Compute
Accelerating Deep Learning Insights With GPU-Based Systems
Explosive data growth and a rising demand for real-time analytics are making high performance computing (HPC) technologies increasingly vital to success. …
Articles by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Compute
The Skylake Calm Before The Compute Storm
It looks like the push to true cloud computing that many of us have been projecting for such a long time is actually coming to pass, and despite many of the misgivings that many of us have expressed about giving up control of our own datacenters and the applications that run there. …
Compute
The Supercomputing Slump Hits HPC
Supercomputing, by definition, is an esoteric, exotic, and relatively small slice of the overall IT landscape, but it is, also by definition, a vital driver of innovation within IT and in all of the segments of the market where simulation, modeling, and now machine learning are used to provide goods and services. …
Compute
Oil And Gas Upstart Has No Reserves About GPUs
The oil and gas industry has been on the cutting edge of many waves of computing over the several decades that supercomputers have been used to model oil reservoirs in both the planning of the development of an oil field and in quantifying the stored reserves of a field and therefore the future possible revenue stream of the company. …
Compute
The Trials And Tribulations Of IBM Systems
IBM is a bit of an enigma these days. It has the art – some would say black magic – of financial engineering down pat, and its system engineering is still quite good. …
Connect
How Google Wants To Rewire The Internet
When all of your business is driven by end users coming to use your applications over the Internet, the network is arguably the most critical part of the infrastructure. …
AI
The System Bottleneck Shifts To PCI-Express
No matter what, system architects are always going to have to contend with one – and possibly more – bottlenecks when they design the machines that store and crunch the data that makes the world go around. …
AI
The Convergence Or Divergence Of HPC And AI Iron
Based on datacenter practices of the past two decades, it is a matter of faith that it is always better to run a large number of applications on a given set of generic infrastructure than it is to have highly tuned machines running specific workloads. …
Compute
Securing The HPC Infrastructure
In the world of high performance computing (HPC), the most popular buzzwords include speed, performance, durability, and scalability. …
Cloud
The X86 Battle Lines Drawn With Intel’s Skylake Launch
At long last, Intel’s “Skylake” converged Xeon server processors are entering the field, and the competition with AMD’s “Naples” Epyc X86 alternatives can begin and the ARM server chips from Applied Micro, Cavium, and Qualcomm and the Power9 chip from IBM know exactly what they are aiming at. …