HPC
Fujitsu To Fork Arm Server Chip Line To Chase Clouds
When it comes to chips, there is a big difference between a kicker and a fork. …
Fujitsu
HPC
Japan Buys Supercomputer Just To Predict Torrential Downpours
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. …
HPC
Stacking Up L2 Cache, RIKEN Shows 10X Speedup For A64FX By 2028
Let the era of 3D V-Cache in HPC begin.
Inspired by the idea of AMD’s “Milan-X” Epyc 7003 processors with their 3D V-Cache stacked L3 cache memory and then propelled by actual benchmark tests pitting regular Milan CPUs against Milan-X processors using real-world and synthetic HPC applications, researchers at RIKEN Lab in Japan, where the “Fugaku” supercomputer based on Fujitsu’s impressive A64FX vectorized Arm server chip, have fired up a simulation of a hypothetical A64FX follow-on that could, in theory, be built in 2028 and provide nearly an order of magnitude more performance than the current A64FX. …
Cloud
Fujitsu Cloud Service to Put Fugaku Supercomputer in Reach
For those looking to try out Fujitsu’s Arm-based PRIMEHPC FX1000 system, the company is opening up the same capabilities via its own cloud service. …
HPC
U.S. Institutions Put Fujitsu A64FX Through the Paces
The Fugaku supercomputer, based on the Arm-driven A64FX processor and custom Fujitsu Tofu-D fabric, has been proven architecturally on a number of HPC and large-scale AI benchmarks and has drawn considerable attention among the supercomputing set. …
Compute
Taking A Superhybrid Approach To HPC/AI Convergence
AMD has been on such a run with its future server CPUs and server GPUs in the supercomputer market, taking down big deals for big machines coming later this year and out into 2023, that we might forget sometimes that there are many more deals to be done and that neither Intel nor Nvidia are inactive when it comes to trying to get their compute engines into upper echelon machines. …
Compute
Hope Springs Eternal For Arm Servers
IT organizations are funny creatures, indeed. On the one paw, they are eternally optimistic about the prospects for new technologies, and on the other paw, they are extremely resistant to change because of the economic and technical risks that change requires. …
HPC
Arm And Japan Get Their Day In The HPC Sun
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. …
HPC
Isambard 2 Is About Driving Technology Diversity
It’s been just more than a decade since Arm executives began to talk about bringing the company’s system-on-a-chip (SoC) architecture, which has long been the dominant design for processors found in billions of smartphones and other mobile device, into the datacenter. …
HPC
Fugaku Remakes Exascale Computing In Its Own Image
When originally conceived, Japan’s Post-K supercomputer was supposed to be the country’s first exascale system. …