HPC
U.S. Announces New Compute for Manufacturing Projects
The Energy Department's High Performance Computing for Manufacturing (HPC4Mfg) program, roughly a year old, continues to gather momentum with the recent award of $3.8 million for 13 new industry ...Full Article
HPE Gobbles SGI for Larger Slice of HPC-Big Data Pie
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced today that it will acquire rival HPC server maker SGI for $7.75 per share, or about $275 million, inclusive of cash and debt. The deal ...Full Article
AccuWeather’s Compute Strategy Takes Forecasting to the Cloud at Scale
Weather and the cloud go together. Take AccuWeather, the State College, PA-based consumer and commercial weather services provider. Demand for weather forecast information from media outlets, from business customers ...Full Article
Custom App Container Targets HPC Needs
Custom versions of application containers are emerging that meet stringent requirements. Among the first is an HPC-specific container platform dubbed "Singularity" built around what its developers say is the ...Full Article
An Urgent Plea from the Manufacturing Sector: Give Us Scalability
Mohamad El-Zein has been on the front lines of advanced scale computing for decades, and like a veteran combat soldier who has seen one too many failed battle plans, ...Full Article
AMD GPU Helps Map Universe
Canadian researchers scanning the universe to develop the most detailed map of our three dimensions ever observed are using AMD's GPU accelerator to crunch the celestial data. Based on ...Full Article
With Launch of Xeon ‘Broadwell’ Intel’s Advanced Scale Framework Coming into Focus
Intel has talked publicly for more than a year about its next-gen Scalable System Framework (SSF), an integrated compilation of processor, fabric, storage and memory technologies Intel says will ...Full Article
EnterpriseHPC Summit: The How and Why HPC is Burgeoning in the Commercial Sphere
The annual EnterpriseHPC Summit, produced by EnterpriseTech and HPCwire and held in San Diego this week, featured presentations and participation from some of the major thought leaders at the ...Full Article
ARM Scales Chips for Datacenters, HPC
ARM Ltd., the U.K. chip design and licensing vendor, is targeting datacenters and processors intended for high-performance computing in a chip process technology deal with the world's largest chip ...Full Article
Giving Businesses Access to the World’s No. 2 Supercomputer for ‘the Intractable Problem’
If you’ve blown through the limitations of a cluster that can’t handle your modeling workloads, Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Titan system is the stuff dreams are made of. Number ...Full Article
