Compute
Renting The Cleanest HPC On Earth
One of the most interesting and strategically located datacenters in the world has taken a shining to HPC, and not just because it is a great business opportunity. …
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Cloud
Deep Dive Into Qualcomm’s Centriq Arm Server Ecosystem
Qualcomm launched its Centriq server system-on-chip (SoC) a few weeks ago. …
AI
Power9 To The People
The server race is really afoot now that IBM has finally gotten off the starting blocks with its first Power9 system, based on its “Nimbus” variant of that processor and turbocharged with the latest “Volta” Tesla GPU accelerators from Nvidia and EDR InfiniBand networks from Mellanox Technologies. …
Compute
Disaggregated Or Hyperconverged, What Storage Will Win The Enterprise?
It has been a long time coming, but hyperconverged storage pioneer Nutanix is finally letting go of hardware, shifting from being an a server-storage hybrid appliance maker to a company that sells software that provides hyperconverged functionality on whatever hardware large enterprises typically buy. …
Cloud
The Booming Server Market In The Wake Of Skylake
The slowdown in server sales ahead of Intel’s July launch of the “Skylake” Xeon SP was real, and if the figures from the third quarter of this year are any guide, then it looks like that slump is over. …
Compute
Getting Hyper And Converged About Storage
Hyperconverged infrastructure is a relatively small but fast-growing part of the datacenter market, driving in large part by enterprises looking to simplify and streamline their environments as they tackle increasingly complex workloads. …
Compute
Reinventing the FPGA Programming Wheel
For several years, GPU acceleration matched with Intel Xeon processors were the dominating news items in hardware at the annual Supercomputing Conference. …
AI
Inside Nvidia’s Next-Gen Saturn V AI Cluster
Generally speaking, the world’s largest chip makers have been pretty secretive about the giant supercomputers they use to design and test their devices, although occasionally, Intel and AMD have provided some insight into their clusters. …
Compute
Battle Of The InfiniBands
When it comes to HPC, compute is like the singers in a rock band, making all of the noise and soaking up most of the attention. …
Compute
Cramming The Cosmos Into A Shared Memory Supercomputer
The very first Superdome Flex shared memory system has gone out the door at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and it is going to an HPC center that has big memory needs as it tries to understand the universe that we inhabit. …