Compute
The TOP500 is Dead, Long Live The TOP500
Twice a year, the TOP500 project publishes a list of the 500 most powerful computer systems, aka supercomputers. …
Compute
AI
Dell EMC Wants to Take AI Mainstream
One of the challenges vendors are trying address when it comes to artificial intelligence is expanding the technology and its elements of machine learning and deep learning beyond the realm of hyoerscalers and some HPC centers and into the enterprise, where businesses can leverage them for such workloads as simulations, modeling, and analytics. …
Compute
ARM Benchmarks Show HPC Ripe for Processor Shakeup
Every year at the Supercomputing Conference (SC) an unofficial theme emerges. …
Compute
Top 500 Supercomputer Rankings Losing Accuracy Despite High Precision
If the hyperscalers have taught us anything, it is that more data is always better. …
Compute
Cray ARMs Highest End Supercomputer with ThunderX2
Just this time last year, the projection was that by 2020, ARM processors would be chewing on twenty percent of HPC workloads. …
AI
Nvidia Breaks $2 Billion Datacenter Run Rate
If GPU acceleration had not been conceived of by academics and researchers at companies like Nvidia more than a decade ago, how much richer would Intel be today? …
AI
HPE Developing its Own Low Power “Neural Network” Chips
With so many chip startups targeting the future of deep learning training and inference, one might expect it would be far easier for tech giant Hewlett Packard Enterprise to buy versus build. …
Cloud
Qualcomm’s Amberwing Arm Server Chip Finally Takes Flight
It is going to be a busy week for chip maker Qualcomm as it formally jumps from smartphones to servers with its new “Amberwing” Centriq 2400 Arm server processor during the same week that it has received an unsolicited $130 billion takeover offer from sometimes rival chipmaker Broadcom. …
Compute
Keeping OpenStack On The Edge, Bleeding And Otherwise
Nobody likes to talk about the scope and scale of platforms more than we do at The Next Platform. …
Compute
Computing Is Bigger Than The Datacenter
For several years there has been the ongoing debate about ARM and its future in the datacenter. …