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AMD Hints At Future HPC Push
When it comes to chip companies that have claimed a stake in the future of high performance computing, there used to be more competition. …
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Intel Crafts Broadwell Xeon D For Hyperscale
The first of the server processors based on Intel’s “Broadwell” cores and using its 14 nanometer chip making processes comes to market today. …
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Broadwell Xeon D Chips Give Intel Datacenter Breadth
The first Xeon processor aimed at datacenter workloads that is based on Intel’s “Broadwell” core has been launched. …
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OpenPower Lays Out HPC Roadmap
When the OpenPower Foundation was formed a year and a half ago, IBM had a number of reasons, driven by enlightened self-interest, for fostering a partnerships with Google, Nvidia, Mellanox Technologies, and Tyan. …
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Balancing Scale And Simplicity In Shared Memory Systems
Sometimes it takes a bit of tweaking to make a technology that is created for supercomputing centers more suitable for high-end enterprise customers, even sophisticated ones that are not afraid to take risks and try something different. …
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Lenovo To Bring HPC Expertise To Bear In New Markets
When Lenovo Group bought the System x division from IBM last fall, it got a lot more than a business that sells rack and tower servers based on X86 processors. …
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DNA Sequencing: Not Quite HPC Yet
DNA sequencing has been driving unprecedented discoveries in the life sciences since the emergence of next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies ten years ago. …
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Prototype ARM Clusters Muscle Into HPC
Server maker Lenovo might have just shelled out billions of dollars to acquire IBM’s System x X86 server business, but don’t be confused. …
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How Machine Learning Will Improve Servers
In an ideal world, you would not buy a server unless you knew how all of the components that comprise it would work together for several years supporting your specific applications. …
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Inside an Evolving Genomics Cluster
From processors, memory, network, and beyond, making architectural choices to support large-scale genomics research is often fed as much by trial and error as it is empirical knowledge about what will work for a demanding application set. …