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The Roadmap Ahead For Exascale HPC In The US
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. …
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HPC
US Exascale Efforts Benefit in FY 2019 Budget
There was concern in some scientific quarters last year that President Trump’s election could mean budget cuts to the Department of Energy (DoE) that could cascade down to the country’s exascale program at a time when China was ramping up investments in its own initiatives. …
Compute
Debating The Role Of Commodity Chips In Exascale
Building the first exascale systems continues to be a high-profile endeavor, with efforts underway worldwide in the United States, the European Union, and Asia – notably China and Japan – that focus on competition between regional powers, the technologies that are going into the architectures, and the promises that these supercomputers hold for everything from research and government to business and commerce. …
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Europe Elbows For A Place At Exascale Table
When talking about the ongoing international race to exascale computing, it might be easy to overlook the European Union. …
HPC
Looking Ahead to Intel’s Secret Exascale Architecture
There has been a lot of talk this week about what architectural direction Intel will be taking for its forthcoming exascale efforts. …
HPC
An Exascale Timeline for Storage and I/O Systems
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
While exascale supercomputers mark a next step in performance capability, at the broader architectural level, the innovations that go into such machines will be the result of incremental improvements to the same components that have existed on HPC systems for several years. …
HPC
Is HPE’s “Machine” the Novel Architecture to Fit Exascale Bill?
The exascale effort in the U.S. got a fresh injection with R&D funding set to course through six HPC vendors to develop scalable, reliable, and efficient architectures and components for new systems in the post-2020 timeframe. …
HPC
American HPC Vendors Get Government Boost for Exascale R&D
The US Department of Energy – and the hardware vendors it partners with – are set to enliven the exascale effort with nearly a half billion dollars in research, development, and deployment investments. …
Compute
Some Surprises in the 2018 DoE Budget for Supercomputing
The US Department of Energy fiscal year 2018 budget request is in. …
Compute
Machine Learning, Analytics Play Growing Role in US Exascale Efforts
Exascale computing promises to bring significant changes to both the high-performance computing space and eventually enterprise datacenter infrastructures. …