Over the last several rankings of the Top 500 most powerful supercomputers, the conversations in high performance computing have shifted from hardware optimization to data and workflow tuning. …
The IT industry spends a lot of time obsessing about Moore’s Law and whether it is alive well or heading for the old folks home. …
“AI is transforming the entire world of technology. Much of this progress is due to the ability of learning algorithms to spot patterns in larger and larger amounts of data. …
The new Intel Xeon processors E5 v4 product family, based upon the “Broadwell” microarchitecture, is reported to deliver up to 47%* more performance across a wide range of HPC codes. …
The workhorse of the datacenter, the Xeon E5 processor, is getting a bit stronger today and will be able to pull slightly heavier workloads through the datacenter with the launch of the “Broadwell” Xeon E5-2600 v4 processors. …
Like so many tried and true software platforms for high performance computing, the IBM-developed distributed computing management software, xCAT (Extreme Cluster Administration Toolkit), has been powering cluster needs since before the dawn of the new millennium. …
Although there will be some meaty hardware and systems news in high performance computing over the course of 2016, this will be the year that programming models for HPC systems take center stage, especially as large supercomputing sites prepare for their first waves of pre-exascale machines. …
It has been a long time since the dominant architecture in the datacenter has been monolithic systems running siloed applications fed by a three tier network. …
Nallatech doesn’t make FPGAs, but it does have several decades of experience turning FPGAs into devices and systems that companies can deploy to solve real-world computing problems without having to do the systems integration work themselves. …
Six years ago at the International Supercomputing Conference over some fine German beer, I sat and talked with a group of leading high performance computing folks from national labs and research centers in the United States and Europe about what “this whole cloud thing” could mean for the future of supercomputing. …
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