Inside Six of the Newest Top 20 Supercomputers
The latest listing of the Top 500 rankings of the world’s most powerful supercomputers has just been released. …
The latest listing of the Top 500 rankings of the world’s most powerful supercomputers has just been released. …
There is no question that information technology is always too complex, and that people have been complaining about this for over five decades now. …
Making storage cheaper on the cloud does not necessarily mean using tape or Blu-Ray discs to hold data. …
In the public cloud business, scale is everything – hyper, in fact – and having too many different kinds of compute, storage, or networking makes support more complex and investment in infrastructure more costly. …
Oil and natural resource discovery and production is an incredibly risky endeavor, with the cost of simply finding a new barrel of oil tripling over the last ten years. …
The supercomputing industry is accustomed to 1,000X performance strides, and that is because people like to think in big round numbers and bold concepts. …
It is going to take a lot of different things to build an exascale system. …
Before any country can deploy an exascale system, they have to get pre-exascale prototypes into the field to test out their underlying technologies and determine what approaches have the best chance of scaling up performance and being manufactured affordably. …
If money was no object, then arguably the major nations of the world that always invest heavily in supercomputing would have already put an exascale class system into the field. …
When IBM sold off its System x division to Lenovo Group in the fall of 2014, some big supercomputing centers in the United States and Europe that were long-time customers of Big Blue had to stop and think about what their future systems would look like and who would supply them. …
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