HPC
Trying To Do More Real HPC In An Increasingly AI World
If you are in the traditional HPC community, it is not hard to be of two minds about the rise of AI and the mainstreaming of generative AI. …
SC23
HPC
Will Isambard 4 Be The UK’s First True Exascale Machine?
UPDATED Here is a story you don’t hear very often: A supercomputing center was just given a blank check up to the peak power consumption of its facility to build a world-class AI/HPC supercomputer instead of a sidecar partition with some GPUs to play around with and wish its researchers had a lot more capacity. …
HPC
Top500 Supercomputers: Who Gets The Most Out Of Peak Performance?
The most exciting thing about the Top500 rankings of supercomputers that come out each June and November is not who is on the top of the list. …
Compute
Nvidia Pushes Hopper HBM Memory, And That Lifts GPU Performance
For very sound technical and economic reasons, processors of all kinds have been overprovisioned on compute and underprovisioned on memory bandwidth – and sometimes memory capacity depending on the device and depending on the workload – for decades. …
HPC
Putting TACC’s “Stampede3” Through The HBM Paces
When you host the workhorse supercomputers of the National Science Foundation, you strive to provide the best possible solutions for your scientists. …
Compute
You Can Load Up On Cheap Cores With Updated Milan Epycs
There are two ways that CPU makers can deliver more bang for the buck, and those running distributed computing workloads can go either way – or somewhere in between – as they build out their server clusters. …
Compute
China’s 1.5 Exaflops Supercomputer Chases Gordon Bell Prize – Again
The Association for Computing Machinery has just put out the finalists for the Gordon Bell Prize award that will be given out at the SC23 supercomputing conference in Denver, and as you might expect, some of the biggest iron assembled in the world are driving the advanced applications that have their eyes on the prize. …