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ARM Goes To War In The Datacenter With “Ares” Designs

February 20, 2019 0

When Arm Holdings, the division of the Softbank conglomerate that designs and licenses the core component of the processor architecture that bears its name, launched […]

Enterprise

Unifying On Premises And Clouds With Flash And NVM-Express

February 19, 2019 0

As enterprises continue to embrace hybrid and multicloud models, they are looking for fast access to the data that can be stored both on-premises or […]

Ethernet And The Future Of Data Networking

February 19, 2019 0

The need to host, process, and transmit more data, in less time and more securely, is putting huge strain on existing datacenter network, server, and […]

The Computing Needs Of Earth Are Not Yet Satisfied

February 14, 2019 2

To a certain way of looking at it, Nvidia has always been engaged in the high performance computing business and it has always been subject […]

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. […]

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 […]

IBM Mashes Up PowerAI And Watson Machine Learning Stacks

February 14, 2019 2

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]