After a flurry of new competitors in 2022 at the top of the TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, the first list of 2023 – issued here in Hamburg this morning at the ISC conference – reveals the same top 10 systems in the same order. Still, the HPC community will no doubt […]
‘Combustion-PELE’ on Frontier: Exascale-Class HPC for Improving Engine Efficiency
“Pele” is the Exascale Computing Project’s application suite for high-fidelity detailed simulations of turbulent combustion in open and confined domains. The suite of C++-based codes comprises several repositories — PeleC (compressible solvers), PeleLM/LMeX (low-mach flow solvers), PelePhysics (thermodynamics, transport, and chemistry models), and PeleMP (multiphysics models) — that integrate block-structured adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) and cut-cell methods to simulate multifaceted combustion processes. Pele simulations provide the detailed physics and geometrical flexibility to evaluate the design and operational characteristics of clean, efficient, next-generation combustion technologies, including advanced ICEs for automotive, industrial, and aviation applications.
SiPearl: €90M Series A Round Closes to Launch Arm-based Rhea HPC Chip
Maisons-Laffitte, France — April 5, 2023 — SiPearl, the French company building Rhea, the energy-efficient HPC microprocessor, has raised €90m financing for the 1st closing of its Series A will be used to commercialize Rhea in early 2024. SiPearl said Rhea is the first energy-efficient HPC-dedicated microprocessor designed to work with any third-party accelerator (GPU, artificial […]
Orion: Frontier’s Massive File System
We’re accustomed to the massive scale of everying associated with exascale supercomputing. Now we’re getting details on the file system that will support Frontier, the world’s first exascale-certified system housed at Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s High-Performance Computing Storage and Archive Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The file system, called Orion, consists of 50 cabinets […]
HPE DoD Webinar April 27: Bringing Exascale HPC to the Masses
There will be an HPE DoD webinar on Thursday, April 27 from 2-3 pm ET entitled “Bringing Exascale to the Masses.” The speaker will be Steve Heibein, public sector AI chief technologist, HPE. For registration information, go here. This webinar will present the latest hardware platforms bringing exascale features to rack-scale, server-scale and the tactical […]
Intel Alters HPC-AI Roadmap: ‘Rialto Bridge’ GPU Discontinued
After business hours on Friday, Intel released information on a “streamlined and simplified” data center GPU roadmap with direct impact on HPC and AI. The new plan calls for the discontinuation of the “Rialto Bridge” GPU, which was to have succeeded the Ponte Vecchio chip that itself was delayed several years before shipments began last […]
Let’s Talk Exascale: ALCF’s Katherine Riley Talks Aurora Deployment, Impactful Science and Partnering with ECP
In this episode of the “Let’s Talk Exascale” podcast, the Exascale Computing Project’s (ECP) Scott Gibson talks with Katherine Riley, director of science at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility. Her mission is to lead a team of ALCF computational science experts who work with facility users to maximize their use of the facility’s computing resources. […]