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HPC In 2020: Acquisitions And Mergers As The New Normal

January 16, 2020 0

After a decade of vendor consolidation that saw some of the world’s biggest IT firms acquire first-class HPC providers such as SGI, Cray, and Sun […]

Covering All The Compute Bases In A Heterogeneous Datacenter

January 15, 2020 0

Intel has spent more than three decades evolving from the dominant provider of CPUs for personal computers to the dominant supplier of processors for servers […]

Compute

The Inevitability Of FPGAs In The Datacenter

January 14, 2020 0

You don’t have to be a chip designer to program an FPGA, just like you don’t have to be a C++ programmer to code in […]

European Weather Center Breaks Tradition With Upcoming Supercomputer

January 14, 2020 1

Weather forecasting in Europe is going to get a big boost later this year when the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) installs its […]

HPC

HPC In 2020: Compute Engine Diversity Gets Real

January 13, 2020 0

The choice of processors available for high performance computing has been on growing for a number of years. There are no less than three major […]

On The Spearpoint Of FPGA And The Cloud

January 13, 2020 0

Sometimes markets need a particular technology and they are impatient for it, and sometimes technologies get ahead of the immediate needs of customers and their […]

Vertical Integration Is Eating The Datacenter, Part One

January 13, 2020 0

Best of breed and vertical integration are two opposing forces that have been part of the datacenter since mainframes first fired up six decades ago […]

The Supercomputing Efficiency Curve Bends In The Right Direction

January 10, 2020 2

Things get a little wonky at exascale and hyperscale. Things that don’t matter quite as much at enterprise scale, such as the cost or the […]

Doing The Math On Fractal HPC

January 10, 2020 0

At every key leap in processing capacity in high performance computing – and just rattling off more than two decades from teraflops through petaflops, and […]

Gen-Z Memory Servers Loom On The Horizon

January 9, 2020 0

We have been waiting for a long, long time for the ionic bond between compute and main memory to be softened to something a little […]

HPC In 2020: AI Is No Longer An Experiment

January 9, 2020 0

If we could sum up the near-term future of high performance computing in a single phrase, it would be more of the same and then […]

Urgent HPC Can Burst Affordably To The Cloud

January 8, 2020 0

One of the benefits of the public cloud is that it allows HPC centers to experiment and push the limits of scalability in a way […]

Quantum Computing Providers Pick Their Dance Partners

January 8, 2020 0

Toward the end of 2019, a flurry of announcements by some of the most prominent IT companies suggests that collaborations will become increasingly important in […]

Intel Declares A Truce Before Bus Wars Flare Up

January 7, 2020 5

A system is more than its central processor, and perhaps at no time in history has this ever been true than right now. Except, perhaps, […]

AI Recommendation Systems Get A GPU Makeover

December 19, 2019 0

Like their US-based counterparts, Google and Amazon, the Chinese Internet giants Baidu and Alibaba rely on GPU acceleration to drive critical parts of their AI-based [...]
Intel Hedges Its AI Bets With Habana Labs Buy

December 17, 2019 0

Intel has made another big move toward its ambition to dominate the artificial intelligence space in the datacenter, acquiring Israeli AI chipmaker Habana Labs for [...]
Nvidia Moves Clara Healthcare AI To The Edge

December 2, 2019 0

Nvidia has for years made artificial intelligence (AI) and its various subsets – such as machine learning and deep learning – a foundation of future [...]

The Inevitability Of FPGAs In The Datacenter

January 14, 2020 0

You don’t have to be a chip designer to program an FPGA, just like you don’t have to be a C++ programmer to code in [...]
European Weather Center Breaks Tradition With Upcoming Supercomputer

January 14, 2020 1

Weather forecasting in Europe is going to get a big boost later this year when the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) installs its [...]
On The Spearpoint Of FPGA And The Cloud

January 13, 2020 0

Sometimes markets need a particular technology and they are impatient for it, and sometimes technologies get ahead of the immediate needs of customers and their [...]

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