HPC
Exascale System At Oak Ridge Will Blaze New Storage Path
When Oak Ridge National Laboratory installs its 1.5 exaflops Frontier supercomputer in a couple of years, it’s likely to be the most powerful system in the US, if not the world. …
ISC19
HPC
Exascale Spending To Energize HPC Market Through 2025
At the ISC conference this week, HPC market analyst firm Hyperion Research offered its mid-year HPC market update, which recapped what happened in 2018 and provided some particularly interesting observations on the exascale space. …
HPC
Inside Nvidia’s DGX SuperPOD Cluster
GPU chip maker Nvidia doesn’t just make the devices that end up in some of the largest supercomputers in the world. …
AI
Energy Giant Takes the AI Supercomputer Route
We have followed a fair number of system trends for the oil and gas industry over the years. …
HPC
Europe Will Enter Pre-Exascale Realm With MareNostrum 5
The Barcelona Supercomputer Center will soon be the proud owners of the Europe’s first pre-exascale supercomputer. …
HPC
Dennard Scaling Demise Puts Permanent Dent in Supercomputing
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. …
HPC
Nvidia Makes Arm A Peer To X86 And Power For GPU Acceleration
Creating the Tesla GPU compute platform has taken Nvidia the better part of a decade and a half, and it has culminated in a software stack comprised of various HPC and AI frameworks, the CUDA parallel programming environment, compilers from Nvidia’s PGI division and their OpenACC extensions as well as open source GCC compilers, and various other tools that together account for tens of millions of lines of code and tens of thousands of individual APIs. …
HPC
Supercomputing Coiled To Spring To Exascale
If you want to rank in the world of supercomputing – as national and state governments as well as academic and research institutions most certainly do to prove their worth for research and development – then you need to have at least a petaflops ante now to play the game. …