HPC
CPU Wars and Exascale Clarity: HPC in 2019
The year ahead for high performance computing promises some interesting twists and turns. …
Exascale
Code
Two Thirds of The Way Home With Exascale Programming
To effectively make use of the level of concurrency in forthcoming exascale systems – hundreds of thousands of compute elements with millions of threads – requires some new thinking, both by programmers and in development tools. …
AI
Gearing Up For Exascale And Its Trickle Down With Lenovo
Lenovo is, among all of the major suppliers of HPC systems in the world, perhaps uniquely positioned to have a very large share of the HPC market. …
Compute
The Plan For Europe’s Homegrown Exascale HPC
It has been a long time since Europe has had indigenous suppliers of the core components that go into high performance computing systems. …
HPC
Will a Billion Dollars Buy Europe Exascale Dominance?
European supercomputing centers are known for deploying innovative architectures and working on cutting-edge applications, but the sheer number of these systems lags rather far behind the U.S. …
Code
The State of MPI for Future Exascale Systems
A working group formed on behalf of the Exascale Computing Project (ECP) in the U.S. …
Compute
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. …
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. …
Compute
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. …