As we described in some detail in a previous piece that outlined the impetus for China to step up development of its own supercomputer chips following the trade restrictions for Intel chips in large Chinese systems, China will continue to stick to the accelerated machine approach for the upgrade of its top-ranked Tianhe-2 system. …
When it comes to high performance computing, IBM is in a phase change that will take it several years to complete with its key OpenPower infrastructure partners, Nvidia and Mellanox Technologies. …
SGI may be talking about its efforts to push into the enterprise space with special versions of its UltraViolet shared memory systems that are tuned up to run the SAP HANA in-memory database, but the supercomputer maker has not forgotten its core HPC customer base. …
Hewlett-Packard wants a bigger slice of the high performance computing and data analytics markets, and so does chip maker Intel. …
If the bi-annual list of the world’s fastest, most powerful supercomputers was used as indicator of key technological, government investment, and scientific progress, one could make some striking predictions about where the next centers of worldwide innovation are likely to rest. …
Those of us who focus on the infrastructure layer of the next platforms that companies are building sometimes forget about the applications that ride on those platforms and give them a reason to be. …
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. …
The public cloud is precisely as conservative and innovative as the enterprise customers that make use of it. …
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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