Compute
Top 500 Supercomputer Rankings Losing Accuracy Despite High Precision
If the hyperscalers have taught us anything, it is that more data is always better. …
Articles by Timothy Prickett Morgan
AI
Nvidia Breaks $2 Billion Datacenter Run Rate
If GPU acceleration had not been conceived of by academics and researchers at companies like Nvidia more than a decade ago, how much richer would Intel be today? …
Code
HPC Heavyweight Goes All-In On OpenACC
Across the HPC community, commercial firms, government labs and academic institutions are adapting their code to embrace GPU architectures. …
Cloud
Qualcomm’s Amberwing Arm Server Chip Finally Takes Flight
It is going to be a busy week for chip maker Qualcomm as it formally jumps from smartphones to servers with its new “Amberwing” Centriq 2400 Arm server processor during the same week that it has received an unsolicited $130 billion takeover offer from sometimes rival chipmaker Broadcom. …
Compute
Keeping OpenStack On The Edge, Bleeding And Otherwise
Nobody likes to talk about the scope and scale of platforms more than we do at The Next Platform. …
Compute
HPE’s Superdome Gets An SGI NUMAlink Makeover
When Hewlett Packard Enterprise bought supercomputer maker SGI back in August 2016 for $275 million, it had already invested years in creating its own “DragonHawk” chipset to build big memory Superdome X systems that were to be the follow-ons to its PA-RISC and Itanium Superdome systems. …
Compute
How The Largest Tech Deal In History Might Affect Systems
Private equity firm Silver Lake Partners has an appetite for tech, and securing funding for Dell to take itself private and then go out and buy EMC and VMware is now going to take a backseat in terms of deal size – and in potential ripple effects in the datacenter – now that chip giant Broadcom is making an unsolicited bid, backed by Silver Lake, to take over often-times chip rival Qualcomm. …
Cloud
For Google Networks, Predictable Latency Trumps Everything
If you want to build infrastructure that scales larger than a single image of a server and an operating system, you have no choice but to network together multiple machines. …
Compute
Cray Looks Forward To Supercomputing Rebound
The general HPC market might be growing, and the very definition of HPC is expanding thanks to the addition of advanced analytics and machine learning to the HPC toolbox. …
Cloud
The Tug Of War Between InfiniBand And Ethernet
If you want to get a microcosmic view of the epic battle between Ethernet and InfiniBand (which also includes Omni-Path no matter how much Intel protests) as they relate to high performance computing in its many modern guises, there is perhaps no better place to look at what Mellanox Technologies is selling. …