Supercomputers – Kernel Sesias

15 Novembre 2024Tecnologia

Summit supercomputer gets virtual farewell on Zoom — supercomputer going full tilt until last possible moment

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Summit supercomputer is being decommissioned this month after spending several years churning through data 24/7. As […]

7 Ottobre 2024Tecnologia

Russian government to issue grants enabling companies and researchers to rent supercomputers

The Russian government plans to boost supercomputer usage by offering grants to companies that rent them, reports CNews. This initiative will be instrumental […]

18 Settembre 2024Tecnologia

ORNL shreds 250 petabytes of disk drives from the Summit supercomputer — Alpine storage system dismantled in preparation for the world’s fastest supercomputer

Oak Ridge National Laboratory has decommissioned its Alpine storage system, a 250-petabyte storage system that held data for the Summit supercomputer and […]

28 Giugno 2024Tecnologia

Thunderbird packs up to 6,144 CPU cores into a single AI accelerator and scales up to 360,000 cores — InspireSemi’s RISC-V ‘supercomputer-cluster-on-a-chip’ touts higher performance than Nvidia GPUs

The Holy Grail of supercomputing chip design is an architecture that combines the versatility and programmability of CPUs with the explicit parallelism […]

15 Giugno 2024Tecnologia

Scientists used a retired supercomputer to prep for NASA’s Roman mission — Argonne Theta supercomputer created nearly four million simulated images

Ahead of NASA’s upcoming launch of the Grace Roman Space Telescope for the “Roman Mission,” researchers are using the Argonne Theta supercomputer […]

11 Maggio 2024Tecnologia

Portable AI supercomputer comes as a carry-on suitcase with wheels — four GPUs, 246TB of storage, and a 2,500W integrated power supply

GigaIO and SourceCode have teamed up to bring the world an ultraportable but still supercomputer-class device for AI needs. The Gryf weighs […]

4 Maggio 2024Tecnologia

Multi-million dollar Cheyenne supercomputer auction ends with $480,085 bid — buyer walked away with 8,064 Intel Xeon Broadwell CPUs, 313TB DDR4-2400 ECC RAM, and some water leaks

One lucky buyer had their day yesterday as the U.S. government’s online auction for selling its Cheyenne supercomputer ended at $480,085. The […]

10 Aprile 2024Tecnologia

AMD Instinct MI350 with upgraded 4nm process node and HBM3E may launch later this year, according to analyst firm

AMD plans to introduce upgraded versions of its Instinct MI300-series processors for AI and HPC in the second half of the year, […]

16 Marzo 2024Tecnologia

NASA’s old supercomputers are causing mission delays — one has 18,000 CPUs but only 48 GPUs, highlighting dire need for update

NASA works with some of the world’s most advanced technologies and makes some of the most significant discoveries in human history. However, […]

1 Novembre 2023Tecnologia

Instinct MI300 Could be Fastest Product to $1 Billion in AMD History

For years AMD has been trying to grab a share of the datacenter GPU market from Nvidia. It hasn’t had much success, […]