The “Knights Landing” Xeon Phi processor from Intel will be shipping by the end of the year and ramping in volume through 2016, and it is set to shake up the systems market in a number of significant ways. …
Flash memory is cheap, but it isn’t fast, at least not by the standards of DRAM. …
We spend a lot of time in the upper stratospheres of computing among the hyperscale and HPC crowds here at The Next Platform, and the consistent theme across these two similar but often very different customers bases is that we need a new system architecture that provides better performance at a lower cost and in a lower thermal envelope and an expanded memory hierarchy that can help with those goals. …
How different the datacenter would look if symmetric multiprocessing could somehow magically scale well beyond 32, 64, or 128 processors. …
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. …
This morning the list of the Top 500 fastest, most powerful global supercomputers was released. …
Those of us who focus on the infrastructure layer of the next platforms that companies are building sometimes forget about the applications that ride on those platforms and give them a reason to be. …
It has been somewhat difficult to ascertain what problems the fastest supercomputer on the planet has been chewing on since it was announced in 2013, but there are some signs that China is now pinning the machine’s mission on the future of genomics, among other areas. …
Intel still has one more processor to get out the door to complete the “Haswell” generation, with the impending Xeon E5-4600 v3 for low-end, four-socket machines. …
The high ground in the server market used to be large-scale SMP and NUMA machines with 16, 32, 64, or 128 sockets all lashed together to make a big shared memory machine. …
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