AMD highlights technology for HPC and scientific research
17 November 2020
At this year’s SC20 virtual event AMD is showcasing the new AMD Instinct MI100 accelerator and highlighting a growing list of deployments in HPC and scientific research
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European Processor Initiative updates its project roadmap
9 November 2020
Despite 2020 causing the cancellation of the first-ever planned European Processor Initiative Forum, the partners have made significant progress and have updated their project plan for EPI milestones
SPEC launches rewards program for contributions to next CPU benchmark
25 February 2020
The Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. (SPEC) is offering rewards of up to $9,000 and a free benchmark license for application code and datasets accepted under its benchmark search program
Predictions in HPC for 2020
14 February 2020
Laurence Horrocks-Barlow, technical director of OCF predicts that containerisation, cloud and GPU based workloads are all going to dominate the HPC environment in 2020
Tech focus: processor diversity
1 February 2020
Robert Roe takes a look at the processing technologies available to HPC and AI users
Tachyum announce new processor platform
18 May 2018
A new processing platform has been announced by Silicon Valley startup, Tachyum, which aims to combine the advantages of CPU and GP-GPU and sepcialised AI chips into a single platform
Processor competition heats up
14 February 2018
Robert Roe explores efforts to diversify the HPC processor market
AMD previews new HPC hardware at CES 2018
9 January 2018
Building on the enthusiasm generated last year with the release of the Ryzen processors, AMD has now released details of its forthcoming roll-out for the next generation of high-performance computing and graphics products during an event in Las Vegas prior to the opening of CES 2018
Optalysys and The Earlham Institute showcase optical processing for sequence alignment
31 August 2017
Genomic sequencing may be about to get a lot faster with the application of optical co-processing technologies that are being deployed to accelerate sequence alignment – a technique that is necessary to establish functional, structural, or evolutionary relationships between the sequences
HPC suppliers set out plans for ARM products
22 June 2017
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
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