Compute
Great Lakes Super To Remove Islands Of Compute
It is hard to say for sure, but there is probably as much aggregate computing capacity in the academic supercomputing centers of the world as there are in the big national labs. …
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Slicing Into The Post-K Supercomputer’s Tofu D Interconnect
Fujitsu has given us a peek at the future A64FX Arm server processor that it has forged for the future “Post-K” supercomputer that is being built by the Japanese government for the RIKEN laboratory, arguably the hotbed of HPC in the Land of the Rising Sun. …
Compute
Fat And Hyperconverged Servers Save HPE’s Third Quarter
The ProLiant server is still the workhorse for plowing datacenters and sowing money at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, much as it was for the datacenter division at Compaq nearly two decades ago. …
Compute
The Datacenter Impact Of The GlobalFoundries 7 Nanometer Spike
Making money from sand is not as easy as making money from oil, and the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, which has been assembling the GlobalFoundries chip making giant for the past decade is finding that out the hard way and as a consequence, the company is backing off on its development of 7 nanometer manufacturing techniques, which included a double whammy of traditional immersion lithography techniques as well as a move towards bleeding-edge extreme ultraviolet (EUV) technology. …
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Quantum Simulation Work Blazes Trail for Hybrid Systems
The relationship between quantum computers and supercomputing will be more complementary than competitive in the coming years with quantum processors being the offload engines for some key workloads in materials science and other areas. …
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Dell Moves One Step Closer To Composable With PowerEdge MX
There is a certain level of impatience in the IT industry to create truly composable infrastructure from disaggregated compute, storage, and networking. …
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Negotiating The NVM-Express Land Rush
Newisys has been on the NVM-Express for several years, putting the high-profile interface in a growing number of server and storage platforms, including servers with NVM-Express directly attacked to the CPU, a system running NVM-Express over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) and a storage expansion flash array (JBOF, or Just a Bunch of Flash). …
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Living In The SmartNIC Future
Getting processing closer to data is going to be one of the major themes in compute in the next decade, and we know this because for the past decade this is precisely what the big hyperscalers and cloud builders have been doing. …
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Why The World Needs Another Network Operating System
If the world doesn’t need another thing, one of those things that it doesn’t need is probably another switch operating system. …
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Steady InfiniBand, Booming Ethernet Propel Mellanox Higher
Mellanox got its start as one of the several suppliers of ASICs for the low latency InfiniBand protocol that was originally conceived as a kind of universal fabric to connect all devices in the datacenter. …