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Purchasing HPC hardware and software, as well as time spent developing and supporting applications, involve numerous options and trade-offs, meaning that making optimal decisions is far from easy. In a conversation with NAG's Andrew Jones, James Reinders describes what those options and trade-offs are and how managers can reach the best decisions on how to invest.
Amazon has created three new EC2 instances based on NVIDIA’s Volta V100 GPU, making them the first public cloud provider to offer the blazingly fast accelerators.
NEC Corporation has launched SX-Aurora TSUBASA, the company’s latest vector-based product line for high performance computing.
A report this week in the New York Times describes how the growing demand for AI is forcing big web companies to ratchet up salaries in this red-hot job category and sucking up all available talent. But the technology itself may provide the final solution.
TOP500 Becomes a Petaflop Club for Supercomputers