HPC
Top500 Supers: Even Accelerators Can’t Bend Performance Up To The Moore’s Law Line
The International Super Computing 2025 conference is going on this week in Hamburg, Germany and is celebrating its 40th anniversary. …
Linpack
HPC
Top500 Supers: This Is Peak Nvidia For Accelerated Supercomputers
If high bandwidth memory was widely available and we had cheap and reliable fusion power, there never would have been a move to use GPU and other compute engines as vector and matrix math offload engines. …
HPC
Top500 Supercomputers: Who Gets The Most Out Of Peak Performance?
The most exciting thing about the Top500 rankings of supercomputers that come out each June and November is not who is on the top of the list. …
HPC
How AI Is Going To Change Supercomputer Rankings Even More
The interesting thing about the June 2023 rankings of the world’s most powerful supercomputers is not how it really has not changed all that much in the past six months, or that the June list is coming out in May. …
HPC
Tweaked Math Libraries Exploit AI Hardware For Traditional HPC
At our HPC Day event ahead of the SC19 conference, supercomputing expert and Linpack creator Jack Dongarra talked about his new HPL-AI benchmark. …
Compute
AMD Rome Epyc Processor Shatters Numeric Benchmarks
Good news is continuing to gather around AMD’s second-generation “Rome” Epyc processors. …
HPC
Doing The Math: The Reality Of HPC And AI Convergence
Throughout the many different types of system architecture in the past six decades, one thing has always remained true: Hardware always gets ahead of software, and rather than be too annoyed about it, there is another thing that is also true. …
Connect
Teasing Out The Top 500 Truth Through Networking
If you really want to know what is going on in the HPC market, you have to be careful about using the Top 500 rankings of “supercomputers” as a yardstick. …
HPC
Rise of China, Real-World Benchmarks Top Supercomputing Agenda
The United States for years was the dominant player in the high-performance computing world, with more than half of the systems on the Top 500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers being housed in the country. …
Compute
How Nvidia’s Own Saturn V DGX-1 Cluster Stacks Up
Not all of the new and interesting high performance computing systems are always in the upper echelons of the Top 500 supercomputing list, which was announced at the opening of the SC16 supercomputing conference in Salt Lake City this week. …