HPC Archives - The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/category/hpc/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Fri, 14 Feb 2025 19:56:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://www.nextplatform.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-PlatformStack-150x150.jpg HPC Archives - The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/category/hpc/ 32 32 86113652 The Hidden Cost Of Compromise: Why HPC Still Demands Precision https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/13/the-hidden-cost-of-compromise-why-hpc-still-demands-precision/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/13/the-hidden-cost-of-compromise-why-hpc-still-demands-precision/#comments Thu, 13 Feb 2025 17:16:52 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145312 PARTNER CONTENT: As the technology industry continues its shift towards AI dominance, an important schism is opening up that threatens to impact scientific progress, along with important humanitarian endeavors such as disaster response. …

The Hidden Cost Of Compromise: Why HPC Still Demands Precision was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/13/the-hidden-cost-of-compromise-why-hpc-still-demands-precision/feed/ 4 145312 HLRS Takes First Steps To Exascale https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/21/hlrs-takes-first-steps-to-exascale/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/21/hlrs-takes-first-steps-to-exascale/#comments Tue, 21 Jan 2025 19:38:16 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145208 The University of Stuttgart’s High Performance Computing Center (HLRS) in Germany tapped Hewlett Packard Enterprise back in December 2023 to build a prototype hybrid CPU-GPU supercomputer nicknamed “Hunter” to pave the way towards an exascale-class machine it is budgeting to have installed in 2027 called “Herder.” …

HLRS Takes First Steps To Exascale was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/21/hlrs-takes-first-steps-to-exascale/feed/ 1 145208 Gordon Bell Prize Awarded To Molecular Dynamics-Quantum Mechanics Mashup On “Frontier” Supercomputer https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/19/gordon-bell-prize-awarded-to-molecular-dynamics-quantum-mechanics-mashup-on-frontier-supercomputer/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/19/gordon-bell-prize-awarded-to-molecular-dynamics-quantum-mechanics-mashup-on-frontier-supercomputer/#comments Thu, 19 Dec 2024 17:01:43 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145157 For years, scientists in the field of molecular dynamics have been squeezed in their research. …

Gordon Bell Prize Awarded To Molecular Dynamics-Quantum Mechanics Mashup On “Frontier” Supercomputer was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/19/gordon-bell-prize-awarded-to-molecular-dynamics-quantum-mechanics-mashup-on-frontier-supercomputer/feed/ 2 145157 LRZ Adopts Nvidia Engines For €250 Million “Blue Lion” Supercomputer In 2027 https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/16/lrz-adopts-nvidia-engines-for-e250-million-blue-lion-supercomputer-in-2027/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/16/lrz-adopts-nvidia-engines-for-e250-million-blue-lion-supercomputer-in-2027/#comments Mon, 16 Dec 2024 20:21:48 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145139 The expansion of the computing capacity in Europe for both traditional HPC simulation as well as AI training and modeling continues apace, with the Leibniz-Rechenzentrum lab in Germany announcing late last week (when we took a day of holiday) that it would be shelling out €250 million – about $262.7 million at current exchange rates – to build a hybrid CPU-GPU cluster based on Nvidia compute engines to tackle both kinds of high performance computing. …

LRZ Adopts Nvidia Engines For €250 Million “Blue Lion” Supercomputer In 2027 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/16/lrz-adopts-nvidia-engines-for-e250-million-blue-lion-supercomputer-in-2027/feed/ 4 145139 HPE Upgrades Supercomputer Lineup Top To Bottom In 2025 https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/26/hpe-upgrades-supercomputer-lineup-top-to-bottom-in-2025/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/26/hpe-upgrades-supercomputer-lineup-top-to-bottom-in-2025/#comments Tue, 26 Nov 2024 17:19:19 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145055 If you want to buy an exascale-class supercomputer, or a portion of one so you can scale up, there are not a lot of places to go shopping because there are not a lot of companies who have a balance sheet that is big enough to get all of the parts to build the machines. …

HPE Upgrades Supercomputer Lineup Top To Bottom In 2025 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/26/hpe-upgrades-supercomputer-lineup-top-to-bottom-in-2025/feed/ 5 145055 AMD ROCm 6.3 Has Goodies For AI Aficionados And HPC Gurus Alike https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/26/amd-rocm-6-3-has-goodies-for-ai-aficionados-and-hpc-gurus-alike/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/26/amd-rocm-6-3-has-goodies-for-ai-aficionados-and-hpc-gurus-alike/#comments Tue, 26 Nov 2024 17:00:45 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145063 Speeds and feeds are great, but hardware is only as useful as the software that can harness it, and, for AMD, that’s the ROCm software stack. …

AMD ROCm 6.3 Has Goodies For AI Aficionados And HPC Gurus Alike was written by Tobias Mann at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/26/amd-rocm-6-3-has-goodies-for-ai-aficionados-and-hpc-gurus-alike/feed/ 1 145063 Ford Lead Says HPC, GPUs, AI Are Keys to Driving Progress https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/22/ford-lead-says-hpc-gpus-ai-are-keys-to-driving-progress/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/22/ford-lead-says-hpc-gpus-ai-are-keys-to-driving-progress/#respond Fri, 22 Nov 2024 21:04:26 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145046 Like all auto manufacturers, Ford is pursuing what can only be described as a profound digital transformation. …

Ford Lead Says HPC, GPUs, AI Are Keys to Driving Progress was written by Nicole Hemsoth Prickett at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/22/ford-lead-says-hpc-gpus-ai-are-keys-to-driving-progress/feed/ 0 145046 Microsoft Is First To Get HBM-Juiced AMD CPUs https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/22/microsoft-is-first-to-get-hbm-juiced-amd-cpus/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/22/microsoft-is-first-to-get-hbm-juiced-amd-cpus/#comments Fri, 22 Nov 2024 19:29:13 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145042 Intel was the first of the major CPU makers to add HBM stacked DRAM memory to a CPU package, with the “Sapphire Rapids” Max Series Xeon SP processors. …

Microsoft Is First To Get HBM-Juiced AMD CPUs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/22/microsoft-is-first-to-get-hbm-juiced-amd-cpus/feed/ 2 145042 NSF Comes to SC24 With Money Map, AI Blueprint https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/22/nsf-comes-to-sc24-with-money-map-ai-blueprint/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/22/nsf-comes-to-sc24-with-money-map-ai-blueprint/#comments Fri, 22 Nov 2024 18:09:41 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145039 You’d be forgiven for thinking the annual Supercomputing Conference (SC24) was a global AI-specific event this year. …

NSF Comes to SC24 With Money Map, AI Blueprint was written by Nicole Hemsoth Prickett at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/22/nsf-comes-to-sc24-with-money-map-ai-blueprint/feed/ 1 145039 HPC Market Bigger Than Expected, And Growing Faster https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/19/hpc-market-bigger-than-expected-and-growing-faster/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/19/hpc-market-bigger-than-expected-and-growing-faster/#comments Tue, 19 Nov 2024 21:47:55 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145020 As far as we have been concerned since founding The Next Platform literally a decade ago this week, AI training and inference in the datacenter are a kind of HPC. …

HPC Market Bigger Than Expected, And Growing Faster was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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