While graph analytics is not a likely replacement for the standard relational databases that many companies will stick with for many years to come, the value of graphs for a particular set of knowledge discovery applications has become clearer with a widening set of use cases in areas ranging from security, fraud detection, medical research, financial services, and a number of other segments. …
By definition, the national HPC labs are on the very bleeding edge of supercomputing technology, which is necessary given the scope and scale of the problems they are trying to solve through simulation and analysis and enabled by the largesse of their budgets. …
Without any new plain vanilla processors from Intel, IBM, Fujitsu, AMD, or the relative handful of ARM server chip makers, and with Nvidia launching its Tesla M4 and M40 accelerators aimed at hyperscalers and those looking for cheap single-precision flops ahead of SC15, the “Knights Landing” Xeon Phi chip was pretty much the star of the high performance conference as far as compute is concerned. …
Proprietary and quasi-proprietary interconnects are nothing new to the supercomputing space, and in fact, this is where they still live and thrive and evolve. …
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. …
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. …
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. …
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. …
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. …
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. …
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