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Sandia To Push Both HPC And AI With Cerebras “Kingfisher” Cluster
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, and Los Alamos National Laboratory are known by the shorthand “Tri-Labs” in the HPC community, but these HPC centers perhaps could be called “Try-Labs” because they historically have tried just about any new architecture to see what promise it might hold in advancing the missions of the US Department of Energy. …
HPC
One Cerebras Wafer Beats An Exascale Super At Molecular Dynamics
We think that waferscale computing is an interesting and even an inevitable concept for certain kinds of compute and memory. …
AI
Sandia Pushes The Neuromorphic AI Envelope With Hala Point “Supercomputer”
Not many devices in the datacenter have been etched with the Intel 4 process, which is the chip maker’s spin on 7 nanometer extreme ultraviolet immersion lithography. …
Cloud
Nuclear Weapons Drove Supercomputing, And May Now Drive It Into The Clouds
If the HPC community didn’t write the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1996, it would have been necessary to invent it. …
HPC
With “Crossroads” Supercomputer, HPE Notches Another DOE Win
When you come to the crossroads and make a big decision about selling your soul to the devil to get what you want, it is supposed to be a dramatic event, the stuff that legends are made of. …
Code
Exascale Is An Opportunity To Advance The HPC Software Stack
Even though the race to the exascale computing is based entirely on an arbitrary milestone, it does serve to focus the attention of the HPC community to think about advancing the state-of-the-art for supercomputer hardware. …
Compute
Sandia Lends Arm A Hand In HPC With Astra Supercomputer
If the ecosystem for Arm processors is going to grow in the HPC arena, as many think it can, then someone has to make the initial investments in prototype hardware and help cultivate the software stack that will run on current and future Arm platforms. …