HPC
Gordon Bell Prize Awarded To Molecular Dynamics-Quantum Mechanics Mashup On “Frontier” Supercomputer
For years, scientists in the field of molecular dynamics have been squeezed in their research. …
Frontier
HPC
The Stepping Stones In America To Exascale And Beyond
To a certain extent, all of the major HPC centers in the world live in the future. …
HPC
Expanding The Search For A Range Of New Materials
Finding new functional materials for batteries and catalysts and lots of other uses is a major goal of researchers around the world. …
AI
Sometimes The Best AI Accelerator Is The 37,888 GPUs You Already Have
For traditional HPC workloads, AMD’s MI250X is still a powerhouse when it comes to double precision floating point grunt. …
HPC
Top500 Supercomputers: Who Gets The Most Out Of Peak Performance?
The most exciting thing about the Top500 rankings of supercomputers that come out each June and November is not who is on the top of the list. …
Code
Julia Still Not Grown Up Enough to Ride Exascale Train
We’ve been watching Julia, an HPC-oriented programming language designed for technical and scientific computing for a number of years to see it can make inroads into supercomputing. …
Compute
China’s 1.5 Exaflops Supercomputer Chases Gordon Bell Prize – Again
The Association for Computing Machinery has just put out the finalists for the Gordon Bell Prize award that will be given out at the SC23 supercomputing conference in Denver, and as you might expect, some of the biggest iron assembled in the world are driving the advanced applications that have their eyes on the prize. …
AI
Lining Up The “El Capitan” Supercomputer Against The AI Upstarts
The question is no longer whether or not the “El Capitan” supercomputer that has been in the process of being installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for the past week – with photographic evidence to prove it – will be the most powerful system in the world. …
Edge
The Edge Is The New Frontier For IT
The datacenter is becoming hyperdistributed and incorporating some multiple of capacity – 2X, 3X, 4X, or maybe 10X – outside of the traditional datacenter walls because applications and storage live increasingly at the edge. …
HPC
The Final Frontier: Talking Exascale With Oak Ridge’s Jeff Nichols
Just ahead of the revelations about the feeds and speeds of the “Frontier” supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory concurrent with the International Supercomputing conference in Hamburg, Germany and the concurrent publishing of the summer Top500 rankings of supercomputers, we had a chat with Jeff Nichols, who has steered the creation of successive generations of supercomputers at Oak Ridge. …