Parallel computing

SiFive Welcomes Ann Chin As SiFive IP Business Unit General Manager

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Tuesday, November 26, 2019
Computers, Digital technology, Computing, Parallel computing, Classes of computers, Computer architecture, Fabless semiconductor companies, SiFive, Instruction set architectures, RISC-V, Reduced instruction set computer, Superscalar processor

SAN MATEO, Calif., Nov. 26, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- SiFive, Inc., the leading provider of commercial RISC-V processor IP and silicon solutions, today announced that Ann Chin has joined the company as vice president and co-general manager of the SiFive IP business unit.

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  • SAN MATEO, Calif., Nov. 26, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- SiFive, Inc., the leading provider of commercial RISC-V processor IP and silicon solutions, today announced that Ann Chin has joined the company as vice president and co-general manager of the SiFive IP business unit.
  • Chin joins SiFive IP Business Unit Vice President and Co-General Manager Mohit Gupta to ensure the development and execution of next-generation high-performance, scalable processor core IP.SiFive continues to invest in expanding the performance of RISC-V processor IP, and most recently announced the SiFive U8-Series of processor Core IP, the world's first out-of-order superscalar RISC-V processor Core IP on the market.
  • "SiFive has a unique opportunity to enable a broad array of leading semiconductor companies with new, scalable, high-performance processor core IP," said Chin.
  • "We're pleased to welcome Ann to SiFive to help lead our Core IP roadmap and execution," said SiFive President and CEO Dr. Naveed Sherwani.

KISTI Collaborates with Rescale to Diversify R&D Service of KISTI-5 Supercomputer, Nurion

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Monday, November 25, 2019
Data management, Semiconductor, Technology, Networks, Research, Science, Hardware, Business software, Rescale, Joris Poort, Parallel computing, Business, Supercomputer, Poort, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Articles, Computer architecture

The ezNurion service is a supercomputing environment that is built to facilitate utilization of Nurion resources by individuals and organizations through linking Nurion, a KISTI supercomputing resource, with the Rescale platform.

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  • The ezNurion service is a supercomputing environment that is built to facilitate utilization of Nurion resources by individuals and organizations through linking Nurion, a KISTI supercomputing resource, with the Rescale platform.
  • EzNurion project will link Rescales cloud HPC platform to Nurion to provide services.
  • We are pleased to support KISTI in improving its R&D environment through the popularization of Koreas supercomputer, says Joris Poort, Founder and CEO of Rescale.
  • Rescale empowers the worlds transformative executives, IT leaders, engineers, and scientists to securely manage product innovation to be first to market.

Mellanox 200 Gigabit HDR InfiniBand Advances Innovations in High-Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence

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Thursday, November 21, 2019
Data management, Technology, Telecommunications, Software, Networks, Internet, Hardware, Computing, Digital technology, Telecommunications, Mellanox Technologies, InfiniBand, Parallel computing, Supercomputer

The program is designed to enable supercomputing platforms with the highest levels of performance and efficiency, and will focus on the following key areas:

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  • The program is designed to enable supercomputing platforms with the highest levels of performance and efficiency, and will focus on the following key areas:
    Supercomputing platforms: Bringing together Mellanoxs 200 gigabit HDR InfiniBand ConnectX-6 smart adapters, Mellanox HDR InfiniBand Quantum switches and LinkX cables and transceivers with Dell EMC PowerEdge servers to form scalable, high-performance supercomputing platforms.
  • As strong believers and prolific contributors of standards-based technologies and open source software programs, Dell Technologies and Mellanox will continue to enhance and contribute to such programs.
  • More on Mellanox products and solutions at: http://www.mellanox.com/
    Mellanox Technologies (NASDAQ: MLNX) is a leading supplier of end-to-end Ethernet and InfiniBand smart interconnect solutions and services for servers and storage.
  • Note: Mellanox, Mellanox logo, ConnectX-6, Mellanox Quantum, LinkX are registered trademarks of Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.

