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The Resurrection Of Cray And AMD In A Trifurcating HPC Space

October 22, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

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. …

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With “Crossroads” Supercomputer, HPE Notches Another DOE Win

October 1, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

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. …

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Great Scott: Spanning Supercomputing And Clouds

June 15, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

System architects that live in the Seattle area who don’t want to uproot their lives and move to California or Texas or New York or maybe possibly Illinois or Oregon or even overseas to Japan or China have a fairly small number of job opportunities. …

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Lawrence Livermore To Surpass 2 Exaflops With AMD Compute

March 4, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

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. …

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Weathering Heights: Of Resolutions And Ensembles

February 24, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

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. …

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AMD CPUs Will Power UK’s Next-Generation ARCHER2 Supercomputer

October 18, 2019 Michael Feldman 1

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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How Cray Makes Ethernet Suited For HPC And AI With Slingshot

August 16, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 10

Last fall, supercomputer maker Cray announced that it was getting back to making high performance cluster interconnects after a six year hiatus, but the company had already been working on its “Rosetta” switch ASIC for the Slingshot interconnect for quite a while before it started talking publicly about it. …

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Cray Runs The Exascale Table In The United States

August 13, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

After a long wait, now we know. All three of the initial exascale-class supercomputer systems being funded by the US Department of Energy through its CORAL-2 procurement are going to be built by Cray, with that venerable maker of supercomputers being the prime contractor on two of them. …

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Exascale System At Oak Ridge Will Blaze New Storage Path

June 20, 2019 Michael Feldman 0

When Oak Ridge National Laboratory installs its 1.5 exaflops Frontier supercomputer in a couple of years, it’s likely to be the most powerful system in the US, if not the world. …

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Intel To Take On OpenPower For Exascale Dominance With Aurora

March 18, 2019 Nicole Hemsoth 1

As expected, Intel will be the prime contractor for the first exascale supercomputer in the United States, which Argonne National Laboratory expects to be operational and capable of sustained exaflops performance by the end of 2021. …

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