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Driving HPC Performance Up Is Easier Than Keeping The Spending Constant

December 10, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 5

We are still mulling over all of the new HPC-AI supercomputer systems that were announced in recent months before and during the SC25 supercomputing conference in St Louis, particularly how the slew of new machines announced by the HPC national labs will be advancing not just the state of the art, but also pushing down the cost of the FP64 floating point operations that still drives a lot of HPC simulation and modeling work. …

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Profiting From The GenAI Boom Is Tough Even If It Democratizes

September 5, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

Wall Street might have unreasonable expectations about how OEMs and ODMs can profit from the GenAI boom through selling GPU laden systems. …

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The Future We Simulate Is The One We Create

January 6, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan 11

Investment in supercomputing and related HPC technologies is not just a sign of how much we are willing to bet on the future with someone else’s money, but how much we believe in it ourselves, and more importantly, how much we believe in the core idea that we can predict and therefore shape the future of the world. …

Nuclear Weapons Drove Supercomputing, And May Now Drive It Into The Clouds

April 19, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 8

If the HPC community didn’t write the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1996, it would have been necessary to invent it. …

Making Exascale Accessible To Everyone

November 17, 2021 David Gordon Comments Off

Paid Post Intel has been at the forefront of democratizing high performance computing (HPC) for the past three decades, and the HPC leader is taking its efforts up several more notches with the Aurora exascale HPC and AI supercomputer being designed and built by Intel and Hewlett Packard Enterprise for Argonne National Laboratory. …

Top500 Supercomputers: Hungry For The Exascale Feast

November 15, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan Comments Off

Let’s just cut right to the chase scene. The latest Top500 ranking of supercomputers, announced today at the SC21 supercomputing conference being held in St Louis, needed the excitement of an actual 1 exaflops sustained performance machine running the High Performance Linpack benchmark at 64-bit precision. …

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The Widening Gyre Of Supercomputing

November 12, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan Comments Off

The twice-annual ranking of distributed computing systems based on the Linpack parallel Fortran benchmark, a widely used and sometimes maligned test, is as much a history lesson as it is an expectation always looking forward, with anticipation, to the next performance milestones in high performance computing. …

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Supercomputing At The Crossroads

February 16, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

The supercomputing business, the upper stratosphere of the much broader high performance computing segment of the IT industry, is without question one of the most exciting areas in data processing and visualization. …

HPC Poised For Big Changes, Top To Bottom

June 19, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan 5

There is a lot of change coming down the pike in the high performance computing arena, but it has not happened as yet and that is reflected in the current Top 500 rankings of supercomputers in the world. …