AI
Why Twitter Dumped Storm for Homegrown Real-Time Engine
If there is any phrase that describes Twitter, both from the infrastructure and end user points of view, it is real time. …
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HPC
Intel HPC Lead Outlines Commercial Supercomputing Roadmap
With around 94% of the market share for its Xeon machines, Intel is in quite a position to be forward looking and experimental, especially with one of its segments that embodies both of those descriptions—the supercomputing market. …
Enterprise
Intel Reveals Plans For Optane 3D XPoint Memory
Chip makers and partners Intel and Micron Technology unveiled their jointly developed and manufactured 3D XPoint memory three weeks ago to much fanfare, but it is still perhaps sinking in to system architects and future system buyers how dramatic a move this is and how much it will change the memory hierarchy in systems and the applications that ride on it. …
HPC
EMC Tracks Trickle Down Effect from the Exascale Bubble
For companies that make investments in high performance computing technology, the financial math can be a tricky game. …
Compute
IBM Roadmap Extends Power Chips To 2020 And Beyond
The cadence of server processor launches by the remaining companies that still etch their chips has slowed in recent years, starting first with the low-volume players like IBM, Oracle, and Fujitsu and now possibly spreading to Intel with its Xeon line and already baked in with its Xeon Phi line with a roughly three year span between generations. …
Compute
Future Systems: Pitting Fewer Fat Nodes Against Many Skinny Ones
Lining up the architectures of future supercomputers is interesting because it gives us a glimpse of what may be in the corporate datacenter many more years out. …
Compute
Future Systems: Intel Ponders Breaking Up The CPU
When it comes to systems, the first thing that most people think of is compute. …
HPC
What the White House Exascale Backing Means For Future HPC
Today the White House issued an executive presidential order to create a national strategic computing initiative. …
HPC
Tall Stepping Stones for One of Next Top U.S. Supercomputers
Although the Top 500 list of supercomputers has come to something of a standstill in the last few incarnations of the bi-annual benchmark, the next few years will provide plenty of the way of interesting new machines worldwide. …
HPC
One Single System Architecture to Rule Them All
There is little doubt that the worlds of large-scale data analytics and high performance computing share common features, but when it comes to meshing these two disparate technology (and to a large degree, cultural) divides, there are clear challenges. …