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The Next Platform, Monday, November 18th, 2024
AMD Now Has More Compute On The Top500 Than Nvidia
There has been a lot more churn on the November Top500 supercomputer rankings that is the talk of the SC24 conference in Atlanta this week than there was in the list that came out in June at the ISC24 conference in Hamburg, Germany back in May, and there are some interesting developments in the new machinery that is being installed.
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OrionX, Monday, November 18th, 2024
@HPCpodcast-93: TOP500 at SC24 Conference (18 m)
SC24 is off to a great start with over 17,000 attendees, 480 exhibitors from 29 countries, and new TOP500 list that features a new champion!
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SiliconANGLE, Tuesday, November 5th, 2024
What to Expect During SC24: Join theCUBE Nov. 19-21
High-performance computing, storage and networking are reshaping industries and pushing limits.
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insideHPC, Tuesday, October 29th, 2024
Intersect360 Research Issues Report On Issues Facing HPC-AI Industry
HPC-AI industry analyst firm Intersect360 Research has released a new report titled Issues Facing the HPC-AI Industry: Insights from the Advisory Committees of the HPC-AI Leadership Organization (HALO).
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HPVwire, Thursday, October 17th, 2024
In This Club, You Must 'Earn The Exa'
There have been some recent press releases and headlines with the phrase 'AI Exascale' in them. Other than flaunting the word exascale or even zettascale, these stories do not provide enough information to justify using the term exascale.
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HPCWire, Monday, September 23rd, 2024
How GPUs Are Embedded in the HPC Landscape
Grasping the basics of Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) architecture is crucial for understanding how these powerful processors function, particularly in high-performance computing (HPC) and other demanding computational tasks.
more → HPCWire, Monday, September 23rd, 2024
Sustainable Computing for HPC and AI
Reducing energy consumption and associated CO2 emissions has become a priority for organizations of all sizes. Climate concerns are now top-of-mind among customers, employees, and shareholders, and as a result, most organizations have made public commitments to reduce emissions as part of corporate ESG programs.
more → SiliconANGLE, Friday, August 16th, 2024
Transforming AI Infrastructure: The Role Of Networking In High-Performance Computing
AI infrastructure is rapidly transforming industries, especially in networking and data transfer.
more → HPCWire, Tuesday, August 13th, 2024
Hyperion Research Announces a 36.7% Increase in the HPC/AI Market Size
AI has changed everything, including HPC. A recent HPCwire article discussed how AI-augmented HPC is creating a large paradigm shift in many aspects of the market and community.
more → insideHPC, Thursday, August 8th, 2024
Preparing Networks for the Increasing Demands of HPC and AI
Exponential growth of computing power can't last forever. We will hit a physical barrier where wires need to be thinner than atoms. However, when it comes to this computing power in action powering high performance computing or artificial intelligence applications, it's not lack of computing power we should be concerned with.
more → HPCWire, Monday, August 5th, 2024
HPC Still Looks Past Security, But New Guidelines And Tools Push It Ahead
A U.S. government working group has published final guidelines on implementing security in high-performance computers. To support that, government labs and research labs detailing tools and guidelines to implement security in HPC hardware and workflows.
more → OrionX, Tuesday, July 9th, 2024
@HPCpodcast-87: Penguin Solutions on AI Infrastructure - Industry View
The @HPCpodcasts Industry View feature takes on major issues in the world of HPC, AI, and other advanced technologies through the lens of industry leaders.
more → Data Center Knowledge, Tuesday, June 25th, 2024
The Race For Exascale: A Recent History Of The World's Fastest Supercomputers
Nations jostle for bragging rights to have the world's fastest supercomputer.
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HPCwire, Wednesday, June 12th, 2024
Labs Keep Supercomputers Alive For Ten Years As Vendors Pull Support Early
Laboratories are running supercomputers for much longer, beyond the typical lifespan, as vendors prematurely deprecate the hardware and stop providing support.
more → HPCWire, Thursday, May 23rd, 2024
ISC 2024 Takeaways: Love For Top500, Extending HPC Systems, And Media Bashing
The ISC High Performance show is typically about time-to-science, but breakout sessions also focused on Europe's tech sovereignty, server infrastructure, storage, throughput, and new computing technologies.
more → The Next Platform, Monday, May 13th, 2024
Top500 Supers: This Is Peak NVIDIA For Accelerated Supercomputers
If high bandwidth memory was widely available and we had cheap and reliable fusion power, there never would have been a move to use GPU and other compute engines as vector and matrix math offload engines.
more → HPCWire, Monday, May 13th, 2024
NVIDIA: Data Centers Need New Metric For Energy Efficiency
Data centers need an upgraded dashboard to guide their journey to greater energy efficiency, one that shows progress running real-world applications. The formula for energy efficiency is simple: work done divided by energy used. Applying it to data centers calls for unpacking some details.
