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IBM Mashes Up PowerAI And Watson Machine Learning Stacks

February 14, 2019 1

Earlier in this decade, when the hyperscalers and the academics that run with them were building machine learning frameworks to transpose all kinds of data […]

Shasta Sets Up Cray For Commercial HPC And Supercomputing Expansion

February 13, 2019 1

If you look at the very long history of Cray, the company has done a remarkable job expanding its market, not just participating in it. […]

PCI-Express Lends Server Composability A Hand

February 12, 2019 4

Applications do not need to use all elements of a system all the time, and usually not all at the same time for that matter. […]

Giving Waferscale Processors Another Shot

February 11, 2019 3

Constructing a processor from an entire silicon wafer might seem like a strange idea, but a new study demonstrated that a waferscale chip can outperform […]

Will The Harmonic Convergence Of HPC And AI Last?

February 8, 2019 0

History and economics – as if you could separate the two – are burgeoning with examples of products being developed for one task and then […]

A Multi-Faceted Toolkit for Quantum Computing

February 15, 2019 0

Quantum computing hardware tends to garner the lion’s share of the attention from the press, but it’s the software toolkits for these devices that will […]

Weather Service Doubles Up on Cray Supercomputer

February 13, 2019 0

When it comes to weather forecasting and climate modeling, supercomputer maker Cray has plenty of stories to tell… To add to that bucket, South African […]

IBM Puffs Up Power Iron On Its Public Cloud

February 12, 2019 0

IBM, which arguably has the largest remaining big iron server business in the world, is one step closer to making systems based on its own […]

Bursting the HPC Bubble

February 11, 2019 1

Historically, high performance computing has operated in a closed loop, enclosed in its own software cocoon. Libraries like MPI, OpenACC, and BLAS, are barely known […]

Getting Edgy About Hyperconverged Storage

February 11, 2019 1

Hyperconverged infrastructure has grown up quite a bit from its early days, when it was seen primarily as a way of supplying an affordable and […]

Japan’s K Computer Shutdown Marks the End of an Era

February 8, 2019 1

Earlier this week, the RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS) announced that in August it will pull the plug on its flagship HPC system, the […]

Microsoft Is Not The Only Way To Shrink Wrap SQL Server In Containers

February 7, 2019 0

Going forward, there is little question that containers have become firmly established as the technology of choice for application deployment – at least until such […]

Why NVMe Will Flash Forward in 2019

February 6, 2019 4

Disaggregated storage has become the norm in large-scale infrastructure and we expect that in 2019 those who are pushing the limits with NVMe will have […]

Summit Supercomputer Boldly Goes to Where the Stars Die

February 6, 2019 0

In 2018 the Leadership Computing Facility at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee installed Summit, the world’s most powerful supercomputer ever built, to […]