[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Since the beginning of human existence, people have looked into the night sky and wondered how the universe began. Cosmologists using the UK’s Memory Intensive DiRAC HPC service at Durham ….
Durham University Cosmologists, DiRAC and Dell Improve HPC Energy Efficiency without Sacrificing Performance
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Dell Technologies Interview: Getting ‘More Science Per Pound’ at Durham University’s COSMA HPC Service
July 7, 2022 by
[SPONSORED CONTENT] In this interview with Dr. Alastair Basden of the UK’s Durham University, he discusses the latest activities at the university’s COSMA HPC Service as it tests and incorporates new high performance technologies on its way to exascale. A Dell Technologies HPC and AI Center of Excellence, the organization is driven to generate “more science per pound” out of its memory-intensive HPC infrastructure, Basden said, while also updating us on scientists’ cosmological work, including filling in the remaining gaps in the Big Bang Theory.
UK’s Durham University Using Rockport Switchless Network for COSMA7 Workload Modeling
May 24, 2022 by
Rockport Networks today announced that Durham University’s Institute for Computational Cosmology (ICC) has selected the Rockport Switchless Network as part of the ExCALIBUR program around new networking technologies for its COSMA7 supercomputer at the DiRAC HPC facility. The 232 Rockport nodes are intended to reduce congestion in the COSMA7 cluster and as they model exascale workloads and use codes to run […]
Meet 6 Trailblazing Women in HPC
April 15, 2021 by
Women are severely underrepresented in the field of HPC. While they comprise about 51 percent of the general population, women account for only about 17 percent of the HPC workforce1. Those numbers are slowly improving, thanks to the contributions of numerous female engineers, scientists and researchers. In recognition of March as International Women’s History Month, we’re profiling six talented women doing trailblazing work that should inspire others to enter this exciting field.
Research Centers at Cambridge and Durham Universities Add Nvidia, Dell EMC HPC Resources
April 14, 2021 by
At Nvidia’s GTC conference this week, Nvidia and Dell EMC released details of HPC installations at two UK academic supercomputing centers to accelerate computing resources at the two sites. At Durham University, the COSMA-8 supercomputer — to be used by cosmologists researching the origins of the universe — will be accelerated by Nvidia HDR InfiniBand […]
Vivien Kendon from Durham University to Keynote PASC20 in Geneva
December 19, 2019 by
Today the PASC20 conference announced that Vivien Kendon from Durham University will deliver a keynote talk on quantum computing. With a theme of New Challenges, New Computing Paradigms, the event takes place June 29 – July 1 in Geneva, Switzerland. “Quantum computing promises more efficient computation for some important types of problems, such as simulation of quantum systems, non-convex optimization, and (famously) factoring large semi-primes. However, the first useful quantum computers will be limited in what they can do. Applying them to bottlenecks that are hard for classical computers is key to extracting the best performance out of combined classical and quantum hardware.”
Convergence for Scientific Method: HPC, AI, Simulation and Experiment
October 28, 2019 by
Alan Real from Durham University gave this talk at the UK HPC Conference. “This talk will discuss how advances in instrumentation have caused many new areas to embrace HPC and AI in order to successfully conduct and understand their experiments.”
