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X86 Servers Dominate The Datacenter–For Now
It has always been our contention that recessions drive successive waves of technology transitions in the datacenter. …
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Altera Points To The FPGA Writing On The Wall
For those who marveled at the $16.7 billion deal Intel made to acquire field programmable gate array maker, Altera, an equal number raised eyebrows at the estimate given by Intel CEO to announce the purchase that one-third of cloud workloads would take advantage of FPGA acceleration by 2020. …
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How Intel Is Hedging On The Future Of Compute With Altera Buy
Now that the on-again, off-again deal between Intel, the world’s largest maker of processors, and Altera, one of the dominant makers of field programmable gate arrays, is going to happen for the tidy sum of $16.7 billion in cash, Intel is poised to usher in a new era of computing while at the same time countering the many competitive threats it has in the datacenter. …
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Nvidia Tesla GM Moves To IBM To Steer HPC Efforts
IBM has been a pioneer in large scale, hybrid computing and has staked a substantial portion of the future of its Power platform, and the ones that partners are building in conjunction with it through the OpenPower Foundation, on the idea that various kinds of compute, storage, and interconnects will be used to fabricate systems that are precisely tailored to efficiently run specific workloads. …
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FPGAs Edging Closer to the Enterprise Starting Line
There has been a noticeable interest uptick in reconfigurable computing devices, most notably, field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). …
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Tesla GPU Accelerator Unit Grows Fast For Nvidia
The broader adoption of GPU acceleration for workloads in the traditional high performance computing segment and expansion in new areas such as deep learning are driving revenues and profits at graphics chip maker Nvidia. …
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HP ProLiants Retooled For Hyperscale And In-Memory
Hewlett-Packard may not have created a business line dedicated to custom server manufacturing like rival Dell. …
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Why Intel Might Buy FPGA Maker Altera
For the past two decades, Intel has taken on the processor makers for servers and storage in the datacenter and vanquished all but a few suppliers of alternative architectures from the glass house. …
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NVIDIA Tesla CTO Looks Ahead to Future HPC Systems
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. …
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AMD Hints At Future HPC Push
When it comes to chip companies that have claimed a stake in the future of high performance computing, there used to be more competition. …