Overprovisioning clusters is easy but comes at great expense. Installing systems that meet this demand are hard to optimize, scale, and manage on a day-to-day basis. As such, those undertaking such efforts must carefully plan for and address every step of the process – designing, building, deploying, and managing high-performance clusters for AI. The post […]
Given the rapid uptake and untested effectiveness of AI technologies, HPCwire asked Steve Conway, senior analyst at Intersect360 Research, to comment on government attempts to regulate AI and what effect these might have on HPC. Conway has closely tracked AI progress for more than a decade. He has spoken and published widely on this topic, […]
When you push a button to open a garage door, it doesn’t open every garage door in the neighborhood; that’s because the opener and the door are communicating using a specific microwave frequency, a frequency no other nearby door is using. Researchers from the University of Chicago, the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National […]
This photograph of Neptune, one of the ice giant planets addressed in a paper recently published by researchers at UC Berkeley, was reconstructed from two images taken by NASA Voyager 2. Credit: NASA What’s going on inside the most distant planets in our solar system? The ice giant planets Uranus, Neptune, and sub-Neptune exoplanets are […]
The ocean provides about half of the oxygen necessary for humans to survive. Scientists at Oregon State University wanted to better understand how plankton populations in the ocean will respond to climate change. To study plankton populations, they developed a new way of photographing large populations of these creatures at sea, using PSC’s Bridges-2 system […]
Clustering resources for faster performance is not new. In the early days of clustering, the Beowulf project demonstrated that high performance was achievable from commodity hardware. These days, the “Beowulf cluster meme” gets used every time some new technology is deployed. For instance, “Imagine a Beowulf cluster of Frontier systems.” Funny enough, but a little […]
Hyperscalers Google, Amazon, and Meta have developed barebones servers by stripping down parts, but you cannot buy them off the shelf. Startup Oxide took on that idea and started shipping a mega-server with custom motherboards stripped of unnecessary parts, wires, and components typically found in off-the-rack servers. The company’s secretive hardware-software co-design plan has developed […]
Kevin Yager—leader of the electronic nanomaterials group at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility at DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory—has imagined how recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) could aid scientific brainstorming and ideation. To accomplish this, he has developed a chatbot with knowledge in […]
According to a recent report by NOAA, the US has confirmed a total of 23 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in 2023 alone—the most events on record during a calendar year. Since 1980, the overall total cost of these billion-dollar weather disasters (including CPI adjustments to 2023) is $2.615 trillion. These numbers tell only part of the story […]
For decades, scientists have probed how human DNA that would stretch more than 2 meters if unspooled from a cell is packed into chromosomes millions of times smaller. A single-cell 3D simulation of chromatin, the structures that make up the chromosome. The beads represent monomers, a segment of the genome, linked to form a polymer. […]
