SGI Awaits UV 3000 And SAP HANA Uplifts
The high performance computing market is about as tough as they come. …
The high performance computing market is about as tough as they come. …
Amazon Web Services may be the 800-pound silverback alpha-ape in the rapidly expanding cloud industry, seeing as how its infrastructure revenue is greater than its four closest competitors combined, but that hasn’t stopped its fast-growing challenger, Microsoft Azure, from beating its own chest and showing off its strengths. …
When one looks at major milestones in supercomputer history, one of the relatively recently markers rests with IBM, which began work its work to create a massively parallel system for protein folding research. …
AMD doesn’t talk much about servers these days, but it looks like the company is getting ready to revamp its server component business just as it is shutting down its SeaMicro unit. …
The hyperscale giants can’t wait for the IT industry to invent the technologies that they need for their own applications, but when the time is right an open source alternative grows up and out enough, they will often make the jump from their own software to another stack. …
Intel’s decades-long hard work in vanquishing most of the competing processor architectures from most of the workloads in the datacenter is paying off. …
In the story we broke this morning about the forthcoming “Aurora” supercomputer set to be installed at Argonne National Laboratory—one of three pre-exascale machines that were part of the CORAL procurement between three national labs–we speculated that unlike the other two machines, which will be based on an OpenPower approach (Power9, Volta GPUs, and a new interconnect), the architecture of this system would be based on the third generation Knights family of chips from Intel, the Knights Hill processors. …
Network storage was invented decades ago because locally attached storage on systems was either too expensive or too difficult to share on those networks. …
An online retail business for handmade and vintage goods might be a place where you would reasonably expect the IT department to have nearly free reign to create homegrown systems. …
If complex artificial intelligence applications could easily be run on the fly across hundreds of thousands of compute cores around the world–and at a cost that significantly undercuts the top public cloud providers–a new world of potential uses and new applications will certainly flourish. …
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