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WEBQuantum Computing for HPC Centers – A Concise Buyer’s Guide. As high-performance computing centers (HPCs) look to integrate quantum computing technologies into their existing infrastructure, understanding the distinct features and requirements of various quantum modalities is essential.
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 ...
National Security Agency Awards HPE $2B HPC-as-a-Service
WEBSep 1, 2021 · Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced it has been awarded a $2 billion contract over 10 years with the National Security Agency (NSA) to deliver HPE’s high performance computing (HPC) technology as a service through the HPE GreenLake platform.. The collaboration will be designed to enable the NSA to harness growing AI and data needs more efficiently to create insights and ...
The Evolution of HPC - High-Performance Computing News …
WEBAug 24, 2016 · The Evolution of HPC is the second article in a series from the insideHPC Guide to Co-Design Architectures. Epoch 1: Breaking Supercomputers into Clusters. In the beginning, computers of any kind were expensive devices. The ability to perform numerical calculations at high speed made them attractive to the scientific community.
TOP500: Little Change to HPC Top 10 - insideHPC
WEBNovember 15, 2021 by staff. 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 ...
Exascale: Rumors Circulate HPC Community Regarding Frontier
WEBDec 21, 2021 · Today, every high-performance computing (HPC) workload running globally faces the same crippling issue: Congestion in the network. Congestion can delay workload completion times for crucial scientific and enterprise workloads, making HPC systems unpredictable and leaving high-cost cluster resources waiting for delayed data to arrive.
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.
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 …
Cloud Adoption for HPC: Trends and Opportunities - insideHPC
WEBNov 19, 2019 · This whitepaper is an insideHPC Special Research Report sponsored by Univa. "Today many organizations solve their most difficult computational challenges by creating their own on-premises, compute-intensive, high performance data center. The latest hardware and software innovations have removed barriers that prevented many organizations from embracing HPC solutions. With more enterprises ...
Composable HPC-AI at Scale: The Emergence of Optical I/O Chiplets
WEBDec 13, 2021 · The allure of “technology resource disaggregation” – a.k.a., composable computing – doesn’t get old. It’s an ingenious yet common-sense strategy for addressing our increasingly heterogeneous HPC-AI world where no single system can cost-effectively satisfy the range of workloads needed to be kept in play, each workload having its own unique combination of system requirements that ...