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RISC-V In The Datacenter Is No Risky Proposition

April 4, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 9

It was only a matter of time, perhaps, but the skyrocketing costs of designing chips is colliding with the ever-increasing need for performance, price/performance, and performance per watt. …

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Is This The End Of The Line For NEC Vector Supercomputers?

March 23, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 8

Updated: There is some chatter – some might call it well-informed speculation – going on out there on the Intertubes that Japanese system maker NEC is shutting down its “Aurora” Vector Engine vector processor business. …

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Fujitsu To Fork Arm Server Chip Line To Chase Clouds

March 15, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

When it comes to chips, there is a big difference between a kicker and a fork. …

HPC

Japan Buys Supercomputer Just To Predict Torrential Downpours

February 27, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

You know that climate change is a problem when a supercomputer to do short-term prediction of the formation of linear rainbands and the torrential downpours that they cause is 3.4X as powerful as the machines that do the day-to-day weather forecasting in a country. …

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Myths and Legends in HPC…With Some Legends

January 19, 2023 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 4

It’s rare in supercomputing to discover a paper that’s both insightful and amusing, but a distributed team led by Dr. …

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US and EU Pushing Ahead With Exascale, China Efforts Remain Shrouded

November 16, 2022 Jeffrey Burt 2

The HPC industry, after years of discussions and anticipation and some relatively minor delays, is now fully in the era of exascale computing, with the United States earlier this year standing up Frontier, its first such supercomputer, and plans for two more next year. …

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The Art Of System Design As HPC And AI Applications Diverge

October 6, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 5

Predicting the future is hard, even with supercomputers. And maybe specifically when you are talking about predicting the future of supercomputers. …

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The Steady Hand Guiding AMD’s “Prudently Expanding” Datacenter Business

October 3, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 10

The old AMD – the one before Lisa Su took over – was often brilliant with its instruction set architecture and CPU designs, but sometimes perplexingly careless with its design choices and chip roadmaps. …

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Where Amdahl’s Law And Gustafson’s Law Hit the Moore’s Law Wall

September 28, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

After nearly six decades of getting smaller, faster, cooler, and cheaper, transistors are getting more and more expensive with each generation, and one could argue that this, more than any other factor, is going to drive system architecture choices for the foreseeable future. …

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Strong-Armed Into HPC, Like It Or Not

July 27, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

If you are an HPC center in Europe, and particularly one that is funded by public funds, you are thinking about Arm-based CPUs in your supercomputers. …

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