Today is the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the “Venado” supercomputer, which was hinted at back in April 2021 when Nvidia announced its plans for its first datacenter-class Arm server CPU and which was talked about in some detail – but not really enough to suit our taste for speeds and feeds – back in May 2022 by the folks at Los Alamos National Laboratory where Venado is situated. …
In March 2020, when Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announced the exascale “El Capitan” supercomputer contract had been awarded to system builder Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which was also kicking in its “Rosetta” Slingshot 11 interconnect and which was tapping future CPU and GPU compute engines from AMD, the HPC center was very clear that it would be using off-the-shelf, commodity parts from AMD, not custom compute engines. …
Managing an aging nuclear weapons stockpile requires a tremendous – and ever-increasing – amount of supercomputing performance, and the HPC system business the world over is focused on this as much as trying to crack the most difficult scientific, medical, and engineering problems. …
It may have taken the better part of a decade, but the Itanium platform has yielded the kinds of profits that Hewlett Packard Enterprise long sought and rarely attained. …
Success in any endeavor is not just about having the right idea, but having that idea at the right time and then executing well against that plan. …
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. …
As the steward of the nuclear weapon arsenal for the United States government, it is probably not an overstatement to say that Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, one of the main supercomputer and scientific research facilities operated by the Department of Energy, is keenly interested in bang for the buck. …
In the past year or so, watching supercomputer maker Cray, which is now part of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, has been a bit like playing a country and western song backwards on the record player. …
Indiana University is the proud owner of the first operational Cray “Shasta” supercomputer on the planet. …
AMD has picked up yet another big supercomputer win with the selection of its second-generation Epyc processors, aka Rome, as the compute engine for the ARCHER2 system to be installed at the University of Edinburgh next year. …
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