HPC
The Race for the First Gordon Bell Climate Supercomputing Prize
At SC23 in November, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) will give out its first-ever ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling at a ceremony in Denver. …
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HPC
Climate Simulation Screams On The Frontier Exascale Supercomputer
We will always complain about the weather. It is part of the human condition. …
HPC
Japan Buys Supercomputer Just To Predict Torrential Downpours
You know that climate change is a problem when a supercomputer to do short-term prediction of the formation of linear rainbands and the torrential downpours that they cause is 3.4X as powerful as the machines that do the day-to-day weather forecasting in a country. …
HPC
NCAR Pits Azure Cloud Against Its Own Big Iron For Climate Models
When people think of supercomputers, they think of a couple of different performance vectors (pun intended), but usually the first thing they think of is the performance of a big, parallel machine as it runs one massive job scaling across tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of cores working in concert. …
HPC
Lenovo Neptune Makes Weather Supercomputers Cool Again
SPONSORED It is only natural the world’s top supercomputing sites in climate and weather modeling should be leading the charge for more efficient, sustainable, and green datacenter practices. …
HPC
Czech Republic Sticks With NEC Vector Engines For Weather Modeling
There are two different Auroras right now in supercomputing. There is the shape-shifting, legendary, and maybe even mythical “Aurora” and now “Aurora A21” exascale supercomputer that was being built by Intel with “Knights” many core processors and now, if Intel can get them out the door, with a combination of “Sapphire Rapids” Xeon SP processors and “Ponte Vecchio” Xe GPU accelerators, for Argonne National Laboratory. …
AI
NOAA Faces Winds of Architectural Change
When it comes to making swift pivots to keep pace with the newest architectural innovations, organizations like weather and climate prediction-focused NOAA have major constraints. …
HPC
Weather Service Doubles Up on Cray Supercomputer
When it comes to weather forecasting and climate modeling, supercomputer maker Cray has plenty of stories to tell. …
HPC
GPUs Gather Force in Large-Scale Weather Forecasting
As the list of the most powerful supercomputers on the planet reveal, GPU accelerated high performance computing is alive in well across many technical and scientific domains. …
HPC
Supercomputing Advancing Too Fast for Key Codes to Keep Pace
The high performance computing world is set to become more diverse over the next several years on the hardware front, but for software development, this new array of ever-higher performance options creates big challenges for codes. …