Compute
The New IBM Glass Is Almost Half Full
It takes an incredible amount of resilience for any company to make it decades, much less more than a century, in any industry. …
Compute
Compute
FPGA Frontiers: New Applications in Reconfigurable Computing
There is little doubt that this is a new era for FPGAs. …
Code
What Is SMP Without Shared Memory?
This is the second in the series on the essentials of multiprocessor programming. …
Cloud
Why Google Is Driving Compute Diversity
In the ideal hyperscaler and cloud world, there would be one processor type with one server configuration and it would run any workload that could be thrown at it. …
Code
Molecular Dynamics a Next Frontier for FPGA Acceleration
Molecular dynamics codes have a wide range of uses across scientific research and represent a target base for a variety of accelerators and approaches, from GPUs to custom ASICs. …
Compute
HPE Powers Up The Machine Architecture
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is not just a manufacturer that takes components from Intel and assembles them into systems. …
Compute
Qualcomm Fires ARM Server Salvo, Broadcom Silences Guns
Depending on how you want to look at it, the half dozen companies that have aspired to bring ARM architecture to the datacenter through chips designed specifically to run server workloads are either very late to market or very early. …
AI
Building Intelligence into Machine Learning Hardware
Machine learning is a rising star in the compute constellation, and for good reason. …
Compute
Is This A Server Slowdown, Or Increasing Efficiency?
If you happen to believe that spending on core IT infrastructure is a leading indicator of the robustness of national economies and the global one that is stitched, somewhat piecemeal like a patchwork quilt. …
Cloud
What it Takes to Build True FPGA as a Service
Amazon Web Services might be offering FPGAs in an EC2 cloud environment, but this is still a far cry from the FPGA-as-a-service vision many hold for the future. …