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Mainstreaming HPC Codes Will Propel The Next GPU Wave
All the shiny and zippy hardware in the world is meaningless without software, and that software can only go mainstream if it is easy to use. …
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Green500 Drives Power Efficiency For Exascale
Each year, at the ISC and SC supercomputing conference shows every year, a central focus tends to be the release of the Top500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. …
Cloud
The Symmetry Of Putting Fluid Dynamics In The Cloud
There has been a lot of talk about taking HPC technologies mainstream, taking them out of realm of research, education and government institutions and making them available to enterprises that are being challenged by the need to manage and process the huge amounts of data being generated through the use of such compute- and storage-intensive workloads such as analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning. …
Compute
A Deep Dive Into NEC’s Aurora Vector Engine
We caught wind of the “Aurora” Vector Engine vector processor and the “Tsubasa” system from NEC that makes use of it ahead of the SC17 supercomputer conference, and revealed everything we could find out about the system and speculated a bit about how the underlying processor in the absence of real data. …
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HPE Aims HPC Servers, Storage At The Enterprise
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has been busy this year in the HPC space. …
Cloud
Marvell And Cavium Forge A Datacenter Platform
It has taken what seems like forever, but Arm server processors are starting to get some legs just as a massive consolidation wave, driven as much by the end of Moore’s Law as by the desire to always be bigger, is undertaking the semiconductor industry. …
Compute
HPC Revenues Under Pressure, But Outlook Optimistic
The market for high performance computing can be a capricious one in any short term, but in general has been growing and, at last according to some of the experts who have spent decades tracking it, is set to grow a little bit faster than the IT sector at large in the coming years. …
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Gordon Bell Looks Out Into A Parallel World
It was 31 years ago when Alan Karp, then an IBM employee, decided to put up $100 of his own money in hopes of solving a vexing issue for him and others in the computing field. …
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IO-500 Goes Where No HPC Storage Metric Has Gone Before
The landscape of HPC storage performance measurement is littered with unrealistic expectations. …
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Oak Ridge Lab’s Quantum Simulator Pulls HPC Future Closer
Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been investing heavily in quantum computing across the board. …