Penguin Charts Fresh Trajectory for Open Hardware
As the theme goes this year, what’s old is new again. …
As the theme goes this year, what’s old is new again. …
Without any new plain vanilla processors from Intel, IBM, Fujitsu, AMD, or the relative handful of ARM server chip makers, and with Nvidia launching its Tesla M4 and M40 accelerators aimed at hyperscalers and those looking for cheap single-precision flops ahead of SC15, the “Knights Landing” Xeon Phi chip was pretty much the star of the high performance conference as far as compute is concerned. …
The bi-annual list of the Top 500 fastest supercomputers on the planet is in, and while there might not be any earth-shattering news at the peak of the charts, a drilldown of the results does show some key developing trends in high performance computing. …
IBM did not just stake the future of its Power chip and the systems business on which it depends on the OpenPower Foundation, a consortium now with 160 members after more than two years of cultivation by Big Blue and its key early partners – Google, Nvidia, Mellanox Technologies, and Tyan. …
One of the key themes to improving the performance of clusters running simulations has been the offloading of common routines from the central processors in the servers to accelerators in the network adapter cards that plug into the servers and that interface with switches. …
Very few things happen in the IT vendor community without orchestration. …
The next wave of virtualization on servers is not going to look like the last one. …
Sometimes you have to break something to make it work right. …
A public cloud is, at its most basic level, a giant shared computing facility that spans a datacenter or multiple datacenters, and as such, it needs a kind of operating system of its own to make the collection of servers, storage, and switches behave as a single machine to both its users and to the company that is operating the cloud. …
While much of the attention around the new crop of supercomputers tends to focus on the hardware story, which is difficult to downplay given the relatively high performance and densities expected as soon as early next year, the lesser told story (perhaps, in part because it is application specific) is perhaps far more important. …
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