook. …
With the oil and gas industry continuing to spend on massive supercomputers, even in the wake of declining revenues, and no sign of the HPC business slowing for the oil and gas segment, one has to wonder what alternatives on the hardware and software front these companies might look to as costs (for both systems and the power required to support them) drives skywards. …
Not long ago, we learned that a new Cray XC40 supercomputer would be installed in the coming months for Norwegian oil and gas processing company Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS). …
Another large-scale supercomputer devoted to oil and gas exploration will be coming to market in Norway within the year, marking a sizable commercial HPC deal for Cray. …
Every major economy that is not the United States or China, which has a disproportionate share of HPC national labs as well as hyperscaler and cloud builder tech titans, wants AI sovereignty a whole lot more than they ever worried about HPC simulation and modeling. …
With RISC-V International, the body controlling the RISC-V instruction set, located in Switzerland for the past five years, RISC-V now has just as much right to call itself indigenous to Europe as does Arm Ltd, the British chip company that finds itself on the other side of the English Channel after the Brexit break up and that is still around 90 percent owned by Japanese conglomerate SoftBank. …
The big oil and gas companies of the world were among the earliest and most enthusiastic users of advanced machinery to do HPC simulation and modeling. …
Scientists from KAUST and engineers from Cerebras Systems have fine-tuned an existing algorithm, Tile Low-Rank Matrix-Vector Multiplications (TLR-MVM), to improve the speed and accuracy of seismic data processing. …
If there is one bright spot in the Xeon SP server chip line from Intel, it is the version of the “Sapphire Rapids” Xeon SP processor that has HBM memory welded to it. …
The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia has introduced the latest in its long-standing lineup of successive supercomputers with Shaheen III. …
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