Inspur showcases new liquid cooling HPC system with Natural Circulation Evaporative Cooling technology at SC19

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Wednesday, November 20, 2019
Data management, Consumer electronics, Technology, Other Technology, Nanotechnology, Networks, Audio, Video, Internet, Mobile, Wireless, Hardware, Electronic design automation, Concurrent computing, Temperature, Physical sciences, Heating, ventilating, and air conditioning, Cluster computing, Distributed computing architecture, Parallel computing, Supercomputer, Liquid cooling, Evaporative cooling, Blade server, Server immersion cooling

At SC19, Inspur showcases a new liquid cooling HPC system combining high-density computing servers with natural circulation evaporative cooling technology, which is more reliable, energy-saving, and easier to deploy than other liquid cooling solutions.

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  • At SC19, Inspur showcases a new liquid cooling HPC system combining high-density computing servers with natural circulation evaporative cooling technology, which is more reliable, energy-saving, and easier to deploy than other liquid cooling solutions.
  • Liquid cooling technologies, compared to traditional air cooling counterparts, boast prominent advantages in heat dissipation efficiency, energy utilization, and other aspects, and have seen rapid growth in recent years.
  • Inspur joined hands with the Institute of Electrical Engineering of Chinese Academy of Sciences (IEECAS), combining Inspurs leading supercomputing servers with IEECASs natural circulation evaporative cooling technology to achieve an efficient, reliable and energy saving liquid cooling HPC system.
  • The system is equipped with Inspurs high-density server i24 which can support 4 high-performance two-socket computing nodes in 2U and the natural circulation evaporative cooling suite developed by IEECAS.

HDR InfiniBand Selected by Meteo France to Accelerate Two New Large Scale Supercomputers

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Wednesday, November 20, 2019
Science, Software, Networks, Research, Environment, Hardware, Data management, Technology, Computing, Digital technology, Telecommunications, Concurrent computing, Distributed computing architecture, Cluster computing, Parallel computing, Supercomputer, Mellanox Technologies, InfiniBand

SUPERCOMPUTING CONFERENCE Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX), a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end smart interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, today announced that HDR InfiniBand has been selected by Meteo France to accelerate two new large-scale supercomputers, based on Atoss latest BullSequana XH2000 technology.

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  • SUPERCOMPUTING CONFERENCE Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX), a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end smart interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, today announced that HDR InfiniBand has been selected by Meteo France to accelerate two new large-scale supercomputers, based on Atoss latest BullSequana XH2000 technology.
  • Meteo France is the French national meteorological service, providing weather forecasting services for many companies including transport, agriculture, energy and others, as well as to a large number of media channels and world-wide sporting and cultural events.
  • We are proud to collaborate with Atos and Meteo France to build the new supercomputing platforms.
  • The two new supercomputers will offer a 5.6 times compute power speedup, compared to Meteo Frances existing platforms.

Tachyum Shares Why Its Processor is Valuable for Chinese Market

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Wednesday, November 20, 2019
Technology, Hardware, Semiconductor, Parallel computing, Computer architecture, Computer engineering, Central processing unit, Computers, Manycore processors, Microprocessors, Multi-core processor

As investment continues into industrial AI solutions and similar technologies, there is a number of new opportunities available for Chinese companies looking to boost the regions economy.

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  • As investment continues into industrial AI solutions and similar technologies, there is a number of new opportunities available for Chinese companies looking to boost the regions economy.
  • This invitation is proof that Tachyum technology is recognized not just by Europe, but by the rest of the world.
  • Tachyums Prodigy Universal Processor Chip is the smallest and fastest general purpose, 64-core processor developed to date, requiring 10x less processor power, and reducing processor cost by 3x.
  • Fewer transistors, fewer and shorter wires, due to a smaller, simpler core, translates into much greater speed and power efficiency for the Prodigy processor.

GigaIO Optimizes FabreX™ Architecture with Leading Edge GPU Sharing and Composition Technology

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Tuesday, November 19, 2019
Computing, Technology, Digital technology, Parallel computing, Computer architecture, Engineering, Scalability, Supercomputer

"It is imperative for the supercomputing community to have a system architecture that can handle the compute-intensive workloads being deployed today," says Alan Benjamin, CEO of GigaIO.

