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? …
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. …
Ever-increasing Greek prefixes of flops is what makes the simulations and models of the world hum, but we at The Next Platform like money. …
Update: 5:08 p.m. Eastern – We have been able to dig into more details about the system architecture and confirm Knights Hill architecture and other interconnect/system details. …
Not long ago, we learned that a new Cray XC40 supercomputer would be installed in the coming months for Norwegian oil and gas processing company Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS). …
Those in the high performance computing world have been hearing about the applicability of burst buffers for some time now, but most talk about them is centered on their role in future pre-exascale systems at large HPC centers and national labs. …
Another large-scale supercomputer devoted to oil and gas exploration will be coming to market in Norway within the year, marking a sizable commercial HPC deal for Cray. …
Lustre will continue to grow in enterprise settings, but as we have described in part one and part two of this extended series on the state of the HPC-centric file system, it appears it will probably not have a sudden, meteoric rise to the top of the large enterprise list if users are not already invested in high performance computing infrastructure and applications. …
As one of the fastest growing markets in HPC, the manufacturing sector is looking to supercomputing to drive its next generation of product modeling and simulation. …
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