HPC
High Performance Computing Racks Up The Bucks
According to Hyperion Research’s latest market update, the high performance computing business boomed last year. …
Articles by Michael Feldman
Compute
With Agilex, Intel Gets A Coherent FPGA Strategy
When Intel purchased Altera in 2015 for $16.7 billion, company officials predicted that up to a third of servers would be equipped with FPGAs by 2020. …
Edge
Microsoft Stretches Azure Cloud To The Edge
The company best known for its Windows operating systems and related client and server software but also one of the big five cloud players on Earth is getting into the edge computing business with a set of Azure offerings designed to put compute resources a lot closer to the customer’s data. …
HPC
UK’s ARCHER2 Supercomputer Aims Squarely At The CPU Bullseye
The government of the United Kingdom is plunking down £79 million to purchase and operate ARCHER2, the country’s soon-to-be national supercomputer on track to be installed at the University of Edinburgh next year. …
Edge
Computational Storage Takes Data Locality To The Extreme
As the center of gravity shifts from compute to data, architectures are responding by moving the former a lot closer to the latter. …
HPC
Singapore To Boost Its Supercomputing Capacity Ten-Fold
When it comes to supercomputing, Singapore is certainly not the first country that comes to mind. …
Compute
Dealing With Density In The Datacenter And Beyond
It wasn’t so long ago that only supercomputing centers had to resort to fancy cooling technology to keep their systems running smoothly and at peak performance. …
Compute
Data Science Sparks The Gap Between HPC And Hyperscale
In a wide-ranging keynote address that ran nearly three hours at the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, Nvidia co-founder and chief executive officer Jensen Huang talked up the company’s successes and new products across its graphics, robotics, and AI and HPC lineups. …
Store
Researchers Scrutinize Optane Memory Performance
When Intel starts shipping its “Cascade Lake” Xeons in volume soon, it will mark a turning point in the server space. …
Connect
Intel Offers Up Yet Another Accelerator Interconnect Technology
This week Intel unveiled Compute Express Link (CXL), the chipmaker’s own cache coherent accelerator interconnect that it is grooming to become the industry standard. …