HPC
With both GDC and GTC going on this week, this is a big time for GPUs of all sorts. And today, AMD wants to get in on the game as well, with the release of the PCIe version of their MI200 accelerator family, the MI210. First unveiled alongside the MI250 and MI250X back in November, when AMD initially launched the Instinct MI200 family, the MI210 is the third and final member of AMD’s latest generation of GPU-based accelerators. Bringing the CDNA 2 architecture into a PCIe card, the MI210 is being aimed at customers who are after the MI200 family’s HPC and machine learning performance, but need it in a standardized form factor for mainstream servers. Overall, the MI200 is being launched widely today as...
Quick Note: Intel “Knights Landing” Xeon Phi & Omni-Path 100 @ ISC 2015
Taking place this week in Frankfurt, Germany is the 2015 International Supercomputing Conference. One of the two major supercomputing conferences of the year, ISC tends to be the venue...
53 by Ryan Smith on 7/13/2015NVIDIA @ ICML 2015: CUDA 7.5, cuDNN 3, & DIGITS 2 Announced
Taking place this week in Lille, France is the 2015 International Conference on Machine Learning, or ICML. Now in its 32nd year, the annual event is one of the...
27 by Ryan Smith on 7/7/2015Intel & Cray Land Contract for 2 Dept. of Energy Supercomputers
Late last year the United States Department of Energy kicked off the awards phase of their CORAL supercomputer upgrade project, which would see three of the DoE’s biggest national...
35 by Ryan Smith on 4/9/2015Intel's Xeon Phi: After Knights Landing Comes Knights Hill
As SC’14 rolls on this week, taking part in the show’s events is Intel, who was at the show to deliver an update on the Xeon Phi lineup. As...
15 by Ryan Smith on 11/18/2014NVIDIA Launches Tesla K80, GK210 GPU
Kicking off today is the annual International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, better known as SC. For NVIDIA, next to their annual GPU Technology Conference...
29 by Ryan Smith on 11/17/2014NVIDIA Volta, IBM POWER9 Land Contracts For New US Government Supercomputers
The launch of Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Titan Supercomputer was in many ways a turning point for NVIDIA’s GPU compute business. Though already into their third generation of Tesla...
29 by Ryan Smith on 11/17/2014Intel’s "Knights Landing" Xeon Phi Coprocessor Detailed
Continuing our ISC 2014 news announcements for the week, next up is Intel. Intel has taken to ISC to announce further details about the company’s forthcoming Knights Landing processor...
41 by Ryan Smith on 6/26/2014ISC 2014: NVIDIA Tesla Cards Add ARM64 Host Compatibility
Kicking off this week for the world of supercomputing is the 2014 International Supercomputing Conference in Leipzig, Germany. One of the major supercomputing conferences, ISC is Europe’s largest supercomputing...
6 by Ryan Smith on 6/23/2014NVIDIA @ ISC 2013: CUDA 5.5 Released & More
As the 2013 International Supercomputing Conference continues this week, product and technology announcements continue to trickle out of the show. NVIDIA of course is no stranger to this show...
5 by Ryan Smith on 6/18/2013Inside the Titan Supercomputer: 299K AMD x86 Cores and 18.6K NVIDIA GPUs
Earlier this month I drove out to Oak Ridge, Tennessee to pay a visit to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). I'd never been to a national lab before...
130 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/31/2012Intel's Xeon Phi in 10 Petaflops supercomputer
Intel announced the Xeon Phi ("Knights Corner") a few months ago and bought the Qlogic infiniband team and Cray fabric team to bolster its HPC efforts. A clear signal...
15 by Johan De Gelas on 9/11/2012Intel Announces Xeon Phi Family of Co-Processors – MIC Goes Retail
As conference season is in full swing, this week’s big technical conference is the 2012 International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) taking place over in Hamburg, Germany. ISC is one of...
54 by Ryan Smith on 6/19/2012Rendering and HPC Benchmark Session Using Our Best Servers
Each time we publish a new server platform review, several of our readers inquire about HPC and rendering benchmarks. We're always willing to accommodate reasonable requests, so we're going...
52 by Johan De Gelas on 9/30/2011