By Adrian Cockcroft, Partner & Analyst, OrionX Last year the UCIe chiplet standard had just been launched, and since then just about everyone has joined it, about 130 companies. The idea is that to build a complete CPU or GPU you don’t have to put it all on the same chip from the same vendor. Instead, you can use the UCIe standard to innovate in your own chiplet, then surround it with chiplets for memory and IO from a range of vendors.

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Researchers at the University of Michigan have used the world's most powerful supercomputer, Frontier, to simulate the behaviour of up to 600,000 electrons within a microscopic chunk of a magnesium alloy. This breakthrough could lead to the design of lightweight alloys for fuel-efficient cars and airplanes. Frontier, located at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is capable of 1.1 billion billion operations per second. It is expected to be surpassed by Aurora, another US supercomputer, which will aid in designing more fuel-efficient airplanes and predicting patient responses to cancer treatments.

Nearly 120 years ago, the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906 provided a stark and sobering view of the havoc that can be caused by the sudden and violent movement of Earth’s tectonic plates. According to USGS, the rupture along the San Andreas fault extended 296 miles (447 kilometers) and shook so violently that the […]

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A Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)-led effort that performed an unprecedented global climate model simulation on the world’s first exascale supercomputer has won the first-ever Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling, ACM officials announced Thursday. The Simple Cloud Resolving E3SM Atmosphere Model (SCREAM) team, led by LLNL staff scientist Peter Caldwell and […]

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Denver -- Attendees at the SC23 conference here in Denver have been greeted by a roiled TOP500 ranking of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, along with significant news about a would-be exascale HPC system coming in at no. 2 on the list. Not only are there four new systems among top 10, the most new entrants at the top of the ranking in years, but one of them, the no. 2 Aurora supercomputer at Argonne National Lab, fell short....

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The big news on the Monday of each annual Supercomputing Conference is the release of the new TOP500 ranking of the world's most powerful supercomputers. At this years SC23 here in Denver, the big news is that the  top 10 of this year's list has more changes than any list in recent memory....

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As SC23 approaches, we were fortunate to catch up with Rick Stevens and Mike Papka of Argonne National Laboratory for a wide ranging discussion of all things supercomputing-related.  Along with an update on the exascale-class Aurora system and the TOP500, we also discuss the ....

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Getting the most out of SC23 calls for good preparation, so as an assist we spoke with four industry experts – Sunita Chandrasekaran of the University of Delaware and the Exascale Computing Project, Earl Joseph of Hyperion Research, Lois Curfman McInnes of Argonne National Laboratory and Addison Snell of Intersect360 Research....

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Gina Tourassi has been named associate laboratory director for Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate (CCSD) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She replaces Shaun Gleason, interim ALD since the departure of Doug Kothe for Sandia National Laboratories last June. Kothe....

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Here’s a dash (5:24) through the latest in HPC-AI, including: new AI UK supercomputers, the White House Executive Order on AI and its national security implications, Pete Ungaro's appearance on the @HPCpodcast, interesting findings in Intersect360 Research's HPC-AI new market update.

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In this episode, the second in our “Industry View” series (see our conversation with Alain Andreoli), we are delighted to speak with Pete Ungaro, long-time luminary and respected industry leader in HPC-AI. Ungaro, a globally recognized technology executive, ws named to the “40 under 40” by Corporate Leader Magazine in 2008, and CEO of the Year....

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UK AI supercomputers are breaking out all over. Today, Dell, Intel and the University of Cambridge have announced the deployment of the co-designed "Dawn" Phase 1 supercomputer. Claiming the system to be the U.K.’s fastest AI system, it will be comprised of Dell PowerEdge XE9640 servers combining two 4th Gen Xeon....

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In this sponsored article, Crispin Keable PhD., senior solution architect developing HPC, AI and quantum systems for Eviden (an Atos business), discusses how his philosophy is and always has been to help customers achieve their scientific, technical, and engineering goals by using the best technology now and tomorrow in the most effective and efficient way. Today, that means the design and deployment of Exascale systems. While Exascale systems are in some senses one-off’s, we can expect the technology and methods used to become widespread across the industry.

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Exascale computing is already delivering advances in simulation, data analytics, and machine learning. The US Department of Energy (DOE) funded the Exascale Computing Project (ECP) to develop the applications, software, and integration needed to harness the immense computing power of exascale machines. An SC23 panel discussion titled, “The Impact of Exascale and the Exascale Computing Project […]

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Our fleet-footed (5:20) run through recent HPC news looks at: HPE Cray supercomputers  to be used at flared gas generative AI data centers; IBM announces NorthPole AI chip prototype, TSMC's down Q3 earnings; new trends in advanced AI, including detection of brain waves as an AI input; an Aurora installation update....

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The twice-annual TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers is not universally loved, arguments persist whether the LINPACK benchmark is an optimal way to assess HPC system performance. But few would argue it serves a valuable purpose: for those installing leadership-class supercomputers, the TOP500 poses a challenge and a looming deadline that “concentrates the mind wonderfully.”

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From the early days of supercomputing through the success of exascale supercomputing, few HPC luminaries have played as important and integral leadership role in HPC as Dr. Paul Messina. So as we observe Exascale Day today, we are delighted to discuss the exascale journey with someone instrumental to the 10 orders of magnitude of improvement in ....

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With the delivery of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) first exascale system, Frontier, in 2022, and the upcoming deployment of Aurora and El Capitan systems by next year, researchers will have the most sophisticated computational tools at their disposal to conduct groundbreaking research. Exascale machines can perform more than a billion billion calculations per […]

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“Exascale is a massive accelerator for technology, productivity, engineering, and science.” Outside the high-performance computing (HPC) community, “exascale” may seem more like fodder for science fiction than a powerful tool for scientific research. Yet, when seen through the lens of real-world applications, exascale computing goes from ethereal concept to tangible reality with exceptional benefits. Imagine […]

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