A Thirst For Petabyte Scale All-Flash Arrays
Some technology trends get their start among enterprises, some from hyperscalers or HPC organizations. …
Some technology trends get their start among enterprises, some from hyperscalers or HPC organizations. …
With the general availability of the “Knights Landing” Xeon Phi many core processors from Intel last month, some of the largest supercomputing labs on the planet are getting their first taste of what the future style of high performance computing could look like for the rest of us. …
Any time a ranking of a technology is put together, that ranking is always called into question as to whether or not it is representative of reality. …
As the world is now aware, China is now home to the world’s most powerful supercomputer, toppling the previous reigning system, Tianhe-2, which is also located in the country. …
The long wait for volume shipments of Intel’s “Knights Landing” parallel X86 processors is over, and at the International Supercomputing Conference in Frankfurt, Germany is unveiling the official lineup of the Xeon Phi chips that are aimed at high performance computing and machine learning workloads alike. …
Nvidia wants for its latest “Pascal” GP100 generation of GPUs to be broadly adopted in the market, not just used in capability-class supercomputers that push the limits of performance for traditional HPC workloads as well as for emerging machine learning systems. …
There are two endpoints in any network connection, and you have to focus on both the server adapter and the switch to get the best and most balanced performance out of the network and the proper return on what amounts to be a substantial investment in a cluster. …
AMD gets a lot of credit for creating Accelerated Processing Units that merge CPUs and GPUs on a single package or on a single die, but Intel also has a line of chips Core and Xeon processors that do the same thing for workstation and server workloads. …
One of the things that high-end network adapter and switch maker Mellanox Technologies got through its $811 million acquisition of network processing chip maker EZchip last September was a team that was well versed in massively parallel processor chip design, and one that could make Mellanox a potential player in the server chip space. …
Over the past few years, IBM has been devoting a great deal of corporate energy into developing Watson, the company’s Jeopardy-beating supercomputing platform. …
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