In this episode of @HPCpodcast, sponsored by Lenovo, Shahin and Doug discuss the big news on the Monday of each annual ISC conference in Germany, the release of the new Top500 ranking of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. At ISC 2024 here in Hamburg, we learned that the U.S. now has two exascale-class systems, , the AMD/HPE-Cray Frontier system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and ….
At ISC 2024: New Top500 List – Aurora Joins Frontier in Exascale HPC Club
May 13, 2024 by Leave a Comment
At ISC 2024, Hamburg — Aurora, the Intel-HPE Cray problem-child supercomputer, has officially received the blessing of the Top500 organization as having surpassed the exascale (a billion billion calculations/second) milestone ….
INCITE Call for Proposals for Access to Leadership-Class Supercomputers Open through June 14
April 10, 2024 by
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program is now accepting proposals for high-impact, computationally intensive research projects in a broad array of science, engineering and computer science domains. Proposals must be submitted between April 10 and June 14, 2024. Open to researchers from academia, industry and […]
AMD Hires Former Oak Ridge Director Thomas Zacharia
March 4, 2024 by
AMD today announced that Thomas Zacharia, former director of Oak Ridge National Laborary, has joined AMD as senior vice president of strategic technology partnerships and public policy. Zacharia spent 35 years at Oak Ridge, leaving there after the organization developed and….
Riverlane and Rigetti Partner with Oak Ridge Lab on HPC-Quantum Integration
February 28, 2024 by
Riverlane and Rigetti Computing (Nasdaq: RGTI) today announced their participation in a project led by the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to explore the challenges of integrating a quantum computer with a large-scale, supercomputing centre. Quantum computers will play an important role in the future of computing as they promise to solve problems […]
Exascale’s New Software Frontier: SLATE
February 13, 2024 by
“Exascale’s New Frontier,” a project from the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, explores the new applications and software technology for driving scientific discoveries in the exascale era. Why Exascale Needs SLATE For nearly 30 years, scores of science and engineering projects conducted on high-performance computing systems have used either the Linear Algebra PACKage (LAPACK) library […]
@HPCpodcast: The State of Quantum with DOE’s Dr. Travis Humble
January 25, 2024 by
In this conversation, Dr. Humble discusses how quantum computing works, how far along toward commercial viability the technology is, how to sort through the various quantum modalities under development, quantum’s relationship with AI, the key….
Gina Tourassi Named Oak Ridge Associate Lab Director for Computing and Computational Sciences
November 6, 2023 by
Gina Tourassi has been named associate laboratory director for Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate (CCSD) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She replaces Shaun Gleason, interim ALD since the departure of Doug Kothe for Sandia National Laboratories last June. Kothe….
AMD MI300 Accelerators Expected to Bring Choice to GPU Market
October 11, 2023 by
[Sponsored Guest Article] If you agree that generative AI signifies a new chapter in IT, then you may also agree there’s a major storm gathering among GPU accelerator chip vendors vying for position in the GenAI market. It’s a competition with the potential to roil not only the microprocessor sector….
LLNL: 9,000 Exascale Nodes for Power Grid Optimization
August 9, 2023 by
Ensuring the nation’s electrical power grid can function with limited disruptions in the event of a natural disaster, catastrophic weather or a manmade attack is a key national security challenge. Compounding the challenge of grid management is the increasing amount of renewable energy sources such as solar and wind that are continually added to the […]
