FPGAs Glimmer on the HPC Horizon, Glint in Hyperscale Sun
At the last five annual Supercomputing Conferences, an underlying theme has been the potential of accelerators. …
At the last five annual Supercomputing Conferences, an underlying theme has been the potential of accelerators. …
Every year people ask me what I think the biggest news story is at the annual Supercomputing Conference (SC). …
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. …
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. …
Online auctioneer eBay was founded a year after Amazon and is older than Google, Facebook, and a number of the other hyperscalers. …
There is a gentle touch of hypocrisy about the supercomputing world. …
For more than a decade, graphics processor maker Nvidia has been championing the adoption of GPU accelerators as heavy-lifting compute engines for an increasing array of applications that can take advantage of the parallel processing inherent in a GPU. …
The next wave of virtualization on servers is not going to look like the last one. …
Sometimes you have to break something to make it work right. …
There is a perfect storm developing that is set to whisk the once esoteric field programmable gate array (FPGA) processor ecosystem off the ground and into the stratosphere. …
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