Over the long course of IT history, the burden has been on the software side to keep pace with rapid hardware advances—to exploit new capabilities and boldly go where no benchmarks have gone before. …
The very first systems that allow for GPUs to be hooked directly to CPUs using Nvidia’s NVLink high-speed interconnect are coming to market now that Big Blue is updating its Power Systems LC line of Linux-based systems with the help of hardware partners in the OpenPower Foundation collective. …
With over a quarter million monthly readers, the editors of The Next Platform have developed keen insight into key trends, application areas, and emerging technologies that are of interest to the supercomputing, machine learning, hyperscale, and large-scale enterprise IT markets. …
Being too dependent on one source for a key component is not just a bad idea because of supply chain risks, but because it can result in higher prices. …
Rajeeb Hazra, VP of Intel’s Datacenter Group, is a car buff. …
Following yesterday’s acquisition of deep learning chip startup Nervana Systems by Intel, we talked with the company’s CEO, Naveen Rao, about what plans are for both the forthcoming hardware and internally developed Neon software stack now that the technology is under a much broader umbrella. …
Over the years there have been numerous efforts to use unconventional, low-power, graphics-heavy processors for traditional supercomputing applications—with varying degrees of success. …
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. …
IBM has created a virtual hackathon for all you lovely developers to test drive your data-intensive applications on the OpenPOWER server, GPU and accelerator platform. …
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