With the oil and gas industry continuing to spend on massive supercomputers, even in the wake of declining revenues, and no sign of the HPC business slowing for the oil and gas segment, one has to wonder what alternatives on the hardware and software front these companies might look to as costs (for both systems and the power required to support them) drives skywards. …
The arrival of augmented reality for the masses is imminent with Google Glass and other competing devices, but in many respects, the makers of these have put the proverbial cart before the horse. …
Hewlett-Packard may not have created a business line dedicated to custom server manufacturing like rival Dell. …
In the wake of today’s announcement of the codes selected to be tuned for the 2018 Summit supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Lab, questions around how application teams are thinking about the massive amount of memory across new tiers, the swapping out of PCIe for a new interconnect, and the pervasive GPUs were first to mind. …
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. …
It’s possible to count the number of major FPGA vendors on one hand, and despite a desire to differentiate, they are flocking together around some key areas where FPGA market growth seems most promising. …
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. …
When it comes to chip companies that have claimed a stake in the future of high performance computing, there used to be more competition. …
Timothy Prickett MorganCo-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. …
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