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Beyond Simulation – Harnessing AI for Next-Generation HPC at ISC

Computer simulation has become a staple technique in many disciplines – so much so that it often described as the “third pillar” of the scientific method.

Powering the Future of HPC & AI with OpenPOWER

It is coming up on one year that the Summit supercomputer based on IBM POWER9 at Oak Ridge National Lab claimed the number one spot on the Top500 ranking.

GPU usage information for jobs in IBM Spectrum LSF

In my last blog, we ran through an example showing how IBM Spectrum LSF now automatically detects the presence of NVIDIA GPUs on hosts in the cluster and performs the necessary configuration of the scheduler automatically.

A hands-on look at GPU "autoconfig" in IBM Spectrum LSF

It’s been a long time since I’ve posted to my goulash blog. I’ve not disappeared, rather I’ve been writing articles for the IBM Accelerated Insights solution channel on HPCWire.

The Taming of the GPU

The media has been alight with articles regarding the groundbreaking Summit supercomputer recently unveiled at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. It sports a mind boggling 9,216 IBM POWER9 CPUs, 27,648 NVIDIA Tesla GPUs, underpinned with 250 petabytes of storage.

Cool and quiet benchmarking on MACCHIATObin (Armada 8040)

I’ve recently taken delivery of a few new goodies to complement the MACCHIATObin Arm v8 powered board that I’ve written about recently on my blog.