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TACC Fires Up “Vista” Bridge To Future “Horizon” Supercomputer

Timothy Prickett Morgan — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 18:38:12 +0000

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.

With Vista, TACC Now Has Three Paths To Its Future Horizon Supercomputer

Timothy Prickett Morgan — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 23:44:34 +0000

The national supercomputing centers in the United States, Europe, and China are not only rich enough to build very powerful machines, but they are rich enough, thanks to their national governments, to underwrite and support multiple and somewhat incompatible architectures to hedge their bets and mitigate their risk. …

With Vista, TACC Now Has Three Paths To Its Future Horizon Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Stampede3: A Smaller HPC System That Will Get More Work Done

Timothy Prickett Morgan — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 16:21:23 +0000

All of the major HPC centers of the world, whether they are funded by straight science or nuclear weapons management, have enough need and enough money to have two classes of supercomputers. …

Stampede3: A Smaller HPC System That Will Get More Work Done was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

NSF Puts $10 Million Into Composable Supercomputer

Timothy Prickett Morgan — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 20:43:44 +0000

If they are doing their jobs right, the high performance computing centers around the world in academic and government institutions are supposed to be on the cutting edge of any new technology that boosts the performance of simulation, modeling, analytics, and artificial intelligence. …

NSF Puts $10 Million Into Composable Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Cascade Lake at Heart of 2019 TACC Supercomputer

Nicole Hemsoth Prickett — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 20:03:15 +0000

The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) will soon be home to a top-tier supercomputer with the 2019 arrival of the “Frontera” system. …

Cascade Lake at Heart of 2019 TACC Supercomputer was written by Nicole Hemsoth Prickett at The Next Platform.

TACC Tapped for NSF’s Next Supercomputer

Jeffrey Burt — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 17:22:45 +0000

The Texas Advanced Computer Center (TACC) will house the latest leadership-class supercomputer funded by the National Science Foundation, a project that stands as a tribute to the NSF’s continued efforts to push supercomputing projects and the latest indication of the ground the organization is losing to the Department of Energy (DOE) in this effort. …

TACC Tapped for NSF’s Next Supercomputer was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.