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  • "It is imperative for the supercomputing community to have a system architecture that can handle the compute-intensive workloads being deployed today," says Alan Benjamin, CEO of GigaIO.
  • "Our team has created that solution with FabreX, which offers unparalleled composability and the lowest hardware latency on the market.
  • Moreover, incorporating GDR technology only enhances the fabric's cutting-edge capabilities - delivering accelerated performance and increased scalability for truly effortless composing.
  • With the innovative GigaIO FabreX architecture, data centers can scale up or out the performance of their systems, preserving their existing investment while adding the newest and latest capabilities.

Bright Computing Makes Award Winning Bright Cluster Manager Software Free for Clusters up to 8 Nodes

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Tuesday, November 19, 2019
Distributed computing architecture, Concurrent computing, Digital technology, Cluster computing, Cloud infrastructure, Parallel computing, OpenStack, Bright Computing, Computer cluster, Cluster manager, Warewulf, NetApp

Easy8 offers the full-featured Bright Cluster Manager software for up to 8 nodes at no charge and is available immediately from the Bright Computing website.

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  • Easy8 offers the full-featured Bright Cluster Manager software for up to 8 nodes at no charge and is available immediately from the Bright Computing website.
  • "With the Easy8 program, we're giving every organization the ability to use our software free of charge for up to 8 nodes to demonstrate how powerful and beneficial Bright Cluster Manager software can be for their business.''
  • Bright Computing is the leading provider of platform-independent commercial cluster management software.
  • Bright Cluster Manager, Bright Cluster Manager for Data Science, and Bright OpenStack automate the process of installing, provisioning, configuring, managing, and monitoring clusters for HPC, data analytics, machine learning, and OpenStack environments.

OSS Introduces Industry’s First Solution Incorporating NVIDIA GPUs with NVLink and Marvell ThunderX2 Arm-based Servers

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Tuesday, November 19, 2019
Computer architecture, Computing, Video cards, Graphics hardware, GPGPU, Digital technology, Parallel computing, NVLink, Nvidia, CUDA, Graphics processing unit, Turing

The SCA8000 includes eight NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPUs interconnected with NVIDIA NVLink providing 300GB/s of peer-to-peer GPU bandwidth.

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  • The SCA8000 includes eight NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPUs interconnected with NVIDIA NVLink providing 300GB/s of peer-to-peer GPU bandwidth.
  • The SCA8000 is the industrys only NVIDIA NVLink based solution available that leverages this NVIDIA CUDA support for the Arm processor architecture.
  • The OSS expansion platform accelerated by NVIDIA GPUs with NVLink and NVIDIAs CUDA-accelerated software provides the HPC community an easy to deploy Arm-based GPU-accelerated solution.
  • The server is connected to the SCA8000 populated with eight NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPUs interconnected with NVIDIA NVLink.

NVIDIA CUDA-X AI and HPC Software Stack Now Available on Marvell ThunderX Platforms

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Tuesday, November 19, 2019
Computer architecture, GPGPU, Computing, Fabless semiconductor companies, Digital technology, Graphics hardware, Acorn Computers, Parallel computing, Nvidia, ARM Holdings, CUDA, Graphics processing unit

Following NVIDIA's June announcement to bring CUDA to the Arm architecture, Marvell has collaborated with NVIDIA to port its CUDA-X AI and HPC libraries, GPU-accelerated AI frameworks and software development tools to the ThunderX platform.

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  • Following NVIDIA's June announcement to bring CUDA to the Arm architecture, Marvell has collaborated with NVIDIA to port its CUDA-X AI and HPC libraries, GPU-accelerated AI frameworks and software development tools to the ThunderX platform.
  • Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) continue to become essential technology components to data center server requirements at the cloud and network edge.
  • "Combining NVIDIA's unmatched platform for AI and HPC with Marvell's powerful ThunderX2 Arm-based server processors is already delivering impressive application performance."
  • NVIDIA's full software suite support is enabling the acceleration of more than 600 HPC applications and AI frameworks on ThunderX2 systems.