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Testing The Mettle Of The Top Supercomputing Iron On Earth

November 14, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

It’s fall, so that means it is the annual Super Computing conference that has been held in the United States by the Association for Computing Machinery and the IEEE Computer Society since 1989. …

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At Long Last, HPC Officially Breaks The Exascale Barrier

May 30, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Significant business and architectural changes can happen with 10X improvements, but the real milestones upon which we measure progress in computer science, whether it is for compute, storage, or networking, come at the 1,000X transitions. …

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Top500 Supercomputers: Hungry For The Exascale Feast

November 15, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

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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A Status Check on Global Exascale Ambitions

September 23, 2021 Nicole Hemsoth 1

As we head toward the annual Supercomputing Conference season we wanted to take a moment for a level-set on exascale. …

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Waiting – Not Precisely Patiently – For Exascale

June 28, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 7

There was an outside chance that China might pull a surprise on the HPC community and launch the first true exascale system – meaning capable of more than 1 exaflops of peak theoretical 64-bit floating point performance if you want to be generous, and 1 exaflops sustained on the High Performance Linpack (HPL) benchmark if you don’t – but that didn’t happen. …

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The Many Facets Of Hybrid Supercomputing As Exascale Dawns

November 16, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

There may not be a lot of new systems on the November 2020 edition of the Top500 rankings of supercomputers, but there has been a bunch of upgrades and system tunings of machines that have been recently added, expanding their performance, as well as a handful of new machines that are interesting in their own right. …

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Arm And Japan Get Their Day In The HPC Sun

June 22, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

There is a constant push and pull between budget and architecture in supercomputing, and the passing of time has not made anyone’s arms tired as yet on both sides of the bargaining table. …

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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. …

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The Calm Before The Exascale Storm

November 18, 2019 Michael Feldman 0

The latest list of the world’s top 500 floppiest supercomputers was released this week and the biggest news to report is that there is almost no news to report. …

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Dennard Scaling Demise Puts Permanent Dent in Supercomputing

June 18, 2019 Michael Feldman 0

When the TOP500 list  of the world’s most powerful supercomputers comes out twice a year, the top-ranked machines receive the lion’s share of attention. …

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