AI
Nvidia Takes More Control Of Its GPU Compute Platform
Nvidia got a little taste of hardware, and the company’s top brass have decided that they like having a lot of iron in their financial diet. …
Compute
Compute
All Things Decentralized
We recently considered how computing was often being called distributed even when it shouldn’t be, or being called something else when it really isn’t. …
Compute
We Fight, Get Beat, Rise, And Fight Again
Hewlett Packard built up its conglomerate in the 2000s in good faith, trying to be a larger and more profitable supplier of IT products and services. …
AI
A Peek Inside That Intel Xeon-FPGA Hybrid Chip
Last week at the Fujitsu Forum in Tokyo, Lisa Spelman, who is general manager of Xeon products and Data Center Marketing at Intel, did a soft announcement of the hybrid Xeon CPU-Arria 10 FPGA hybrid chip that the company has been talking about for years and that is now available to selected customers. …
AI
Intel AI VP Gadi Singer On One Song To The Tune Of Another
In the United Kingdom, there is a topical BBC Radio 4 comedy panel show called I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue. …
Compute
Weather Forecasting Gets A Big Lift In Japan
It has been a long time since the Japan Meteorological Agency has deployed the kind of supercomputing oomph for weather forecasting that the island nation would seem to need to improve its forecasts. …
Compute
It’s Called Distributed Computing, Even When It Shouldn’t Be
Success can be its own kind of punishment in this world. …
Cloud
A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall In Public Cloud
Way back in the early days of the commercial Internet, when we all logged into what seemed to be new but what was actually a quite old service used by academic institutions and government agencies that rode on the backbones of the telecommunications network, there were many, many thousands of Internet service providers who provided the interface between our computers and the network capacity that was the onramp of the information superhighway. …
Compute
Forging Composable Infrastructure For Memory-Centric Systems
For years, enterprises have wanted to pool and then carve up the myriad resources of the datacenter to enable them to more efficiently run their workloads, reduce power consumption, and improve utilization rates. …
Cloud
Getting Logical About Cavium ThunderX2 Versus Intel Skylake
Any processor that hopes to displace the Xeon as the engine of choice for general purpose compute has to do one of two things, and we would argue both: It has to be a relatively seamless replacement for a Xeon processor inside of existing systems, much as the Opteron was back in the early 2000s, and it has to offer compelling advantages that yield better performance per dollar per watt per unit of space in a rack. …