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Argonne National Laboratory announced that the Polaris supercomputer, a 44-petaflops HPE system powered by AMD CPUs and NVIDIA GPUs, is now open to the research community. Researchers can apply for computing time through the ALCF’s Director’s Discretionary allocation program. Details on the system can be found here. The system, housed at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility […]

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Travis Humble has been named director of the Quantum Science Center headquartered at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The QSC is a multi-institutional partnership spanning industry, academia and government institutions and is tasked with investigating the potential of quantum materials, sensors and algorithms. Humble was named deputy director in 2020, when DOE […]

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System architects are often impatient about the future, especially when they can see something good coming down the pike. …

CXL Borgs IBM’s OpenCAPI, Weaves Memory Fabrics With 3.0 Spec was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

For the past four years, Nvidia’s datacenter business, which includes GPUs, networking, and servers, has been hot on the heels of its gaming GPU business. …

Datacenter Props Up Nvidia As Gaming Sales Collapse was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

TOP500 News

GREEN500: Trend of steady progress with no big step toward newer technologies.

June 28, 2021

Although there was a trend of steady progress in the Green500, nothing has indicated a big step toward newer technologies.

The system to snag the No. 1 spot for the Green500 was MN-3 from Preferred Networks in Japan. Knocked from the top of the last list by NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD in the US, MN-3 is back to reclaim its crown. This system relies on the MN-Core chip, an accelerator optimized for matrix arithmetic, as well as a Xeon Platinum 8260M processor. MN-3 achieved a 29.70 gigaflops/watt power-efficiency and has a TOP500 ranking of 337.

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Report on the Fujitsu Fugaku system by Jack Dongarra

June 22, 2020

Detailed report on the Fujitsu Fugaku system.

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