HPC
Top500 Supers: Nvidia Utterly Dominates Those Shiny New Machines
If you stare at something for a little bit of time and let your mind wander, you can think of a new way to analyze something that you have looked at a bunch of times. …
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HPC
Top500 Supers: This Is Peak Nvidia For Accelerated Supercomputers
If high bandwidth memory was widely available and we had cheap and reliable fusion power, there never would have been a move to use GPU and other compute engines as vector and matrix math offload engines. …
AI
A Tale Of Two Nvidia Eos Supercomputers
Note: This story augments and corrects information that originally appeared in Half Eos’d: Even Nvidia Can’t Get Enough H100s For Its Supercomputers, which was published on February 15. …
AI
Half Eos’d: Even Nvidia Can’t Get Enough H100s For Its Supercomputer
Note: There is a story called A Tale Of Two Nvidia Eos Supercomputers that augments and corrects information that originally appeared in this story as it was published on February 15. …
HPC
The Mystery Of Tianhe-3, The World’s Fastest Supercomputer, Solved?
We don’t like a mystery and we particularly don’t like it when what is very likely the most powerful supercomputer in the world – at this time anyway – is veiled in secrecy. …
HPC
Cadence Sells Custom GPU Supercomputers To Run New CFD Code
If money and time were no object, every workload in every datacenter of the world would have hardware co-designed to optimally run it. …
HPC
With Vista, TACC Now Has Three Paths To Its Future Horizon Supercomputer
The national supercomputing centers in the United States, Europe, and China are not only rich enough to build very powerful machines, but they are rich enough, thanks to their national governments, to underwrite and support multiple and somewhat incompatible architectures to hedge their bets and mitigate their risk. …
HPC
Energy Giant Eni Boosts Its HPC Oomph By An Order Of Magnitude
The big oil and gas companies of the world were among the earliest and most enthusiastic users of advanced machinery to do HPC simulation and modeling. …
HPC
Top500 Supercomputers: Who Gets The Most Out Of Peak Performance?
The most exciting thing about the Top500 rankings of supercomputers that come out each June and November is not who is on the top of the list. …
Compute
The Edge Propels HPE While Datacenter Taps The Brakes
Customers of Hewlett Packard Enterprise have one foot on the gas and one foot on the brakes at the same time that the company is transitioning from selling gear outright to customers to selling them subscriptions that spread the cost – and therefore HPE’s recognized revenues – out over time. …