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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. …

The Art Of System Design As HPC And AI Applications Diverge

October 6, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 5

Predicting the future is hard, even with supercomputers. And maybe specifically when you are talking about predicting the future of supercomputers. …

Hybrid Fortran Pulls Legacy Codes into Acceleration Era

October 30, 2017 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett Comments Off

GPU accelerated supercomputing is not a new phenomenon with many high performance computing codes already primed to run on Nvidia hardware in particular. …

ARM Antes Up For An HPC Software Stack

March 15, 2017 Darren Cepulis Comments Off

The HPC community is trying to solve the critical compute challenges of next generation high performance computing and ARM considers itself well-positioned to act as a catalyst in this regard. …

Tuning Up ARM To Do The HPC Math

November 23, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 5

For ARM processors to take off in the HPC arena, a whole bunch of pieces have to come together to create a platform that can compete against more established architectures. …

Evolving the HPC Software Stack with Fresh Hardware

November 11, 2015 Andrew Jones Comments Off

There is a gentle touch of hypocrisy about the supercomputing world. …