By Dhabaleswar K. (DK) Panda; Power is considered the major impediment in designing the next-generation exascale systems. In recent years, the TOP500 and Green500 lists have been focusing on both performance and power consumption.
Atos announced that the French CEA and its industrial partners at the Centre for Computing Research and Technology, CCRT, have invested in a new 1.4 petaflop Bull supercomputer.
By Dona Crawford; Last July, President Obama issued an executive order that created a coordinated federal strategy for HPC research, development, and deployment called the U.S. National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI). This bold, necessary step toward building the next generation of supercomputers has inaugurated a new era for U.S. high performance computing (HPC).
Watching Intel over the years as they have continually integrated more of PC and server resources into their silicon and provided consistent architecture roadmaps, it’s not surprising that they are now taking that approach on a system level to advance high-performance computing (HPC).
