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Many hands make light work, or so they say. So do many cores, many threads and many data points when addressed by a single computing instruction. …
Many hands make light work, or so they say. So do many cores, many threads and many data points when addressed by a single computing instruction. …
The US Department of Energy fiscal year 2018 budget request is in. …
For almost a decade now, the cloud has been pitched as a cost-effective way to bring supercomputing out of the queue and into public IaaS or HPC on-demand environments. …
We are still chewing through all of the announcements and talk at the GPU Technology Conference that Nvidia hosted in its San Jose stomping grounds last week, and as such we are thinking about the much bigger role that graphics processors are playing in datacenter compute – a realm that has seen five decades of dominance by central processors of one form or another. …
For a mature company that kickstarted supercomputing as we know it, Cray has done a rather impressive job of reinventing itself over the years. …
The science fiction of a generation ago predicted a future in which humans were replaced by the reasoning might of a supercomputer. …
GPU computing has deep roots in supercomputing, but Nvidia is using that springboard to dive head first into the future of deep learning. …
Enterprise spending on servers was a bit soft in the first quarter, as evidenced by the financial results posted by Intel and by its sometime rival IBM, but the hyperscale and HPC markets, at least when it comes to networking, was a bit soft, according to high-end network chip and equipment maker Mellanox Technologies. …
Energy efficiency and operating costs for systems are as important as raw performance in today’s datacenters. …
We have been saying for the past two year that the impending “Skylake” Xeon processors represented the biggest platform architectural change in the Xeon processor business at Intel since the transformational “Nehalem” Xeon 5500s that debuted back in March 2009 into the gaping maw of the Great Recession. …
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