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The Supercomputing Efficiency Curve Bends In The Right Direction

January 10, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

Things get a little wonky at exascale and hyperscale. Things that don’t matter quite as much at enterprise scale, such as the cost or the performance per watt or the performance per dollar per watt for a system or a cluster, end up dominating the buying decisions. …

AI

Bringing HPC and Hadoop Under the Same Cluster Umbrella

July 7, 2015 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 0

The computational capability of modern supercomputers, matched with the data handling abilities of the Hadoop framework, when done efficiently, creates a best of both worlds opportunity. …

AI

MIT Introduces Supercomputers to Accumulo

July 6, 2015 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 0

When the National Security Agency (NSA) in the U.S. released the Accumulo project into open source territory in 2008, there were not a lot of details about the size and capability of the hardware it was running, although it is safe to say that the NSA found ways to make it scale across some of their larger machines. …

HPC

South Korea’s Striking, Stepped-Up Supercomputing Strategy

July 6, 2015 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 0

With neighbors China and Japan hosting top-tier high performance computing systems, Korea wants to put more skin in the supercomputing game with extended investments over the next five years. …

HPC

What if Intel Rekindles Its Supercomputing Systems Business?

May 12, 2015 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 0

There is some speculation afoot that Intel is on a path to rekindle its supercomputer business, bringing it full circle to where it started in the late 1980s and early 1990s with its own distinct high performance computing division that produced top-tier national lab systems like ASCI Red, among others. …

Compute

Cray Makes Taming Chaos Look Easy

May 8, 2015 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 0

Low margins, an unpredictable cycle, expensive and ongoing research development efforts, a slavish commitment to processor upgrade timelines, and a market that will only ever grow so much—who wouldn’t want to be in the supercomputing systems business? …

HPC

Supercomputers Bump Against the End of Another Era

April 23, 2015 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 1

When one looks at major milestones in supercomputer history, one of the relatively recently markers rests with IBM, which began work its work to create a massively parallel system for protein folding research. …

HPC

Why Big Oil Keeps Spending on Massive Supercomputers

April 21, 2015 Laura Shepard, Chirag Dekate, Ph.D., Shreyak Shah, 0

With per barrel oil prices down by about 50 percent from the previous four years, the question naturally arises: “Why are oil and gas giants spending millions on new supercomputers?” …

HPC

Future Intel Chips Shine in 180 Petaflops Argonne Supercomputer

April 9, 2015 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 2

Update: 5:08 p.m. Eastern – We have been able to dig into more details about the system architecture and confirm Knights Hill architecture and other interconnect/system details. …

Compute

What’s Really Driving HPC Decisions in Oil and Gas?

April 6, 2015 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 1

Not long ago, we learned that a new Cray XC40 supercomputer would be installed in the coming months for Norwegian oil and gas processing company Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS). …

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