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First European Pre-Exascale Supercomputers Forgo Homegrown CPUs

November 20, 2019 0

It is now pretty much assured that the first three pre-exascale systems being installed in the European Union will not be powered by processors being […]

Has Arm Discovered the Ecosystem Keys?

November 20, 2019 0

Arm server development is a reality and a growing one at that. Not just from a performance point of view but also, perhaps more important, […]

Speeding I/O for Multi-GPU Clusters

November 19, 2019 0

As GPU-accelerated servers go, Nvidia’s DGX-2 box is hard to beat. Its 16 V100 GPUs glued together with NVLink provides two petaflops of tensor floating […]

Nvidia Arms Up Server OEMs And ODMs For Hybrid Compute

November 18, 2019 0

The one thing that AMD’s return to the CPU market and its more aggressive moves in the GPU compute arena have done, as well as […]

Compute

The Four Workhorses Of The Data Apocalypse

November 17, 2019 3

The days when the X86 processor could do just about every kind of processing in the datacenter are gone. It’s hard to believe it is […]

Cloud

Public Cloud Giants Fight For HPC Supremacy

November 19, 2019 1

Microsoft Azure has been able to put actual Cray XC series supercomputers and CS Storm clusters in the public cloud for more than two years […]

The Calm Before The Exascale Storm

November 18, 2019 0

The latest list of the world’s top 500 floppiest supercomputers was released this week and the biggest news to report is that there is almost […]

Compute

The Datacenter Starts To Perk Up For Nvidia

November 15, 2019 1

The datacenter business at Nvidia hit a rough patch a little less than a year ago, but it is starting to pick up again after […]

Control

It Takes Liquidity To Make Infrastructure Fluid

November 14, 2019 0

Stranded capacity has always been the biggest waste in the datacenter, and over the years, we have added more and more clever kinds of virtualization […]

Europe Opens Second Front For Domestic HPC Processors

November 14, 2019 0

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center has launched the European Laboratory for Open Computer Architecture (LOCA), a five-year effort aimed at developing energy efficient, high performance computing […]

Intel Throws Down AI Gauntlet With Neural Network Chips

November 13, 2019 1

At this year’s Intel AI Summit, the chipmaker demonstrated its first-generation Neural Network Processors (NNP): NNP-T for training and NNP-I for inference. Both product lines […]

Compute

Putting On Demand Price Tags On Datacenter Gear

November 13, 2019 0

Traditional datacenter infrastructure suppliers have a complicated relationship with the cloud. On the one hand, enterprise adoption of the cloud is accelerating, and the expansion […]

A64FX Arm Chip Gets A Big Push From Cray

November 13, 2019 1

There are many good processors out there, but there are few that are excellent and elegant inasmuch as they are co-designed for specific workloads and […]