Cloud
IBM Opens Its EDA Platform To Startup Chipmakers
From its mainframes to the modern Power architectures, few companies have pushed investments into chip designs with the gusto IBM has over the years. …
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Control
An Old Platform Finds New Life Outside IBM Walls
William Lu was witness to one of the most successful business and technology stories in modern supercomputing from his long-term position as one of the first developers of the Load Sharing Facility (LSF) software from Platform Computing. …
Compute
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. …
Enterprise
Is Moore’s Law Scaling Enough For Flash Arrays?
All-flash array upstart Pure Storage has had a single target it has been aiming at since the company uncloaked from stealth mode back in the summer of 2011: Tier one disk storage in the datacenter. …
Compute
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. …
Compute
The Other Cray Launches CPU-FPGA Hybrids
Everybody who is operating at any sort of scale is looking to pack more compute into a smaller space for less money. …
Compute
A Peek Inside Dell’s Private Systems Business
It has been a year and a half since IT supplier Dell went private, and the company is reveling in the fact that competitors can no longer peer into its financials to look for weaknesses and that it can make decisions privately and for the long-term rather than make them publicly and largely on the much shorter-term that all public companies have to align to. …
Compute
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). …
Compute
Cray Makes Taming Chaos Look Easy
Low margins, an unpredictable cycle, expensive and ongoing research development efforts, a slavish commitment to processor upgrade timelines, and a market that will only ever grow so much—who wouldn’t want to be in the supercomputing systems business? …
HPC
Why Big Oil Keeps Spending on Massive Supercomputers
With per barrel oil prices down by about 50 percent from the previous four years, the question naturally arises: “Why are oil and gas giants spending millions on new supercomputers?” …