Enterprise
Cray Details New Five Petaflop Oil and Gas Supercomputer
Another large-scale supercomputer devoted to oil and gas exploration will be coming to market in Norway within the year, marking a sizable commercial HPC deal for Cray. …
HPC
Compute
Inside The Rackspace OpenPower Megaserver
With the growing adoption of custom servers tailored to specific workloads, a wide variety of Xeon processors available from Intel, and the quickening commercial ramp of machinery that is compliant with Open Compute designs, you might think the last thing that Rackspace Hosting, one of the largest cloud providers in the world, would do is strike out on its own and create a new line of servers that will be based on IBM’s Power processors. …
Control
HPC Schedulers Snap To Docker
Over the last couple of years, Docker has become an increasingly popular tool for web-scale companies like eBay, but it appears to finally be catching on for some supercomputing centers. …
Compute
OpenPower Collective Opens For System Business
It has been about a year since the OpenPower Foundation was formed to provide a development locus for systems based on the Power8 processor and its varied I/O technologies. …
Compute
HPC Scales Out of Balance With CPU-Heavy Thinking
Evaluating the true performance of HPC systems has never been quite as simple as tracking incremental improvements across processor generations, but is increasingly focused on how these tweaks affect the entire stack–and whether such gains are even useful from a memory or I/O perspective. …
Compute
Google Looks Ahead To OpenPower Systems
Search engine giant Google only talks about the underlying technology that it deploys in its datacenters years after they have been commercialized and a replacement has been developed and put into use. …
Compute
Procter and Gamble Moves Closer to GPU Computing
For a company that was formed well before electricity, consumer products company, Procter and Gamble, has continued to modernize. …
Compute
Nvidia Tweaks Pascal GPU For Deep Learning Push
Chip maker Nvidia has come a long way in transforming its graphics processors so they can not only be used to drive screens, but also to work as efficient and powerful floating point engines to accelerate modeling and simulation workloads. …
Cloud
Qumulo File System Tackles Petabyte Scale Data Management
Hoarding data using commodity storage servers is “cheap and cheerful,” as the phrase goes. …
Compute
The Tiny Chip That Could Disrupt Exascale Computing
Update to the original story post-funding and DARPA contact
When Rex Computing CEO, Thomas Sohmers, was working with embedded computing systems for military applications at MIT at age 13, his thoughts turned to much larger scale systems. …