more → HPCWire, Monday, May 13th, 2024
Jupiter Exascale Supercomputer Claims 1St Place In Green500
The first module of the exascale supercomputer JUPITER, named JEDI, is ranked first place in the Green500 list of the most energy-efficient supercomputers worldwide, as announced today by Forschungszentrum Julich and EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, together with the ParTec-Eviden supercomputer consortium at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) in Hamburg.
more → HPCWire, Monday, May 13th, 2024
EuroHPC Supercomputers Maintain Prominence with 3 in TOP500's Top 10 and Deucalion's Debut
The results were announced today at the ISC High Performance 2024 conference in Hamburg, Germany. In its latest submission to the semi-annual list of the world's most powerful supercomputers, Aurora registered 1.012 exaflops using 87% of the system's 10,624 nodes. After making its Top500 debut in November 2023, the Argonne system retained its spot as the second fastest supercomputer and joined DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Frontier as the world's second exascale machine. Aurora also earned the top spot in a measure of artificial intelligence (AI) performance, achieving 10.6 exaflops on the HPL-MxP benchmark.
more → HPCWire, Monday, May 13th, 2024
Argonne's Aurora Supercomputer Breaks Exascale Barrier
The Aurora supercomputer at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has officially surpassed the exascale threshold, measuring over a quintillion calculations per second on the new Top500 list.
more → insideHPC, Friday, May 3rd, 2024
ISC 2024's Wednesday Keynote: Two Trends Transforming HPC
Wednesday night's keynote session at the ISC 2024 Conference in Hamburg takes on the future of HPC with deep dives into two themes: the rise of specialized architectures and new application workflow capabilities that reduce the terrors of workload implementation.
more → HPCWire, Monday, April 29th, 2024
Intersect360 Research Sizes Worldwide HPC-AI Market at $85.7B
Intersect360 Research has released its annual Worldwide HPC-AI Market 2023 Total Market Size and 2024-2028 Forecast, detailing the tremendous growth of the HPC-AI market in 2023.
more → HPCWire, Thursday, April 4th, 2024
Hyperion Research: Eleven HPC Predictions For 2024
HPCwire is happy to announce a new series with Hyperion Research - a fact-based market research firm focusing on the HPC market.
more → InfoQ, Friday, March 15th, 2024
The Journey To A Million Ops / Sec / Node In Venice
Alex Dubrouski, Gaojie Liu discuss some of the tricks used in their pursuit to lower read latency and to reach 1M operations per second per node.
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FORTRA, Thursday, February 22nd, 2024
In-Memory Computing Could Be The Inference Breakthrough AI Needs
Generative AI is unlocking incredible business opportunities for efficiency, but we still face a formidable challenge undermining widespread adoption: the exorbitant cost of running inference.
more → The Next Web, Tuesday, February 13th, 2024
Cloud-Based HPC To Improve Performance And Save Resources
Trillion-dollar industries are exploring new ways of increasing high performance computing (HPC) performance, while saving resources and reducing costs. Scientists and engineers are looking to build robust HPC infrastructure to run complex workloads in the most energy-efficient approach.
more → insideHPC, Wednesday, January 31st, 2024
Integrated Research Infrastructure: Argonne Combines HPC And Experiments To Speed Discovery
When the massive upgrade at the Advanced Photon Source (APS) at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory is completed later this year, experiments at the powerful X-ray light source are expected to generate 100-200 petabytes, or 100-200 million gigabytes, of scientific data per year.
more → ITProToday, Monday, January 8th, 2024
AI's New Frontier: Training Trillion-Parameter Models With Much Fewer GPUs
Researchers used just 8% of the world's most powerful supercomputer to train a model the size of ChatGPT.
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The Next Platform, Monday, November 20,2023
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. At the very least, the GenAI tsunami makes it easier to argue for hardware budgets even though it is extremely difficult to get your hands on any datacenter-class GPU these days. And because of this, organizations that are buying hybrid AI-HPC systems are going to be able to do more HPC processing as their systems get upgraded to do more AI - at least in theory.
more → The Next Platform, Friday, November 17,2023
Pushing The Limits Of HPC And AI Is Becoming A Sustainability Headache
'If you want more performance, you need to buy more hardware, and that means a bigger system; that means more energy dissipation and more cooling demand,' University of Utah professor Daniel Reed explained as a recent session at the SC23 supercomputing conference in Denver.
more → Networkworld, Wednesday, November 15,2023
Intel Updates HPC Processor Roadmap
Intel kicked off the Supercomputing 2023 conference with a series of high performance computing (HPC) announcements, including a new Xeon line and Gaudi AI processor.
