Arm in the UK: Catalyst and Isambard

The HPC User Forum was established in 1999 to promote the health of the global HPC industry and address issues of common concern to users. In September 2019, the 73rd HPC User Forum took place in Chicago, Illinois. This update summarizes a presentation from that meeting entitled, Blue Waters: Sustained Petascale Computing given by Dr. Brett Bode from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois.

The HPC User Forum was established in 1999 to promote the health of the global HPC industry and address issues of common concern to users. In May 2021, the 76th HPC User Forum took place virtually. This update summarizes a presentation from that virtual conference given by Tina Declerck, System Department Head at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), titled Perlmutter: A System for Simulation, AI, and Data. In addition to updates on NERSC and its role as the Mission HPC facility for the DOE Office of Science, Declerck provided information on the developments of the new Perlmutter system, its capabilities, structure, and future.