HPC
The Stepping Stones In America To Exascale And Beyond
To a certain extent, all of the major HPC centers in the world live in the future. …
NERSC
Code
Python Delivers Big On Complex Unlabeled Data
A collaboration of researchers from the University of California Davis, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, and Intel are working together on the DisCo project to extract insight from complex unlabeled data. …
HPC
Using Bayesian Inference To Reverse Engineer Decades Of HPC
A collaboration including the University of Oxford, University of British Columbia, Intel, New York University, CERN, and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center is working to make it practical to incorporate of Bayesian inference into scientific simulators. …
Compute
Berkeley Lab First In Line for Cray “Shasta” Supercomputers
For the past five years, supercomputer maker Cray has been diligently at work not only creating a new system architecture that allows for a mix of different interconnects and compute for its future “Shasta” systems, but has also brought long-time Cray chief technology officer, Steve Scott, back into the company after two stints spent at Nvidia and Google to create a new interconnect, called “Slingshot,” that is the beating heart of the Shasta system and that signals a return of the Cray that we know and love. …
AI
The Hard Limits for Deep Learning in HPC
If the hype is to be believed, there is no computational problem that cannot be tackled faster and better by artificial intelligence. …
Code
HPC
NERSC Preps for Next Generation “Cori” Supercomputer
The powerful Cori supercomputer, now being readied for deployment at NERSC (The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center), has been named in honor of Gerty Cori. …
AI
Climate Research Pulls Deep Learning Onto Traditional Supercomputers
Over the last year, stories pointing to a bright future for deep neural networks and deep learning in general have proliferated. …
AI
First Burst Buffer Use at Scale Bolsters Application Performance
Over the last year, we have focused on the role burst buffer technology might play in bolstering the I/O capabilities on some of the world’s largest machines and have focused on use cases ranging from the initial target to more application-centric goals. …
AI
Next Generation Supercomputing Strikes Data, Compute Balance
Although the future of exascale computing might be garnering the most deadlines in high performance computing, one of the most important stories unfolding in the supercomputing space, at least from a system design angle, is the merging of compute and data-intensive machines. …