DOE Supercomputing Aims for 100-200 PFLOPS in 2017
In a recent post on Atomic City Underground, Frank Munger examines the progress made by the CORAL project, which HPCwire detailed last year. CORAL – which stands for Collaboration of Oak Ridge, Argonne...
View ArticleAccurate Forecasts Tied to Supercomputer Spending
As large swaths of the country are hit by snowstorm after snowstorm and western states battle a decade’s long dry spell with California declaring a drought emergency, weather is on nearly everyone’s...
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Earthquake Simulation Hits Petascale Milestone
German researchers are helping to push back the goalposts on large-scale simulation. Using the the IBM “SuperMUC” high performance computer at the Leibniz Supercomputing Center (LRZ), a...
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Remembering Kraken
In supercomputing, it is often the case that top systems are only around for about half a decade. With the breaking of the petascale barrier now fixed in the rearview mirror of 2008, we are starting to...
View ArticleNSF Petaflopper Skips Retirement for New Life in Africa
Quick obsolescence goes hand-in-hand with cutting-edge technology. Supercomputing is no exception, and it’s not unusual for these great machines to have lifespans of only a few years. While some...
View ArticleIndia to Launch $730M National Supercomputing Mission
India’s plans to be a world-class computing power are taking shape as the nation’s government lays out its strategy to build a vast supercomputing grid, comprised of more than 70 high-performance...
View ArticleIndia Greenlights $730 Million Supercomputing Grid
The Indian government has approved a seven-year supercomputing program worth $730 million (Rs. 4,500-crore) intended to restore the nation’s status as a world-class computing power. The prime mandate...
View ArticleIBM, NVIDIA and Mellanox Launch Design Center for HPC
Today’s launch by IBM, NVIDIA, and Mellanox of a new POWER Acceleration and Design Center in Montpellier, France, ratchets up their campaign to attract a wider developer community to the OpenPOWER...
View ArticleReading List: Fault Tolerance Techniques for HPC
Among the chief challenges of deploying useful exascale machines, resilience looms large. Today’s error rates combined with tomorrow’s node counts cannot sustain a productive workflow without...
View ArticleSimulating Combustion at Exascale: a Q&A with ISC Keynoter Jacqueline Chen
Dr. Jacqueline H. Chen is a distinguished member of technical staff at the Combustion Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratory in Livermore. Her primary field of research is computational...
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