Neowin News Feed for: Hpc

Microsoft is helping to make a new and better battery, thanks to its AI and HPC services

John Callaham — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 13:52:01 +0000

Microsoft teamed up with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to make a new and better lithium battery, with the help of Microsoft's AI and its Azure Quantum Elements services. Read more...

Azure Managed Lustre arrives for HPC and AI workloads

Paul Hill — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 20:16:01 +0000

Microsoft has announced the availability of Azure Managed Lustre. It said this first-party managed service on Azure is available through two instances that offer different performance options. Read more...

Microsoft's new AutoRXN software simulates a chemical reaction at 30x acceleration

Hamza Jawad — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 12:44:01 +0000

The automated workflow does not only reduce developing complexity, but also improves cost efficiency as well as performance - through optimization of the code and its cloud native nature. Read more...

Meta is upgrading its networks with PTP time sync protocol

Anushe Fawaz — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 18:52:02 +0000

Meta announced a network timing protocol for its data centers powering its technologies, Precision Time Protocol. The company claims that PTP protocol can sync time down to nanoseconds. Read more...

Azure gets two next-gen VMs leveraging AMD's latest 4th gen EPYC processors

Hamza Jawad — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 22:16:02 +0000

The two new virtual machines are aimed towards Azure HPC customers, promising cost efficiency as well as higher performance. Dubbed HX and HBv4, the new series' leverage AMD's latest processors. Read more...

Intel Max series is the first CPU with HBM, promises 68% less power use than AMD

Fiza Ali — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 16:18:01 +0000

Intel has unveiled the Intel Max Series product family for high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence ahead of Supercomputing '22 (SC22) in Dallas happening between November 14-17. Read more...

NASA announces huge upgrade with next-gen processors being "at least 100 times" faster

Sayan Sen — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 08:14:01 +0000

NASA has announced that is going to upgrade its ancient 30-year old systems with state of the art technology. The next-gen computing systems are going to be around a 100 times faster. Read more...

Amazon EC2 Hpc6a instances land on AWS with 65% better price performance

Paul Hill — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 05:40:01 +0000

Amazon has launched Hpc6a instances on AWS. They are designed for high performance computing tasks and come with a 65% performance boost against existing products. This will help keep costs down. Read more...

Samsung's H-Cube solution to allow efficient integration of 6 HBMs, and lower cost benefit

Fiza Ali — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 13:08:01 +0000

Samsung Electro-Mechanics (SEMCO) and Amkor Technology have partnered to develop a 2.5D Integration 'H-Cube' solution specialized for semiconductors for HPC, AI, data center, and network products. Read more...

Samsung to make 768GB DDR5 memory sticks in the near future

Sayan Sen — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 13:10:01 +0000

Samsung recently released the world's first 512GB DDR5 memory module. But the company is planning to go even further by developing a new 768GB module using 24Gb DRAM chips in the future. Read more...

Intel announces Sapphire Rapids release date, platform details, and more

Sayan Sen — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 15:56:01 +0000

At the ongoing ISC 2021 event, Intel has released more details regarding its next-gen server platform including the Sapphire Rapids Xeons as well as its Xe HPC-based Ponte Vecchio HPC accelerators. Read more...

Intel's Speed Select Technology ironically hurting performance, but a fix is coming

Sayan Sen — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 05:32:01 +0000

Intel has released a patch that claims to fix a problem related to Speed Select Technology (SST), which is causing a performance loss of more than 10%. SST is a power management solution on Xeons. Read more...

Samsung unveils CXL-based DDR5, an industry-first innovation

Sayan Sen — Tue, 11 May 2021 05:26:01 +0000

Samsung has built the industry's first DDR5 memory compatible with the CXL interface. CXL is a cache-coherent interconnect which allows for high-performance heterogeneous computing. Read more...

Gigabyte launches new servers with new AMD EPYC 7003 processors

Paul Hill — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 21:02:01 +0000

Gigabyte has launched over 40 new server products that use AMD's newly announce EPYC 7003 Series processors. The firm said the CPU excels at high-performance computing a data analytics. Read more...

