HPC
Time Is Always Money, Especially With HPC On The Cloud
Systems management has always been in a race to catch up with the innovation in systems, and it is always nipping at the heels. …
SC2019
Code
OpenACC Cozies Up To C, C++, and Fortran Standards
Not so long ago, there was a question whether exascale supercomputers would be built from a very large number of thin nodes containing only modest amounts of parallelism or a smaller number of fat nodes powered by specialized accelerators and powerful manycore processors. …
Control
Taking The PCI Express To Malleable Systems
It took decades for server virtualization to go mainstream, making their way from hardware and software partitions on mainframes three decades ago down to proprietary and Unix systems two decades ago to X86 servers with VMware, XenServer, Microsoft, and Red Hat all doing their part. …
HPC
Arm Aligns Its Server Ambitions To Those Of Its Partners
There are just two Arm-powered supercomputers on the latest TOP500 rankings: the “Astra” system at Sandia National Laboratories and Fujitsu’s new A64FX prototype. …
HPC
Edging Toward Distributed HPC
The confluence of big data, AI, and edge computing is reshaping the contours of high performance computing. …
HPC
Tweaked Math Libraries Exploit AI Hardware For Traditional HPC
At our HPC Day event ahead of the SC19 conference, supercomputing expert and Linpack creator Jack Dongarra talked about his new HPL-AI benchmark. …
HPC
Bending The Supercomputing Cost Curve Down
One of the recurring themes at the recent HPC Day event that we hosted ahead of the SC19 supercomputing conference in Denver was that capability class supercomputers are getting more and more expensive. …
Compute
Talking System Architecture With AMD CTO Mark Papermaster
It is funny to think that in a certain light, AMD has Big Blue to thank for its resurgence in the datacenter. …
HPC
New Applications, More Users Drive Bright Outlook for HPC
According to Hyperion Research, 2018 was a banner year for the high performance computing industry. …
HPC
Arm Supercomputer Captures The Energy Efficiency Crown
When it comes to energy-efficient supercomputing, sometimes less is more. That was illustrated this week by Fujitsu with its A64FX prototype, which captured the top spot on the Green500 list. …