Details Emerge on Knights Hill Based Aurora Supercomputer

April 9, 2015 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 0

In the story we broke this morning about the forthcoming “Aurora” supercomputer set to be installed at Argonne National Laboratory—one of three pre-exascale machines that were part of the CORAL procurement between three national labs–we speculated that unlike the other two machines, which will be based on an OpenPower approach (Power9, Volta GPUs, and a new interconnect), the architecture of this system would be based on the third generation Knights family of chips from Intel, the Knights Hill processors. …

Future Intel Chips Shine in 180 Petaflops Argonne Supercomputer

April 9, 2015 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 2

Update: 5:08 p.m. Eastern – We have been able to dig into more details about the system architecture and confirm Knights Hill architecture and other interconnect/system details. …

OpenPower Collective Opens For System Business

March 20, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

It has been about a year since the OpenPower Foundation was formed to provide a development locus for systems based on the Power8 processor and its varied I/O technologies. …

NVIDIA Tesla CTO Looks Ahead to Future HPC Systems

March 18, 2015 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 0

Times are booming for the high performance computing oriented Tesla division within Nvidia, according to the company’s CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang who pointed to 10X growth in their supercomputing line since 2008 during his keynote this morning at the annual GPU Technology Conference. …

Nvidia Tweaks Pascal GPU For Deep Learning Push

March 18, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Chip maker Nvidia has come a long way in transforming its graphics processors so they can not only be used to drive screens, but also to work as efficient and powerful floating point engines to accelerate modeling and simulation workloads. …

How This Battery Cut Microsoft Datacenter Costs By A Quarter

March 13, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 5

In yet another example of how distributed systems sometimes work better than centralized ones, the hardware engineers at Microsoft have come up with a new battery-backed power supply for their homegrown servers that allows for massive – and expensive – battery rooms to be eliminated from the cloud giant’s datacenters. …

Intel Crafts Broadwell Xeon D For Hyperscale

March 9, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 4

The first of the server processors based on Intel’s “Broadwell” cores and using its 14 nanometer chip making processes comes to market today. …

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OpenPower Lays Out HPC Roadmap

March 5, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

When the OpenPower Foundation was formed a year and a half ago, IBM had a number of reasons, driven by enlightened self-interest, for fostering a partnerships with Google, Nvidia, Mellanox Technologies, and Tyan. …

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February 24, 2015 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 0

Timothy Prickett Morgan

Co-Editor, Co-Founder, The Next Platform

Timothy Prickett Morgan brings 32 years of experience as a publisher, IT industry analyst, editor, and journalist for some of the world’s most widely-read high-tech and business publications including The Next Platform, EnterpriseTech, The Register, BusinessWeek, Midrange Computing, IT Jungle, Unigram, The Four Hundred, ComputerWire, Computer Business Review, Computer System News and IBM Systems User. …