Compute
Startup Sheds Some Light On Optical Processing
Optalysys, a startup based in the United Kingdom, has introduced an entry-level optical coprocessor, the first such system of its kind on the market. …
Articles by Michael Feldman
Compute
IBM Pumps Up The Volume On Its Quantum Computing Effort
IBM has announced that it has achieved a new high-water mark in “quantum volume,” a metric the company is using to assess the capability of its quantum computers. …
HPC
Lighting a Fire Under Liquid Immersion Cooling
As server racks become more thermally dense, the costs and logistics of conventional cooling becomes ever-more challenging. …
AI
One Step Closer to Deep Learning on Neuromorphic Hardware
A group of researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a tool that can cross-train standard convolutional neural networks (CNN) to a spiking neural model that can be used on neuromorphic processors. …
HPC
U.S. Air Force Adds to Supercomputer Arsenal
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has officially inaugurated its four newest supercomputers in a ribbon cutting ceremony at the AFRL DoD Supercomputing Resource Center (DRSC). …
Compute
AMD Takes High Performance Computing to the Edge
As the definition of high performance computing has morphed into some a lot broader than that just supercomputing, nearly every IT sector is adopting the technology as one of its own. …
Compute
Making Performance A Priority With Virtualized GPUs
VMware is not the first company that comes to mind when you think of GPU computing, but the company has quietly been developing technologies that enables performance-minded users to get the most out of these born-again vector processors. …
Compute
On-Chip Wizardry To Optimize Performance At Scale
As server chips have evolved from simple processors into complex, heterogeneous SoCs, it has become a lot more challenging to optimize the software running on them. …
Cloud
Japanese Startup Floats Bare Metal And Hybrid HPC Cloud
There aren’t a whole lot of HPC companies in Japan these days, especially when you consider how prominently the country figures in the global supercomputing community. …
AI
The Art Of Tailoring The System For An AI Application
The diverse set of applications and algorithms that make up AI in its many guises has created a need for an equally diverse set of hardware to run it. …