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Atos Carves Its Own Path To Exascale With Bull Sequana
Like other makers of supercomputers, the Bull unit of French services and system maker Atos is embracing the new processing technologies coming out of Intel. …
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Inside eBay’s Shift To Kubernetes And Containers Atop OpenStack
Online auctioneer eBay was founded a year after Amazon and is older than Google, Facebook, and a number of the other hyperscalers. …
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The Next Platform
Real estate teaches us that location matters, and business teaches us that branding matters. …
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Dense, Custom Servers Are Not Always A Good Fit
Here’s a good question to ask: What happens if hyperscale customers who have been pushing their server makers to create density optimized machines move back towards designs that are more monolithic? …
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Inside China’s Homegrown 64-Core ARM Big Iron Chip
A little-known upstart Chinese chip maker called Phytium Technology was set to use the Hot Chips 27 conference in Silicon Valley as a coming out party of sorts for its 64-bit ARM server processors, and the company’s director of research, Charles Zhang, was not permitted to come to the event because of visa issues. …
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Lessons Learned on the World’s Largest GPU Supercomputer
When a top-ranked supercomputer falls from the number one spot, the world tends to stop taking notice, even if those machines remain some of the most remarkable due to architectural, power, application, or other features. …
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Google Research Boosts Pedestrian Detection With GPUs
Although GPUs have found a wider market in high performance computing in recent years, an emerging market is exploding in deep learning and computer vision with companies like Baidu and others continuing to push the processing speed and complexity envelope. …
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NNSA Stockpile of Nuclear Security Supercomputers Continues Evolution
Although it may be tempting to think that supercomputers developed to meet business and general scientific computing needs, a large part early of supercomputing evolution was fed by the need to both develop, test, and maintain nuclear weapon stockpiles. …
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Momentum Building For Knights Landing Xeon Phi
Intel is the undisputed champion when it comes to computing in the datacenter, and it is looking to vanquish IBM’s Power processors from enterprise systems and supercomputer clusters and to keep the handful of ARM server chip upstarts at bay as they try to get in the datacenter door, too. …
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The Top 500 Supercomputer List is In: China’s Reign Continues
This morning the list of the Top 500 fastest, most powerful global supercomputers was released. …