HPC Archives - The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/category/hpc/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Wed, 04 Sep 2024 19:14:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://www.nextplatform.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-PlatformStack-150x150.jpg HPC Archives - The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/category/hpc/ 32 32 86113652 TACC Fires Up “Vista” Bridge To Future “Horizon” Supercomputer https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/09/04/tacc-fires-up-vista-bridge-to-future-horizon-supercomputer/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/09/04/tacc-fires-up-vista-bridge-to-future-horizon-supercomputer/#comments Wed, 04 Sep 2024 18:38:12 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144647 The Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Austin is the flagship datacenter for supercomputing for the US National Science Foundation, and so what TACC does – and doesn’t do – is a kind of bellwether for academic supercomputing. …

TACC Fires Up “Vista” Bridge To Future “Horizon” Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/09/04/tacc-fires-up-vista-bridge-to-future-horizon-supercomputer/feed/ 1 144647 Why The UK Should Have Its Own Exascale AI/HPC Machine, And How https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/14/why-the-uk-should-have-its-own-exascale-ai-hpc-machine-and-how/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/14/why-the-uk-should-have-its-own-exascale-ai-hpc-machine-and-how/#comments Wed, 14 Aug 2024 20:49:21 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144525 We were away on vacation at a lakeside beach in northern Michigan when we caught the news that the UK government was pulling the plug on a plan for an exascale supercomputer to be installed at the EPCC at the University of Edinburgh. …

Why The UK Should Have Its Own Exascale AI/HPC Machine, And How was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/14/why-the-uk-should-have-its-own-exascale-ai-hpc-machine-and-how/feed/ 12 144525 AIST Taps HPE And Nvidia For Next-Gen AI Cloud Machine https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/12/aist-taps-hpe-and-nvidia-for-next-gen-ai-cloud-machine/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/12/aist-taps-hpe-and-nvidia-for-next-gen-ai-cloud-machine/#comments Fri, 12 Jul 2024 16:00:26 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144397 The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Japan is going to be installing the third generation of its AI Bridging Cloud Infrastructure 3.0 supercomputer. …

AIST Taps HPE And Nvidia For Next-Gen AI Cloud Machine was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/12/aist-taps-hpe-and-nvidia-for-next-gen-ai-cloud-machine/feed/ 1 144397 Ruminations About Europe’s “Alice Recoque” Exascale Supercomputer https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/06/25/ruminations-about-europes-alice-recoque-exascale-supercomputer/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/06/25/ruminations-about-europes-alice-recoque-exascale-supercomputer/#comments Tue, 25 Jun 2024 18:15:37 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144347 Designing chips and shepherding them through the foundry and package and assembly is a complex and difficult process, and not having these skills at a national level has profound implications for the competitiveness of those nations. …

Ruminations About Europe’s “Alice Recoque” Exascale Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/06/25/ruminations-about-europes-alice-recoque-exascale-supercomputer/feed/ 2 144347 Companies Need On-Premise HPC – And For More Than AI, Too https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/05/20/companies-need-on-premise-hpc-and-for-more-than-ai-too/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/05/20/companies-need-on-premise-hpc-and-for-more-than-ai-too/#respond Mon, 20 May 2024 16:16:06 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144169 Generative AI and the various capacity and latency needs it has for compute and storage is muscling out almost every other topic when conversations turn to HPC and enterprise. …

Companies Need On-Premise HPC – And For More Than AI, Too was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/05/20/companies-need-on-premise-hpc-and-for-more-than-ai-too/feed/ 0 144169 Top500 Supers: Nvidia Utterly Dominates Those Shiny New Machines https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/05/15/top500-supers-nvidia-utterly-dominates-those-shiny-new-machines/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/05/15/top500-supers-nvidia-utterly-dominates-those-shiny-new-machines/#comments Thu, 16 May 2024 01:04:19 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144156 If you stare at something for a little bit of time and let your mind wander, you can think of a new way to analyze something that you have looked at a bunch of times. …

Top500 Supers: Nvidia Utterly Dominates Those Shiny New Machines was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/05/15/top500-supers-nvidia-utterly-dominates-those-shiny-new-machines/feed/ 8 144156 One Cerebras Wafer Beats An Exascale Super At Molecular Dynamics https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/05/15/one-cerebras-wafer-beats-an-exascale-super-at-molecular-dynamics/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/05/15/one-cerebras-wafer-beats-an-exascale-super-at-molecular-dynamics/#comments Wed, 15 May 2024 14:51:13 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144154 We think that waferscale computing is an interesting and even an inevitable concept for certain kinds of compute and memory. …

One Cerebras Wafer Beats An Exascale Super At Molecular Dynamics was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/05/15/one-cerebras-wafer-beats-an-exascale-super-at-molecular-dynamics/feed/ 8 144154 To Exascale And (Maybe) Beyond! https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/05/14/to-exascale-and-maybe-beyond/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/05/14/to-exascale-and-maybe-beyond/#comments Tue, 14 May 2024 17:25:01 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144144 The difference between “high performance computing” in the general way that many thousands of organizations run traditional simulation and modeling applications and the kind of exascale computing that is only now becoming a little more commonplace is like the difference between a single, two door coupe that goes 65 miles per hour (most of the time) and a fleet of bullet trains that can each hold over 1,300 people and move at more than 300 miles per hour, connecting a country or a continent. …

To Exascale And (Maybe) Beyond! was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/05/14/to-exascale-and-maybe-beyond/feed/ 1 144144 Top500 Supers: This Is Peak Nvidia For Accelerated Supercomputers https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/05/13/top500-supers-this-is-peak-nvidia-for-accelerated-supercomputers/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/05/13/top500-supers-this-is-peak-nvidia-for-accelerated-supercomputers/#comments Mon, 13 May 2024 15:55:36 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144137 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. …

Top500 Supers: This Is Peak Nvidia For Accelerated Supercomputers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/05/13/top500-supers-this-is-peak-nvidia-for-accelerated-supercomputers/feed/ 3 144137 Los Alamos Pushes The Memory Wall With “Venado” Supercomputer https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/04/15/los-alamos-pushes-the-memory-wall-with-venado-supercomputer/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/04/15/los-alamos-pushes-the-memory-wall-with-venado-supercomputer/#comments Mon, 15 Apr 2024 18:55:31 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143988 Today is the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the “Venado” supercomputer, which was hinted at back in April 2021 when Nvidia announced its plans for its first datacenter-class Arm server CPU and which was talked about in some detail – but not really enough to suit our taste for speeds and feeds – back in May 2022 by the folks at Los Alamos National Laboratory where Venado is situated. …

Los Alamos Pushes The Memory Wall With “Venado” Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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