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The newest edition of the twice-yearly TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers was released today at SC21 in St. Louis — with little change in the Top10. The Microsoft Azure system called Voyager-EUS2 was the only machine to shake up the top spots, claiming No. 10. Based on an AMD EPYC processor with […]The post TOP500: Little Change to HPC Top 10 appeared first on insideHPC.

Supercomputing 2021 – November 15, 2021 – Penguin Computing today announced GovPOD (Government Penguin On Demand) HPC/AI Cloud, built for federal government agencies featuring a software, hardware and management platform designed to eliminate performance, scalability, and security challenges associated with traditional cloud computing environments. GovPOD HPC/AI Cloud is designed to enable federal government customers to access a bare-metal, HPC […]The post Penguin Announces GovPOD HPC/AI Cloud On-Demand for the Federal Government appeared first on insideHPC.

In this interview with AMD’s Senior Product Manager, Datacenter and Embedded Solutions Group, Evan Groenke, he discusses the buzz around the company’s newly announced MI200 data center GPU, which AMD says is the most powerful on the market. Along with its speeds-and-feeds, Groenke discusses how AMD engineered the new accelerator and looks at the HPC […]The post AMD’s Evan Groenke on the New MI200 GPU appeared first on insideHPC.

SC21, the biggest HPC confab of the year, is upon us, and making the most of the hybrid conference calls for good time management. As an assist to both in-person and virtual attendees we spoke with three industry thought leaders – Katie Antypas of NERSC, Earl Joseph of Hyperion Research and Addison Snell of Intersect360 Research – about conference events they think will be noteworthy.We cover key technologies to be covered by sessions and BOFs; significant HPC market trends (software, storage and cloud HPC in particular); the explosion of HPC+AI; the coming of exascale supercomputing....The post SC21: Three HPC Thought Leaders’ Planning Suggestions for the Hybrid Conference appeared first on insideHPC.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Nov. 10, 2021 — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced today that IBM Cloud has chosen 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors to expand its bare metal service offerings designed to power customers’ demanding workloads and solutions. The new servers, featuring 128 cores, up to 4TB of memory and 10 NVMe drives per server, […]The post IBM Cloud Selects AMD EPYCs for Compute-Intensive Workloads appeared first on insideHPC.

Simulation software company Altair has announced that Argonne National Laboratory will utilize Altair PBS Professional workload manager across the organization’s HPC systems at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) – including the Polaris and Aurora supercomputers – to accelerate research in science and engineering. PBS Professional – which replaces the ALCF’s in-house Cobalt workload manager […]The post Argonne Selects Altair Workload Manager for Polaris, Aurora appeared first on insideHPC.

Microsoft Azure has announced that a preview is now live for Azure HBv3 virtual machines powered by 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors with AMD 3D V-cache, codenamed “Milan-X.” The processors significantly improve the performance, scaling efficiency, and cost-effectiveness of a variety of memory performance-bound workloads, such as CFD, explicit finite element analysis, computational geoscience, weather […]The post Azure: HBv3 VMs for HPC up to 80% Faster with AMD Milan-X CPUs appeared first on insideHPC.

San Jose, November 9, 2021 – Super Micro Computer, Inc. (SMCI), maker of enterprise computing, storage, networking solutions, and green computing technology, announces the enhancement of its portfolio of artificial intelligence (AI) GPU servers which integrate new NVIDIA Ampere-family GPUs, including the NVIDIA A100, A30, and A2. Supermicro’s latest NVIDIA-certified systems deliver 10 times more […]The post Supermicro Adds to Portfolio of Edge-to-Cloud AI Systems appeared first on insideHPC.

SEOUL, Korea – Nov. 9, 2021 – Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today said it has launched the industry’s first 14-nanometer (nm) based 16-gigabit (Gb) Low Power Double Data Rate 5X (LPDDR5X) DRAM, designed to drive further growth throughout the high-speed data service applications including 5G, artificial intelligence (AI) and the metaverse. “In recent years, hyperconnected […]The post Samsung Claims First 14nm, 16Gb DRAM appeared first on insideHPC.

Continuing its long and impressive march back to prominence in data center and HPC-AI chips, AMD this morning announced the new Instinct MI200 GPU series, labeled by the company as “the first exascale-class GPU accelerators.” The product line includes the Instinct MI250X HPC-AI accelerator, built on AMD CDNA 2 architecture and providing up to 4.9X […]The post AMD Announces 4.9x HPC and AI Jump from Instinct MI200 Multi-die GPU appeared first on insideHPC.

Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $30 million for research in computation and simulation techniques and tools “to understand the universe via collaborations that enable effective use of DOE high performance computers.” Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) brings together researchers in areas of science and energy with experts in software development, applied mathematics, […]The post SciDAC: DOE Funding $30M Opportunity Using HPC for High Energy Physics Research appeared first on insideHPC.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — If your Uber driver takes a shortcut, you might get to your destination faster. But if a machine learning model takes a shortcut, it might fail in unexpected ways. In machine learning, a shortcut solution occurs when the model relies on a simple characteristic of a dataset to make a decision, rather […]The post MIT: Forcing ML Models to Avoid Shortcuts (and Use More Data) for Better Predictions appeared first on insideHPC.

Nov. 2, 2021 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced plans to provide $10 million for new grants to universities, other academic institutions, non-profit organizations, for profit organizations, and other federal agencies within the area of Earth and environmental systems modeling research. Grants will focus on two related areas of research: further development of DOE’s flagship […]The post DOE to Provide $10M for Climate and Earth System Modeling Research appeared first on insideHPC.

Nov. 2, 2021 — IBM (NYSE: IBM) and NeuReality, an Israeli AI systems and semiconductor company, said they will develop high-performance AI inference platforms designed to deliver cost and power consumption improvements for deep learning. The platforms will be built for such sectors as finance, insurance, healthcare, manufacturing, and smart cities to deploy computer vision, natural language […]The post IBM and NeuReality in AI Inference Platforms Partnership appeared first on insideHPC.

Lonestar6, a Dell Technologies HPC system designed and deployed by the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin, is intended to perform about 3 quadrillion mathematical operations per second — or, in high-performance terminology, 3 petaflops. Lonestar6 is comprised of more than 800 Dell EMC PowerEdge C6525 servers with 3rd […]The post TACC Deploys Dell HPC System ‘Lonestar6’ appeared first on insideHPC.

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In this interview with Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s SVP/GM of High Performance Computing & Mission Critical Solutions Justin Hotard, he discusses the new world to be enabled by exascale supercomputing. Among the topics he delves into: why exascale is applicable to more market sectors (read: the enterprise) than some may think and how the Cray programming environment is facilitating supercomputing’s rapidly evolving heterogeneous super power: HPC combined with AI.The post HPE’s HPC Leader Justin Hotard on the Broader Impacts and Implications of Exascale appeared first on insideHPC.