HPC
DOE Wants A Hub And Spoke System Of HPC Systems
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
HPC
So, You Think You Can Design A 20 Exaflops Supercomputer?
UPDATED* Perhaps Janet Jackson should be the official spokesperson of the supercomputing industry. …
Connect
Lawrence Livermore Kicks In Funds to Foster Omni-Path Networking
Decades before there were hyperscalers and cloud builders started creating their own variants of compute, storage, and networking for their massive distributed systems, the major HPC centers of the world fostered innovative technologies that may have otherwise died on the vine and never been propagated in the market at large. …
Store
Data Reduction is the Next IT Frontier
“Ingest it all, keep everything, find that needle in the haystack,” they exclaimed. …
HPC
U.S. DoE Pumps Another $73M into Quantum Future
The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE), the agency with the most sway in how the largest supercomputers are designed and built, has been looking beyond CMOS since well before exascale systems were on the horizon. …
HPC
DOE on Collision Course with End of Moore’s Law
As the largest buyer of supercomputers of any government agency in the world, the US Department of Energy (DOE) has relied on the relentless improvement of semiconductors to pursue the science it needs to advance the nation’s energy goals. …
Code
DOE’s E4S Software Stack Takes An Extreme Step Towards Exascale
For exascale hardware to be useful, systems software is going to have to be stacked up and optimized to bend that hardware to the will of applications. …
HPC
Exascale Timeline Pushed to 2023: What’s Missing in Supercomputing?
The roadmap to build and deploy an exascale computer has extended over the last few years–and more than once. …