There is some speculation afoot that Intel is on a path to rekindle its supercomputer business, bringing it full circle to where it started in the late 1980s and early 1990s with its own distinct high performance computing division that produced top-tier national lab systems like ASCI Red, among others. …
Low margins, an unpredictable cycle, expensive and ongoing research development efforts, a slavish commitment to processor upgrade timelines, and a market that will only ever grow so much—who wouldn’t want to be in the supercomputing systems business? …
Competing against a giant like Cisco Systems in the switch industry is never an easy task, but Mellanox Technologies has managed to carve out a sizeable niche in the supercomputing arena with its low-latency, high bandwidth InfiniBand and adapters. …
When one looks at major milestones in supercomputer history, one of the relatively recently markers rests with IBM, which began work its work to create a massively parallel system for protein folding research. …
When we broke the news about the upcoming Intel and Cray contract for the Aurora supercomputer coming to Argonne National Laboratory in 2018, we talked in depth about the unique Knights Hill based architecture of the future machine and referenced a new paradigm for high-end HPC systems that Intel refers to as the HPC scalable system framework. …
Architects are optimists. In the computer industry, particularly within the HPC community, there is a small cadre of technologists who have the intellectual horsepower, vision and decades of experience to build wholly new system designs. …
AMD doesn’t talk much about servers these days, but it looks like the company is getting ready to revamp its server component business just as it is shutting down its SeaMicro unit. …
When it comes to national priorities for funding leading class supercomputers, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) tends to have a strong case to make. …
Intel’s decades-long hard work in vanquishing most of the competing processor architectures from most of the workloads in the datacenter is paying off. …
Last week when we broke the news about the upcoming 180-plus petaflops Aurora supercomputer set to be installed at Argonne National Lab in 2018, we spent our time scrambling for whatever feeds and speeds we could muster. …
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