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OpenMP: From Parallel Loops To Exaflops
This fall will mark twenty years since the publication of the v1.0 specification of OpenMP Fortran. …
Compute
Cloud
Intel Moves Xeons To The Moore’s Law Leading Edge
In the wake of the Technology and Manufacturing Day event that Intel hosted last month, we were pondering this week about what effect the tick-tock-clock method of advancing chip designs and manufacturing processes might have on the Xeon server chip line from Intel, and we suggested that it might close the gaps between the Core client chips and the Xeons. …
Cloud
Mapping Intel’s Tick Tock Clock Onto Xeon Processors
Chip maker Intel takes Moore’s Law very seriously, and not just because one of its founders observed the consistent rate at which the price of a transistor scales down with each tweak in manufacturing. …
AI
Pushing A Trillion Row Database With GPU Acceleration
There is an arms race in the nascent market for GPU-accelerated databases, and the winner will be the one that can scale to the largest datasets while also providing the most compatibility with industry-standard SQL. …
Compute
Riding The Virtual SAN Gravy Train
Being the first mover in establishing a new technology in the enterprise is important, but it is not more important than having a vast installed base and sales force peddling an existing and adjacent product set in which to sell a competing and usually lagging technology. …
Compute
International Cognitive And Cloud Business Machines
International Business Machines has gone through so many changes in its eleven decades of existence, and it is important to remember that some days. …
Compute
Docker Completes Its Platform With DIY Linux
It all started with a new twist on an old idea, that of a lightweight software container running inside Linux that would house applications and make them portable. …
AI
Machine Learning Gets An InfiniBand Boost With Caffe2
Scaling the performance of machine learning frameworks so they can train larger neural networks – or so the same training a lot faster – has meant that the hyperscalers of the world who are essentially creating this technology have had to rely on increasingly beefy compute nodes, these days almost universally augmented with GPUs. …
AI
FPGAs To Shake Up Stodgy Relational Databases
So you are a system architect, and you want to make the databases behind your applications run a lot faster. …
AI
Machine Learning Storms Into Climate Research
The fields where machine learning and neural networks can have positive impacts seem almost limitless. …