HPC

The Mont-Blanc project which aims to define and build a new HPC architecture for exascale-class computing based on ARM technology has selected Cavium’s ThunderX2 ARM server processor to power its new high performance computing (HPC) prototype

The Canada Foundation for Innovation has announced that it will award $69 million through its Major Science Initiative Fund for the Compute Canada project

Supercomputing company Cray has announced the appointment of Stathis Papaefstathiou to the position of senior vice president of research and development. Papaefstathiou will be responsible for leading the software and hardware engineering efforts for all of Cray’s research and development projects.

AMD has announced its latest GPU architecture ‘Vega’ which is designed to address the PC gaming, professional design, and machine intelligence markets.

Amazon Web Services chief evangelist Jeff Barr announced in a recent blog post that the company was adding Xilinx FPGAs to its Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).

At the 2016 Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Conference in Barcelona, Spain, supercomputing provider Cray announced the results of a deep learning collaboration between Cray, Microsoft, and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) – to increase the performance of large-scale deep learning algorithms using Cray supercomputers

NI, IBM and SparkCognition have announced a collaboration to increase the efficiency of industrial machinery using a combination of Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) and machine learning

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) has announced a new supercomputer from IBM, valued at nearly €30 million

The new Green500 list of the most energy-efficient supercomputers has demonstrated that the top supercomputers have made large leaps in energy efficiency over the last 12 months.  This is largely due to the presence of new technologies taking advantage of the latest semiconductor technologies in the HPC space, as new manycore processors from Intel and NVIDIA begin to penetrate the top systems and overall performance per watt rises considerably.