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A New Fabric for the Next Age in Computing
The next generation, high speed, low latency fabric known as the Intel Omni-Path Architecture (OPA), made an informal debut in July at this year’s ISC conference in Frankfurt. …
HPC
Compute
Intel Stacks Knights Landing Chips Next To Xeons
The “Knights Landing” Xeon Phi processor from Intel will be shipping by the end of the year and ramping in volume through 2016, and it is set to shake up the systems market in a number of significant ways. …
AI
Intel Leverages HPC Core for Analytics Tooling Push
Each year, Intel bundles core software developments into its Parallel Studio Suite and releases an updated version, which includes extensions to its suite of libraries, compilers, and analytical tools. …
Cloud
Dell Leverages Hyperscale Expertise For HPC, Clouds, And Enterprise
The Data Center Solutions custom server unit of Dell is one of the big success stories of the IT supplier. …
HPC
Supercomputer Force Knocks Human Genome Assembly Under 9 Minutes
A team from the Joint Genome Institute at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and researchers from UC Berkeley have used 15,000 cores on the Cray XC30 “Edison” supercomputer to boost the complete assembly of the human genome, bringing the time down to 8.4 minutes. …
Enterprise
Intel Reveals Plans For Optane 3D XPoint Memory
Chip makers and partners Intel and Micron Technology unveiled their jointly developed and manufactured 3D XPoint memory three weeks ago to much fanfare, but it is still perhaps sinking in to system architects and future system buyers how dramatic a move this is and how much it will change the memory hierarchy in systems and the applications that ride on it. …
HPC
U.S. Rediscovers the Economic Edge of Weather Supercomputers
It is one thing to know that large-scale, expensive supercomputers back the world’s capability to provide accurate global and regional forecasts, but it is another entirely to understand that the investments made in improving those systems can translate to billions, if not tens of billions, of dollars. …
Compute
Future Systems: How HP Will Adapt The Machine To HPC
When Hewlett-Packard launched its moonshot effort to create a new computing architecture centered on non-volatile memory last year, called The Machine, many people jumped to a number of wrong conclusions. …
Cloud
New Network Architecture Bridges Supercomputer, Cloud Divides
As we have discussed at length here at The Next Platform, the dividing lines between high performance computing datacenters and their cloud or web-scale compatriots are blurring, fed in part by increasing data sizes and the speeds at which data must be moved. …
Enterprise
Panasas Expands Reach Beyond HPC Foundations
For any company in the high performance computing storage market, sixteen years is quite a run. …