Compute
BSC Keeps Its HPC Options Open With MareNostrum 4
When it comes to supercomputing, you don’t only have to strike while the iron is hot, you have to spend while the money is available. …
Compute
Cloud
The FPGA Accelerated Cloud Push Just Got Stronger
FPGAs have been an emerging topic on the application acceleration front over the last couple of years, but despite increased attention around use cases in machine learning and other hot areas, hands have been tied due to simply on-boarding with both the hardware and software. …
Compute
Lenovo Drives HPC From The Middle Ground
While we all spend a lot of time talking about the massive supercomputers that cultivate new architectures, and precisely for that reason, it is the more modest cluster that makes use of these technologies many years hence that actually cultivates a healthy and vibrant HPC market. …
Compute
HPE Takes On The High End With SGI Expertise
SGI has always had scalable technology that should have been deployed more broadly in the academic, government, and enterprise datacenters of the world. …
AI
Nvidia CEO’s “Hyper-Moore’s Law” Vision for Future Supercomputers
Over the last year in particular, we have documented the merger between high performance computing and deep learning and its various shared hardware and software ties. …
Compute
OpenHPC Pedal Put To The Compute Metal
The ultimate success of any platform depends on the seamless integration of diverse components into a synergistic whole – well, as much as is possible in the real world – while at the same time being flexible enough to allow for components to be swapped out and replaced by others to suit personal preferences. …
Compute
As The Server Goes, So Goes The World
At this point in the 21st Century, a surprisingly large portion of the manufacturing, warehousing, distribution, marketing, and retailing of every good and service known to humankind is dependent on a piece of circuit board with two Xeon processors welded to it, wrapped in some bent sheet metal with a few blinky lights peeking out of the darkness. …
Compute
FPGAs Give Microsoft a “Von Neumann Tax” Break
At the annual Supercomputing Conference (SC16) last week, the emphasis was on deep learning and its future role as part of supercomputing applications and systems. …
AI
Inside Intel’s Strategy to Integrate Nervana Deep Learning Assets
There is little doubt that 2017 will be a dense year for deep learning. …
Compute
Intel Declares War on GPUs at Disputed HPC, AI Border
In Supercomputing Conference (SC) years past, chipmaker Intel has always come forth with a strong story, either as an enabling processor or co-processor force, or more recently, as a prime contractor for a leading-class national lab supercomputer. …