Interesting facts about this day in history in the world of supercomputing
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Nov 5, 1991: @FujitsuHPC announces it's dropping offer to donate a supercomputer to Colorado-based electric utility consortium, after pressure from the US Govt, who accused Fujitsu of trying to illegally gain inroads into US market (web.archive.org/web/20150525…) #supercomputing #HPC
Nov 4, 2002: Canadian researchers use a country-wide virtual supercomputer to complete 3.5 CPU years of work in 1 day. Resources from 18 institutions were used as part of Canadian Internetworked Scientific Supercomputer (CISS) (webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~jona…) #supercomputing #HPC
Nov 3, 2016: @chinaorgcn story that China has started building a prototype EXAFLOPS supercomputer. The system is slated to be installed at Nat'l #Supercomputing Center in Jinan. The article also mentions that China has launched 3 exascale projects (web.archive.org/web/20161108…) #HPC
Nov 2, 1998: @ansidotorg approves Myrinet high speed interconnect for use on VMEbus as ANSI/VITA 26-1998 (web.archive.org/web/20101116…) #supercomputing #HPC
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The first Apple logo in 1976
vs.
the first Microsoft logo in 1975
ALT The first Apple logo in 1976 vs. The first Microsoft logo in 1975
Nov 1, 1988: @NASA releases a video showing the installation of its new #Cray Y-MP @NASAAmes (youtube.com/watch?v=_mIKLX5_…) #supercomputing #HPC
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Why can’t programmers tell the difference between Halloween & Christmas? Because oct 31 = dec 25.
#HappyHalloween
Even #HPC can get in on the Halloween action.
The short story, "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream," by Harlan Ellison, published in 1967, is about a supercomputer that gains sentience and murders all of humanity except for 5 people, who he intends to torture for eternity.
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We’re saddened by the passing of former NCSA member Nancy St. John. Her groundbreaking work in visualization left a lasting impact on NCSA & the field of visual effects. Our thoughts are with her family, friends & colleagues.
Read more: variety.com/2024/film/people…
Oct 30, 1988: Interesting @nytimes article "Supercomputer Pictures Solve the Once Insoluble," about how #supercomputing visualizations are enabling more insight for scientists (web.archive.org/web/20090601…) #supercomputing #HPC
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1969: The first message sent over ARPANET was from Leonard Kleinrock’s UCLA computer, sent by student programmer Charley Kline at 10:30 PM to the second node at Stanford Research Institute’s computer in Menlo Park, California.
The message was simply "Lo." But not on purpose!
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This is Sandia: a look back at 75 years of national security service.
➡️youtu.be/8oHZRC0mfcU
#Sandias75th
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Something we are doing terribly wrong in the #HPC community is having many of our major conference presentations and talks behind paywalls or not recorded at all. The hiding or complete loss of (now) decades of learning, knowledge, and history is something to mourn. 😞
Oct 29, 1945: @MIT hosts 1st conference on Advanced Computation Techniques. It is held in conjunction w/ 1st public demonstration of MIT's new Differential Analyzer, developed by Vannevar Bush and S.H. Caldwell. (ams.org/journals/mcom/1946-0…) #supercomputing #HPC
Oct 28, 1937: BDay of Ted Hoff - he joined @intel as employee #12 in 1968, and is credited with coming up with the idea of a universal processor that eventually became the 1st microprocessor, the Intel 4004 #supercomputing #HPC
Oct 27, 1997: US @StateDept spokesman says that in case of 6 US supercomputers improperly acquired by Russian nuclear weapons labs, US would accept transferring systems to civilian use, rather than requiring they be returned (armscontrol.org/act/1997-10/…) #supercomputing #HPC
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1980: ARPANET (the precursor to the Internet) ground to a halt because a bad status message propagated, causing all IMPs (routers) to exhaust memory.
The solution? Reboot all IMPs!!! 🤣🤯🏆
This incident was such a big deal that the case study of it was published as RFC 789.
Oct 26, 2021: @NicoleHemsoth/@TheNextPlatform break the story that China apparently has achieved 1 EXAFLOPS on two systems, but won't be submitting to @top500supercomp for political reasons
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#supercomputing #HPC
The #HPC benchmark for Top 500 was run on two Chinese supercomputers in March. One reached 1.3 exaflops (peak-1.05 sustained) as did the other. The results will not be reported publicly but we were able to confirm tests and provide architecture conjecture nextplatform.com/2021/10/26/…
The first Top500 confirmed EFLOPS system will be @OLCFGOV's Frontier system when it achieves the milestone on the June 2022 list
ALT Screenshot of Frontier's Top500 entry from the June 2022 list. It says: Rank: 1 System: Frontier - HPE Cray EX235a, AMD Optimized 3rd Generation EPYC 64C 2GHz, AMD Instinct MI250X, Slingshot-11, HPE; DOE/SC/Oak Ridge National Laboratory; United States Cores: 8,730,112 Rmax (PFlop/s): 1,102.00 Rpeak (PFlop/s): 1,685.65 Power (kW): 21,100