HPC
A Status Check on Global Exascale Ambitions
As we head toward the annual Supercomputing Conference season we wanted to take a moment for a level-set on exascale. …
Frontier
Compute
Software Evolution on ORNL’s Summit Supercomputer
Yesterday with the announcement of the forthcoming El Capitan supercomputer, which is set to be more powerful than the top 200 supercomputers combined, we got to thinking about a critical issue that is far less attention-capturing than big performance numbers. …
HPC
Doing The Math On Future Exascale Supercomputers
We are not shy of playing guessing games here at The Next Platform, as you all well know. …
HPC
Exascale System At Oak Ridge Will Blaze New Storage Path
When Oak Ridge National Laboratory installs its 1.5 exaflops Frontier supercomputer in a couple of years, it’s likely to be the most powerful system in the US, if not the world. …
AI
Cray, AMD Tag Team On 1.5 Exaflops “Frontier” Supercomputer
The competition for the compute engines in hybrid HPC and AI supercomputer systems is heating up, and it is beginning to look a bit like back to the future with Cray on the rise and AMD also revitalized. …