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Supercomputer Force Knocks Human Genome Assembly Under 9 Minutes

August 20, 2015 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 0

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

August 18, 2015 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 1

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

July 28, 2015 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 0

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

July 21, 2015 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 0

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

July 20, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

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

July 13, 2015 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 2

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

May 28, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

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?

May 12, 2015 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 0

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. …

Compute

Cray Makes Taming Chaos Look Easy

May 8, 2015 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 0

Low margins, an unpredictable cycle, expensive and ongoing research development efforts, a slavish commitment to processor upgrade timelines, and a market that will only ever grow so much—who wouldn’t want to be in the supercomputing systems business? …

Compute

Supercomputing Strategy Shifts in a World Without BlueGene

April 14, 2015 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 0

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. …

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