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. …
When the U.S. blocked exports of Intel chips for key Chinese supercomputers the expectation was that it would do little more than hasten the development of native architectures, effectively pushing up the timeline for Chinese chipmakers to find their own solutions to large-scale computing without Intel. …
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. …
Although there are many HPC startups that are focused on software, services, and consulting, to keep the list focused this year, we singled out a few key small companies that are taking their chances to bring new processors and server gear to the supercomputing table. …
Hewlett-Packard wants a bigger slice of the high performance computing and data analytics markets, and so does chip maker Intel. …
Intel has spent a considerable sum of money acquiring switching technologies over the past several years as well as doing a whole bunch of its own engineering so it can branch out in a serious way into the $25 billion networking business and keep its flagship Data Center Group growing and profitable. …
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. …
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. …
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