HPC
Top500 Supers: Nvidia Utterly Dominates Those Shiny New Machines
If you stare at something for a little bit of time and let your mind wander, you can think of a new way to analyze something that you have looked at a bunch of times. …
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HPC
To Exascale And (Maybe) Beyond!
The difference between “high performance computing” in the general way that many thousands of organizations run traditional simulation and modeling applications and the kind of exascale computing that is only now becoming a little more commonplace is like the difference between a single, two door coupe that goes 65 miles per hour (most of the time) and a fleet of bullet trains that can each hold over 1,300 people and move at more than 300 miles per hour, connecting a country or a continent. …
HPC
Top500 Supers: This Is Peak Nvidia For Accelerated Supercomputers
If high bandwidth memory was widely available and we had cheap and reliable fusion power, there never would have been a move to use GPU and other compute engines as vector and matrix math offload engines. …
HPC
Expanding The Search For A Range Of New Materials
Finding new functional materials for batteries and catalysts and lots of other uses is a major goal of researchers around the world. …
AI
A Tale Of Two Nvidia Eos Supercomputers
Note: This story augments and corrects information that originally appeared in Half Eos’d: Even Nvidia Can’t Get Enough H100s For Its Supercomputers, which was published on February 15. …
Compute
Arm Neoverse Roadmap Brings CPU Designs, But No Big Fat GPU
Spoiler alert!
A lot of neat things have just been added to the Arm Neoverse datacenter compute roadmap, but one of them is not a datacenter-class, discrete GPU accelerator. …
Connect
How Lightmatter Breaks Bandwidth Bottlenecks With Silicon Photonics
Without question, the biggest bottleneck in artificial intelligence and for a lot of HPC workloads today is bandwidth. …
Compute
Intel “Emerald Rapids” Xeon SPs: A Little More Bang, A Little Less Bucks
With each successive Intel Xeon SP server processor launch, we can’t help but think the same thing: it would have been better for Intel and customers alike if this chip was out the door a year ago, or two years ago, as must have been planned. …
HPC
Top500 Supercomputers: Who Gets The Most Out Of Peak Performance?
The most exciting thing about the Top500 rankings of supercomputers that come out each June and November is not who is on the top of the list. …
Compute
Intel Is Counting On AI Inference To Save The Xeon CPU
There is little question that generative AI as well as other kinds of machine learning are going to augment applications in every industry and in every part of the application stack in the coming years. …