HPC
Academia Gets The First Production Cray “Shasta” Supercomputer
Indiana University is the proud owner of the first operational Cray “Shasta” supercomputer on the planet. …
Cray
HPC
European Weather Center Breaks Tradition With Upcoming Supercomputer
Weather forecasting in Europe is going to get a big boost later this year when the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) installs its next-generation supercomputer. …
HPC
Exascale Density Pushes The Boundaries Of Cooling
The first crop of exascale supercomputers in the United States will be powered by some of the most computationally dense hardware ever assembled. …
Compute
Holding The Line In The Enterprise
The profit pools in datacenter infrastructure are a bit like oases in the desert: There are a lot of miles between them, and some of them turn out to be mirages. …
HPC
Doing The Math On Future Exascale Supercomputers
We are not shy of playing guessing games here at The Next Platform, as you all well know. …
HPC
A64FX Arm Chip Gets A Big Push From Cray
There are many good processors out there, but there are few that are excellent and elegant inasmuch as they are co-designed for specific workloads and then do them very well. …
HPC
Cray Revamps ClusterStor For The Exascale Era
Supercomputer-maker Cray has launched the ClusterStor E1000, a storage offering designed to serve the entire triumvirate of HPC workloads: simulations, artificial intelligence, and analytics. …
HPC
Exascale Is Not Your Grandfather’s HPC
The first exaflops-capable supercomputers are just around the corner and to celebrate this milestone-to-be and talk about its ramifications, the US Department of Energy hosted a national “Exascale Day” discussion. …
HPC
AMD CPUs Will Power UK’s Next-Generation ARCHER2 Supercomputer
AMD has picked up yet another big supercomputer win with the selection of its second-generation Epyc processors, aka Rome, as the compute engine for the ARCHER2 system to be installed at the University of Edinburgh next year. …
HPC
Arm’s Chances In Servers May Hinge On Success In HPC
It has been eight years since Arm announced its intentions to enter the server arena. …