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Supercomputing News and Resources

Supercomputer Class Mobile Workstation Launches

November 28, 2018 · New workstation leverages latest Intel multi-core/multi-thread CPUs and upgradable NVIDIA graphics technology.

UberCloud Wins Three Awards for CAE in the Cloud

November 28, 2018 · Awards recognized UberCloud's work in the fields of moisture transfer simulation and electrostimulation of the brain in schizophrenia.

Top500 Supercomputer List Updated

November 13, 2018 · The 52nd edition of the TOP500 list has five U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) supercomputers in the top 10 positions.

Eurocom Launches Supercomputer Class Laptop

November 12, 2018 · The Tornado F7 Mobile Workstation from Eurocom is powered by 8cores/16 threads Intel i9 9900K processor with NVIDIA’s high-performance Quadro P52000 upgradeable GPU technology.

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Simon Fraser University’s Cedar Supercomputer

November 9, 2018 · With more than 3.6 petaFLOPS of computing power, Cedar and its network will allow thousands of researchers from British Columbia and across Canada to collect, analyze, share and store immense volumes of data.

Altair PBS Professional v18 Debuted

July 2, 2018 · The Altair PBS Works software platform consists of highly integrated applications, such as Altair PBS Professional v18, to connect users and administrators more closely with HPC resources to maximize utilization and efficiency.

HPC at the Leading Edge: Oil Exploration

June 1, 2018 · With pervasive HPC usage and the largest supercomputers in the commercial sector, the oil and gas industry is at the summit of industrial HPC.

ISC 2018 Keynote to Address Computing Challenges of Large Hadron Collider

April 3, 2018 · ISC High Performance conference runs from June 24 to June 28 in Frankfurt, Germany. 

Cray Adds Arm Processors with Software Stack to Supercomputer

February 22, 2018 · Cray is creating a production-ready, Arm-based supercomputer with the addition of Cavium ThunderX2 processors; company also makes other announcements involving AI and storage solutions.

Mellanox Accelerates Supercomputers and More

January 25, 2018 · Mellanox announces that the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Summit supercomputer is on target for completion early this year.

Cray Supercomputer to Aid Samsung’s Research on AI and Deep Learning

December 7, 2017 · Samsung has purchased a Cray CS-Storm accelerated cluster supercomputer, according to Cray.

Using Tech to Secure Tech

December 1, 2017 · Security technology is constantly improving. But with data breaches making news with what seems to be increasing regularity, it’s understandable that many companies have second thoughts about making the leap into cloud computing or rolling out connected devices.

UberCloud and Stanford Living Heart Project Take Home Hyperion Award

November 28, 2017 · UberCloud, together with the Stanford Living Heart Project, won the Hyperion Award for Innovation Excellence during  SC’17. The Stanford LHP project dealt with simulating cardiac arrhythmia.

Cray and Microsoft Bring Supercomputing to Microsoft Azure

November 21, 2017 · Customers can run HPC, AI, and advanced analytics workloads at supercomputing scale.

Tracking the Expansion of HPC at SC17

November 16, 2017 · This year's big news all has one thing in common: making the power of HPC more accessible to mainstream users by decreasing the complexity of implementation and/or specializing on particular users' needs.

Intel Shows Its HPC Plans for Future at SC17

November 16, 2017 · Intel reports that it is enabling scalable performance for a broad range of HPC systems from the smallest clusters to the world’s largest supercomputers.

HPCG Results Are In For TOP500 List

November 14, 2017 · The High-Performance Conjugate Gradient (HPCG) benchmark incorporates calculations in sparse matrix multiplication, global collectives and vector updates.

TOP500 Report’s Vendor Trends Highlight Processor Use

November 14, 2017 · A total of 471 systems, representing 94.2% of the total, are now using Intel processors, which is slightly up from 92.8% six months ago, according to the TOP500's latest list.

Green500’s Top 3 Spots Go to Japanese Systems

November 14, 2017 · For the Green500 rankings, the top three positions are claimed by Japan.

Latest TOP500 List Shows China Surpassing U.S.

November 14, 2017 · It marks the largest number of supercomputers China has ever claimed on the TOP500 ranking, with the U.S. presence shrinking to its lowest level since the list’s inception 25 years ago.


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