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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. …

HPC

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. …

HPC

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 Prickett 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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Shasta Sets Up Cray For Commercial HPC And Supercomputing Expansion

February 13, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

If you look at the very long history of Cray, the company has done a remarkable job expanding its market, not just participating in it. …

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Interconnect Pioneer On Bridging HPC, Hyperscale Divide

November 20, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

The HPC market is opening up in a lot of different ways these days, and Cray is right smack dab in the middle of all of this change, embracing it. …

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Cray Slingshots Back Into HPC Interconnects With Shasta Systems

October 30, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

While processors and now GPUs tend to get all of the glory when it comes to high performance computing, for the past three decades as distributed computing architectures became the norm in supercomputing, it has been the interconnects that made all the difference in how well – or poorly – these systems perform. …

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