In conversation with Tom Wilkie, the deputy designer of Tianhe-2 spoke warmly of the benefits of peaceful and open international cooperation in using supercomputers for science
The XSEDE User Portal Project has introduced two mobile apps to aid researchers in making better use of XSEDE resources and services
Fivetech has announced that its SMT Nut 82 series is to provide a complete product line for all thread sizes, which it believes will gradually replace traditional assembly
IBM has announced that it is now offering Nvidia Tesla K80 dual-GPU accelerators on bare metal cloud servers
Allinea Software has released version 5.1 of its development tool suite and performance analysis tools, with a focus on improving the energy efficiency of application software
Robert Roe investigates how accelerators are driving the design of new architectures in HPC to solve the challenges of exascale computing
Software approaches to energy efficiency in HPC may yield unexpected improvements in the hardware of next-generation mobile phone networks, Tom Wilkie discovers
Tom Wilkie admires the ingenuity of the engineers who are devising so many ways to keep supercomputers cool
Adrian Giordani asks what benchmarks should be applied as the nature of supercomputing changes on the way to exascale
From the PRACEdays15 conference in Dublin, Tom Wilkie and Robert Roe report on the inadequacies of Open Source and commercial software, support for Irish industry, and HPC policies in Europe and Japan
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.
