PEARC25: Sticking (with) the Landing: A modern case for Knights Landing in Resource-Constrained Environments

PEARC25: Sticking (with) the Landing: A modern case for Knights Landing in Resource-Constrained Environments

July 19, 2025   Publication,

Members of the HPC Ecosystems Community published a paper, delivered at PEARC25, describing a modern-take on the Intel Xeon Phi Knights Landing (KNL) architecture -- the same hardware architecture present in the Stampede2 computing infrastructure from TACC.

TLDR: At a high-level ... It works! It works great with OpenHPC and Slurm! It can offer equivalent performance to TWO Lengau nodes at 40% of the power consumption*! 

https://doi.org/10.1145/3708035.3736075

* under certain workloads and certain conditions ... BUT IT WORKS!

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PEARC25: Discovering HPC Resources in Africa: Empowering Collaborative Research Opportunities

PEARC25: Discovering HPC Resources in Africa: Empowering Collaborative Research Opportunities

July 19, 2025   Publication,

Recently, members of the HPC Ecosystems Community contributed to the ACM Conference proceedings for PEARC25!

Check out the HPC Discovery Survey here:

Discovering HPC Resources in Africa: Empowering Collaborative Research Opportunities

If you scan the QR code, you will be taken to the central document (available here) that includes links to the poster PDF, interactive maps and a YouTube video tour of the poster!

The Google Document	HPC Discovery Africa 2025 Shortened / text friendly: https://tinyurl.com/AfricaHPCdiscovery
PEARC25 Poster (PDF)	20250715-1113 HPC_Discovery_Poster PEARC25.pdf
Audio Tour Playlist (listen to the authors run through the poster!)	PEARC25 Audio Tour (Playlist)
Interactive Map	2025 Map (with controllable layers)

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