HPC

Isambard 2 Is About Driving Technology Diversity

It’s been just more than a decade since Arm executives began to talk about bringing the company’s system-on-a-chip (SoC) architecture, which has long been the dominant design for processors found in billions of smartphones and other mobile device, into the datacenter.

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Bulking Up The File System for A World Of Clouds And Edges

The challenge of managing data is growing faster than the data itself is piling up, and that is bad except for the companies that can create new tools to manage it, either to use internally as the hyperscalers do or to sell to those who cannot fund such development and count on vendors to do it.

HPC

The Softer Side Of Exascale

When talking about high-end HPC systems in the world, much of the attention often is paid to the massive supercomputers that are being developed by the likes of system makers Cray (now part of Hewlett Packard Enterprise and the main contractor on two exascale systems), Fujitsu, Atos, IBM, and others along with component makers Intel (which is a primary contractor on one exascale system), AMD, and Nvidia.