Top500: Frontier Gains 92 Petaflops; Henri Gets a Little Greener
It’s not quite homeostasis, but it’s close. There was little movement in the latest Top500, released today from the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) in Hamburg, Germany. The 61st list saw...
View ArticleExascale Frontier Supercomputer Has Passed Formal Acceptance: What That Means
Fresh off their third Top500 win for Frontier – now with an 8.4% higher Linpack score – the HPC team at Oak Ridge National Laboratory had some exciting news to share today. Frontier – the first U.S....
View ArticleFrontier Maintains #1 Position in May 2023 Top500
One of the highlights of ISC is always the release of the latest Top500 and Green500 lists, and they both again demonstrated strong customer preference for HPE supercomputers for the most demanding...
View ArticleThe Great GPU Squeeze is Upon Us
Remember when a GPU was a small fan-less video card with names like Voodoo, Matrox, Nvidia, or ATI? This simple addition gave your PC a new world of responsive 2D and 3D graphics. If someone were to...
View ArticleChina’s Quiet Journey into Exascale Computing
As reported in the South China Morning Post HPC pioneer Jack Dongarra mentioned the lack of benchmarks from recent HPC systems built by China. “It’s a well known situation that China has these...
View ArticleFortran: Still Compiling After All These Years
A recent article appearing in EDN (Electrical Design News) points out that on this day, September 20, 1954, the first Fortran program ran on a mainframe computer. Originally developed by IBM, Fortran...
View ArticleEU Grabs ARM for First ExaFLOP Supercomputer, x86 Misses Out
The configuration of Europe’s first exascale supercomputer, Jupiter, has been finalized, and it is a win for Nvidia and a disappointment for x86 chip vendors Intel and AMD. The Jupiter supercomputer,...
View ArticleForget Zettascale, Trouble is Brewing in Scaling Exascale Supercomputers
In 2021, Intel famously declared its goal to get to zettascale supercomputing by 2027, or scaling today’s Exascale computers by 1,000 times. Moving forward to 2023, attendees said challenges are...
View ArticleSupercomputing 2023: Odds and Ends from the Show
This year’s fantastic Supercomputing 2023 was back in full form. Attendees seemed to be glad that the show was back in Denver, which was a preferred destination over last year’s show in Dallas....
View ArticleChina’s HPC Iron Curtain Creating a Top500 Problem
At Supercomputing 2023, observers said that the Top500 list of the world’s fastest computers needs a shakeup. That is because submissions of benchmarks are dropping, and cloud providers are not...
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