With the sale of its System x division to Lenovo Group last fall and the winding down of its BlueGene massively parallel computing line, IBM lost a lot of its market presence in the high performance computing space. …
We hear the rumors and scuttlebutt, just like many of you probably do. …
Petar Radokjovic, who leads the memory systems division at the Barcelona Supercomputer Center, described his desk, messy with the latest research on next-generation memory systems for high performance computing, and says that for a time, the sight of them was enough to give him an ulcer. …
“Machine learning connects supercomputing to consumers; its impact will be felt everywhere.” …
We have said it before here at The Next Platform, and we will say it again. …
For certain kinds of modeling, simulation, and machine learning workloads, the advent of GPU coprocessors has been a watershed event. …
In the first part in this series, we talked about the nature of processor virtualization on different systems and how this affects the underlying capacity and performance of compute in cloud infrastructure. …
We can rent as much or as little compute capacity or storage or connectivity as we want, and we can get it when we want it. …
After a boisterous first couple of years when the concept was new, sales of so-called “engineered systems” or integrated platforms, as the box counters at IDC call them, were rising steadily alongside of the adjacent market for converged infrastructure. …
History moves in spirals, not straight lines, widening our experience and our options, coming around again and again with variations on similar themes. …
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