HPC
Arm And Japan Get Their Day In The HPC Sun
There is a constant push and pull between budget and architecture in supercomputing, and the passing of time has not made anyone’s arms tired as yet on both sides of the bargaining table. …
RIKEN
HPC
With Fugaku Supercomputer Installed, RIKEN Takes On Coronavirus
Supercomputers are designed for a number of big jobs that can only be done by massively powerful machinery, and one of those jobs has been the modeling of chemical compounds and biological systems, often in concert to model diseases and to help find cures for them. …
HPC
Fugaku Remakes Exascale Computing In Its Own Image
When originally conceived, Japan’s Post-K supercomputer was supposed to be the country’s first exascale system. …
HPC
Arm Supercomputer Captures The Energy Efficiency Crown
When it comes to energy-efficient supercomputing, sometimes less is more. That was illustrated this week by Fujitsu with its A64FX prototype, which captured the top spot on the Green500 list. …
Compute
Fujitsu’s A64FX Arm Chip Waves The HPC Banner High
The processing world would be a whole lot less diverse and interesting if it were not for a healthy amount of nationalism. …
Compute
Details Emerge On Post-K Exascale System With First Prototype
This story has been updated with new information since it originally ran. …
AI
Japan to Unveil Pascal GPU-Based AI Supercomputer
A shared appetite for high performance computing hardware and frameworks is pushing both supercomputing and deep learning into the same territory. …
Compute
Exascale Might Prove To Be More Than A Grand Challenge
The supercomputing industry is accustomed to 1,000X performance strides, and that is because people like to think in big round numbers and bold concepts. …
Compute
Inside Japan’s Future Exascale ARM Supercomputer
The rumors that supercomputer maker Fujitsu would be dropping the Sparc architecture and moving to ARM cores for its next generation of supercomputers have been going around since last fall, and at the International Supercomputing Conference in Frankfurt, Germany this week, officials at the server maker and RIKEN, the research and development arm of the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) that currently houses the mighty K supercomputer, confirmed that this is indeed true. …