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AWS Adds Managed Slurm To ParallelCluster Cloudy Supercomputers
It is hard to believe that Amazon Web Services has been selling compute, storage, and networking capacity for nearly two decades. …
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AI
AI Hype Will Drive Datacenter GPU Prices Sky High
UPDATED Like many HPC and AI system builders, we are impatient to see what the “Antares” Instinct MI300A hybrid CPU-GPU system on chip from AMD might look like in terms of performance and price. …
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Livermore Converges A Slew Of New Ideas For Exascale Storage
There are a lot of new technologies that are available now or are going to be available shortly that have the potential to radically change the compute, memory, and storage hierarchies in systems. …
HPC
What Put LLNL at the Center of U.S. Supercomputing in 2020?
The HPC world, particularly in the U.S. is waiting for the next series of transitions to far larger machines with exascale capabilities. …
Code
Porting to AMD GPUs in the Corona Age
“Times were simpler not so long ago” is an understatement these days, but when it comes to supercomputing, this has yet another meaning. …
AI
Where AI Might Fit in the Supercomputers of 2030
One reason we’re watching Lawrence Livermore National Lab closely is because they are at the forefront when it comes to blending emerging HPC, deep learning, and edge technologies for applications that are representative of what’s next. …
HPC
One Supercomputer’s HPC And AI Battle Against The Coronavirus
Normally, supercomputers installed at academic and national laboratories get configured once, acquired as quickly as possible before the money runs out, installed and tested, qualified for use, and put to work for a four or five or possibly longer tour of duty. …
HPC
Cray Runs The Exascale Table In The United States
After a long wait, now we know. All three of the initial exascale-class supercomputer systems being funded by the US Department of Energy through its CORAL-2 procurement are going to be built by Cray, with that venerable maker of supercomputers being the prime contractor on two of them. …
AI
New Twists In The Intertwining Of HPC And AI
The alliance between high performance computing and artificial intelligence is proving to be a fruitful one for researchers looking to accelerate scientific discovery in everything from climate prediction and genomics to particle physics and drug discovery. …
Compute
The Clever Machinations Of Livermore’s Sierra Supercomputer
The potent combination of powerful CPUs, floating point laden GPU accelerators, and fast InfiniBand networking are coming to market and reshaping the upper echelons of supercomputing. …