High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC
WEBLenovo Is on a Mission to Transform HPC & AI for All. [SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] High performance computing (HPC) systems run workloads to perform complex calculations to get answers to some of humanity’s toughest questions. The output from these calculations can result in game changing and life saving …
What is high performance computing? - insideHPC
WEBHigh Performance Computing most generally refers to the practice of aggregating computing power in a way that delivers much higher performance than one could get out of a typical desktop computer or workstation in order to solve large problems in science, engineering, or business. It turns out that defining “HPC” is kind of like defining ...
The glue: cluster software - insideHPC
WEBSince you only have 20 processors, this is a problem. Scheduling software allows you to submit as much work as you want at any time to the cluster. It keeps track of how many processors aren’t currently doing work, and how much work there is left to do in the queue (the list of jobs that still need to be worked on).
AMD Acquires Distributed Services Platform Vendor Pensando
WEBSANTA CLARA, Calif. — April 4, 2022 — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Pensando for approximately $1.9 billion before working capital and other adjustments. Pensando’s distributed services platform includes a high-performance, fully programmable packet processor and comprehensive software stack that accelerate networking, security, storage and other ...
How the HPC-AI Rocky Linux Server Operating System Rose
WEBSep 27, 2022 · But if the news left in its wake despondent CentOS users, they went through the stages of grief quickly and resiliently. Just two hours after the Red Hat news, CentOS founder and Linux open source guru Gregory Kurtzer stepped to the fore and announced via a comment on the CentOS website that he would again start an open source, community-owned effort, a new distribution that would be bug-for ...
Ultra Accelerator Link Group for Data Center AI ... - insideHPC
WEBMay 30, 2024 · BEAVERTON, Ore.– AMD, Broadcom, Cisco, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Intel, Meta and Microsoft today announced they have aligned to develop a new industry standard dedicated to advancing high-speed and low latency communication for scale-up AI systems linking in data centers. Called the Ultra Accelerator Link (UALink), this initial group will define and establish an […]
Double-precision CPUs vs. Single-precision GPUs; HPL vs
WEBJul 20, 2021 · In short: HPL scores HPC systems based on their double-precision (64-bit) capabilities carried out by traditional, CPU-based supercomputers, while HPL-AI benchmarking is based on single-precision (16- or 32-bit GPU) arithmetic used in …
Isambard 2 at UK Met Office to be largest Arm supercomputer in …
WEBFeb 17, 2020 · The UK Met Office been awarded £4.1m by EPSRC to build Isambard 2, the largest Arm-based supercomputer in Europe. The powerful new £6.5m facility, to be hosted by the Met Office in Exeter and utilized by the universities of Bath, Bristol, Cardiff and Exeter, will double the size of GW4 Isambard, to 21,504 high …
Exascale: Rumors Circulate HPC Community Regarding Frontier
WEBDec 21, 2021 · By now you may have expected a triumphant announcement from the U.S. Department of Energy that the Frontier supercomputer, slated to be installed by the end of 2021 as the first U.S. exascale-class system, has been stood up with all systems go. But as of now, DOE (whose Oak Ridge National Laboratory will house Frontier) […]
Eviden Caught up in Atos’ Financial, Acquisition Struggles
WEBMar 5, 2024 · With a longstanding TOP500 supercomputing heritage, a leadership position in European HPC, a commitment to build Europe’s first exascale-class system and with major techno- and geopolitical stakes on the line, the financial difficulties of Atos and, by extension, its Eviden HPC business unit, are a major development in the leadership supercomputing sector.