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What Data Deluge In Life Sciences Means For Exascale And Clouds

June 14, 2018 0

There is no shortage of data in the life sciences. Every talk about bioinformatics and genomics has to include the now ubiquitous hockey stick growth […]

MIPS in Hand, AI Chip Startup Wave Computing Delivers First Silicon

June 13, 2018 1

When it comes to deep learning chip startups, hype moves fast but crossing the finish line to real production silicon takes an incredibly long time. […]

Penguin Computing Gets Smart About Capital Needs In HPC

June 12, 2018 0

As history reveals, building a thriving systems business in HPC is no simple task. It takes ingenuity – and financial gymnastics – to balance books […]

Cloud HPC? There’s An App For That

June 12, 2018 0

We have talked at length about the complexity of software and systems in HPC, and many in the community agree that HPC and AI is […]

AMD Coils For 7 Nanometer Leap Over Intel And Nvidia

June 7, 2018 1

With Intel having significant difficulties in ramping up its 10 nanometer manufacturing processes and not really talking much about its plans for 7 nanometers, there […]

Cisco Twists Open Its Intent Networking

June 15, 2018 0

The rise of public clouds, the Internet of Things, greater mobility, and the more devices connecting to corporate networks is creating highly distributed environments for […]

Canonical Cuts Its Own Path To Put Linux In The Cloud

June 15, 2018 0

Linux has gradually grown in importance along with the Internet and now the hyperscalers that define the next generation of experience on that global network. […]

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Cloud Provider Embraces NVMesh To Lower Storage Latencies

June 14, 2018 0

For the past several years, Teuto.net, a small public and private cloud provider in Germany, has used the open source Ceph software as the backbone […]

BSC Fires Up Power9-V100 Hybrid Compute On MareNostrum 4

June 13, 2018 0

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center is one of the flagship HPC facilities in Europe and it arguably has the most elegant and spiritual of datacenters in […]

Arista Runs Barefoot With Tofino Programmable Switch Chips

June 12, 2018 0

If Andy Bechtolsheim, the chief technology officer at datacenter switching upstart Arista Networks, wanted to design ASICs to try to take a bigger piece of […]

A Closer Look: Inspur at the GPU Technology Conference

June 11, 2018 0

This year at the GPU Technology Conference (GTC18) our roaming camera crew was lucky enough to catch Dolly Wu, Inspur’s VP & GM of their […]

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The Old Switcheroo

June 8, 2018 0

The cost of servers keeps going up and up, thanks in large part to memory, flash, and GPU prices rising as too much demand chases […]

Driving AI At Higher Speed Into The Enterprise

June 7, 2018 0

The challenge with many of the complex modern technologies that are coming into datacenters is making them easy and cheap enough for enterprises to use […]