At ISC High Performance 2017, held in Frankfurt, Germany, deep learning is driving new computing innovation as the HPC industry sets its sights on AI hardware and applications
ARM-based HPC systems will be available by the end of 2017. At ISC High Performance 2017 Penguin Computing and Bull both announce that they will deliver products tailored for the HPC industry
The 49th edition of the TOP500 list has been released in conjunction with the opening session of the ISC High Performance conference, which is taking place this week in Frankfurt, Germany. The list ranks the world’s most powerful supercomputers based on the Linpack benchmark and is released twice per year.
US Secretary of Energy, Rick Perry, announced that six leading US technology companies will receive funding from the Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) as part of its new PathForward program, accelerating the research necessary to deploy the nation’s first exascale supercomputers
ISC High Performance has announced the appointment of Dr Erich Strohmaier of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA, and Professor Yutong Lu from the National Supercomputing Center in Guangzhou, China, as ISC Fellows
OCF has successfully achieved Elite Partner status with NVIDIA I the competency of Accelerated Computing.
The Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) has set a new record for the number of core hours awarded during the 17th call for large-scale proposals – the combined total for these projects was more than 2.1 billion core hours across the three GCS supercomputers.
IBM has announced it has built and tested its most powerful universal quantum computing processors to date.
The importance of supercomputing on local and national economic prosperity has been highlighted by a recent study which reported that its Blue Waters project to be worth more than $1.08 billion for the Illinois’ economy.
NVIDIA and Barcelona Supercomputing Center have presented a real-time interactive visualisation of a cardiac computational model that shows the potential of HPC-based simulation codes and GPU-accelerated clusters to simulate the human cardiovascular system.
Digital transformation continues to impact our lives in ways we previously couldn’t have imagined, comments Trish Meek, director of marketing at Thermo Fisher Scientific.
Weather prediction seems simple nowadays. You just have to summon Siri and ask it if you’ll need an umbrella or a sunhat.
In March it was announced that a new exascale system was on the horizon, with the news that Aurora – originally scheduled for 2018 – was going to be the first exascale system in the US, launching in 2021.
The storage market is in a unique position, in that there is demand from both the traditional HPC and enterprise storage markets, such as media and entertainment, alongside new growing markets for AI and machine learning.
