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
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
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
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
Robert Roe takes a look at the processing technologies available to HPC and AI users
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
Robert Roe explores efforts to diversify the HPC processor market
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
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
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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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
