According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s latest incidence data, cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States, exceeded only by heart disease. …
As expected, Intel will be the prime contractor for the first exascale supercomputer in the United States, which Argonne National Laboratory expects to be operational and capable of sustained exaflops performance by the end of 2021. …
There are two supercomputers named “Aurora” that are affiliated with Argonne National Laboratory – the one that was supposed to be built this year and the one that for a short time last year was known as “A21,” that will be built in 2021, and that will be the first exascale system built in the United States. …
We caught wind of the “Aurora” Vector Engine vector processor and the “Tsubasa” system from NEC that makes use of it ahead of the SC17 supercomputer conference, and revealed everything we could find out about the system and speculated a bit about how the underlying processor in the absence of real data. …
In the story we broke this morning about the forthcoming “Aurora” supercomputer set to be installed at Argonne National Laboratory—one of three pre-exascale machines that were part of the CORAL procurement between three national labs–we speculated that unlike the other two machines, which will be based on an OpenPower approach (Power9, Volta GPUs, and a new interconnect), the architecture of this system would be based on the third generation Knights family of chips from Intel, the Knights Hill processors. …
For those who have followed the evolution of supercomputing over the years, the Earth Simulator series of systems has represented the state of the art in workload-oriented design. …
For about a decade, Intel has sold GPUs, in recent years with its integrated CPU-GPU devices used in client and entry servers. …
There is such a thing as a string of bad luck, but we have always believed that luck is the residue of design, either good or bad. …
Dan Stanzione has a lot of compute power at his fingertips. …
As the name of this publication suggests, we are system thinkers and we like to watch the evolution of a collection of tools into a platform. …
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