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The Influence of HPC-ers: Setting the Standard for What’s “Cool”
Jan. 16, 2025

A look back to supercomputing at the turn of the century

When I first attended the Supercomputing (SC) conferences back in the early 2000s as an IBMer working in High Performance Computing (HPC), it was obvious this conference was intended for serious computer science researchers and industries singularly focused on pushing the boundaries of computing. Linux was still in its infancy. I vividly remember having to re-compile kernels with newly released drivers every time there was a new server that came to market just so I could get the system to PXE boot over the network. But there was one …


The Evolution, Convergence and Cooling of AI & HPC Gear
Nov. 7, 2024

Years ago, when Artificial Intelligence (AI) began to emerge as a potential technology to be harnessed as a powerful tool to change the way the world works, organizations began to kick the AI tires by exploring it’s potential to enhance their research or business. However, to get started with AI, neural networks needed to be created, data sets trained, and microprocessors were needed that could perform matrix-multiplication calculations ideally suited to perform these computationally demanding tasks. Enter the accelerator.


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University of Nebraska-Omaha Uses NSF ACCESS Resources to Analyze Complex Taxation Scenarios

Jan. 14, 2026 — Government agencies that develop taxation strategies have a tough job – aside from being a highly complex project with numerous moving variables, it’s challenging to find supporters of the work. It’s a rare person who enjoys the process of being taxed. That doesn’t mean that developing tax policy can’t be improved […]

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Chiplet Summit Opens Registration for 2026 Event in Santa Clara

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 14, 2026 — Chiplet Summit today opened pre-registration for its fourth annual event, taking place February 17-19 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Major chipmakers have all adopted chiplets for leading-edge performance, and the Chiplet Summit brings together the engineers and companies shaping the future of integration. The timely and practical educational […]

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Cerebras Scores $10B Deal with OpenAI

Since Cerebras came on the scene in 2019 with its unusual dinner plat-size wafer scale GPU, there was always the potential for a break-out moment, when someone or something would elevate the lightning-fast processer from niche AI chip into the mainstream. That moment may have come today. The Wall Street Journal reports that OpenAI has […]

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ISC 2026 Conference Announces Keynote from Dr. Martin Schulz on the Post-Moore Era

HAMBURG, Germany, January 14 — The ISC High Performance conference announced that Professor Dr. Martin Schulz, a leading European expert in large-scale parallel computing, will deliver the ISC 2026 Opening Keynote. Titled “HPC: A Heterogeneous Future,” the keynote address on Tuesday, June 23, will focus on what he believes will be the most significant architectural […]

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By Decade’s End, AI Will Drive More Than Half Of All Chip Sales

As the year came to an end, we tore apart IDC’s assessments for server spending, including the huge jump in accelerated supercomputers for running GenAI and more traditional machine learning workloads and as this year got started, we did forensic analysis and modeling based on the company’s reckoning of Ethernet switching and routing revenues.

By Decade’s End, AI Will Drive More Than Half Of All Chip Sales was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Startup Quantum Elements Brings AI, Digital Twins To Quantum Computing

AI is having a seismic impact on processes across all industries, speeding things up and driving costs down.

Startup Quantum Elements Brings AI, Digital Twins To Quantum Computing was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

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The Influence of HPC-ers: Setting the Standard for What’s “Cool”
Jan. 16, 2025

A look back to supercomputing at the turn of the century

When I first attended the Supercomputing (SC) conferences back in the early 2000s as an IBMer working in High Performance Computing (HPC), it was obvious this conference was intended for serious computer science researchers and industries singularly focused on pushing the boundaries of computing. Linux was still in its infancy. I vividly remember having to re-compile kernels with newly released drivers every time there was a new server that came to market just so I could get the system to PXE boot over the network. But there was one …


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11/2025 Highlights

On the 66th edition of the TOP500 El Capitan remains No. 1 and JUPITER Booster becomes the fourth Exascale system.

The JUPITER Booster system at the EuroHPC / Jülich Supercomputing Centre in Germany at No. 4 submitted a new measurement of 1.000 Exflop/s on the HPL benchmark. It is the fourth Exascale system on the TOP500 and the first one outside of the USA.

El Capitan, Frontier, and Aurora are still leading the TOP500. All three are installed at DOE laboratories in the USA.

The El Capitan system at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, USA remains the No. 1 system on the TOP500. The HPE Cray EX255a system was remeasured with 1.809 Exaflop/s on the HPL benchmark. LLNL also achieved 17.41 Petaflop/s on the HPCG benchmark which makes the system the No. 1 on this ranking as well.

El Capitan has 11,340,000 cores and is based on AMD 4th generation EPYC processors with 24 cores at 1.8 GHz and AMD Instinct MI300A accelerators. It uses the Cray Slingshot 11 network for data transfer and achieves an energy efficiency of 60.9 Gigaflops/watt.

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