HPC
Doing The Math On Future Exascale Supercomputers
We are not shy of playing guessing games here at The Next Platform, as you all well know. …
Oak Ridge
HPC
Exascale Is Not Your Grandfather’s HPC
The first exaflops-capable supercomputers are just around the corner and to celebrate this milestone-to-be and talk about its ramifications, the US Department of Energy hosted a national “Exascale Day” discussion. …
HPC
Will HPC Centers Say ADIOS To POSIX I/O?
The widening performance disparity between compute and I/O is not likely to get any better in the fast-approaching exascale era. …
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. …
AI
Cray, AMD Tag Team On 1.5 Exaflops “Frontier” Supercomputer
The competition for the compute engines in hybrid HPC and AI supercomputer systems is heating up, and it is beginning to look a bit like back to the future with Cray on the rise and AMD also revitalized. …
AI
Opening The Aperture On The World With Summit
We have spent the past several years speculating about what the “Summit” supercomputer built by IBM, Nvidia, and Mellanox Technologies for the US Department of Energy and installed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory might be. …
Code
OpenACC: Things Are Getting Simpler More Quickly
OpenACC is one of the prongs in a multi-prong strategy to get people to port the parallel portions of HPC applications to accelerators. …
Compute
Peeling The Covers Off The Summit Supercomputer
The irony, of course, is that there is never a summit when it comes to supercomputing. …
Compute
Details Emerge On “Summit” Power Tesla AI Supercomputer
The future “Summit” pre-exascale supercomputer that is being built out in late 2017 and early 2018 for the US Department of Energy for its Oak Ridge National Laboratory looks like a giant cluster of systems that might be used for training neural networks. …