When people think of supercomputers, they think of a couple of different performance vectors (pun intended), but usually the first thing they think of is the performance of a big, parallel machine as it runs one massive job scaling across tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of cores working in concert. …
The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) is getting a significant upgrade to its all-CPU “Cheyenne” supercomputer, bringing it from 5.2 peak petaflops of performance to 19.87 petaflops with a combination of AMD CPUs and Nvidia A100 GPUs laid out in a Cray XE (formerly called “Shasta”) system from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. …
Not every organization that relies on supercomputers can replace a whole machine in one fell swoop. …
The first big supercomputing deal of the new year has been unveiled. …
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