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NREL Set to Soar Higher With Eagle Supercomputer

August 17, 2018 0

Five years ago, Hewlett Packard Enterprise let loose the Peregrine supercomputer at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, a marriage of performance and power efficiency that […]

Connect

Negotiating The NVM-Express Land Rush

August 17, 2018 0

Newisys has been on the NVM-Express for several years, putting the high-profile interface in a growing number of server and storage platforms, including servers with […]

Compute

Intel Pries Open Servers To Squeeze In Persistent Memory

August 16, 2018 0

The massive amounts of data being generated in enterprise datacenters and out there on the public clouds and the need to quickly access and analyze […]

Compute

IBM Finishes Power9 Systems Rollout With Big Iron

August 13, 2018 1

Sometimes, a workload needs more memory, more compute, or more I/O than is available in the two socket server that has been the standard pretty […]

Designing Custom Chips In-House Is The New Normal

August 8, 2018 6

Cloud giants Amazon, Alibaba, Baidu, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft are now designing their own AI accelerator chips. Is this a fad or a short-term phase […]

Argonne Leverages HPC And Machine Learning To Accelerate Science

August 16, 2018 0

In 2021, the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) is planning to deploy Aurora A21, a new Intel-Cray system, slated to be the first exascale supercomputer […]

Istio Aims To Be The Mesh Plumbing For Containerized Microservices

August 15, 2018 0

In the wonderful world of software containers, it can feel like the ground is constantly shifting beneath your feet as new projects spring up to […]

Nvidia DGX1-V Appliance Crushes NLP Training Baselines

August 13, 2018 1

A research team from Nvidia has provided interesting insight about using mixed precision on deep learning training across very large training sets and how performance […]

Compute

Intel Looks Down The Server Chip Road To Ice Lake

August 9, 2018 0

Intel continues to pull in massive amounts of money through its portfolio of datacenter wares and to dominate the market for processors in the glass […]

QISKit Developments Key to IBM Quantum Engagement

August 7, 2018 0

This year at the International Supercomputing Conference we detailed some of the major quantum computing development efforts, including updates from the Microsoft team on the […]

Living In The SmartNIC Future

August 6, 2018 1

Getting processing closer to data is going to be one of the major themes in compute in the next decade, and we know this because […]

The State of MPI for Future Exascale Systems

August 3, 2018 0

A working group formed on behalf of the Exascale Computing Project (ECP) in the U.S. has taken an in-depth look at how the message passing […]

Compute

TACC Tapped for NSF’s Next Supercomputer

August 2, 2018 1

The Texas Advanced Computer Center (TACC) will house the latest leadership-class supercomputer funded by the National Science Foundation, a project that stands as a tribute […]

Enterprise

Follow The Yellowbrick Road To An All-Flash Data Warehouse

August 2, 2018 0

General purpose computing systems have been seen as the best way of delivering on enterprise data processing needs for decades. Creating a standard platform to […]