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Cray, Fujitsu Both Bringing Fujitsu A64FX-based Supercomputers to Market in 2020

The number of top-tier HPC systems makers has shrunk due to a steady march of M&A activity, but there is increased diversity and choice of processing components with Intel Xeon, AMD Epyc, IBM Power, and Arm server chips all in the mix (and that’s just on the CPU side). A partnership announced today between Cray […]

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Cray and Fujitsu to bring Game-Changing Arm A64FX Processor to Global HPC Market

Today Cray and Fujitsu announced a partnership to offer high performance technologies for the exascale era. Under the alliance agreement, Cray is developing the first-ever commercial supercomputer powered by the Fujitsu A64FX Arm-based processor with high-memory bandwidth (HBM) and supported on the proven Cray CS500 supercomputer architecture and programming environment.

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Intel showcases New Class of AI Hardware from Cloud to Edge

Today Intel unveiled new products designed to accelerate AI system development and deployment from cloud to edge. "In its key announcement, Intel demonstrated its Intel Nervana Neural Network Processors (NNP) for training (NNP-T1000) and inference (NNP-I1000) — Intel’s first purpose-built ASICs for complex deep learning with incredible scale and efficiency for cloud and data center customers. Intel also revealed its next-generation Intel Movidius Myriad Vision Processing Unit (VPU) for edge media, computer vision and inference applications."

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Oil And Gas Giants Build Up Their Strategic GPU Reserves

When you are always looking for what platform architecture will be mainstream, you have to look at what those on the bleeding edge are doing to see what the leading edge might do, which in turn tells you what everyone else might eventually do. …

Oil And Gas Giants Build Up Their Strategic GPU Reserves was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

NASA’s Latest Software Catalog Offers New Codes, Easier Way to Download Free Software

Nov. 12, 2019 — Whether NASA is landing humans on the Moon or rovers on Mars, every space mission requires advanced software. With a variety of technical applications, NASA software can also benefit users outside of the agency. NASA has released its 2019-2020 software catalog, which contains more codes than ever before. Available in print and […]

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The HPC Community Should Lead In Composability

It is a rare HPC cluster that is actually upgraded – meaning some of the components in the servers or the networks or the storage that comprise the system are swapped out somewhere about halfway through its lifecycle and replaced with cheaper, faster, or more capacious components. …

The HPC Community Should Lead In Composability was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

ARM processors are capable of doing HPC with more than decent performance

At the 75th HPC User Forum in Edinburgh, Scotland, Simon Burbidge, Director of the Advanced Computing Research Centre (ACRC) at the University of Bristol, talked about ARM processors in the UK Catalyst HPE and Isambard Cray machines. He explained what you can do with ARM processors, whether they work or not, whether they might be useful, and share this with the community at large and encourage people to join up with this, if they want to try some codes on these new machines..

EPCC goes beyond HPC by embracing data science

At the 75th HPC User Forum in Edinburgh, Scotland, Nick Brown, staff member at EPCC, formerly known as the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, gave a talk about HPC and data science at EPCC. EPCC is a supercomputing centre based at the University of Edinburgh. The University was founded in 1583 and is the fourth oldest in Scotland. It has about 30.000 students. Some of its alumni include Charles Darwin, James Clark Maxwell and Thomas Bayes. EPCC has been around for 30 years and has built itself up as one of the leading centres for high-performance computing in Europe. In the past year, EPCC has moved to the centre of Edinburgh into a strategic and brand spanking new building which is purpose-built. EPCC has a staf of about 120 people across a whole variety of different disciplines and areas of expertise. 80 to 85 percent of EPCC staff is hosted in the new building while 15 to 20 percent is working in the data centre on the outskirts of Edinburgh, where EPCC physically hosts the machines..