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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Nvidia DGX1-V Appliance Crushes NLP Training Baselines

August 13, 2018 0

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 […]

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 […]

Compute Is The Boon And The Bane Of Supercomputing

August 1, 2018 1

Compute drives supercomputing, and networking is the chassis and storage just comes along for the ride. Processor upgrade cycles are the boon and the bane […]

Pulling Storage Together at Extreme Scale

August 1, 2018 0

At the height of the Hadoop era there were countless storage and analytics startups based on the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), several of which […]

Bringing Back the Mighty Chiplet

July 31, 2018 0

Big things can often fit into small packages, especially if those packages are tightly bound. The concept of a specialized chiplet is as about as […]

Intel FPGA Architecture Focuses on Deep Learning Inference

July 31, 2018 0

There has been much written about the potential for FPGAs to take a leadership role in accelerating deep learning but in practice, the hurdles of […]

Connect

Why The World Needs Another Network Operating System

July 30, 2018 1

If the world doesn’t need another thing, one of those things that it doesn’t need is probably another switch operating system. Cisco Systems, Arista Networks, […]