Compute
What Do We Do When Compute And Memory Stop Getting Cheaper?
The IT industry, like every other industry we suppose, is in a constant state of dealing with the next bottleneck. …
Cray
HPC
Lawrence Livermore’s “El Capitan” To Take AMD’s Instinct APU Mainstream
In March 2020, when Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announced the exascale “El Capitan” supercomputer contract had been awarded to system builder Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which was also kicking in its “Rosetta” Slingshot 11 interconnect and which was tapping future CPU and GPU compute engines from AMD, the HPC center was very clear that it would be using off-the-shelf, commodity parts from AMD, not custom compute engines. …
HPC
Frontier: Step By Step, Over Decades, To Exascale
Any time you build anything with more than 60 million parts, it is going to be a headache. …
HPC
At Long Last, HPC Officially Breaks The Exascale Barrier
Significant business and architectural changes can happen with 10X improvements, but the real milestones upon which we measure progress in computer science, whether it is for compute, storage, or networking, come at the 1,000X transitions. …
HPC
NCSA Delta Supercomputer Adopts Slingshot But Forgoes Cray “Shasta” Design
When it comes to supercomputing in academia, the cost of a cluster is almost always an issue and this, coupled with the desire to drive as much compute as possible, drives architectural choices. …
Connect
HPE Taps Ayar Labs To Add Silicon Photonics To Slingshot Interconnect
There are so many barriers to capacity increases in high performance computing systems that it would take a long time to rattle them off. …
HPC
Sneak Peek At “Sapphire Rapids” Xeons In “Crossroads” Supercomputer
Managing an aging nuclear weapons stockpile requires a tremendous – and ever-increasing – amount of supercomputing performance, and the HPC system business the world over is focused on this as much as trying to crack the most difficult scientific, medical, and engineering problems. …
Connect
Cray’s Slingshot Interconnect Is At The Heart Of HPE’s HPC And AI Ambitions
Whenever one company buys another, every product line, every research project, and every employee is ultimately in play. …
Compute
The Ghosts Of Itanium – And HPC – Give HPE Long Sought Profits
It may have taken the better part of a decade, but the Itanium platform has yielded the kinds of profits that Hewlett Packard Enterprise long sought and rarely attained. …
Compute
The Venerable Tenacity Of System Supplier HPE
Enterprises large and small that depend on Hewlett Packard Enterprise to build their systems and certify them for an absolutely enormous amount of software and support them during a long life in the field should send Thank You notes to the venerable systems maker. …