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With Intel Alliance, HP Gets Serious About Supercomputers
Hewlett-Packard wants a bigger slice of the high performance computing and data analytics markets, and so does chip maker Intel. …
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Top 500 Supercomputer List Reflects Shifting State of Global HPC Trends
If the bi-annual list of the world’s fastest, most powerful supercomputers was used as indicator of key technological, government investment, and scientific progress, one could make some striking predictions about where the next centers of worldwide innovation are likely to rest. …
HPC
Behind The UK’s Bleeding Edge Supercomputing Plan
Just as the fervor died down around the massive deals for forthcoming pre-exascale supercomputers in the United States following the CORAL procurements (most recently, with the announcement of Aurora—the only one of three such HPC deals that is not betting the future on IBM OpenPower systems) the supercomputing spark was stoked again, this time, from across the pond. …
HPC
What if Intel Rekindles Its Supercomputing Systems Business?
There is some speculation afoot that Intel is on a path to rekindle its supercomputer business, bringing it full circle to where it started in the late 1980s and early 1990s with its own distinct high performance computing division that produced top-tier national lab systems like ASCI Red, among others. …
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Cray Makes Taming Chaos Look Easy
Low margins, an unpredictable cycle, expensive and ongoing research development efforts, a slavish commitment to processor upgrade timelines, and a market that will only ever grow so much—who wouldn’t want to be in the supercomputing systems business? …
Cloud
Mellanox Makes Interconnect Waves, Then Surfs On Them
Competing against a giant like Cisco Systems in the switch industry is never an easy task, but Mellanox Technologies has managed to carve out a sizeable niche in the supercomputing arena with its low-latency, high bandwidth InfiniBand and adapters. …
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Supercomputers Bump Against the End of Another Era
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. …
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What’s Inside Intel’s HPC Scalable System Framework?
When we broke the news about the upcoming Intel and Cray contract for the Aurora supercomputer coming to Argonne National Laboratory in 2018, we talked in depth about the unique Knights Hill based architecture of the future machine and referenced a new paradigm for high-end HPC systems that Intel refers to as the HPC scalable system framework. …
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Intel Bridges The Exascale Architecture Gap
Architects are optimists. In the computer industry, particularly within the HPC community, there is a small cadre of technologists who have the intellectual horsepower, vision and decades of experience to build wholly new system designs. …
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AMD Hits Reset On Server Business
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. …