HPC
Doing The Math On Future Exascale Supercomputers
We are not shy of playing guessing games here at The Next Platform, as you all well know. …
Argonne
HPC
Exascale Is Not Your Grandfather’s HPC
The first exaflops-capable supercomputers are just around the corner and to celebrate this milestone-to-be and talk about its ramifications, the US Department of Energy hosted a national “Exascale Day” discussion. …
AI
Aurora Exascale AI Supercomputer To Light A Path In The Cancer Fight
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. …
HPC
Intel To Take On OpenPower For Exascale Dominance With Aurora
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. …
HPC
Argonne Leverages HPC And Machine Learning To Accelerate Science
In 2021, the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) is planning to deploy Aurora A21, a new Intel-Cray system, slated to be the first exascale supercomputer in the United States. …
HPC
Argonne Hints at Future Architecture of Aurora Exascale System
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. …
HPC
Early Benchmarks on Argonne’s New Knights Landing Supercomputer
We are heading into International Supercomputing Conference week (ISC) and as such, there are several new items of interest from the HPC side of the house. …
Compute
Stretching Software Across Future Exascale Systems
If money was no object, then arguably the major nations of the world that always invest heavily in supercomputing would have already put an exascale class system into the field. …
HPC
Tall Stepping Stones for One of Next Top U.S. Supercomputers
Although the Top 500 list of supercomputers has come to something of a standstill in the last few incarnations of the bi-annual benchmark, the next few years will provide plenty of the way of interesting new machines worldwide. …
Compute
Intel Bridges The Exascale Architecture Gap
Architects are optimists. In the computer industry, particularly within the HPC community, there is a small cadre of technologists who have the intellectual horsepower, vision and decades of experience to build wholly new system designs. …