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The What And Why Of Burst Buffers
Burst buffers are a hot topic these days. At the most simple level, a burst buffer consists of the combination of rapidly accessed persistent memory with its own processing power. …
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Memory Technology Flashes Good, Bad, and Ugly
System reliability for large machines, including the coming cadre of pre-exascale supercomputers, which are due to start coming online in 2016, is becoming an increasingly important talking point since the addition of ever more densely-packed components in a system means frequency and compounded severity of errors and faults will be in lockstep with size. …
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Neuromorphic Processors Leading a New Double Life
Not so many years ago, the promise of neuromorphic processors as the key to ultra-efficient computing was being touted, especially following work between DARPA and IBM on new chips that emulated the synaptic system of the human brain. …
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Real Hadoop Performance Rolls From RDMA
The promise of adding ultra-high performance to Hadoop is like offering to rig jet engines onto minivans. …
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NVIDIA Tesla CTO Looks Ahead to Future HPC Systems
Times are booming for the high performance computing oriented Tesla division within Nvidia, according to the company’s CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang who pointed to 10X growth in their supercomputing line since 2008 during his keynote this morning at the annual GPU Technology Conference. …