HPC
Inside Six of the Newest Top 20 Supercomputers
The latest listing of the Top 500 rankings of the world’s most powerful supercomputers has just been released. …
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Compute
IBM Shows Off AI And HPC Oomph On Power8 Tesla Hybrids
While the machine learning applications created by hyperscalers and the simulations and models run by HPC centers are very different animals, the kinds of hardware that help accelerate the performance for one is also helping to boost the other in many cases. …
Compute
Cray’s New Pascal XC50 Supercomputer Points to Richer HPC Future
Over the course of the last five years, GPU computing has featured prominently in supercomputing as an accelerator on some of the world’s fastest machines. …
Cloud
Microsoft Azure Goes Back To Rack Servers With Project Olympus
The thing we hear time and time again from the hyperscalers is that technology is a differentiator, but supply chain can make or break them. …
Building a reconfigurable future with FPGAs
Dave Altavilla recently penned an article for Forbes about the critical role FPGAs are playing in helping to build reconfigurable data centers and advance the development of artificial intelligence (AI). …
AI
Ganging up Accelerators to Beat Scale Limits
It is not news that offloading work from CPUs to GPUs can grant radical speedups, but what can come as a surprise is that scaling of these workloads doesn’t change just because they run faster. …
Compute
The Emergence Of Data-Centric Computing
As data grows, a shift in computing paradigm is underway. I started my professional career in the 1990s, during massive shift from mainframe computing to the heyday of client/server computing and enterprise applications such as ERP, CRM, and human resources software. …
AI
Accelerating Slow Databases That Wear People Down
Todd Mostak, the creator of the MapD GPU-accelerated database and visualization system, made that database because he was a frustrated user of other database technologies, and as a user, he is adamant that accelerating databases and making visualization of queried data is about more than just being a speed freak. …
AI
Hardware Slaves to the Master Algorithm
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. …
Compute
Refreshed IBM Power Linux Systems Add NVLink
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. …