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Details Emerge on Knights Hill Based Aurora Supercomputer

April 9, 2015 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett Comments Off

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. …

Driving HPC Performance Up Is Easier Than Keeping The Spending Constant

December 10, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 5

We are still mulling over all of the new HPC-AI supercomputer systems that were announced in recent months before and during the SC25 supercomputing conference in St Louis, particularly how the slew of new machines announced by the HPC national labs will be advancing not just the state of the art, but also pushing down the cost of the FP64 floating point operations that still drives a lot of HPC simulation and modeling work. …

As Rackscale GPU Systems Boom, Big Green Is Emphatically Red, White, And Blue

October 29, 2025 Jeffrey Burt 2

Nvidia co-founder and chief executive officer Jensen Huang paced the stage at the company’s GTC Washington DC event dressed in his standard black leather jacket over a black T-shirt, with black pants and black sneakers, but the messages he delivered during his keynote was decidedly red, white, and blue. …

Oak Ridge “Discovery” Supercomputer Spearheads New HPE Cray GX5000 Design

October 27, 2025 Jeffrey Burt 6

Hewlett Packard Enterprise PE has a long history in supercomputing, with efforts like its Apollo family of systems aimed at data-intensive workloads like HPC, data analytics, and storage, and its $275 million acquisition in 2016 of SGI to help expand its presence in HPC. …

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“Polaris” AmpereOne M Arm CPUs Sighted In Oracle A4 Instances

October 20, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan Comments Off

Japanese tech conglomerate SoftBank announced a $6.5 billion acquisition of Arm server CPU upstart Ampere Computing back in March, and that deal has not yet closed. …

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Some Thoughts On The Future “Doudna” NERSC-10 Supercomputer

June 25, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 6

Right or wrong, we still believe that we live in a world where traditional HPC simulation and modeling at high precision matters more than mashing up the sum total of human knowledge and mixing with the digital exhaust of our lives to create a globe-spanning automation that will leave us all with very little to do and a commensurate amount of wealth and power to show for it. …

Top500 Supers: Even Accelerators Can’t Bend Performance Up To The Moore’s Law Line

June 10, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 5

The International Super Computing 2025 conference is going on this week in Hamburg, Germany and is celebrating its 40^th anniversary. …

“No Quick Fixes” As Intel Losses And Restructurings Continue

April 25, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 6

Intel’s new chief executive officer, Lip-Bu Tan, has his work cut out for him, just like his predecessor, Pat Gelsinger, did several years ago. …

Stacking Up Google’s “Ironwood” TPU Pod To Other AI Supercomputers

April 17, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

As part of the pre-briefings ahead of the Google Cloud Next 2025 conference last week and then during the keynote address, the top brass at Google kept comparing a pod of “Ironwood” TPU v7p systems to the “El Capitan” supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. …

Why Did SoftBank Just Buy Ampere Computing?

March 21, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 5

The world is getting stranger, isn’t it? We understand, given the difficulties of selling Arm server chips to hyperscalers and cloud builders that are also designing and manufacturing their own Arm CPUs, why Ampere Computing, the only successful freestanding Arm server CPU supplier to even get its chips into its chosen tech titan customers, would want to be acquired by Japanese conglomerate SoftBank. …