Compute
Intel Lets Slip Broadwell, Skylake Xeon Chip Specs
The server space was a-buzz this weekend with what looks like a big leak of Intel’s future Xeon processor and chipset roadmaps for the next couple of generations of machines. …
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Code
Startup Weaves Software Mesh to Net Hybrid Systems
For some users in high performance computing and a growing range of deep learning and data-intensive application segments, the shift toward mixed (heterogeneous) architectures is becoming more common. …
Compute
Nvidia Tesla GM Moves To IBM To Steer HPC Efforts
IBM has been a pioneer in large scale, hybrid computing and has staked a substantial portion of the future of its Power platform, and the ones that partners are building in conjunction with it through the OpenPower Foundation, on the idea that various kinds of compute, storage, and interconnects will be used to fabricate systems that are precisely tailored to efficiently run specific workloads. …
Cloud
Can Cloud Pricing Stay On Moore’s Law Curves?
The name of the game among the hyperscalers is to use their hardware and software engineering to get their infrastructure compute and storage costs coming down faster than the rate of Moore’s Law improvements for the components that make up their systems. …
Compute
FPGAs Held Back in HPC, But Hope on the Horizon
The accelerator story for top supercomputers is a strong one, starting with GPUs, which were snapped in as coprocessors on some of the world’s largest systems over the last five years. …
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A Peek Inside Dell’s Private Systems Business
It has been a year and a half since IT supplier Dell went private, and the company is reveling in the fact that competitors can no longer peer into its financials to look for weaknesses and that it can make decisions privately and for the long-term rather than make them publicly and largely on the much shorter-term that all public companies have to align to. …
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Cisco Throws Down The Gauntlet To Open Switches
John Chambers has led networking giant and now systems player Cisco Systems for two decades and is stepping down as CEO to let a new generation of executives run the company that he utterly transformed from a router maker to a broad and very profitable IT supplier. …
Compute
FPGAs Edging Closer to the Enterprise Starting Line
There has been a noticeable interest uptick in reconfigurable computing devices, most notably, field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). …
AI
Cores Alone Will Not Drive Haswell Xeon E7 System Sales
Intel still has one more processor to get out the door to complete the “Haswell” generation, with the impending Xeon E5-4600 v3 for low-end, four-socket machines. …
Compute
Expanding The Hyperconvergence Base
VMware seeded its market for hyperconverged storage and virtual server clusters based on its Virtual SAN (VSAN) with an open and very popular beta program ahead of its commercial launch, and rival Nutanix, wanting to aggressively expanding its own customer base, is hoping to crank up its sales through the launch of a freebie Community Edition of its Virtual Computing Platform. …