Industry analyst firm Hyperion Research has completed its latest study of high performance computing buyers and users, it’s first since 2017, and the report reveals a quickly evolving and innovating industry in which, among other findings, end users are figuring out how to leverage the variety of compute architectures while also calling for HPC systems […]
Hyperion HPC User-Buyer Study: Demand for Sim-Analytics Systems, a Throughput Boom, FPGAs and AMD GPUs on the Move and Other Findings
February 23, 2021 by Leave a Comment
Summit and Theta Supercomputers Power ML Models for Fusion Energy Research
February 19, 2021 by Leave a Comment
A team led by C.S. Chang at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has used the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s (OLCF’s) 200-petaflop Summit and Argonne Leadership Computing Facility’s (ALCF’s) 11.7-petaflop Theta supercomputers, together with a supervised machine learning program called Eureqa, to find….
GIGABYTE Releases 2U Server: G262-ZR0 with NVIDIA HGX A100 4-GPU
February 19, 2021 by Leave a Comment
Taipei, Taiwan, February 19th 2020 – GIGABYTE Technology, (TWSE: 2376), maker of high-performance servers and workstations, today announced the G262-ZR0 for HPC, AI, and data analytics. Designed to support high-level of performance in GPU computing, the G262-ZR0 incorporates fast PCIe 4.0 throughput in addition to NVIDIA HGX technologies and NVIDIA® NVLink® to provide industry leading […]
Google, Microsoft and Qualcomm Protest Nvidia-Arm Acquisition
February 12, 2021 by Leave a Comment
On the heels of an announcement by Arm Holdings yesterday that its silicon partners in the third quarter of 2020 shipped 6.7 billion Arm-based chips, news stories from CNBC and Bloomberg report that Google, Microsoft and Qualcomm are filing complains to U.S. antitrust regulators about Nvidia’s intended acquisition of Arm from Softbank for $40 billion, […]
Let’s Talk Exascale: Getting Applications Aurora-Ready
February 8, 2021 by Leave a Comment
This episode of Let’s Talk Episode from DOE’s Exascale Computing Project is the first in a series on best practices in preparing applications for the upcoming Aurora exascale supercomputer at the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory. In these discussions, the emphasis will be on optimizing code to run on GPUs and providing developers […]
Things to Know When Assessing, Piloting, and Deploying GPUs – Part 3
February 3, 2021 by Leave a Comment
In this insideHPC Guide, our friends over at WEKA suggest that when organizations decide to move existing applications or new applications to a GPU-influenced system there are many items to consider, such as assessing the new environment’s required components, implementing a pilot program to learn about the system’s future performance, and considering eventual scaling to production levels.
Microchip Technology Inc.: Introducing First PCI Express 5.0 Switches
February 2, 2021 by Leave a Comment
Chandler, Ariz., February 2, 2021 – Microchip Technology Inc. (Nasdaq: MCHP) today announced what it said are the first PCI Express (PCIe) 5.0 switch solutions — the Switchtec PFX PCIe 5.0 family — “doubling the interconnect performance for dense compute, high speed networking and NVM Express (NVMe) storage,” according to the company. Together with the […]
Things to Know When Assessing, Piloting, and Deploying GPUs – Part 2
January 28, 2021 by Leave a Comment
In this insideHPC Guide, our friends over at WEKA suggest that when organizations decide to move existing applications or new applications to a GPU-influenced system there are many items to consider, such as assessing the new environment’s required components, implementing a pilot program to learn about the system’s future performance, and considering eventual scaling to production levels.
UF’s HiPerGator AI: Nvidia Supercomputer Offered to Students and Researchers across State University System
January 27, 2021 by Leave a Comment
January 27, 2021 – University of Florida’s new supercomputer — the fastest artificial intelligence supercomputer in higher education — will soon be available for students and faculty across the State University System, UF Provost Joe Glover announced today. The computer will give faculty and students from across the state computing power in artificial intelligence (AI) […]
Verne Global and Sensa Join to Offer Certified Nvidia DGX System-Based Data Center Solutions
January 27, 2021 by Leave a Comment
London, 27th January 2021 –Verne Global, provider of sustainable data center solutions for high performance computing (HPC), and Sensa, the Icelandic managed service provider and systems integrator, today announced they have partneredto provide organisations with access to Nvidia DGX-Ready colocation services. This collaboration follows Sensa’s recent membership in the Nvidia Partner Network (NPN). Nvidia DGX systems are […]
