HPC
What the White House Exascale Backing Means For Future HPC
Today the White House issued an executive presidential order to create a national strategic computing initiative. …
HPC
Enterprise
Scaling The Growing System Memory Hierarchy
The announcement this week by Intel and Micron Technology of 3D XPoint memory, which will sit somewhere between DRAM and NAND flash in future systems, has everyone thinking about the architectural, economic, and performance implications of emerging memory technologies in devices of all kinds – including those humming away in the datacenters of the world. …
HPC
Tall Stepping Stones for One of Next Top U.S. Supercomputers
Although the Top 500 list of supercomputers has come to something of a standstill in the last few incarnations of the bi-annual benchmark, the next few years will provide plenty of the way of interesting new machines worldwide. …
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Mellanox Rides Bandwidth Hunger Wave
After many years of investment, Mellanox Technologies is reaping from the research and development that it has sown in the InfiniBand and Ethernet markets, pushing up bandwidth to 56 Gb/sec and now to 100 Gb/sec just as Intel’s “Haswell” Xeon E5 v3 processors – the dominant CPUs behind the machines cloud, hyperscale, and HPC datacenters – are ramping. …
Compute
Google Sees Long, Expensive Road Ahead For Quantum Computing
As was the case over seven decades ago in the early days of digital computing – when the switch at the heart of the system was a vacuum tube, not even a transistor – some of the smartest mathematicians and information theorists today are driving the development of quantum computers, trying to figure out the best physical components to use to run complex algorithms. …
Enterprise
The Supercomputing Strategy That Makes Airbus Soar
To put the needs of Airbus in some basic computational context, consider that for a single large passenger jet, there are well over two million individual parts that need to be simulated individually or as part of a larger system. …
Compute
Supercomputer Chip Startup Scores Funding, DARPA Contract
Back in March, we introduced a chip upstart taking aim at the efficiency of future exascale systems called Rex Computing. …
HPC
How Cray Climbed the Weather Forecasting Market Charts
Although weather forecasts are nested into the fabric of our daily lives, it can be easy to forget that to arrive at accurate, long-term predictions takes massive amounts of computing power. …
HPC
One Single System Architecture to Rule Them All
There is little doubt that the worlds of large-scale data analytics and high performance computing share common features, but when it comes to meshing these two disparate technology (and to a large degree, cultural) divides, there are clear challenges. …
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Ethernet Will Have To Work Harder To Win HPC
While supercomputing centers and hyperscalers would agree about many things when it comes to systems architecture and the need to use certain technologies to goose the performance and the scale of their applications, they often have a fundamental disagreement when it comes to networking. …