ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Astra, the world’s fastest Arm-based supercomputer according to the TOP500 list, has achieved a speed of 1.529 petaflops, placing it 203rd on a ranking of top computers announced at The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis SC18 conference in Dallas. A petaflop is a unit of computing speed […]
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Astra supercomputer at Sandia Labs is fastest Arm-based machine on TOP500 list
November 13, 2018 – 5:00 am
Arm-based supercomputer prototype to be deployed at Sandia National Laboratories by DOE
June 18, 2018 – 5:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Microprocessors designed by Arm are ubiquitous in automobile electronics, cellphones and other embedded applications, but until recently they have not provided the performance necessary to make them practical for high-performance computing. Astra, one of the first supercomputers to use processors based on the Arm architecture in a large-scale high-performance computing platform, is […]
Diagnosing supercomputer problems
November 13, 2017 – 9:00 am
Sandia, Boston University win award for using machine learning to detect issues ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A team of computer scientists and engineers from Sandia National Laboratories and Boston University recently received a prestigious award at the International Supercomputing conference for their paper on automatically diagnosing problems in supercomputers. The research, which is in the early […]
RAPTOR turbulent combustion code selected for next-gen supercomputer readiness project
May 27, 2015 – 11:55 am
LIVERMORE, Calif. — RAPTOR, a turbulent combustion code developed by Sandia National Laboratories mechanical engineer Joseph Oefelein, was selected as one of 13 partnership projects for the Center for Accelerated Application Readiness (CAAR). CAAR is a U.S. Department of Energy program located at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility. It is focused on optimizing computer […]