Atos, for a long time a key IT services provider in Europe, stepped onto the HPC stage in a big way in 2014 when it bought systems maker Bull’s hardware business in $840 million, instantly making it a major supercomputer vendor on the continent. …
The democratization of any effective technology happens automatically by virtue of its success, even if the complexity it presents initially overwhelms some of the smartest people who wield it. …
UPDATED: The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, which is steering the development and funding for pre-exascale and exascale supercomputing in the European Union, has had a busy week. …
With enterprises increasing embracing HPC environments to help manage the tidal wave of data that’s washing over them and the rise of AI and machine learning workloads, tech vendors selling into the market need to demonstrate both flexibility and adaptability. …
Hewlett Packard Enterprise was a bit ahead of the curve when it announced in 2019 that by this year it would be offering its entire product portfolio as a service and that its GreenLake hybrid cloud platform would be the foundation of the effort. …
There are people who build big machines and then there are people who create the algorithms, libraries, and applications that harness them. …
When it comes to memory for compute engines, FPGAs – or rather what we have started calling hybrid FPGAs because they have all kinds of hard coded logic as well as the FPGA programmable logic on a single package – have the broadest selection of memory types of any kind of device out there. …
Historically, the largest organizations in the world – the Global 2000 plus the biggest national government and academic research institutions – have always had the most complex data processing needs. …
When it comes to application acceleration, having a deep understanding of the complex algorithms that underly most HPC and AI applications is perhaps the most important thing that can be brought to bear. …
Intel is looking to position itself as a leader in AI and HPC through a holistic approach that plays to the company’s strengths across a broad swath of the IT ecosystem. …
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