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InfiniBand And Proprietary Networks Still Rule Real HPC

June 30, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

With the network comprising as much as a quarter of the cost of a high performance computing system and being absolutely central to the performance of applications running on parallel systems, it is fair to say that the choice of network is at least as important as the choice of compute engine and storage hierarchy. …

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The Memory Scalability At The Heart Of The Machine

June 15, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

Much has been made of the ability of The Machine, the system with the novel silicon photonics interconnect and massively scalable shared memory pool being developed by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, to already address more main memory at once across many compute elements than many big iron NUMA servers. …

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First In-Depth Look at Google’s New Second-Generation TPU

May 17, 2017 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 15

It was only just last month that we spoke with Google distinguished hardware engineer, Norman Jouppi, in depth about the tensor processing unit used internally at the search giant to accelerate deep learning inference, but that device—that first TPU—is already appearing rather out of fashion. …

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HPC System Delays Stall InfiniBand

May 6, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Enterprise spending on servers was a bit soft in the first quarter, as evidenced by the financial results posted by Intel and by its sometime rival IBM, but the hyperscale and HPC markets, at least when it comes to networking, was a bit soft, according to high-end network chip and equipment maker Mellanox Technologies. …

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Lessons Learned From Facebook’s Split Network Backbone

May 2, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Distributed applications, whether they are containerized or not, have a lot of benefits when it comes to modularity and scale. …

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Upstart Switch Chip Maker Tears Up The Ethernet Roadmap

March 21, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

Ethernet switching has its own kinds of Moore’s Law barriers. The transition from 10 Gb/sec to 100 Gb/sec devices over the past decade has been anything but smooth, and a lot of compromises had to be made to even get to the interim – and unusual – 40 Gb/sec stepping stone towards the 100 Gb/sec devices that are ramping today in the datacenter. …

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Japan Keeps Accelerating With Tsubame 3.0 AI Supercomputer

February 17, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

The Global Scientific Information and Computing Center at the Tokyo Institute of Technology has been at the forefront of accelerated computing, and well before GPUs came along and made acceleration not only cool but affordable and normal. …

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What Bellwether Cisco Reveals About Datacenter Spending

February 16, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

As the world’s dominant supplier of switches and routers into the datacenter and one of the big providers of servers (with a hope of transforming part of that server businesses into a sizeable hyperconverged storage business), Cisco Systems provides a kind of lens into the glass houses of the world. …

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The Case For IBM Buying Nvidia, Xilinx, And Mellanox

February 7, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan 8

We spend a lot of time contemplating what technologies will be deployed at the heart of servers, storage, and networks and thereby form the foundation of the next successive generations of platforms in the datacenter for running applications old and new. …

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Hyperscalers Ready To Run Barefoot In The Datacenter

January 30, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Breaking into the switch market is not an easy task, whether you are talking about providing whole switches or just the chips that drive them. …

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