Modern HPC systems include extreme numbers of compute elements and extremely low-latency interconnection networks. In order to exploit the capabilities of these architectures and to meet their demands in scalability, communication software needs to scale and support applications with adequate functionality to express their parallelism. Moreover, communication software should add as little overhead as possible in order to avoid compromising the native performance of the interconnection network. These requirements make the design of high-performance communication software extremely intricate, since they demand minimal memory requirements and low instruction counts and cache activity while meeting stringent performance targets.
The TOP500 authors encourage the HPC community to submit entries for the 56th TOP500 and Green500 lists.
The November 2020 TOP500 list is released during the SC20 Supercomputing Conference.
We are interested in new entries as well as entries that are no longer valid. Please feel free to contact the authors here if you have questions. The guidelines for submission of entries can be found here.
DATA AT THE CENTER OF THE SOCIETY
Datacenters can be considered as a sort of nervous system of the contemporary society. Just like the human nervous system, datacenters are not single structures, working on their own. Quite the contrary, “datacenters” are heterogeneous systems with multiple layers of complexity and integration and interaction, internally and externally. This apparently obvious statement should nevertheless be never forgotten because we are entering an era in which datacenters will play a fundamental role in our daily lives. And to make the next digital revolution (in fact, already undergoing), sustainable, we as an industry must find …
Find the highlights of the 55th TOP500 list below, presented by Erich Strohmaier. Slides from the session are also available now.
Detailed report on the Fujitsu Fugaku system.
FRANKFURT, Germany; BERKELEY, Calif.; and KNOXVILLE, Tenn.—The 55th edition of the TOP500 saw some significant additions to the list, spearheaded by a new number one system from Japan. The latest rankings also reflect a steady growth in aggregate performance and power efficiency.
Certificates for the top ranking systems in the TOP500 list, Green500 list, HPCG and HPL-AI benchmarks.
Data centers host many users and applications and have become the competitive advantage for research organization and manufacturing companies. Keeping the data center intact and healthy is critical, as operational costs of supercomputers continue to rise, driven by growing scientific computing demands and new security threats. Moreover, malicious users may exploit data center access to misuse compute resources by running prohibited applications, such as crypto currency mining, resulting in unexpected downtimes and higher operating costs. This week, NVIDIA unveiled the Unified Fabric Manager (UFM) Cyber-AI platform, which minimizes downtime and saves OPEX in InfiniBand data centers by harnessing AI-powered analytics …
The TOP500 authors encourage the HPC community to submit entries for the 55th TOP500 and Green500 lists. The June 2020 TOP500 list is released during the ISC High Performance conference, which will be held in digital form from June 22-24 due to the COVID-19 pandemic this year. The submission and publication schedule of the June list is NOT affected by this change.
On Nov. 20th, Beijing time (Nov. 19th Local Time)SC19 (The Supercomputing Conference 2019) was held in Denver, Colorado, USA. The theme of the conference is “HPC is now”. During the conference, well-recognized Hyperion Research issued Sugon the Innovation Excellence Award, due to its impressive innovations on “Silicon Cube” series computer. As reported, this is the first time that a Chinese local IT enterprise successfully gains the honor.
