HPC
A Status Check on Global Exascale Ambitions
As we head toward the annual Supercomputing Conference season we wanted to take a moment for a level-set on exascale. …
Aurora
HPC
Argonne Deploying GPU-Dense Testbed Supercomputer
If not for delays, the long-awaited Aurora supercomputer at Argonne National Lab would likely just be coming online. …
Compute
It’s All Uphill From Here For Intel’s Datacenter Business
Intel’s Data Center Group has just turned in the third best revenue quarter in its history, just behind the two thirteen-week periods that started off 2020, which was before the coronavirus pandemic had hit and just after it hit and the full effects were not seen as yet. …
Cloud
HPE Builds Lighthouse Platform On GreenLake Services
The hybrid cloud is convincing established players that they need to play on both sides of the net, in the cloud (as well as the edge) and on premises. …
Store
The World Has Changed – Why Haven’t Database Designs?
It seems like a question a child would ask: “Why are things the way they are?” …
HPC
Czech Republic Sticks With NEC Vector Engines For Weather Modeling
There are two different Auroras right now in supercomputing. There is the shape-shifting, legendary, and maybe even mythical “Aurora” and now “Aurora A21” exascale supercomputer that was being built by Intel with “Knights” many core processors and now, if Intel can get them out the door, with a combination of “Sapphire Rapids” Xeon SP processors and “Ponte Vecchio” Xe GPU accelerators, for Argonne National Laboratory. …
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. …
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. …
AI
Hadoop And Spark Get A Vector Performance Boost
Ever since the “Aurora” vector processor designed by NEC was launched last year, we have been wondering if it might be used as a tool to accelerate workloads other than the traditional HPC simulation and modeling jobs that are based on crunching numbers in single and double precision floating point. …