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Capitalizing On Hybrid Cloud In HPC
By Gary Tyreman
Cloud computing became an essential infrastructure strategy for nearly every business. …
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Sluggish Moore’s Law Doesn’t Impede Intel One Bit
The demand for compute is so strong among the hyperscalers and cloud builders that nothing seems to be slowing down Intel’s datacenter business. …
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Nvidia Memory Switch Welds Together Massive Virtual GPU
It has happened time and time again in computing in the past three decades in the datacenter: A device scales up its capacity – be it compute, storage, or networking – as high as it can go, and then it has to go parallel and scale out. …
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In Modern Datacenters, The Latency Tail Wags The Network Dog
The expression, the tail wags the dog, is used when a seemingly unimportant factor or infrequent event actually dominates the situation. …
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Why Cisco Should – And Should Not – Acquire Pure Storage
Flash memory has become absolutely normal in the datacenter, but that does not mean it is ubiquitous and it most certainly does not mean that all flash arrays, whether homegrown and embedded in servers or purchased as appliances, are created equal. …
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Add Firepower to Your Data with HPC-Virtual GPU Convergence
High performance computing (HPC) enables organizations to work more quickly and effectively than traditional compute platforms—but that might not be enough to succeed in today’s evolving digital marketplace. …
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Delivering Predictive Outcomes with Superhuman Knowledge
Massive data growth and advances in acceleration technologies are pushing modern computing capabilities to unprecedented levels and changing the face of entire industries. …
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Google Boots Up Tensor Processors On Its Cloud
Google laid down its path forward in the machine learning and cloud computing arenas when it first unveiled plans for its tensor processing unit (TPU), an accelerator designed by the hyperscaler to speeding up machine learning workloads that are programmed using its TensorFlow framework. …
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A High Performance Hiatus
The Next Platform will be on summer holiday for the coming week. …
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Cray CTO On The Cambrian Compute Explosion
What goes around comes around. After fighting so hard to drive volume economics in the HPC arena with relatively inexpensive X86 clusters in the past twenty years, those economies of scale are running out of gas. …