Connect
Intel Rounds Out Scalable Systems With Omni-Path
Even though Intel is best known in the datacenter as the maker of server processors and their chipsets, the company has increasingly become a platform thinker in the past decade. …
Cray
Compute
Forecast Calls for GPU Packed Supercomputer Nodes
In the course of tracking commercial and research supercomputers here at The Next Platform, it has become apparent that this is the year for massive refreshes and updates to existing weather prediction systems. …
HPC
Supercomputer Force Knocks Human Genome Assembly Under 9 Minutes
A team from the Joint Genome Institute at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and researchers from UC Berkeley have used 15,000 cores on the Cray XC30 “Edison” supercomputer to boost the complete assembly of the human genome, bringing the time down to 8.4 minutes. …
HPC
U.S. Rediscovers the Economic Edge of Weather Supercomputers
It is one thing to know that large-scale, expensive supercomputers back the world’s capability to provide accurate global and regional forecasts, but it is another entirely to understand that the investments made in improving those systems can translate to billions, if not tens of billions, of dollars. …
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. …
HPC
How Cray Climbed the Weather Forecasting Market Charts
Although weather forecasts are nested into the fabric of our daily lives, it can be easy to forget that to arrive at accurate, long-term predictions takes massive amounts of computing power. …
Connect
Ethernet Will Have To Work Harder To Win HPC
While supercomputing centers and hyperscalers would agree about many things when it comes to systems architecture and the need to use certain technologies to goose the performance and the scale of their applications, they often have a fundamental disagreement when it comes to networking. …
Compute
Top 500 Supercomputer List Reflects Shifting State of Global HPC Trends
If the bi-annual list of the world’s fastest, most powerful supercomputers was used as indicator of key technological, government investment, and scientific progress, one could make some striking predictions about where the next centers of worldwide innovation are likely to rest. …
Compute
The Other Cray Launches CPU-FPGA Hybrids
Everybody who is operating at any sort of scale is looking to pack more compute into a smaller space for less money. …
HPC
What if Intel Rekindles Its Supercomputing Systems Business?
There is some speculation afoot that Intel is on a path to rekindle its supercomputer business, bringing it full circle to where it started in the late 1980s and early 1990s with its own distinct high performance computing division that produced top-tier national lab systems like ASCI Red, among others. …