Compute
Rambus, Microsoft Put DRAM Into Deep Freeze To Boost Performance
Energy efficiency and operating costs for systems are as important as raw performance in today’s datacenters. …
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Cloud
How AMD’s Naples X86 Server Chip Stacks Up To Intel’s Xeons
Ever so slowly, and not so fast as to give competitor Intel too much information about what it is up to, but just fast enough to build interest in the years of engineering smarts that has gone into its forthcoming “Naples” X86 server processor, AMD is lifting the veil on the product that will bring it back into the datacenter and that will bring direct competition to the Xeon platform that dominates modern computing infrastructure. …
Compute
Japan Keeps Accelerating With Tsubame 3.0 AI Supercomputer
The Global Scientific Information and Computing Center at the Tokyo Institute of Technology has been at the forefront of accelerated computing, and well before GPUs came along and made acceleration not only cool but affordable and normal. …
HPC
U.S. Bumps Exascale Timeline, Focuses on Novel Architectures for 2021
It has just been announced that there has been a shift in thinking among the exascale computing leads in the U.S. …
HPC
The Business Of HPC Is Evolving
With most of the year finished and a new one coming up fast, and a slew of new compute and networking technologies ramping for the past year and more on the horizon for a very exciting 2017, now is the natural time to take stock of what has happened in the HPC business and what is expected to happen in the coming years. …
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. …
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. …
Compute
Applied Micro Finds ARM Server Footing, Reaches Higher
One of the frustrating facts about peddling any new technology is that the early adopters that discover a strategic advantage in that technology want to keep that secret all to themselves. …
HPC
Seven Years Later, SGI Finds a New Ending
Seven years ago, it was the end for SGI. The legendary company had gone bankrupt, its remains were up for liquidation, and its relatively few remaining loyal customers were left in limbo. …
Compute
The (Second) Coming of Composable Systems
The concept of composable or disaggregated infrastructure is nothing new, but with approaching advances in technology on both the software and network sides (photonics in particular) an old idea might be infused with new life. …