A major upgrade is being made to double the storage available in one of the UK’s leading environmental science supercomputer
Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and Newcastle University, are the first UK academic organisations to deploy servers containing IBM’s POWER9 system
Adrian Giordani reports on recent vulnerabilities found in many modern CPUs
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are using the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Blue Waters supercomputer to research the potential applications of graphene – including nanoscale electronics and electrical DNA sequencing
OutSystems, a specialist in low-code application development and cloud computing, has announced an initiative to drive artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) software development
Optalysys, a start-up commercialising optical coprocessors for AI/deep learning, and genomic research institute The Earlham Institute (EI) have announced the completion of the Genetic Search System (GENESYS) project
Ampere, a chip startup has announced its intentions to deliver an arm-based chip for the hyperscale and data centre markets
HPC provider Atos has signed a contract to deliver its latest supercomputer, the ‘BullSequana X1000’, to Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany
Research carried out Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) which reanalysed public genetic data using innovative computational methods has enabled the identification of new genetic markers associated with an increased risk to develop Type 2 Diabetes (T2D)
Cray has announced that the Ministry of Earth Sciences in India has deployed two Cray XC40 supercomputers and two Cray ClusterStor storage systems as part of a $67 million contract with Cray to update its supercomputing facilities
As not only the HPC industry but the larger computing ecosystem tries to overcome the slowdown and eventual end of transistor scaling described by Moore’s Law, scientists and researchers are implementing programmes that will define the technologies and new materials needed to supplement, or repla
Architectural specialisation is one option to continue to improve performance beyond the limits imposed by the slow down in Moore’s Law.
As the complexity of both HPC hardware and the challenges that scientists are trying to solve using HPC systems increases, ensuring a system is utilised efficiently is necessary to deliver a computing service with value for money and a high research output.
With data rates increasing and more complex challenges arising in life sciences, Panasas’ Jim Donovan and Dale Brantly discuss the benefits of using HPC for these workloads
