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Where Will Future Xeon Phi Chips Land?
Intel’s forthcoming “Knights Landing” Xeon Phi processor is certainly an impressive beast, as The Next Platform revealed earlier this week. …
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Inside The Rackspace OpenPower Megaserver
With the growing adoption of custom servers tailored to specific workloads, a wide variety of Xeon processors available from Intel, and the quickening commercial ramp of machinery that is compliant with Open Compute designs, you might think the last thing that Rackspace Hosting, one of the largest cloud providers in the world, would do is strike out on its own and create a new line of servers that will be based on IBM’s Power processors. …
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HPC Scales Out of Balance With CPU-Heavy Thinking
Evaluating the true performance of HPC systems has never been quite as simple as tracking incremental improvements across processor generations, but is increasingly focused on how these tweaks affect the entire stack–and whether such gains are even useful from a memory or I/O perspective. …
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Google Looks Ahead To OpenPower Systems
Search engine giant Google only talks about the underlying technology that it deploys in its datacenters years after they have been commercialized and a replacement has been developed and put into use. …
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Nvidia Tweaks Pascal GPU For Deep Learning Push
Chip maker Nvidia has come a long way in transforming its graphics processors so they can not only be used to drive screens, but also to work as efficient and powerful floating point engines to accelerate modeling and simulation workloads. …
Cloud
Why The Coldest Storage At Google Is Nearline
There is a kind of law of relativity that differentiates hyperscale companies from large enterprises. …
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Lessons And Time Drive Better Microserver Designs
Sometimes a microserver is just a little too micro to do the job, something that a lot of skeptics have been saying about so-called “wimpy core” machines since the idea took off about five years ago. …
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The Tiny Chip That Could Disrupt Exascale Computing
Update to the original story post-funding and DARPA contact
When Rex Computing CEO, Thomas Sohmers, was working with embedded computing systems for military applications at MIT at age 13, his thoughts turned to much larger scale systems. …
Cloud
A Deep Dive Inside The HP Cloudline Servers
If you can’t beat them, join them. That is the old adage that compelled server juggernaut Hewlett-Packard to strike a partnership with original design manufacturer Foxconn last year for a new line of minimalist servers that HP could sell against other ODM upstarts that have stormed the datacenters of hyperscale and cloud service providers in recent years. …
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AMD Hints At Future HPC Push
When it comes to chip companies that have claimed a stake in the future of high performance computing, there used to be more competition. …