When it comes to issues that keep cropping up in exascale computing circles beyond the expected hardware, parallelization, and power consumption topics, the matter of reproducibility is often on the list. …
One of the ultimate legacy high performance computing applications, Lattice QCD (quantum chromodynamics) has been adapted to run efficiently on Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors. …
As we pointed out in the analysis opening up this series on the future prospects for ARM-based servers, it has been quite a challenge getting all of the hardware, software, and money lined up to storm the datacenter. …
Back in 2000, Ian Buck and a small computer graphics team at Stanford University were watching the steady evolution of computer graphics processors for gaming and thinking about how such devices could be extended to fit a wider class of applications. …
I recently attended a meeting of government and industry HPC leaders where one topic of much discussion was why so many universities have started “Data Science” programs but with the exception of a small number of universities, are not actively training students in HPC and parallel programming. …
While much of the attention around the new crop of supercomputers tends to focus on the hardware story, which is difficult to downplay given the relatively high performance and densities expected as soon as early next year, the lesser told story (perhaps, in part because it is application specific) is perhaps far more important. …
The announced acquisition of enterprise storage giant EMC by server and PC maker Dell has fueled the pontifications of pundits across the tech industry, leaving almost no area unanalyzed. …
A few weeks ago, I put together a list of the elements of what I considered a production software stack, or platform, for running modern applications based on my experiences on how to break down these problems after having spent ten years at Google. …
If money was no object, and the laws of physics were a lot more yielding, all of the data in the world might be stored on a single medium and system architecture would be a lot simpler. …
People control the purse strings for datacenter budgets, at least for the time being until CFOs are replaced by algorithms, and that is one of the reasons why it is hard to predict precisely what enterprise, hyperscale, HPC, and cloud organizations will do in any given quarter when it comes to spending on infrastructure. …
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