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. …
Fujitsu
HPC
Arm Supercomputer Captures The Energy Efficiency Crown
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. …
HPC
A64FX Arm Chip Gets A Big Push From Cray
There are many good processors out there, but there are few that are excellent and elegant inasmuch as they are co-designed for specific workloads and then do them very well. …
HPC
Japan’s K Computer Shutdown Marks the End of an Era
Earlier this week, the RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS) announced that in August it will pull the plug on its flagship HPC system, the K computer. …
Connect
Slicing Into The Post-K Supercomputer’s Tofu D Interconnect
Fujitsu has given us a peek at the future A64FX Arm server processor that it has forged for the future “Post-K” supercomputer that is being built by the Japanese government for the RIKEN laboratory, arguably the hotbed of HPC in the Land of the Rising Sun. …
Compute
Fujitsu’s A64FX Arm Chip Waves The HPC Banner High
The processing world would be a whole lot less diverse and interesting if it were not for a healthy amount of nationalism. …
Compute
Details Emerge On Post-K Exascale System With First Prototype
This story has been updated with new information since it originally ran. …
Compute
Dell EMC and Fujitsu Roll Intel FPGAs Into Servers
Nvidia caused a shift in high-end computing more than a decade ago when it introduced its general-purpose GPUs and CUDA development platform to work with CPUs to increase the performance of compute-intensive workloads in HPC and other environments and drive greater energy efficiencies in datacenters. …
Compute
BSC Builds 21st Century HPC In A 19th Century Cathedral
This summer, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) added to its roster another of the world’s most powerful high performance computing systems. …
AI
Japan’s ABCI System Shows The Subtleties Separating AI And HPC
Governments like to spread the money around their indigenous IT companies when they can, and so it is with the AI Bridging Cloud Infrastructure, or ABCI, supercomputer that is being commissioned by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Japan. …