HPC
The Stepping Stones In America To Exascale And Beyond
To a certain extent, all of the major HPC centers in the world live in the future. …
Oak Ridge
HPC
Expanding The Search For A Range Of New Materials
Finding new functional materials for batteries and catalysts and lots of other uses is a major goal of researchers around the world. …
AI
Sometimes The Best AI Accelerator Is The 37,888 GPUs You Already Have
For traditional HPC workloads, AMD’s MI250X is still a powerhouse when it comes to double precision floating point grunt. …
Compute
The First Peeks At The DOE Post-Exascale Supercomputers
Other than Hewlett Packard Enterprise, who wants to build the future NERSC-10 supercomputer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory or the future OLCF-6 system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory? …
Compute
China’s 1.5 Exaflops Supercomputer Chases Gordon Bell Prize – Again
The Association for Computing Machinery has just put out the finalists for the Gordon Bell Prize award that will be given out at the SC23 supercomputing conference in Denver, and as you might expect, some of the biggest iron assembled in the world are driving the advanced applications that have their eyes on the prize. …
AI
Lining Up The “El Capitan” Supercomputer Against The AI Upstarts
The question is no longer whether or not the “El Capitan” supercomputer that has been in the process of being installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for the past week – with photographic evidence to prove it – will be the most powerful system in the world. …
HPC
So, You Think You Can Design A 20 Exaflops Supercomputer?
UPDATED* Perhaps Janet Jackson should be the official spokesperson of the supercomputing industry. …
HPC
The Final Frontier: Talking Exascale With Oak Ridge’s Jeff Nichols
Just ahead of the revelations about the feeds and speeds of the “Frontier” supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory concurrent with the International Supercomputing conference in Hamburg, Germany and the concurrent publishing of the summer Top500 rankings of supercomputers, we had a chat with Jeff Nichols, who has steered the creation of successive generations of supercomputers at Oak Ridge. …
HPC
Frontier: Step By Step, Over Decades, To Exascale
Any time you build anything with more than 60 million parts, it is going to be a headache. …
HPC
At Long Last, HPC Officially Breaks The Exascale Barrier
Significant business and architectural changes can happen with 10X improvements, but the real milestones upon which we measure progress in computer science, whether it is for compute, storage, or networking, come at the 1,000X transitions. …