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The Skills Gap For Fortran Looms Large In HPC

May 2, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 47

Back in the dawn of time, which is four decades ago in computer science and which was before technical computing went mainstream with the advent of Unix workstations and their beefy server cousins, the computer science students we knew at college had taught themselves BASIC on either TRS-80s or Commodore VICs and they went to college to learn something useful like COBOL and maybe got a smattering of C and Pascal, or occasionally even RPG, for variety. …

Nuclear Weapons Drove Supercomputing, And May Now Drive It Into The Clouds

April 19, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 8

If the HPC community didn’t write the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1996, it would have been necessary to invent it. …

DOE Wants A Hub And Spoke System Of HPC Systems

March 14, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

We talk about scale a lot here at The Next Platform, but there are many different aspects to this beyond lashing a bunch of nodes together and counting aggregate peak flops. …

DOE AI Expert Says New HPC Architecture Is Needed

August 26, 2021 Jeffrey Burt 1

Artificial intelligence is taking center stage in the IT industry, fueled by the massive growth in the data being generated and the increasing need in HPC and mainstream enterprises for capabilities ranging from analytics and automation. …

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Exascale Is An Opportunity To Advance The HPC Software Stack

April 17, 2019 Michael Feldman 0

Even though the race to the exascale computing is based entirely on an arbitrary milestone, it does serve to focus the attention of the HPC community to think about advancing the state-of-the-art for supercomputer hardware. …

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Bidders Off And Running After $1.8 Billion DOE Exascale Super Deals

April 9, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan 4

Supercomputer makers have been on their exascale marks, and they have been getting ready, and now the US Department of Energy has just said “Go!” …

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The Roadmap Ahead For Exascale HPC In The US

March 6, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

The first step in rolling out a massive supercomputer installed at a government sponsored HPC laboratory is to figure out when you want to get it installed and doing useful work. …