HPC
Looking Ahead to Intel’s Secret Exascale Architecture
There has been a lot of talk this week about what architectural direction Intel will be taking for its forthcoming exascale efforts. …
Aurora
Compute
Plans for First Exascale Supercomputer in U.S. Released
This morning a presentation filtered from the Department of Energy’s Office of Science showing the roadmap to exascale with a 2021 machine at Argonne National Lab. …
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
Some Surprises in the 2018 DoE Budget for Supercomputing
The US Department of Energy fiscal year 2018 budget request is in. …
Compute
Dense Eurotech Hive System Broadens Compute
Every supercomputing center in the world is wrestling with the issues of power, cooling, and compute density, but some have tighter constraints than others and need to have more energy efficient machines than they can get with standard clusters of rack servers. …
Code
Exascale HPC Needs An Application Innovation Spark
Every evolution in computing hardware brings with it big challenges for software developers. …
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
Supercomputing Strategy Shifts in a World Without BlueGene
Last week when we broke the news about the upcoming 180-plus petaflops Aurora supercomputer set to be installed at Argonne National Lab in 2018, we spent our time scrambling for whatever feeds and speeds we could muster. …