While the Power8 processor has been available from IBM since April 2014, the chips were only rolled out in Big Blue’s biggest iron in October of that year and the company only ramped up its largest Power8 machines, the Power Systems E880, to their fully extended NUMA configurations last May. …
This is the third in the series of articles on The Machine, a future system coming from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. …
Intel had been warning for several months that revenues for its Data Center Group would decelerate a bit as 2015 wound down, and this has indeed happened. …
With the launch today by AMD of the “Seattle” Opteron A1100, that makes three 64-bit ARM processors that are finally in production for servers, storage, and switches in the datacenter. …
Not every organization that relies on supercomputers can replace a whole machine in one fell swoop. …
In the previous article on Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s future system, called The Machine, we talked about the organization of its basic building block, a node of compute and storage as seen again below. …
The first big supercomputing deal of the new year has been unveiled. …
The bottlenecks never get removed from a system, they just shift around as you change one component or the other. …
So 2016 is the year, or at least it is supposed to be. …
Over the course of the last year in particular, particularly following Intel’s acquisition of FPGA maker, Altera, field programmable gate array have risen to the fore as a potential accelerator cure to performance and power walls across a much wider breadth of applications. …
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