HPC
Why Did China Keep Its Exascale Supercomputers Quiet?
There are no greater bragging rights in supercomputing than those that come with top ten listing on the bi-annual list of the world’s most powerful systems – the Top500. …
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HPC
Top500 Supercomputers: Hungry For The Exascale Feast
Let’s just cut right to the chase scene. The latest Top500 ranking of supercomputers, announced today at the SC21 supercomputing conference being held in St Louis, needed the excitement of an actual 1 exaflops sustained performance machine running the High Performance Linpack benchmark at 64-bit precision. …
Compute
Alibaba Rumored To Enter The Arm Server Chip Race
The chip cold war between China and the United States continues to heat up like a processor with a heat sink that it is a little too small. …
Cloud
The Slow But Tectonic Shifts In Datacenter Infrastructure
One of the more interesting trends in infrastructure that we try to get a handle on every once in a while is how much of the server and storage capacity is being deployed in bare metal, standalone fashion and how much is being sold to run utility style, cloud environments. …
Compute
Will AMD Get Back Into Arm Server Chips?
There was a bit of a kerfuffle this week when it looked like AMD was changing its position a little bit on whether or not it would get back into designing and selling server chips based on the Arm architecture. …
Compute
Taking The Long View On Open Computing
COMMISSIONED Software changes like the weather, and hardware changes like the landscape; each affects the other over geologic timescales to create a new climate. …
AI
The Graph Neural Network Behind Your ETA
Expect to hear increasing buzz around graph neural network use cases among hyperscalers in the coming year. …
AI
The AI Training Chip Tencent Has an Eye On
It is not news that China wants a rich, native, diverse semiconductor ecosystem to feed its largest consumers of compute. …
AI
Why The MLPerf Benchmark Is Good For AI, And Good For You
Commissioned In just about any situation where you are making capital investments in equipment, you are worried about three things: performance, price/performance, and total cost of ownership. …
AI
Ampere Computing Buys An AI Inference Performance Leap
Machine learning inference models have been running on X86 server processors from the very beginning of the latest – and by far the most successful – AI revolution, and the techies that know both hardware and software down to the minutest detail at the hyperscalers, cloud builders, and semiconductor manufacturers have been able to tune the software, jack the hardware, and retune for more than a decade. …