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siliconANGLE, Wednesday, November 15,2023
Addressing HPC's Growing Resource Challenge
The high-performance computing market is booming at over $35 billion in annual revenue. Fueled by the ongoing wave of new market developments, that number should soar as the decade's end approaches.
more → Top500,org, Tuesday, November 14,2023
The 62nd Edition Of The Top500
The 62nd edition of the TOP500 reveals that the Frontier system retains its top spot and is still the only exascale machine on the list. However, five new or upgraded systems have shaken up the Top 10.
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ZDNet, Tuesday, November 14,2023
Linux Foundation Backs High-Performance And Exascale Computing
The Linux Foundation is backing several different high-performance computing initiatives with two new foundations.
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HPCWire, Tuesday, November 14,2023
Forget Zettascale, Trouble Is Brewing In Scaling Exascale Supercomputers
In 2021, Intel famously declared its goal to get to zettascale supercomputing by 2027, or scaling today's Exascale computers by 1,000 times.
more → The Next Platform, Monday, November 13,2023
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. That's fun and interesting, of course, but the real thing about the Top500 is the architectural lessons it gives us when we see new systems emerge on the Top500 and we get to see how choices of compute, memory, interconnect, storage, and budget all play out at a system level and across nations and industries.
more → insideHPC, Monday, November 13,2023
A New Day for the TOP500: Aurora No. 2 at 585 PFlops, 4 New Top 10 Entrants, Frontier Still No. 1
Attendees at the SC23 conference here in Denver have been greeted by a roiled TOP500 ranking of the world's most powerful supercomputers, along with significant news about a would-be exascale HPC system coming in at no. 2 on the list.
more → OpenMP, Thursday, November 9,2023
OpenMP ARB Releases Technical Report 12
The OpenMP Architecture Review Board (ARB) has released Technical Report 12, the second preview of version 6.0 of the OpenMP API, which will be released in 2024.
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insideHPC, Tuesday, November 7,2023
Optical I/O Takes Center Stage at SC23
HPC demands the greater throughput, lower latency, and improved power efficiency promised by in-package optical interconnects
more → The Next Platform, Thursday, October 5,2023
Details Emerge On Europe's First Exascale Supercomputer
Some details are emerging on Europe's first exascale system, codenamed 'Jupiter' and to be installed at the Julich Supercomputing Center in Germany in 2024.
more → The Next Platform, Monday, October 2,2023
The First Peeks At The DoE Post-Exascale Supercomputers
Other than Hewlett Packard Enterprise, who wants to build the future NERSC-10 supercomputer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory or the future OLCF-6 system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory?
more → HPCWire, Wednesday, September 20,2023
Air Force Research Lab Unveils Newest Supercomputer, 'Raider,' With 12 PetaFLOPS Capacity
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is now home to its newest supercomputer, named the Raider. The FY21 technology insertion, or TI-21, system is part of the DOD High Performance Computing Modernization Program.
more → HPCWire, Monday, September 18,2023
Experience The Future Of HPC And AI At SC23
Accelerating innovation and discovery in today's world requires a different approach to modern high performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI). This approach is designed with exascale-class technologies, powerful infrastructure, and the right software to handle massive data sets and rapidly transform insights into meaningful results.
more → The Next Platform, Friday, September 15,2023
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.
more → Gestalt I, Thursday, September 7,2023
Gestalt IT: To Infiniband And Beyond! (17 M)
InfiniBand is the dominant method of connecting AI processing systems. Is there some kind of significant performance benefit? Or is it more of a legacy choice? There are other options on the horizon but you need to understand the differences and how they need to be built to take advantage of needed performance.
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HPCWire, Wednesday, August 30,2023
Building The Best Of Both Worlds Between HPC And Enterprise Computing
The standard architecture of high performance computing (HPC) cluster environments has remained largely static since the mid-1990s. Before this, supercomputers were built usually as one-off, highly specific architectures that were uniquely designed for that one machine-an approach which couldn't be massively scaled.
more → The Next Platform, Thursday, August 24,2023
Cornelis Unveils Ambitious Omni-Path Interconnect Roadmap
As we are fond of pointing out, when it comes to high performance, low latency InfiniBand-style networks, Nvidia is not the only choice in town and has not been since the advent of InfiniBand interconnects back in the late 1990s.
more → ITProToday, Wednesday, August 2,2023
Top 10 Energy-Efficient Supercomputers
The field of supercomputing is making strides in energy efficiency and sustainability. Here's a detailed overview of the top 10 green supercomputers listed by the Green500.
more → insideHPC, Wednesday, August 2,2023
McKinsey On The Future Of Compute: The Rise Of Domain-Specific Architectures
There's more to the rise in HPC and AI of domain-specific architectures (DSAs), starting with GPUs, than just the superior throughput they can deliver. Yes, the deceleration of Moore's Law and Dennard scaling are the primary reasons for the CPU's decline in dominance. But other factors are playing a strong, enabling role for DSAs.
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