HPC
Arm’s Chances In Servers May Hinge On Success In HPC
It has been eight years since Arm announced its intentions to enter the server arena. …
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Compute
Arm Adds Muscle To Machine Learning, Embraces Bfloat16
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. …
Compute
Talking High Bandwidth With IBM’s Power10 Architect
As the lead engineer on the Power10 processor, Bill Starke already knows what most of us have to guess about Big Blue’s next iteration in a processor family that has been in the enterprise market in one form or another for nearly three decades. …
HPC
Nvidia Makes Arm A Peer To X86 And Power For GPU Acceleration
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. …
HPC
DOE on Collision Course with End of Moore’s Law
As the largest buyer of supercomputers of any government agency in the world, the US Department of Energy (DOE) has relied on the relentless improvement of semiconductors to pursue the science it needs to advance the nation’s energy goals. …
HPC
China Fleshes Out Exascale Design for Tianhe-3 Supercomputer
One reason China has a good chance of hitting its ambitious goal to reach exascale computing in 2020 is that the government is funding three separate architectural paths to attain that milestone. …
HPC
Japan Strikes First in Exascale Supercomputing Battle
RIKEN and Fujitsu announced that they have finished the design of the Post-K exascale platform, paving the way for production of the hardware, followed by shipping and installation. …
HPC
UK’s ARCHER2 Supercomputer Aims Squarely At The CPU Bullseye
The government of the United Kingdom is plunking down £79 million to purchase and operate ARCHER2, the country’s soon-to-be national supercomputer on track to be installed at the University of Edinburgh next year. …
HPC
Japan’s K Computer Shutdown Marks the End of an Era
Earlier this week, the RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS) announced that in August it will pull the plug on its flagship HPC system, the K computer. …
HPC
CPU Wars and Exascale Clarity: HPC in 2019
The year ahead for high performance computing promises some interesting twists and turns. …