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IBM’s Power Roadmap Extended By Chip Breakthrough

July 9, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Hot on the heels of the closing of the deal that divests its semiconductor business and places it in the hands of Globalfoundries, the former chip making business of AMD that is controlled by the government of Abu Dhabi, IBM and its academic and chip industry partners have announced that they have successfully etched chips with transistors that are 7 nanometers in size – significantly smaller than current processes and extending the Moore’s Law curve one more step. …

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GPU Computing Still Nascent On Public Clouds

July 8, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

The public cloud is precisely as conservative and innovative as the enterprise customers that make use of it. …

Memristors Mimic Brains For Massive Machine Learning

July 8, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

If you think that Hewlett-Packard is disappointed about the delays in getting the memristor to market, so is a tenacious inventor who has been working at the confluence of electronics and machine learning. …

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Nvidia Ramps Up GPU Deep Learning Performance

July 7, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

The compute business at graphics chip maker Nvidia is still dominated by the Tesla coprocessors that are used to accelerate simulations and models on workstations and clusters of servers. …

Building A Better . . . Hadoop Cluster

July 3, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

It you like technology, and you must because you are reading The Next Platform, then you probably like the idea of putting together the specs of a system and fitting it to a particular workload. …

Have Integrated System Sales Peaked Already?

June 29, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Call them integrated systems, or platforms, or engineered systems. Call them what you will, but they have become a sizeable – but nowhere near dominant – part of the systems market. …

GPU Accelerators Radically Boost SQL Queries

June 26, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

In-memory databases are all the rage for very fast query processing, but you have to have the right balance of compute and memory for queries against in-memory databases to really scream. …

Hyperscale Systems Make Headway Into HPC

June 24, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Hyperscale datacenters and supercomputing centers have some of the same limits when it comes to budgets, electricity consumption, cooling, and space, so it is not much of a surprise that HPC customers are taking a hard look at some of the custom server designs created for hyperscalers. …

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Addressing Is The Secret Of Power8 CAPI

June 22, 2015 Mark Funk 4

As we have heard for a long time, the promise is here of having a true “system on a chip.” …

A Look Inside TGEN’s Approach to Genomics Infrastructure

June 17, 2015 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 0

The Translational Genomics Research Institute in Arizona is one of a handful of non-profit centers in the U.S. …