HPC
When things aren’t blowing up or burning down as of late, there’s still the matter of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. While the first generation of vaccines move carefully closer to approval, there’s still a lot of research left to be done, and various technology industry companies and consortiums have been stepping up to provide computing resources for those efforts. One such participant has been AMD, whom in June announced that the company would be donating 7 petaflops of high-performance computing systems, and now this morning is announcing that they are preparing for a second round of awards, which will entail a further 5 petaflops of hardware. As with AMD’s previous efforts, the second round of donations from the company’s COVID-19 HPC fund will see the...
SiPearl Lets Rhea Design Leak: 72x Zeus Cores, 4x HBM2E, 4-6 DDR5
In what seems to be a major blunder by the SiPearl PR team, a recent visit by a local French politician resulted in the public Twitter posting in what...
28 by Andrei Frumusanu on 9/8/2020
HPC Systems Special Offer: Two A64FX Nodes in a 2U for $40k
It was recently announced that the Fugaku supercomputer, located at Riken in Japan, has scored the #1 position on the TOP500 supercomputer list, as well as #1 positions in...
38 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/26/2020
AMD Scores First Top 10 Zen Supercomputer… at NVIDIA
One of the key metrics we’ve been waiting for since AMD launched its Zen architecture was when it would re-enter the top 10 supercomputer list. The previous best AMD...
47 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/22/2020
New #1 Supercomputer: Fugaku in Japan, with A64FX, take Arm to the Top with 415 PetaFLOPs
High performance computing is now at a point in its existence where to be the number one, you need very powerful, very efficient hardware, lots of it, and lots...
46 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/22/2020
European Processor Initiative Backed SiPearl Announces Licensing of Arm Zeus Neoverse CPU IP
SiPearl, a new France-based company that is being backed and receiving grants from the European Comission’s European Processor Initiative project, has announced that is has licensed Arm’s next-generation Neoverse...
10 by Andrei Frumusanu on 4/21/2020
IBM & Partners to Fight COVID-19 with Supercomputers, Forms COVID-19 HPC Consortium
The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted multiple business events as well as high-tech product launches in the recent months and has all the...
22 by Anton Shilov on 3/24/2020
El Capitan Supercomputer Detailed: AMD CPUs & GPUs To Drive 2 Exaflops of Compute
Back in August, the United States Department of Energy and Cray announced plans for a third United States exascale supercomputer, El Capitan. Scheduled to be installed in Lawrence Livermore...
55 by Ryan Smith on 3/4/2020
Analyzing Intel’s Discrete Xe-HPC Graphics Disclosure: Ponte Vecchio, Rambo Cache, and Gelato
It has been a couple of weeks since Intel formally provided some high-level detail on its new discrete graphics strategy. The reason for the announcements and disclosures centered around...
47 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 12/24/2019
Intel’s 2021 Exascale Vision in Aurora: Two Sapphire Rapids CPUs with Six Ponte Vecchio GPUs
For the last few of years, when discussing high performance computing, it has been tough to avoid hearing the word ‘exascale’. Even last month, on 10/18, HPC twitter was...
43 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/17/2019
Intel’s Xe for HPC: Ponte Vecchio with Chiplets, EMIB, and Foveros on 7nm, Coming 2021
Today is Intel’s pre-SC19 HPC Devcon event, and with Raja Koduri on stage, the company has given a small glimpse into its high-performance compute accelerator strategy for 2021. Intel...
16 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/17/2019
Raja Koduri at Intel HPC Devcon Keynote Live Blog (4pm MT, 11pm UTC)
Prior to the annual Supercomputing conference, Intel hosts its HPC Developer Conference a couple of days before. This year's HPC Devcon keynote talk is from Intel SVP, Chief Architect...
55 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/17/2019
Hewlett Packard Enterprise to Acquire Cray for $1.3 Billion
This morning Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Cray are announcing that HPE will be buying out the supercomputer maker for roughly 1.3 billion dollars. Intending to use Cray’s knowledge and...
46 by Ryan Smith on 5/17/2019
US Dept. of Energy Announces Frontier Supercomputer: Cray and AMD to Build 1.5 Exaflop Machine
The history of the computing industry is one of constant progress. Processors get faster, storage gets cheaper, and memory gets denser. We see the repercussions of this advancement through...
77 by Ryan Smith on 5/7/2019
TACC Frontera: Targeting 210W Next-Gen Xeons and Extreme Performance
The Frontera supercomputer is the next generation high performance machine set to debut at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). As part of Intel’s HPC Forum, being held just...
9 by Ian Cutress on 11/12/2018
Intel Offers More Cascade Lake-AP Performance Numbers
One of the announcements from last week involved Intel and its new Cascade Lake Advanced Performance category of processors to launch next year. These new processors will be based...
52 by Ian Cutress on 11/11/2018
Hot Chips 2018: Fujitsu's A64FX Arm Core Live Blog
Remember back when Arm announced Scalable Vector Extensions? Well Fujitsu has made an Arm CPU that uses it with a 512-bit width. The presentation looks super interesting, so follow...
9 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/21/2018
Samsung Kicks Off Mass Production of 64GB RDIMMs Using 16Gbit Chips
Back in March, Samsung first demonstrated their next-generation 64GB DDR4 Registered DIMMs. Based on Samsung’s new 16Gbit DDR4 memory chips, these new RDIMMs would offer 64GB of memory capacity...
7 by Ryan Smith on 6/11/2018
Cray Adds AMD EPYC Processors to CS500 Cluster Supercomputers
Cray this week announced plans to offer AMD’s EPYC-based CS500 cluster supercomputers later this year. The Cray CS500 clusters will be based on ultra-dense 2-way servers each featuring up...
10 by Anton Shilov on 4/19/2018
NVIDIA Develops NVLink Switch: NVSwitch, 18 Ports For DGX-2 & More
Back in 2016 when NVIDIA launched the Pascal GP100 GPU and associated Tesla cards, one of the consequences of their increased server focus for Pascal was that interconnect bandwidth...
22 by Ryan Smith on 3/27/2018
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