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How MCR Memory Can More Than Double HPC And AI Performance

October 4, 2024 Rob Farber 5

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. …

HPC

How High-Bandwidth Memory Will Break Performance Bottlenecks

October 21, 2021 Rob Farber 2

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. …

HPC

Leveraging Fat Nodes To Get Around I/O Bottlenecks

February 8, 2021 Rob Farber 0

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. …

Store

Boosting Memory Capacity And Performance While Saving Megawatts

December 8, 2020 Rob Farber 1

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. …

Code

Python Delivers Big On Complex Unlabeled Data

April 15, 2020 Rob Farber 0

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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