Last week we described the recent, explosive growth of Amazon Web Services, which the company says is due in large part to an influx of new users—and existing AWS customers who are scaling their workloads ever higher. …
It is difficult to argue with the fact that Amazon has upset the traditional model of IT as a cost center. …
To put the needs of Airbus in some basic computational context, consider that for a single large passenger jet, there are well over two million individual parts that need to be simulated individually or as part of a larger system. …
Back in March, we introduced a chip upstart taking aim at the efficiency of future exascale systems called Rex Computing. …
Although weather forecasts are nested into the fabric of our daily lives, it can be easy to forget that to arrive at accurate, long-term predictions takes massive amounts of computing power. …
There is little doubt that the worlds of large-scale data analytics and high performance computing share common features, but when it comes to meshing these two disparate technology (and to a large degree, cultural) divides, there are clear challenges. …
Although it may be tempting to think that supercomputers developed to meet business and general scientific computing needs, a large part early of supercomputing evolution was fed by the need to both develop, test, and maintain nuclear weapon stockpiles. …
As we described in some detail in a previous piece that outlined the impetus for China to step up development of its own supercomputer chips following the trade restrictions for Intel chips in large Chinese systems, China will continue to stick to the accelerated machine approach for the upgrade of its top-ranked Tianhe-2 system. …
When the U.S. blocked exports of Intel chips for key Chinese supercomputers the expectation was that it would do little more than hasten the development of native architectures, effectively pushing up the timeline for Chinese chipmakers to find their own solutions to large-scale computing without Intel. …
Although there are many HPC startups that are focused on software, services, and consulting, to keep the list focused this year, we singled out a few key small companies that are taking their chances to bring new processors and server gear to the supercomputing table. …
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