Compute
Now Nvidia Is Armed To The Teeth
Companies with high stock valuations are a bit like the central banks of major countries. …
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Compute
Taking A Deeper Dive Into Marvell’s “Triton” ThunderX3
Say what you will, but among the many vendors that have tried to break into the datacenter with Arm server chips, Marvell, by virtue of the hard work done by Cavium, which it acquired, and Broadcom, which sold its “Vulcan” design to Cavium when it exited the business, has been the most successful in terms of shipments and ecosystem. …
HPC
Arm And Japan Get Their Day In The HPC Sun
There is a constant push and pull between budget and architecture in supercomputing, and the passing of time has not made anyone’s arms tired as yet on both sides of the bargaining table. …
HPC
With Fugaku Supercomputer Installed, RIKEN Takes On Coronavirus
Supercomputers are designed for a number of big jobs that can only be done by massively powerful machinery, and one of those jobs has been the modeling of chemical compounds and biological systems, often in concert to model diseases and to help find cures for them. …
Compute
Marvell Cranks Up Cores And Clocks With “Triton” ThunderX3
Arm server chip upstart Ampere Computing made a big splash with its 80-core “Quicksilver” Altra processor two weeks ago, and Marvell, which is the volume leader in Arm server chips with its “Vulcan” ThunderX2 processors (largely inherited from its acquisition of Broadcom’s Arm server chip assets), is hitting back with some revelations about its future “Triton” ThunderX3 chip and its roadmap out beyond that. …
HPC
Isambard 2 Is About Driving Technology Diversity
It’s been just more than a decade since Arm executives began to talk about bringing the company’s system-on-a-chip (SoC) architecture, which has long been the dominant design for processors found in billions of smartphones and other mobile device, into the datacenter. …
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Bulking Up The File System for A World Of Clouds And Edges
The challenge of managing data is growing faster than the data itself is piling up, and that is bad except for the companies that can create new tools to manage it, either to use internally as the hyperscalers do or to sell to those who cannot fund such development and count on vendors to do it. …
HPC
Weathering Heights: Of Resolutions And Ensembles
In the past year or so, watching supercomputer maker Cray, which is now part of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, has been a bit like playing a country and western song backwards on the record player. …
HPC
HPC In 2020: Compute Engine Diversity Gets Real
The choice of processors available for high performance computing has been on growing for a number of years. …
Compute
Amping Up The Arm Server Roadmap
Competition in and of itself does not directly drive innovation – customer needs that might be met by some other product is really what makes suppliers hop to and get the lead out. …