Interview: The Evolving OpenACC for HPC Accelerators
Over at the Cray Blog, David Wallace looks at OpenACC, its programming benefits, and how it is evolving as an industry coalition. OpenACC allows HPC programmers to worry more about the problem they are...
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Challenges on the Titan Supercomputer: Accelerating the Path to the Exascale
"I will summarize the benefits, challenges, and lessons learned in deploying Titan and in preparing applications to move from conventional CPU architectures to a hybrid, accelerated architectures. I...
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HPC News with Snark for the Week of Jan. 12, 2015
The news has started to pile up this post-Holiday Season, so here is the HPC News with Snark for Friday, January 16, 2014. We've got podcasts on everything form self-driving cars to Data Breaches...
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Podcast: Geoffrey Hinton on the Rise of Deep Learning
"In Deep Learning what we do is try to minimize the amount of hand engineering and get the neural nets to learn, more or less, everything. Instead of programing computers to do particular tasks, you...
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Rock Stars of HPC: DK Panda
As our newest Rock Star of HPC, DK Panda sat down with us to discuss his passion for teaching High Performance Computing. "During the last several years, HPC systems have been going through rapid...
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Michael Wolfe Presents: Why Iteration Space Tiling?
In this Invited Talk from SC17, Michael Wolfe from NVIDIA presents: Why Iteration Space Tiling? The talk is based on his noted paper, which won the SC17 Test of Time Award. "Tiling is well-known and...
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DNN Implementation, Optimization, and Challenges
This is the third in a five-part series that explores the potential of unified deep learning with CPU, GPU and FGPA technologies. This post explores DNN implementation, optimization and challenges....
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The Simulation of the Behavior of the Human Brain using CUDA
Pedro Valero-Lara from BSC gave this talk at the GPU Technology Conference. "The attendees can learn about how the behavior of Human Brain is simulated by using current computers, and the different...
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Rapids: Data Science on GPUs
Christoph Angerer from NVIDIA gave this talk at FOSDEM'19. "The next big step in data science will combine the ease of use of common Python APIs, but with the power and scalability of GPU compute. The...
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How Financial Services Can Fuel Innovation with GPU Computing
The financial services and insurance sector is one of the most data-intensive industries in modern business. Unfortunately, that abundance of information has hindered the extraction of business value...
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GPUs Address Growing Data Needs for Finance & Insurance Sectors
A new whitepaper from Penguin Computing contends “a new era of supercomputing” has arrived — driven primarily by the emergence of graphics processing units or GPUs. The tools once specific to gaming...
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GPUs for Oil and Gas Firms: Deriving Insights from Petabytes of Data
Adoption of GPU-accelerated computing can offer oil and gas firms significant ROI today and pave the way to gain additional advantage from future technical developments. To stay competitive, these...
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NVIDIA Makes GPU Computing Easier in the Cloud
Setting up an environment for High Performance Computing (HPC) especially using GPUs can be daunting. There can be multiple dependencies, a number of supporting libraries required, and complex...
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Hardware & Software Platforms for HPC, AI and ML
Gunter Roeth from NVIDIA gave this talk at the UK HPC Conference. "Today, NVIDIA’s tensor core GPU sits at the core of most AI, ML and HPC applications, and NVIDIA software surrounds every level of...
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Google Unveils 1st Public Cloud VMs using Nvidia Ampere A100 Tensor GPUs
Google today introduced the Accelerator-Optimized VM (A2) instance family on Google Compute Engine based on the NVIDIA Ampere A100 Tensor Core GPU, launched in mid-May. Available in alpha and with up...
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Exascale Exasperation: Why DOE Gave Intel a 2nd Chance; Can Nvidia GPUs Ride...
The most talked-about topic in HPC these days – another Intel chip delay and therefore delay of the U.S.’s flagship Aurora exascale system – is something no one directly involved wants to talk about....
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HPC End User Survey: Intel Xeon Still Dominates but AMD EPYC Gaining
Industry analyst firm Intersect360 has released partial results from an HPC end-user survey identifying the top user-rated processors, servers and cloud vendors. The key finding, according firm CEO...
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Nvidia Says It’s Building UK’s Most Powerful Supercomputer, Targeting AI...
Today at Nvidia’s virtual GTC event, the company announced what it said will be the United Kingdom’s most powerful supercomputer, to be made available by the end of this year to UK healthcare...
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At SC20: Nvidia Announces A100 80GB GPU
Nvidia today unveiled the A100 80GB GPU for the Nvidia HGXTM AI supercomputing platform with twice the memory of its predecessor. The new chip with HBM2e doubles the A100 40GB GPU’s high-bandwidth...
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At SC20: AMD Says New GPU Surpasses 10TFLOPS for HPC Acceleration
AMD today announced the new Instinct MI100 accelerator, which the company said is the first x86 server GPU to surpass 10 teraflops (FP64) performance. Built on the new AMD CDNA architecture, the...
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