The fiftieth TOP500 list of the fastest supercomputers in the world – released this week ahead of the SC17 conference taking place in Denver, Colorado – shows a slump in the number of systems from the US as it has reached its lowest level since the list’s inception 25 years ago
Adrian Giordani explores the methods used to accurately measure the performance of supercomputers
Bright Computing, a global leader in cluster and cloud infrastructure automation software, is proud to announce that the University of North Texas (UNT) has integrated Bright Cluster Manager into its HPC environment for research support.
Cavium, a provider of semiconductor for enterprise, data centre, wired and wireless networking and the University of Michigan have announced a new partnership that aims to position U-M as a leader in data-intensive scientific research by creating a powerful Big Data computing cluster using dual socket servers powered by Cavium’s ThunderX ARMv8-A workload optimised processors
Green Revolution Cooling (GRC) has announced the latest installation of its liquid immersion computing system at John Paul Catholic University (JPCU) in San Diego, California
Spectra Logic has announced the launch of its fourth LTO tape technology pre-purchase programme that provides its customers with access to LTO-7 drives and media for use until LTO-8 technology becomes available
Altair has announced that it has entered into a multi-year original equipment manufacturing (OEM) agreement with HPE
HPC and Big Data returns to showcase the latest advances in the pioneering technologies and practices which are revolutionising computational research across the public and private sector.
The computing giant Microsoft has announced the acquisition of Cycle Computing to strengthen the company’s HPC and big data cloud infrastructure
Attend this event for a full update on how natural language processing (NLP), multilingual artificial intelligence (AI) and speech interaction technologies will impact your organisation in the years to come. LTI17 focuses on some of the hottest technologies and applications in the pipeline, resulting especially from the AI revitalisation of machine learning: neural machine translation, automated document search/analysis/generation, semantic insights from user-generated content, technology-assisted conference interpretation, and virtual assisstants virtual assistants.
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As the number of applications and potential user groups for HPC continues to expand supporting domain expert scientists use and access of HPC resources is increasingly important
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Determining the best approach to a digital transformation effort can be a confusing and complex task for most organisations, suggests Dave Dorsett, principal software architect at information technology consultancy, Astrix
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The confluence of data, compute power and advances in the design of algorithms for AI (artificial intelligence) and ML (machine learning) are driving new approaches in the laboratory
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Fugaku is the fastest supercomputer in the world as of 2021, developed with both performance and generality in mind with the ‘applications first’ philosophy.
Robert Roe takes a look at the cloud technologies available to researchers using HPC
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Robert Roe takes a look at the server options that are available to scientists using HPC as a tool for research high performance computing
