Compute
Intel Xeon Roadmap On Track, 288 Core “Sierra Forest” Coming Soon
Sometimes, especially with Intel in the past several years, the fact that the CPU roadmap doesn’t change is the news. …
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Compute
The Clever Machinations Of Livermore’s Sierra Supercomputer
The potent combination of powerful CPUs, floating point laden GPU accelerators, and fast InfiniBand networking are coming to market and reshaping the upper echelons of supercomputing. …
Compute
The Power9 Rollout Begins With Summit And Sierra Supercomputers
At the end of July, Oak Ridge National Laboratories started receiving the first racks of servers that will eventually be expanded to become the “Summit” supercomputer, the long-awaited replacement to the “Titan” hybrid CPU-GPU system that was built by Cray and installed back in the fall of 2012. …
HPC
“El Capitan” Supercomputer Blazes The Trail for Converged CPU-GPU Compute
Every couple of years, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory gets to install the world’s fastest supercomputer. …
Compute
The Server Recession Ends, And Both Intel And AMD Won
Anyone who thinks that Intel is easy to kill need look no further than the historical trends of the Mercury Research market share statistics that we see each quarter. …
Compute
AMD Will Need Another Decade To Try To Pass Nvidia
Lisu Su has turned in her first ten years at the helm of AMD, and what a hell of a run it has been. …
Compute
AMD Turns The Screws With “Turin” Server CPUs
If you are looking to upgrade your X86 server fleet – and there is lots of chatter about how many enterprises as well as hyperscalers and cloud builders are in the financial mood to do that – then the good news is that both Intel and AMD have now rolled out the best serial compute engines they have ever fielded. …
HPC
The Stepping Stones In America To Exascale And Beyond
To a certain extent, all of the major HPC centers in the world live in the future. …
Compute
Intel Shoots “Granite Rapids” Xeon 6 Into The Datacenter
UPDATED: Intel has been talking about its “Granite Rapids” Xeon 6 processors for so long that it would be easy to forget that they have not yet been formally announced. …
AI
A GPU Upgrade For “Leonardo” Supercomputer But Not A Budget Upgrade
Neither scientific progress nor the budgetary process can wait for compute engine and interconnect roadmaps. …