Compute
HP ProLiants Retooled For Hyperscale And In-Memory
Hewlett-Packard may not have created a business line dedicated to custom server manufacturing like rival Dell. …
HPC
AI
SGI Awaits UV 3000 And SAP HANA Uplifts
The high performance computing market is about as tough as they come. …
Compute
Thoughts And Conjecture On Knights Landing Near Memory
The new Intel “Knights Landing” processor’s topology includes what it calls near memory, an up to 16 GB block of on-package memory accessible faster and with higher bandwidth than traditional main memory. …
HPC
Still Shrouded in Stealth, DSSD Proves Early Performance at Scale
Around this time last year, EMC announced the acquisition of DSSD, a storage acceleration startup founded by a slew of ex-Sun leads, including Andy Bechtolsheim (one of the original Sun founders), Jeff Bonwick (co-creator of Sun’s ZFS file system) and led by Bill Moore as CEO (former head of storage at Sun). …
Cloud
Mellanox Makes Interconnect Waves, Then Surfs On Them
Competing against a giant like Cisco Systems in the switch industry is never an easy task, but Mellanox Technologies has managed to carve out a sizeable niche in the supercomputing arena with its low-latency, high bandwidth InfiniBand and adapters. …
Compute
Why You Should Give A Damn About Supercomputers
When you hear the word “supercomputer,” what are the first mental images that pop into your head? …
Cloud
Dell Strikes First, Cuts Deep With Tomahawk Switches
The next generation of higher bandwidth and lower cost Ethernet switching for the datacenter is beginning, and privateer Dell is coming out swinging with new open switches based on the “Tomahawk” network ASICs from Broadcom. …
HPC
Supercomputers Bump Against the End of Another Era
When one looks at major milestones in supercomputer history, one of the relatively recently markers rests with IBM, which began work its work to create a massively parallel system for protein folding research. …
HPC
An Insider’s View of Financial Modeling on HPC Systems
Back in 2008, the global economy came crashing down sending many organizations and individuals into a state of financial ruin. …
Connect
What’s Inside Intel’s HPC Scalable System Framework?
When we broke the news about the upcoming Intel and Cray contract for the Aurora supercomputer coming to Argonne National Laboratory in 2018, we talked in depth about the unique Knights Hill based architecture of the future machine and referenced a new paradigm for high-end HPC systems that Intel refers to as the HPC scalable system framework. …