AI
Pushing The Limits Of HPC And AI Is Becoming A Sustainability Headache
As Moore’s law continues to slow, delivering more powerful HPC and AI clusters means building larger, more power hungry facilities. …
HPC
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. …
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. …
AI
AMD’s Instinct GPU Business Is Coiled To Spring
Timing is a funny thing. The summer of 2006 when AMD bought GPU maker ATI Technologies for $5.6 billion and took on both Intel in CPUs and Nvidia in GPUs was the same summer when researchers first started figuring out how to offload single-precision floating point math operations from CPUs to Nvidia GPUs to try to accelerate HPC simulation and modeling workloads. …
HPC
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 Jülich Supercomputing Center in Germany in 2024. …
Compute
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? …
HPC
Sky-High Hurdles, Clouded Judgements for IaaS at Exascale
Back in 2009, I was the editor of a mini-side publication from supercomputing magazine, HPCwire, called HPC in the Cloud. …
HPC
The Race for the First Gordon Bell Climate Supercomputing Prize
At SC23 in November, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) will give out its first-ever ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling at a ceremony in Denver. …
AI
Seismic Data Processing on Waferscale Has Gordon Bell Prize Potential
Scientists from KAUST and engineers from Cerebras Systems have fine-tuned an existing algorithm, Tile Low-Rank Matrix-Vector Multiplications (TLR-MVM), to improve the speed and accuracy of seismic data processing. …