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China Scores Fifth TOP500 Win with Tianhe-2
When China grabbed the TOP500 crown for its Tianhe-2 supercomputer in June 2013 with double the peak FLOPS of the next fastest machine (Titan at Oak Ridge National Laboratory), could anyone have...
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LINPACK’s ‘Companion Metric’ Gains Traction
The TOP500 organizers published their 45th twice-yearly list this week in tandem with ISC 2015 in Frankfurt, Germany. What is becoming increasingly clear, as our analysis piece covered and as many in...
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Japan Takes Top Three Spots on Green500 List
Japan, the island nation renowned for its energy and space-saving design prowess, just nabbed the top three spots on the latest Green500 list and claimed eight of the 20 top spots. The Shoubu...
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Tianhe-1A Shuts Down After Deadly Double Blast
Citing safety and security concerns following an industrial accident that killed more than 50 people and injured hundreds more in northeast China on Wednesday night, officials have shut down Tianhe-1A,...
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TOP500 Trends That Cannot Be Ignored
The 46th edition of the twice-yearly TOP500 list is hot off the presses and while there’s not much to break the monotony at the peak, this is in many ways a pivotal edition of the list in that it makes...
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Think Fast: IBM Talks Acceleration in HPC and the Enterprise
At SC15 today, IBM today provided a glimpse of its broadening vision for accelerator-assisted computing with announcements around Watson, a strategic alliance with FPGA specialist Xilinx, an expanded...
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HPCwire Debuts Outstanding Leadership Awards at SC15
This year HPCwire has established a new category within its Annual Readers and Editors Choice Awards program to recognize Outstanding Leadership in HPC. We realize there is no single preeminent leader...
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Sugon VP on Global Market Strategy, the VMware Venture and Robotic Immersive...
One of the dominant themes of the latest TOP500 edition, released Monday in time for the opening of the SC15 show in Austin, was China’s leap in list share by number of systems; and one of the...
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HP(E) Still Stands Solidly Astride the HPC Server Market
On November 1 – not quite three weeks ago – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) emerged from the Big Split. That’s old news given the yearlong lead-up. Throughout the “separation” process, opinions varied...
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TOP500 Reanalysis Shows ‘Nothing Wrong with Moore’s Law’
In Tuesday night’s TOP500 session, list co-creator and co-author Erich Strohmaier brought perspective to what could at first appear to be a land grab of unprecedented scale by China, when he shared...
View ArticleSC15 Video: Intersect360 Research’s Addison Snell on TOP500 Trends,...
Among the smorgasbord of BoFs, plenary sessions, benchmarking results and vendor news that came out of SC15 last month, a few topics stand out as being particularly noteworthy, including China’s...
View ArticleCray’s Barry Bolding on 2016 Trends Including Big Data and the HPC...
Cray doesn’t do Top500 press releases says Barry Bolding, Cray SVP and Chief Strategy Officer. Not a bad strategy when you don’t have to: five Crays are in the Top Ten of the latest Top500 list (Nov....
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Seagate Sets Sights on Broader HPC Market
In a relatively short time, storage giant Seagate Technology has amped up its push into HPC. Today, four of the top ten supercomputer sites in the world run on Seagate, including all of the newcomers...
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Compilers and More: What Makes Performance Portable?
The term performance portability has appeared many times in the past few years. What does it mean? When did we first start worrying about performance portability? Why is it more relevant now than...
View ArticleIs Chinese 100-Petaflopper Around the Corner?
A little over one year ago, export blocks put in place by the US government threatened to derail China’s plans to upgrade its Tianhe-2 supercomputer, the world’s fastest since June 2013, to its...
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China Sets Ambitious Goal to Reach Exascale by 2020
At the 12th HPC Connections Workshop in Wuhan, China, Beihang University Professor Depei Qian disclosed new information regarding HPC development in China and exascale plans that are shaping up under...
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Dongarra Honored with Pair of Prestigious Supercomputing Awards
Jack Dongarra, one of today’s most distinguished HPC leaders, is adding two awards to his long list. The Association for Computer Machinery (ACM) recently honored Dongarra with the High Performance...
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China Debuts 93-Petaflops ‘Sunway’ with Homegrown Processors
You may have heard the rumors, but now it’s official: China has built and deployed a 93 petaflops LINPACK (125 petaflops peak) Chinese-made supercomputer at its Wuxi Supercomputer Center, near...
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HPE Tackles Phi, Debuts Mfg. Solution and New HPC Software Environment
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), now about eight months into its transition as a separate entity, retained the prestige of fielding the most systems of any vendor on the Top500 list announced at the...
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Around the HPC World in 81 Slides with IDC
IDC presented its annual HPC Update at ISC yesterday. As usual it was a whirlwind tour encompassing HPC market data, technology trends, new IDC initiatives, announcement of the ISC16 Innovation Award...
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