
SGI Awaits UV 3000 And SAP HANA Uplifts
The high performance computing market is about as tough as they come. …
The high performance computing market is about as tough as they come. …
Amazon Web Services may be the 800-pound silverback alpha-ape in the rapidly expanding cloud industry, seeing as how its infrastructure revenue is greater than its four closest competitors combined, but that hasn’t stopped its fast-growing challenger, Microsoft Azure, from beating its own chest and showing off its strengths. …
For most companies in most industries, riding down the Moore’s Law curve to get more compute power for the same money is good enough. …
Just as modeling and simulation tools are being used to design and test prototypes of everything from rocket engines to safer tools, so too are they being used in novel ways to model technologies that rest on the edge of commercial reality. …
The new Intel “Knights Landing” processor’s topology includes what it calls near memory, an up to 16 GB block of on-package memory accessible faster and with higher bandwidth than traditional main memory. …
When you hear the word “supercomputer,” what are the first mental images that pop into your head? …
While there are plenty of companies that have built a core competency in IT infrastructure acquisition and management, and think they can provide themselves a competitive edge based on those skills, it looks like there is a growing and potentially much larger cadre of companies who simply do not want to be messing around with basic infrastructure anymore. …
Architects are optimists. In the computer industry, particularly within the HPC community, there is a small cadre of technologists who have the intellectual horsepower, vision and decades of experience to build wholly new system designs. …
AMD doesn’t talk much about servers these days, but it looks like the company is getting ready to revamp its server component business just as it is shutting down its SeaMicro unit. …
In the wake of today’s announcement of the codes selected to be tuned for the 2018 Summit supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Lab, questions around how application teams are thinking about the massive amount of memory across new tiers, the swapping out of PCIe for a new interconnect, and the pervasive GPUs were first to mind. …
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