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Playing The Long Game In Systems

January 23, 2019 0

The secret to the longevity of any big corporation is a nearly constant process of reinvention. Those that can adapt to the times are the […]

Battle Of The Document Databases

January 22, 2019 0

Cloud providers can be like sharks in that they have to keep moving forward – in their case, growing the number of services they can […]

New Technologies Give Neuromorphic Computing Better Memories

January 22, 2019 0

Interest in neuromorphic computing has spurred research into new types of memory devices that can replicate the function of biological neurons and synapse. A recent […]

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DOE’s E4S Software Stack Takes An Extreme Step Towards Exascale

January 22, 2019 0

For exascale hardware to be useful, systems software is going to have to be stacked up and optimized to bend that hardware to the will […]

Deep Learning Hardware for the Next Big AI Framework

January 18, 2019 0

It might be a bit early to call generative adversarial networks (GANs) the next platform for AI evolution, but there is little doubt we will […]

A Vision for the Future of Computing in Europe

January 22, 2019 0

This week at the High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation (HiPEAC) Vision conference in Valencia Spain, researchers and industry stakeholders are gathering to talk […]

HiPEAC: Shifting Focal Points in European HPC Research

January 22, 2019 2

This week we delved into a wide variety of European projects that address future needs of systems in research and industry at HiPEAC in Valencia, […]

Burying The OpenMP Versus OpenACC Hatchet

January 16, 2019 0

I have been frequently asked when the OpenMP and OpenACC directive APIs for parallel programming will merge, or when will one of them (usually OpenMP) […]

Germany Makes Massive Quantum, Neuromorphic Investment

January 16, 2019 0

One of Germany’s foremost scientific research centers, Jülich Forschungszentrum, will receive a €36-million infusion of government funding to advance quantum and neuromorphic computing technologies. Germany’s […]

Reducing Managed Memcache Cost with NVM

January 15, 2019 0

Memcache has become the ubiquitous way of loading objects quickly for most of the world’s largest websites and for that matter, for plenty of smaller […]

Spanning The Database World With Google

January 15, 2019 0

If relational databases had just worked at scale to begin with, the IT sector would be a whole lot more boring and we wouldn’t be […]

GPU Applications Get The Container Treatment

January 15, 2019 0

Containerized high performance computing is fast becoming one of the more popular ways of running HPC workloads. And perhaps nowhere is this more apparent than […]

The Winding Road to Quantum Computing ROI, Competition

January 14, 2019 1

With a timeline to early production sometime in the next decade (if not longer), the business model for quantum computing has been nebulous from the […]