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. …
The massive amounts of data being generated in enterprise datacenters and out there on the public clouds and the need to quickly access and analyze that data is putting a strain on traditional storage and memory architectures that typically inhabit these environments. …
In the wonderful world of software containers, it can feel like the ground is constantly shifting beneath your feet as new projects spring up to address problems that you thought had been solved long ago. …
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. …
Intel continues to pull in massive amounts of money through its portfolio of datacenter wares and to dominate the market for processors in the glass house. …
This year at the International Supercomputing Conference we detailed some of the major quantum computing development efforts, including updates from the Microsoft team on the Q# language, and the academic Project Q environment. …
The Texas Advanced Computer Center (TACC) will house the latest leadership-class supercomputer funded by the National Science Foundation, a project that stands as a tribute to the NSF’s continued efforts to push supercomputing projects and the latest indication of the ground the organization is losing to the Department of Energy (DOE) in this effort. …
Compute drives supercomputing, and networking is the chassis and storage just comes along for the ride. …
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