Supercomputers

Although HPC systems traditionally come with a high CapEx, clouds now offer a cheaper initial on-ramp – and their ability to handle demanding AI/AL workloads makes them an attractive option.

From scientists to vendors and enterprises, the computing industry needs a way to predict what’s coming and when.

An interview with Professor Jack Dongarra, creator of the benchmark used to rank the world’s fastest supercomputers.

Growth of the cumulative computing power of Top500 systems is slowing down, pushing Moore’s Law closer to obsolescence.

Future machine learning models will be enormous. The OpenAI system shows that hyperscale cloud platforms can take them on.

“You can just plug it into a server and run it at room temperature.”

Other Nvidia announcements at SC19 include a GPU-accelerated Arm server design and software that makes GPU clusters faster.