HPC
Sky-High Hurdles, Clouded Judgements for IaaS at Exascale
Back in 2009, I was the editor of a mini-side publication from supercomputing magazine, HPCwire, called HPC in the Cloud. …
ORNL
HPC
The Conductor That Sets The Pace For Science At Oak Ridge
Every orchestra needs a conductor to keep everyone playing together on pace, and while a good conductor doesn’t need to know how to play every instrument well, they have to know how to play many instruments and also to understand how it all comes together to create a symphony. …
Compute
Software Evolution on ORNL’s Summit Supercomputer
Yesterday with the announcement of the forthcoming El Capitan supercomputer, which is set to be more powerful than the top 200 supercomputers combined, we got to thinking about a critical issue that is far less attention-capturing than big performance numbers. …
AI
How NVIDIA Tensor Core GPUs are Powering Biometric Discoveries
Computing power and big data are fundamental to the bioinformatic research being carried out by the Leadership Computing Facility at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee. …
Code
A First Look at Summit Supercomputer Application Performance
Big iron aficionados packed the room when ORNL’s Jack Wells gave the latest update on the upcoming 207 petaflops Summit supercomputer at the GPU Technology Conference (GTC18) this week. …
Podcast
At the Cutting Edge of Quantum Computing Research
On today’s podcast episode of “The Interview” with The Next Platform, we focus on some of the recent quantum computing developments out of Oak Ridge National Lab’s Quantum Computing Institute with the center’s director, Dr. …
AI
Neuromorphic, Quantum, Supercomputing Mesh for Deep Learning
It is difficult to shed a tear for Moore’s Law when there are so many interesting architectural distractions on the systems horizon. …
AI
Scaling Deep Learning on an 18,000 GPU Supercomputer
It is one thing to scale a neural network on a single GPU or even a single system with four or eight GPUs. …
Compute
The Second Coming of Neuromorphic Computing
Just a few years ago, the promise of ultra-low power, high performance computing was tied to the rather futuristic-sounding vision of a “brain chip” or neuromorphic processor, which could mimic the brain’s structure and processing ability in silicon—quickly learning and chewing on data as fast as it could be generated. …
AI
National Lab Pushes Graph Platforms to New Points
While graph analytics is not a likely replacement for the standard relational databases that many companies will stick with for many years to come, the value of graphs for a particular set of knowledge discovery applications has become clearer with a widening set of use cases in areas ranging from security, fraud detection, medical research, financial services, and a number of other segments. …