[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] How exascale systems have been stood up has been recounted in detail, as has the dramatic moment when Frontier achieved exascale status. Now the focus has shifted to the work research organizations are doing with exascale, how it’s actually changing the world ….
Exascale Day 2024: How Supercomputing at a Billion Billion Calculations Per Second Is Changing the World
October 16, 2024 by
GPU Boost: $5M NSF Enhancement for PSC’s Bridges-2 HPC
August 14, 2024 by
A $4.9-million award from the National Science Foundation has funded an upgrade to the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center’s flagship Bridges-2 supercomputer. The grant allows the center to add Nvidia H100 ….
Exascale: Frontier Supercomputer Used in Molecular Dynamics Simulation of 2M Electrons
July 18, 2024 by
The exascale- class Frontier supercomputer set a new standard for calculating the number of atoms in a molecular dynamics simulation 1,000 times greater in size and speed than previous simulations of its kind, according to Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where the HPC system is housed. The simulation ….
@HPCpodcast: An Analysis of the New Top500 List
May 14, 2024 by
In this episode of @HPCpodcast, sponsored by Lenovo, Shahin and Doug discuss the big news on the Monday of each annual ISC conference in Germany, the release of the new Top500 ranking of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. At ISC 2024 here in Hamburg, we learned that the U.S. now has two exascale-class systems, , the AMD/HPE-Cray Frontier system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and ….
Nvidia Announces Installations of 9 Grace Hopper-Powered Supercomputers
May 13, 2024 by
May 12, 2024 — Nvidia has announced nine new supercomputers using Nvidia Grace Hopper Superchips that combined deliver 200 exaflops, or 200 quintillion calculations per second, of AI processing power. The new supercomputers include EXA1-HE, in France, from CEA and Eviden; Helios at Academic Computer Centre Cyfronet, in Poland, from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE); Alps […]
HPE Launches 35 Pflops ‘Helios’ HPC at Centre Cyfronet AGH in Poland
April 30, 2024 by
KRAKOW, Poland – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) announced that it built a new supercomputer for the Academic Computer Centre Cyfronet of the AGH University of Krakow, making it Poland’s fastest system based on the latest TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers1. The new system, called Helios, is Cyfronet’s fifth-generation supercomputer and will be […]
HPC News Bytes 20240422: New HPC Installs, the State of AI, Bitcoin Halving, Argonne-UICs’ Crabtree Institute
April 22, 2024 by
A good spring moring to you! Here’s a rapid (6:09) route through recent news from HPC-AI, including: new supercomputers installed at Los Alamos and France-CEA, Stanford AI Index Report released on the state of AI….
Exascale Software and NASA’s ‘Nerve-Racking 7 Minutes’ with Mars Landers
March 28, 2024 by
NASA supercomputers have helped several Mars landers survive the nerve-racking seven minutes of terror. During this hair-raising interval, a lander enters the Martian atmosphere and needs to automatically execute many crucial actions in precise order….
Italian Energy Company Eni Acquiring 600 PFLOPS AMD-Powered HPE-Cray EX HPC System
January 23, 2024 by
Italian energy giant Eni, long in the vanguard of commercial adoption of supercomputing, announced it is acquiring a monstrous 600 Pflops HPE-Cray EX4000 HPC system comprised of 3472 nodes, each one with a 64-core AMD EPYC CPU and four AMD Instinct….
AMD-based HPC Systems on TOP500 Grows 39%
November 14, 2023 by
SANTA CLARA, Calif., — Nov. 14, 2023 — Today, AMD said its microprocessors now power 140 supercomputers on the latest Top500 list, representing a 39 percent year-over-year increase. Additionally, AMD powers 80 percent of the top 10 most energy efficient supercomputers in the world based on the latest Green500 list. “AMD technology continues to be […]
