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A New Era of Open Competition for HPC Begins
Every year people ask me what I think the biggest news story is at the annual Supercomputing Conference (SC). …
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Intel Rounds Out Scalable Systems With Omni-Path
Even though Intel is best known in the datacenter as the maker of server processors and their chipsets, the company has increasingly become a platform thinker in the past decade. …
Compute
The Knights Landing Xeon Phi Rollout Begins
The natural place for Intel to launch the next iteration of its “Knights” family of parallel X86 processors is at one of the two major supercomputer conferences that are hosted each year, which is the ISC conference in Germany and the SC conference in the United States. …
Compute
Top 500 Supercomputing at Landing Before Steep Climb
The bi-annual list of the Top 500 fastest supercomputers on the planet is in, and while there might not be any earth-shattering news at the peak of the charts, a drilldown of the results does show some key developing trends in high performance computing. …
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China Triples Top Supercomputer Count in 2015
The results of the Top 500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers has just been announced, and while there are no big surprises at the top outside of a couple of new additions, the real news sits farther down the stack—and could speak volumes about the global supercomputing race in terms of which countries are pushing investments. …
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Taking The HPC Pulse With Hewlett Packard Enterprise
The hardware part of the high performance computing market is somewhere around $10 billion or so, depending on how you want to count it and who you want to ask, and Bill Mannel, vice president and general manager of a combined HPC and Big Data group within the newly constituted Hewlett Packard Enterprise half of the former Hewlett-Packard, reckons that his employer has north of a third of the business. …
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OpenPower: Accelerated Computing Will Be The New Normal
IBM did not just stake the future of its Power chip and the systems business on which it depends on the OpenPower Foundation, a consortium now with 160 members after more than two years of cultivation by Big Blue and its key early partners – Google, Nvidia, Mellanox Technologies, and Tyan. …
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The Hardware Geek’s Guide to SC15
It has been a noteworthy year in hardware in the world of high performance computing, although to be fair, much of the attention has been centered on emerging architecture and future systems that are set to start appearing as early as this time next year. …
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A Clever Approach to Cultivating the HPC Stack
A hypothetical scenario here.
So, let’s say you are far and away the world’s largest supplier of microprocessors. …
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Mellanox Turns InfiniBand Switches Into MPI Accelerators
One of the key themes to improving the performance of clusters running simulations has been the offloading of common routines from the central processors in the servers to accelerators in the network adapter cards that plug into the servers and that interface with switches. …