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New Twists In The Intertwining Of HPC And AI

June 28, 2019 Michael Feldman 2

The alliance between high performance computing and artificial intelligence is proving to be a fruitful one for researchers looking to accelerate scientific discovery in everything from climate prediction and genomics to particle physics and drug discovery. …

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Stage Set for Richer Machine Learning-Infused HPC

February 1, 2019 Michael Feldman Comments Off on Stage Set for Richer Machine Learning-Infused HPC

A research collaboration between the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is demonstrating the value of using machine learning to overcome daunting computational challenges. …

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Two Thirds of The Way Home With Exascale Programming

January 9, 2019 Michael Wolfe 1

To effectively make use of the level of concurrency in forthcoming exascale systems – hundreds of thousands of compute elements with millions of threads – requires some new thinking, both by programmers and in development tools. …

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Someone Has To Pay To Push The Bleeding Edge Of Systems

October 17, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan Comments Off on Someone Has To Pay To Push The Bleeding Edge Of Systems

When you look at IBM, it is as if you are seeing many different instantiations of Big Blue across time playing out in the present, side by side. …

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The Clever Machinations Of Livermore’s Sierra Supercomputer

October 5, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan Comments Off on The Clever Machinations Of Livermore’s Sierra Supercomputer

The potent combination of powerful CPUs, floating point laden GPU accelerators, and fast InfiniBand networking are coming to market and reshaping the upper echelons of supercomputing. …

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Thinking Through The Cognitive HPC Nexus With Big Blue

June 21, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan Comments Off on Thinking Through The Cognitive HPC Nexus With Big Blue

There are plenty of things that the members of the high performance community do not agree on, there is a growing consensus that machine learning applications will at least in some way be part of the workflow at HPC centers that do traditional simulation and modeling. …

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The Year Ahead for GPU Accelerated Supercomputing

May 15, 2017 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett Comments Off on The Year Ahead for GPU Accelerated Supercomputing

GPU computing has deep roots in supercomputing, but Nvidia is using that springboard to dive head first into the future of deep learning. …

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