High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC
WEBA good mid-September morn to you! In this week’s HPC News Bytes, Shahin and Doug offer a rapid (6:27) run-through of recent developments in the world of HPC-AI, including: Oracle Cloud’s 130K Blackwell-powered supercluster, AMD and Intel poised to gain in the GPU market?, AI’s impact on data storage in the changing IT landscape ...
National Security Agency Awards HPE $2B HPC-as-a-Service
WEBSep 1, 2021 · Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced it has been awarded a $2 billion contract over 10 years with the National Security Agency (NSA) to deliver HPE’s high performance computing (HPC) technology as a service through the HPE GreenLake platform.. The collaboration will be designed to enable the NSA to harness growing AI and data needs more efficiently to create insights and ...
The US-China Supercomputing Race, Post-Exascale HPC
WEBMay 28, 2021 · All over the world, HPC has burst into geopolitics. HPC – broadly defined here as advanced supercomputing combined with big AI – is at the fault lines of national and regional rivalries, particularly between the U.S. and China, expanding in power, cost, intensity and in potential impact. Which is to say that global players put […]
OpenHPC: Community Building Blocks for HPC Systems
WEBAug 20, 2019 · In this video from HPCKP’19, Karl Schultz from TACC presents: OpenHPC: Community Building Blocks for HPC Systems.. Over the last several years, OpenHPC has emerged as a community-driven stack providing a variety of common, pre-built ingredients to deploy and manage an HPC Linux cluster including provisioning tools, resource management, I/O clients, runtimes, development tools, containers ...
Accelerating HPC with Intel FPGAs - insideHPC
WEBDec 11, 2017 · FPGAs can improve performance per watt, bandwidth and latency. In addition, they can enhance CPU-based processing by accelerating algorithms and minimizing bottlenecks for a wide variety of workloads. The Intel Stratix 10 FPGA is a product that features the HyperFlex core fabric architecture built on …
NVIDIA Announces HGX H200 Systems and Cloud Instances
WEBDENVER—SC23—Nov. 13, 2023—NVIDIA today announced the HGX H200 that is based on the Hopper architecture and features the H200 Tensor Core GPU with advanced memory to handle massive amounts of data for generative AI and high performance computing workloads.. NVIDIA said the H200 is the first GPU to offer HBM3e — faster, larger memory to fuel the acceleration of genAI and large language ...
What is high performance computing? - insideHPC
WEBHigh Performance Computing most generally refers to the practice of aggregating computing power in a way that delivers much higher performance than one could get out of a typical desktop computer or workstation in order to solve large problems in science, engineering, or business. It turns out that defining “HPC” is kind of like defining ...
Honeywell Quantum and Cambridge Quantum Combine to Form …
WEBDec 1, 2021 · CAMBRIDGE, UK and BROOMFIELD, CO., Nov. 30, 2021 – Two companies in the quantum computing industry have combined to create Quantinuum, aimed at accelerating development of quantum computing and innovation of quantum technologies in a platform agnostic manner to deliver quantum-enabled solutions for intractable problems that classical computers have not been able to solve. Cambridge […]
SRC Leads JUMP 2.0 Microelectronics Consortium - insideHPC
WEBJan. 4, 2023 — DARPA, along with the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) and industry and academic stakeholders, is kicking off the Joint University Microelectronics Program 2.0 (JUMP 2.0). The SRC-led effort expands on the original JUMP collaboration aimed at accelerating U.S. advances in information and communications technologies. The consortium created under JUMP 2.0 will pursue ...
Double-precision CPUs vs. Single-precision GPUs; HPL vs
WEBJul 20, 2021 · In short: HPL scores HPC systems based on their double-precision (64-bit) capabilities carried out by traditional, CPU-based supercomputers, while HPL-AI benchmarking is based on single-precision (16- or 32-bit GPU) arithmetic used in …