Frontera Archives - The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/tag/frontera/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Wed, 04 Sep 2024 19:14:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://www.nextplatform.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-PlatformStack-150x150.jpg Frontera Archives - The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/tag/frontera/ 32 32 86113652 TACC Fires Up “Vista” Bridge To Future “Horizon” Supercomputer https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/09/04/tacc-fires-up-vista-bridge-to-future-horizon-supercomputer/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/09/04/tacc-fires-up-vista-bridge-to-future-horizon-supercomputer/#comments Wed, 04 Sep 2024 18:38:12 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144647 The Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Austin is the flagship datacenter for supercomputing for the US National Science Foundation, and so what TACC does – and doesn’t do – is a kind of bellwether for academic supercomputing. …

TACC Fires Up “Vista” Bridge To Future “Horizon” Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/09/04/tacc-fires-up-vista-bridge-to-future-horizon-supercomputer/feed/ 1 144647 With Vista, TACC Now Has Three Paths To Its Future Horizon Supercomputer https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/01/29/with-vista-tacc-now-has-three-paths-to-its-future-horizon-supercomputer/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/01/29/with-vista-tacc-now-has-three-paths-to-its-future-horizon-supercomputer/#respond Mon, 29 Jan 2024 23:44:34 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143556 The national supercomputing centers in the United States, Europe, and China are not only rich enough to build very powerful machines, but they are rich enough, thanks to their national governments, to underwrite and support multiple and somewhat incompatible architectures to hedge their bets and mitigate their risk. …

With Vista, TACC Now Has Three Paths To Its Future Horizon Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/01/29/with-vista-tacc-now-has-three-paths-to-its-future-horizon-supercomputer/feed/ 0 143556 Leveraging Fat Nodes To Get Around I/O Bottlenecks https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/02/08/bioteam-leverages-tacc-fat-nodes-to-get-around-i-o-bottlenecks/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/02/08/bioteam-leverages-tacc-fat-nodes-to-get-around-i-o-bottlenecks/#respond Tue, 09 Feb 2021 03:20:40 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=137855 BioTeam, the famous HPC consulting practice, is using the quad-socket large memory nodes at the Texas Advanced Computing Center to speed alignment and HMM (Hidden Markov Model) inference workflows to find biological “synonyms” in biological databases like GenBank. …

Leveraging Fat Nodes To Get Around I/O Bottlenecks was written by Rob Farber at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/02/08/bioteam-leverages-tacc-fat-nodes-to-get-around-i-o-bottlenecks/feed/ 0 137855 Attacking The Novel Coronavirus With Supercomputing Cycles https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/06/09/attacking-the-novel-coronavirus-with-supercomputing-cycles/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/06/09/attacking-the-novel-coronavirus-with-supercomputing-cycles/#respond Tue, 09 Jun 2020 14:00:18 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=136595 Dan Stanzione has a lot of compute power at his fingertips. …

Attacking The Novel Coronavirus With Supercomputing Cycles was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

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