Cloud
Server Market Stats Mask True Underlying Value
You have no doubt heard the one about making it up in volume, a jokey phrase that people use when a business has to crank out more and more widgets to stay in the same place. …
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Facebook Busts Out Of Homegrown Switches
There is a misconception out there that the hyperscalers of the world are so rich that they always have the shiniest new toys in their datacenters. …
Compute
HPE Synergy Hits Reset For Composable Infrastructure
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is hosting its first big shindig, the Discover Europe customer and partner conference, as a company separated from PCs and printers, and is trotting out a new line of systems, code named “Thunderbird” and sold under the brand HPE Synergy, that are follow-ons to its BladeSystem blade servers. …
Compute
Inside Future “Knights Landing” Xeon Phi Systems
Without any new plain vanilla processors from Intel, IBM, Fujitsu, AMD, or the relative handful of ARM server chip makers, and with Nvidia launching its Tesla M4 and M40 accelerators aimed at hyperscalers and those looking for cheap single-precision flops ahead of SC15, the “Knights Landing” Xeon Phi chip was pretty much the star of the high performance conference as far as compute is concerned. …
Code
Is OpenACC The Best Thing To Happen To OpenMP?
The choice of programming tools and programming models is a deeply personal thing to a lot of the techies in the high performance computing space, much as it can be in other areas of the IT sector. …
Compute
Dense Eurotech Hive System Broadens Compute
Every supercomputing center in the world is wrestling with the issues of power, cooling, and compute density, but some have tighter constraints than others and need to have more energy efficient machines than they can get with standard clusters of rack servers. …
Code
AMD Lays Software Foundation For Renewed Hybrid Push
Having the best compute engine – meaning the highest performance at a sustainable price/performance – is not enough to guarantee that it will be adopted in HPC, hyperscale, or enterprise settings. …
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A New Age In Cluster Interconnects Dawns
Proprietary and quasi-proprietary interconnects are nothing new to the supercomputing space, and in fact, this is where they still live and thrive and evolve. …
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Atos Carves Its Own Path To Exascale With Bull Sequana
Like other makers of supercomputers, the Bull unit of French services and system maker Atos is embracing the new processing technologies coming out of Intel. …
Compute
Applied Micro Chases Xeons With X-Gene 3 And NUMA
If ARM processors are going to get traction in the datacenter, they will have to do so outside of the conservative glass houses of large enterprises. …