Compute
Cray ARMs Highest End Supercomputer with ThunderX2
Just this time last year, the projection was that by 2020, ARM processors would be chewing on twenty percent of HPC workloads. …
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AI
Nvidia Breaks $2 Billion Datacenter Run Rate
If GPU acceleration had not been conceived of by academics and researchers at companies like Nvidia more than a decade ago, how much richer would Intel be today? …
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IBM Bolsters Quantum Capability, Emphasizes Device Differentiation
Much of the quantum computing hype of the last few years has centered on D-Wave, which has installed a number of functional systems and is hard at work making quantum programming more practical. …
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Arm Smooths the Path for Porting HPC Apps
One of the arguments Intel officials and others have made against Arm’s push to get its silicon designs into the datacenter has been the burden it would mean for enterprises and organizations in the HPC field that would have to modify application codes to get their software to run on the Arm architecture. …
Compute
HPE’s Superdome Gets An SGI NUMAlink Makeover
When Hewlett Packard Enterprise bought supercomputer maker SGI back in August 2016 for $275 million, it had already invested years in creating its own “DragonHawk” chipset to build big memory Superdome X systems that were to be the follow-ons to its PA-RISC and Itanium Superdome systems. …