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. …
Fujitsu
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. …
AI
Fujitsu Bets On Deep Learning And HPC Divergence
One of the luckiest coincidences in the past decade has been that the hybrid machines designed for traditional HPC simulation and modeling workloads. …
Compute
Fujitsu Takes On IBM Power9 With Sparc64-XII
While a lot of the applications in the world run on clusters of systems with a relatively modest amount of compute and memory compared to NUMA shared memory systems, big iron persists and large enterprises want to buy it. …
Compute
Fujitsu Looks to 3D ICs, Silicon Photonics to Drive Future Systems
The rise of public and private clouds, the growth of the Internet of Things, the proliferation of mobile devices and the massive amounts of data that need to be collected, stored, moved and analyzed that are being generated by such fast-growing emerging trends promise to drive significant changes in both software and hardware development in the coming years. …