Moore’s Law is effectively boosting compute capability by a factor of ten over a five year span, as Nvidia co-founder and chief executive officer Jensen Huang reminded Wall Street this week when talking about the graphics chip maker’s second quarter of fiscal 2019 financial results. …
In 2021, the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) is planning to deploy Aurora A21, a new Intel-Cray system, slated to be the first exascale supercomputer in the United States. …
Sometimes, a workload needs more memory, more compute, or more I/O than is available in the two socket server that has been the standard pretty much since the dot-com boom two decades ago. …
Getting processing closer to data is going to be one of the major themes in compute in the next decade, and we know this because for the past decade this is precisely what the big hyperscalers and cloud builders have been doing. …
Compute drives supercomputing, and networking is the chassis and storage just comes along for the ride. …
If the world doesn’t need another thing, one of those things that it doesn’t need is probably another switch operating system. …
It has taken time and a lot of changes in the industry, but HPC in the cloud might actually be something that can work not just technically, but as a business model that is reasonable and sustainable. …
Despite the increasing competitive pressures that Intel is feeling in the datacenter and very serious issues that the company is having ramping up its 10 nanometer manufacturing processes, the datacenter business at Intel were booming in the second quarter, helping to drive a record second quarter and what is looking like will be a record full year for the chip maker. …
To a certain extent, the “Knights” family of parallel processors, sold under the brand name Xeon Phi, by Intel were exactly what they were supposed to be: A non-mainstream product that tried out a different architecture than its mainstream Xeon family of server processors and that was aimed at the high performance computing jet set that is, by definition, supposed to take risks on new architectures. …
Imagine, if you will, that your two biggest rivals were Intel and Nvidia, and that you had to fight a two front war to storm the datacenter. …
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