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Japan Buys Supercomputer Just To Predict Torrential Downpours

February 27, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

You know that climate change is a problem when a supercomputer to do short-term prediction of the formation of linear rainbands and the torrential downpours that they cause is 3.4X as powerful as the machines that do the day-to-day weather forecasting in a country. …

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The Many Facets Of Hybrid Supercomputing As Exascale Dawns

November 16, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

There may not be a lot of new systems on the November 2020 edition of the Top500 rankings of supercomputers, but there has been a bunch of upgrades and system tunings of machines that have been recently added, expanding their performance, as well as a handful of new machines that are interesting in their own right. …

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Arm And Japan Get Their Day In The HPC Sun

June 22, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

There is a constant push and pull between budget and architecture in supercomputing, and the passing of time has not made anyone’s arms tired as yet on both sides of the bargaining table. …

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With Fugaku Supercomputer Installed, RIKEN Takes On Coronavirus

May 18, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 11

Supercomputers are designed for a number of big jobs that can only be done by massively powerful machinery, and one of those jobs has been the modeling of chemical compounds and biological systems, often in concert to model diseases and to help find cures for them. …

HPC

Fugaku Remakes Exascale Computing In Its Own Image

December 9, 2019 Michael Feldman 1

When originally conceived, Japan’s Post-K supercomputer was supposed to be the country’s first exascale system. …

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Arm Supercomputer Captures The Energy Efficiency Crown

November 22, 2019 Michael Feldman 2

When it comes to energy-efficient supercomputing, sometimes less is more. That was illustrated this week by Fujitsu with its A64FX prototype, which captured the top spot on the Green500 list. …

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Arm’s Chances In Servers May Hinge On Success In HPC

October 1, 2019 Michael Feldman 0

It has been eight years since Arm announced its intentions to enter the server arena. …

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