Startup Cerebras Systems has unveiled the world’s largest microprocessor, a waferscale chip custom-built for machine learning. The 1.2 trillion transistor silicon wafer incorporates 400,000 cores, […]
Carey Kloss has been intimately involved with the rise of AI hardware over the last several years, most notably with his work building the first […]
It has been a long time coming, and it might have been better if this had been done a decade ago. But with a big […]
The rapid changes underway in modern datacenters and HPC environment are demanding more compute power from a tech industry that is running into significant barriers […]
If you want for the rapid pace of innovation in datacenter networking to continue, then you had better hope that the hyperscalers and major public […]
Last fall, supercomputer maker Cray announced that it was getting back to making high performance cluster interconnects after a six year hiatus, but the company […]
Forget in-memory computing for the moment because it requires a complete re-architecting of applications and most of the time the underlying hardware, too. What we […]
If you were expecting Nvidia to start talking about its future “Einstein” GPUs for Tesla accelerated computing soon just because AMD is getting ready to […]
In any chip design, the devil – and the angel – is always in the details. AMD has been burned by some architectural choices it […]
As artificial neural networks for natural language processing (NLP) continue to improve, it is becoming easier and easier to chat with our computers. But according […]
After a long wait, now we know. All three of the initial exascale-class supercomputer systems being funded by the US Department of Energy through its […]
Under two unrelated US Department of Defense procurements, Cray has been awarded a total of $71 million to supply the Air Force and Army with […]
Accelerators of many kinds, but particularly those with GPUs and FPGAs, can be pretty hefty compute engines that meet or exceed the power, thermal, and […]
AMD had been down this road before. In 2003, the chip maker launched the “SledgeHammer” Opteron, the first 64-bit X86 server processor with backward compatibility […]
Nvidia has unveiled GPUDirect Storage, a new capability that enables its GPUs to talk directly with NVM-Express storage. The technology uses GPUDirect’s RDMA facility to […]
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