Proctor & Gamble, the massive multinational conglomerate and the world’s largest seller of consumer goods, has long been an advocate of computer | Continue reading
Emerging technologies like machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing can promise significant improvements in an array of | Continue reading
The Sequana line of supercomputers from the Bull division of Atos offers some of the highest compute density available in the HPC realm. The initial | Continue reading
We have spent the past several years speculating about what the “Summit” supercomputer built by IBM, Nvidia, and Mellanox Technologies for the US | Continue reading
It tends to get overlooked in favor of GPU acceleration but scaling deep learning on existing CPU-based HPC infrastructure is not just possible, but with | Continue reading
HPC and the cloud have an uneasy, lukewarm relationship. Some corporations running HPC environments take the view that they have the infrastructure and | Continue reading
What is the difference between a SmartNIC and a server processor? About three years, if you are Amazon Web Services. The biggest news for sure to come out | Continue reading
It is amazing how fast open source Linux displaced open systems Unix from the HPC datacenters of the world. This change, which started in the early 2000s, | Continue reading
IBM and the other vendors who are bidding on the CORAL2 systems for the US Department of Energy can’t talk about those bids, which are in flight, and Big | Continue reading
The “Great Lakes” supercomputer at the University of Michigan is the first cluster in the world to make use of 200 Gb/sec HDR InfiniBand switching from | Continue reading
https://youtu.be/hkh8QcQedqk Nvidia co-founder and chief executive officer, Jensen Huang, would be the first one to tell you that the graphics chip maker | Continue reading
The HPC market is opening up in a lot of different ways these days, and Cray is right smack dab in the middle of all of this change, embracing it. There | Continue reading
Those who follow commercial supercomputing already know that automotive design is a hot area for high performance computing, but Indycar is taking | Continue reading
Lenovo is, among all of the major suppliers of HPC systems in the world, perhaps uniquely positioned to have a very large share of the HPC market. The | Continue reading
OpenMP is probably the most popular tool in the world to parallelize applications running on processors, but ironically it is not a product, but rather a | Continue reading
Sales of various kinds of high performance computing – not just technical simulation and modeling applications, but also cryptocurrency mining, massively | Continue reading
The twice-annual ranking of distributed computing systems based on the Linpack parallel Fortran benchmark, a widely used and sometimes maligned test, is | Continue reading
A major part of China’s several initiatives to build an exascale-class supercomputers has been the country’s determination to rely mostly on homegrown | Continue reading
Oracle was famously behind the cloud computing curve, with co-founder and then-CEO Larry Ellison several years ago dismissing it as little more than an | Continue reading
If it’s the SC18 supercomputing conference, then there must be lists. Lots of them. The twice-yearly show is most famous for the Top500 list of the | Continue reading
More than five years ago, Nvidia, driven by its co-founder and CEO, Jensen Huang, turned its considerable focus to developing technologies for the | Continue reading
These are challenging times for Intel. Long – and still – the dominant chip maker in the datacenter with its battle-tested Xeon processors, the company is | Continue reading
Being at the forefront of high performance computing, as the oil and gas industry has been from the very beginning, also means always dealing with issues | Continue reading
Having multiple related but distinct product lines turns a company into an economic engine that runs a lot smoother than an it would run with a single | Continue reading
AMD’s “Rome” processors, the second generation of Epyc processors that the company will be putting into the field, are a key step for the company on its | Continue reading
It might have been difficult to see this happening a mere few years ago, but the National Nuclear Security Administration and one of its key | Continue reading
IBM, Google, and D-Wave tend to garner the headlines about quantum computing, but aside from a brief hubbub around the Tangle Lake quantum chip | Continue reading
AMD president and chief executive officer Lisa Su is fond of saying that the road to Rome goes through Naples as a way of reminding everyone that they | Continue reading
AMD is hosting its “Next Horizon” datacenter event in San Francisco this week, and archrival Intel, which is losing some market share to AMD but not | Continue reading
NVM-Express has been creating a quiet revolution in servers for several years now, providing a way for flash storage to bypass the traditional storage | Continue reading
While processors and now GPUs tend to get all of the glory when it comes to high performance computing, for the past three decades as distributed | Continue reading
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 | Continue reading
There are two key barriers to fully exploring the emerging use of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) at the scale found in data centers: capital | Continue reading
Sometimes, you just have to be amazed by a good stroke of luck in the IT sector. Just as its competition in processors was getting the most intense that | Continue reading
The rise in interest in deep learning chips for training and inference has reignited interest in how reduced precision compute can cut down on energy, | Continue reading
IT shops are notorious when it comes to avoiding risk, and this is something that we should be grateful for because it increases the odds that this | Continue reading
Processor makers are pushing down the precision for a range of new and forthcoming devices, driven by a need that balances accuracy with energy-efficient | Continue reading
The data-heavy medical field has long been seen as fertile ground for artificial intelligence (AI), where machine learning and deep learning techniques | Continue reading
It has been a long time since Europe has had indigenous suppliers of the core components that go into high performance computing systems. The European | Continue reading
Recognizing that the most important application of machine learning in HPC is to replace production numerical simulation models with machine learning | Continue reading
The appetite for network bandwidth is insatiable, as is that of compute and storage, but our enthusiasm to acquire larger and larger chunks of all of | Continue reading
There are only so many quantum hardware architectures available but as that number grows, the need to understand which processor is best for specific | Continue reading
It is hard to say for sure, but there is probably as much aggregate computing capacity in the academic supercomputing centers of the world as there are in | Continue reading
Ever since the “Aurora” vector processor designed by NEC was launched last year, we have been wondering if it might be used as a tool to accelerate | Continue reading
The gap between processor architectures in the datacenter server and on the desktop or on our laps or now in our hands thanks to transistor shrinks over | Continue reading
The growth of a new technology as it enters the industry can tend to take on a certain pattern. At first, users begin to get a feel for what it does and | Continue reading
There are an increasing number of ways to do machine learning inference in the datacenter, but one of the increasingly popular means of running inference | Continue reading
We have written much over the last few years about the convergence of deep learning and traditional supercomputing but as the two grow together, it is | Continue reading