HPC
US Military Buys Three Cray Supercomputers
Under two unrelated US Department of Defense procurements, Cray has been awarded a total of $71 million to supply the Air Force and Army with a trio of HPC systems. …
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Weather Forecasting Gets A Big Lift In Japan
It has been a long time since the Japan Meteorological Agency has deployed the kind of supercomputing oomph for weather forecasting that the island nation would seem to need to improve its forecasts. …
Compute
NOAA Weather Forecasts Stick With CPUs, Keep An Eye On GPUs
When it comes to supercomputing, more is almost always better. More data and more compute – and more bandwidth to link the two – almost always result in a better set of models, whether they are descriptive or predictive. …
Compute
Cray ARMs Highest End Supercomputer with ThunderX2
Just this time last year, the projection was that by 2020, ARM processors would be chewing on twenty percent of HPC workloads. …
Compute
Cray’s New Pascal XC50 Supercomputer Points to Richer HPC Future
Over the course of the last five years, GPU computing has featured prominently in supercomputing as an accelerator on some of the world’s fastest machines. …
HPC
Novel Architectures on the Far Horizon for Weather Prediction
Weather modeling and forecasting centers are among some of the top users of supercomputing systems and are at the top of the list when it comes to areas that could benefit from exascale-class compute power. …
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The Weather Company Seeks Next Data-Driven Platform
When considering system and software needs at massive scale, one application area that tends to shed light on what lies ahead is weather prediction and modeling. …
HPC
Large-Scale Weather Prediction at the Edge of Moore’s Law
Having access to fairly reliable 10-day forecasts is a luxury, but it comes with high computational costs for centers in the business of providing predictability. …
Compute
Bellwether HPE Weathers Myriad Transitions
If there has been a time when the IT industry was not being roiled by multiple transitions, we can’t remember it. …
Compute
Bigger Iron Drives Better NOAA Weather Forecasts
Not every organization that relies on supercomputers can replace a whole machine in one fell swoop. …