Rob Farber, Author at The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/author/rfarber/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Mon, 07 Oct 2024 17:31:06 +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 Rob Farber, Author at The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/author/rfarber/ 32 32 86113652 How MCR Memory Can More Than Double HPC And AI Performance https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/10/04/how-mcr-memory-can-more-than-double-hpc-and-ai-performance/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/10/04/how-mcr-memory-can-more-than-double-hpc-and-ai-performance/#comments Fri, 04 Oct 2024 23:27:00 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144778 Intel recently demonstrated a new type of DIMM memory technology called Multiplexer Combined Rank (MCR), also referred to as MRDIMMs, that provides up to 2.3X better performance for HPC workloads and up to a 2X better on AI inference workloads in comparison to 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors, based on internal Intel analysis. …

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]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/10/04/how-mcr-memory-can-more-than-double-hpc-and-ai-performance/feed/ 5 144778 How High-Bandwidth Memory Will Break Performance Bottlenecks https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/10/21/how-high-bandwidth-memory-will-break-performance-bottlenecks/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/10/21/how-high-bandwidth-memory-will-break-performance-bottlenecks/#comments Thu, 21 Oct 2021 14:40:20 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=139487 Intel recently announced that High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM) will be available on select “Sapphire Rapids” Xeon SP processors and will provide the CPU backbone for the “Aurora” exascale supercomputer to be sited at Argonne National Laboratory. …

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]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/10/21/how-high-bandwidth-memory-will-break-performance-bottlenecks/feed/ 2 139487 Leveraging Fat Nodes To Get Around I/O Bottlenecks https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/02/08/bioteam-leverages-tacc-fat-nodes-to-get-around-i-o-bottlenecks/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/02/08/bioteam-leverages-tacc-fat-nodes-to-get-around-i-o-bottlenecks/#respond Tue, 09 Feb 2021 03:20:40 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=137855 BioTeam, the famous HPC consulting practice, is using the quad-socket large memory nodes at the Texas Advanced Computing Center to speed alignment and HMM (Hidden Markov Model) inference workflows to find biological “synonyms” in biological databases like GenBank. …

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]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/02/08/bioteam-leverages-tacc-fat-nodes-to-get-around-i-o-bottlenecks/feed/ 0 137855 Boosting Memory Capacity And Performance While Saving Megawatts https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/12/08/boosting-memory-capacity-and-performance-while-saving-megawatts/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/12/08/boosting-memory-capacity-and-performance-while-saving-megawatts/#comments Tue, 08 Dec 2020 16:53:44 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=137554 Antonio Peña, senior researcher at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, and his team in Spain have demonstrated how – without code modification – large data centers can increase application performance while saving megawatts of power per day plus run 100X to 10,000X larger AI inference jobs that can handle encrypted data. …

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]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/12/08/boosting-memory-capacity-and-performance-while-saving-megawatts/feed/ 1 137554 Python Delivers Big On Complex Unlabeled Data https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/04/15/python-delivers-big-on-complex-unlabeled-data/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/04/15/python-delivers-big-on-complex-unlabeled-data/#respond Wed, 15 Apr 2020 12:02:48 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=136286 A collaboration of researchers from the University of California Davis, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, and Intel are working together on the DisCo project to extract insight from complex unlabeled data. …

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