Test Bed Systems Pave the Way for 150 Petaflop Summit Supercomputer
Oak Ridges is preparing for their upcoming Summit supercomputer with two modest test bed systems using Power8 processors. "Summit will deliver more than five times the computational performance of...
View ArticleOLCF Moves Forward on Application Readiness for Summit Supercomputer
Today the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) announced a significant step forward in the delivery of Summit, the next-generation supercomputer IBM will deliver in 2017 to greatly advance...
View ArticleIBM and NVIDIA Launch Centers of Excellence at ORNL and LLNL
Today IBM along with Nvidia and two U.S. Department of Energy National Laboratories today announced a pair of Centers of Excellence for supercomputing – one at the Lawrence Livermore National...
View ArticleVideo: Present and Future Leadership Computers at OLCF
In this video from the 2015 OLCF User Meeting, Buddy Bland from Oak Ridge presents: Present and Future Leadership Computers at OLCF. "As the home of Titan, the fastest supercomputer in the USA, OLCF...
View ArticleBuddy Bland Presents an Update on the Summit Supercomputer
Buddy Bland from ORNL presented this talk at SC15. "Summit will deliver more than five times the computational performance of Titan’s 18,688 nodes, using only approximately 3,400 nodes. Each Summit...
View ArticleAllinea Scalable Profiler Speeds Application Readiness for Summit...
Today Allinea announced that Oak Ridge National Laboratory has deployed its code performance profiler Allinea MAP in strength on the Titan supercomputer. Allinea MAP enables developers of software for...
View ArticleSlimming Down Supercomputer Power Bills
Any performance improvements that could be wrung out of supercomputers by adding more power have long been exhausted. New supercomputers demand new options that will give scientists a sleek, efficient...
View ArticleDell EMC Powers Summit Supercomputer at CU Boulder
"The University of Colorado, Boulder supports researchers’ large-scale computational needs with their newly optimized high performance computing system, Summit. Summit is designed with advanced...
View ArticleGTC to Feature 90 Sessions on HPC and Supercomputing
Accelerated computing continues to gain momentum. This year the GPU Technology Conference will feature 90 sessions on HPC and Supercomputing. "Sessions will focus on how computational and data science...
View ArticleORNL Readies Facility for 200 Petaflop Summit Supercomputer
Oak Ridge National Laboratory is moving equipment into a new high-performance computing center this month which is anticipated to become one of the world’s premier resources for open science computing....
View ArticleNo speed limit on NVIDIA Volta with rise of AI
In this special guest feature, Brad McCredie from IBM writes that launch of Volta GPUs from NVIDIA heralds a new era of AI. "We’re excited about the launch of NVIDIA’s Volta GPU accelerators. Together...
View ArticleVideo: 25 Years of Supercomputing at Oak Ridge
Since its early days, the OLCF has consistently delivered supercomputers of unprecedented capability to the scientific community on behalf of DOE—contributing to a rapid evolution in scientific...
View ArticleIBM Readies Power9 Coral Supercomputers at SC17
In this video from SC17, Ken King describes how new Power9 compute nodes will power the next generation of the world's most powerful Coral supercomputers at ORNL and LLNL. "We’re pleased to announce...
View ArticleTime-Lapse Video of Summit Supercomputer Installation
In this time-lapse video, engineers install the first racks of the Summit supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Lab. "Summit is the next leap in leadership-class computing systems for open science. With...
View ArticleApplication Readiness Projects for the Summit Supercomputer Architecture
Dr. Tjerk P. Straatsma from ORNL gave this talk at SC17. "The Center for Accelerated Application Readiness (CAAR) projects are using an Early Access Power8+/Pascal system named SummitDev to prepare for...
View ArticleVideo: Powering the Road to National HPC Leadership
Jack Wells from ORNL gave this talk at the 2018 OpenPOWER Summit. "The Summit supercomputer coming to Oak Ridge is the next leap in leadership-class computing systems for open science. Summit will have...
View ArticleVideo: IBM Brings NVIDIA Volta to Supercharge Discoveries
In this video from GTC 2018, Adel El-Hallak from IBM describes how IBM and NVIDIA are partnering to build the largest supercomputers in the world to enable data scientists and application developers to...
View ArticleVideo: Announcing Summit – World’s Fastest Supercomputer with 200 Petaflops...
Today Energy Secretary Rick Perry unveiled Summit, the world's most powerful supercomputer. Powered by IBM POWER9 processors, 27,648 NVIDIA GPUs, and Mellanox InfiniBand, the Summit supercomputer is...
View ArticleVideo: Researchers Step Up with the New Summit Supercomputer
"The biggest problems in science require supercomputers of unprecedented capability. That’s why the ORNL launched Summit, a system 8 times more powerful than their previous top-ranked system, Titan....
View ArticleNVIDIA Tensor Core GPUs Accelerate World’s Fastest Supercomputers
Today NVIDIA is highlighting news that the world’s top AI supercomputers on the TOP500 are all powered by the company's Tensor Core GPUs. The new "AI supercomputers" on the list include Summit and...
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