Compute
Another Step In Building The HPC Ecosystem For Arm
Many of us are impatient for Arm processors to take off in the datacenter in general and in HPC in particular. …
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Compute
The Evolution Of Hyperconverged Storage To Composable Systems
Hyperconverged infrastructure in some ways is like the credit card in those old TV ads: in this case, it’s everywhere that enterprises want to be. …
Compute
HPC Provides Big Bang, But Needs Big Bucks, Too
Supercomputers keep getting faster, but they keep getting more expensive. This is a problem, and it is one that is going to eventually affect every kind of computer until we get a new technology that is not based on CMOS chips. …
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Dell EMC and Fujitsu Roll Intel FPGAs Into Servers
Nvidia caused a shift in high-end computing more than a decade ago when it introduced its general-purpose GPUs and CUDA development platform to work with CPUs to increase the performance of compute-intensive workloads in HPC and other environments and drive greater energy efficiencies in datacenters. …
AI
Talking Up the Expanding Markets for GPU Compute
There is a direct correlation between the length of time that Nvidia co-founder and chief executive officer Jensen Huang speaks during the opening keynote of each GPU Technology Conference and the total addressable market of accelerated computing based on GPUs. …
Compute
Bidders Off And Running After $1.8 Billion DOE Exascale Super Deals
Supercomputer makers have been on their exascale marks, and they have been getting ready, and now the US Department of Energy has just said “Go!” …
Cloud
AI
AWS Puts More Muscle Behind Machine Learning And Database
Amazon Web Services essentially sparked the public cloud race a dozen years ago when it first launched the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service and then in short order the Simple Storage Service (S3), giving enterprises access to the large amount compute and storage resources that its giant retail business leaned on. …
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Inside Nvidia’s NVSwitch GPU Interconnect
At the GPU Technology Conference last week, we told you all about the new NVSwitch memory fabric interconnect that Nvidia has created to link multiple “Volta” GPUs together and that is at the heart of the DGX-2 system that the company has created to demonstrate its capabilities and to use on its internal Saturn V supercomputer at some point in the future. …