Compute
New NNSA Supercomputers Highlight Evolving HPC Demands
When it comes to national priorities for funding leading class supercomputers, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) tends to have a strong case to make. …
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AI
Hortonworks Keeps Time With Hadoop’s Cloud March
Over the last eighteen months Hadoop distribution vendor, Hortonworks, has watched a stampede of users rush to the cloud, prompting the company to look for better ways to extend usability for first-time entrants to Hadoop territory and to accommodate the rush of test and dev workloads that prefer quick cloud deployments. …
Enterprise
Storage Converges On Media Moguls
Media companies and supercomputing centers have similar compute, storage, and bandwidth issues, but their workloads and users vary enough that they require different kinds of systems. …
Compute
Traders Bank On Server Switch Hybrids For Performance Boost
Drawing the lines where the server ends and the network begins is getting more and more difficult. …
Code
Hunting the Mythical Automatic Parallelizing Compiler
As we have heard time and again, one of the greatest challenges for future exascale class computing—the one that falls right under power consumption–is how codes are ever going to evolve to take advantage of that much compute. …
Compute
Energy Giant Total Triples Flops On Pangea Supercomputer
Tis the season for massive supercomputer deals in the oil and gas segment. …
Compute
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. …
AI
Emerging FPGA Analytics Market Delivers New Packages
As we touched on last week, field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are not a silver bullet that will rip through the enterprise datacenter world anytime soon. …
Code
Rockets Shake And Rattle, So SpaceX Rolls Homegrown CFD
Elon Musk is shaking up both the car and space industries with his respective Tesla and SpaceX companies, and the irony is that while the former is totally upending the combustion engine for land transportation with zippy and stylish electric cars, the latter company has to not only embrace but to create new combustion technologies to get a manned mission to Mars as Musk not only dreams of doing, but is making happen. …
Compute
Where Will Future Xeon Phi Chips Land?
Intel’s forthcoming “Knights Landing” Xeon Phi processor is certainly an impressive beast, as The Next Platform revealed earlier this week. …