[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Since the beginning of human existence, people have looked into the night sky and wondered how the universe began. Cosmologists using the UK’s Memory Intensive DiRAC HPC service at Durham ….
Durham University Cosmologists, DiRAC and Dell Improve HPC Energy Efficiency without Sacrificing Performance
May 1, 2024 by
Navy DoD Supercomputing Resource Center Adds ‘Nautilus’ Penguin HPC System
April 27, 2023 by
STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Mississippi – The Navy DoD Supercomputing Resource Center (Navy DSRC) has announced an addition to its lineup of supercomputers: Nautilus, a Penguin TrueHPC supercomputer with a peak performance of 8.2 petaFLOPS, 176,128 compute cores, 382 TB of memory, and 26 petabytes of storage. It completed its final testing in April 2023 and features 48 […]
Azure: HBv3 VMs for HPC up to 80% Faster with AMD Milan-X CPUs
November 9, 2021 by
Microsoft Azure has announced that a preview is now live for Azure HBv3 virtual machines powered by 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors with AMD 3D V-cache, codenamed “Milan-X.” The processors significantly improve the performance, scaling efficiency, and cost-effectiveness of a variety of memory performance-bound workloads, such as CFD, explicit finite element analysis, computational geoscience, weather […]
Gelsinger Speaks: Intel’s New CEO Debuts Today – What Will He Say?
March 23, 2021 by
Speculation abounds about Pat Gelsinger’s first public appearance as CEO of Intel at a webinar (5 pm Eastern Time) today that will capture close attention from a host of the company’s core audiences: customers, business partners, employees, industry and financial analysts – and the HPC community. The webinar, confidently called “Intel Unleashed: Engineering the Future,” […]
AMD Launches 7nm ‘Milan’ EPYC Chips, Ups Price/Performance Ante for HPC, Data Center CPUs
March 15, 2021 by
Striving to continue on its path back to HPC and data center processor market prominence, AMD this morning introduced a new series of EPYC “Milan” CPUs that industry analysts and customers say looks to be a price/performance juggernaut. The EPYC 7003 series (SKUs below), designed by AMD and fabricated using Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s 7-nanometer […]
