Europe is known for taking its own routes in almost every segment and supercomputing is no different. While the broad expectation was for a Euro-centric processor ecosystem for exascale, that intention has been subverted in terms of hitting roadmap goals and establishing single-center dominance. Instead, Europe is taking a collective approach to extolling its dominance in HPC.
16/08/2021
With the race to exascale computing in its final leg, it’s natural to wonder what the Post Exascale Era will look like. Nicolas Dubé, VP and chief technologist for HPE’s HPC business unit, agrees and shared his vision at Supercomputing Frontiers Europe 2021 held last week. The next big thing, he told the virtual audience at SFE21, is something that will connect HPC and (broadly) all of IT – into what Dubé calls The Internet of Workflows.
29/07/2021
“Hardware-based improvements are going to get more and more difficult,” said Neil Thompson, an innovation scholar at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL). “I think that’s something that this crowd will probably, actually, be already familiar with.” Thompson, speaking at Supercomputing Frontiers Europe 2021, likely wasn’t wrong: the proximate death of Moore’s law has been a hot topic in the HPC community for a long time. But Thompson wasn’t just there to sound the death knell – he was there to discuss the future of computing, which, in his terms, was an approximate one.
26/07/2021
Put on a shelf by Intel in 2019, Omni-Path faced an uncertain future, but under new custodian Cornelis Networks, Omni-Path Architecture (OPA) is seeking to make a comeback as an independent high-performance interconnect solution. According to the company, a “significant refresh” – called Omni-Path Express – is coming later this year.
23/07/2021
“One way of saying what I do for a living is to say that I develop scientific instruments,” said Kate Keahey, a senior fellow at the University of Chicago and a computer scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, as she opened her session at Supercomputing Frontiers Europe 2021 this week. Keahey was there to talk about one tool in particular: Chameleon, a testbed for computer science research run by the University of Chicago, the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), UNC-Chapel Hill’s Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) and Northwestern University.
22/07/2021
Wykorzystanie danych z mediów społecznościowych pozwala na precyzyjne odwzorowanie wyników finansowych i atrakcyjności inwestycyjnej firm – twierdzi Polski Instytut Ekonomiczny po przeanalizowaniu 462 spółek notowanych na GPW.
15/07/2021
