HPC
If NSF Snoozes, Then TACC’s “Horizon” Supercomputer Loses
It is a tumultuous time for any agency in the US government or any company or organization that depends on the US government for a sizable portion of its funding or revenue. …
NSF
HPC
TACC Fires Up “Vista” Bridge To Future “Horizon” Supercomputer
The Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Austin is the flagship datacenter for supercomputing for the US National Science Foundation, and so what TACC does – and doesn’t do – is a kind of bellwether for academic supercomputing. …
HPC
With Vista, TACC Now Has Three Paths To Its Future Horizon Supercomputer
The national supercomputing centers in the United States, Europe, and China are not only rich enough to build very powerful machines, but they are rich enough, thanks to their national governments, to underwrite and support multiple and somewhat incompatible architectures to hedge their bets and mitigate their risk. …
HPC
Stampede3: A Smaller HPC System That Will Get More Work Done
All of the major HPC centers of the world, whether they are funded by straight science or nuclear weapons management, have enough need and enough money to have two classes of supercomputers. …
HPC
NSF Puts $10 Million Into Composable Supercomputer
If they are doing their jobs right, the high performance computing centers around the world in academic and government institutions are supposed to be on the cutting edge of any new technology that boosts the performance of simulation, modeling, analytics, and artificial intelligence. …
HPC
Cascade Lake at Heart of 2019 TACC Supercomputer
The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) will soon be home to a top-tier supercomputer with the 2019 arrival of the “Frontera” system. …
Compute
TACC Tapped for NSF’s Next Supercomputer
The Texas Advanced Computer Center (TACC) will house the latest leadership-class supercomputer funded by the National Science Foundation, a project that stands as a tribute to the NSF’s continued efforts to push supercomputing projects and the latest indication of the ground the organization is losing to the Department of Energy (DOE) in this effort. …