AMD's 3rd gen EPYC CPUs are launching on March 15 via a digital event

Sayan Sen — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 17:58:01 +0000

AMD's third-gen EPYC processors, codenamed Milan, will be launched next week on the 15th via a digital event. The event will be streamed on the AMD EPYC events page from 8 a.m. PT or 11 a.m. ET. Read more...

Intel is now an AWS High Performance Computing Competency Partner

Ather Fawaz — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 05:38:01 +0000

Intel is now one of the 14 companies recognized as having deep domain expertise in providing high-performance compute platforms, solvers, and management solutions via AWS resources to its customers. Read more...

Samsung's new HBM-PIM claims to be twice as fast while drawing over 70% less power

Sayan Sen — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 10:36:01 +0000

Samsung has introduced its latest processing-in-memory architecture or PIM. According to the firm, this new innovation is able to double the output while also significantly reducing the power draw. Read more...

Samsung announces X-Cube to enable next-gen applications

Paul Hill — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 19:04:01 +0000

Samsung has announced a new technology called eXtended-Cube (X-Cube) that will enable more performant and efficient devices. It said the technology unlocks next-gen applications like 5G. Read more...

Samsung announces expansion of its foundry capacity

Paul Hill — Thu, 21 May 2020 12:12:01 +0000

Samsung has announced that it's expanding its foundry capacity by opening up a new line in Pyeongtaek, Korea. The hardware produced there will be used for 5G, HPC, and AI solutions. Read more...

AMD's Zen 4 powered El Capitan exascale Supercomputer will be on nuclear duty

Sayan Sen — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 22:04:01 +0000

AMD's next-gen Epyc and Instinct will be inside the El Capitan exascale supercomputer. Expected to be the fastest Supercomputer ever, it will be overlooking U.S. nuclear research operations. Read more...

SC19: Intel debuts Ponte Vecchio, 7nm HPC and AI accelerator

Sayan Sen — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 09:08:02 +0000

At SC19, Intel revealed more information about its GPU-accelerated HPC, AI and exascale ambitions. The company also announced the rumored Ponte Vecchio GPU which will drive such solutions. Read more...

Intel announces Cooper Lake processor with up to 56 cores, due in 2020

Paul Hill — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 16:36:01 +0000

Intel has announced the Cooper Lake processor which it described as the future of the Intel Xeon Scalable processor family. Cooper Lake is expected to go on sale from the first half of 2020. Read more...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise goes Cray, buys supercomputer maker for $1.3 billion

Florin Bodnarescu — Fri, 17 May 2019 16:44:02 +0000

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced its intention to buy supercomputer manufacturer Cray in a deal valued at $1.3 billion. The acquisition is expected to close by Q1 of HPE's FY2020. Read more...

Samsung announces 800GB Z-SSD for HPC systems and AI

Paul Hill — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 08:28:01 +0000

Samsung has revealed some new Z-SSD devices aimed at HPC and AI tasks. The SZ985 drives come in 800GB and 240GB variants and can perform 30 drive writes per day for five years before failing. Read more...

Cray supercomputers come to Azure thanks to new partnership [Update]

Florin Bodnarescu — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 18:20:10 +0000

In an effort to bring more high-performance computing capabilities to those who need it, Microsoft has announced that customers will be able to provision Cray supercomputers in some Azure datacenters. Read more...

Bright Computing releases new version of Cluster Manager, offers better Azure integration

Florin Bodnarescu — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 21:02:01 +0000

Version 8 of Bright Cluster Manager has just been released, and features better integration with Azure for High Performance Computing scenarios such as extending capabilities via "cloud bursting". Read more...

Xeon Phi, Intel's new “co-processor” for supercomputing

Alfonso Maruccia — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:46:04 +0000

The chipmaker introduced its new product for the HPC market dubbed “Xeon Phi”, a new “co-processor” that will work in tandem with Xeon CPUs to deliver new levels of performances. Read more...

Windows HPC 2008 R2 CTP released

Michael Stanclift — Fri, 22 May 2009 19:31:35 +0000

If you've got a spare supercomputer that is just sitting around waiting to test pre-released software on, then you'll be glad to hear that Microsoft has made the Community Technical Preview (CTP) of Windows HPC... Read more...