Anton Sequel Makes Stronger Case for Custom Supercomputing
D.E. Shaw Research, the company founded by quantitative finance pioneer, professor, and entrepreneur, David E. …
D.E. Shaw Research, the company founded by quantitative finance pioneer, professor, and entrepreneur, David E. …
Offloading parts of the network stack from processors to specialized circuits on network adapter cards is not a new idea. …
The high end of the computing industry has always captivated us, and we still find the forces at work in the upper echelons of the datacenters of the world, and the hardware and software that is created to run the largest and most complex workloads found there, fascinating. …
While many consumers in the U.S. might not have heard much about Baidu, when it comes to engineers and computer scientists, the Chinese company is on par with Google, Facebook, and their ilk when it comes to massively scaled distributed computing. …
There is a simple test to figure out just how seriously social network Facebook is taking machine learning, and it has nothing to do with research papers or counting cat pictures automagically with neural networks. …
As the theme goes this year, what’s old is new again. …
When it comes to traditional supercomputing, the tools, frameworks, and software stacks tend to be codified, especially within the various domains that use high performance computing. …
IBM did not just stake the future of its Power chip and the systems business on which it depends on the OpenPower Foundation, a consortium now with 160 members after more than two years of cultivation by Big Blue and its key early partners – Google, Nvidia, Mellanox Technologies, and Tyan. …
The progression in performance per watt for Nvidia’s Tesla line of GPU coprocessors is continuing apace now that the graphics chip maker is delivering two shiny new devices based on its “Maxwell” generation of chips. …
Although there are many HPC startups that are focused on software, services, and consulting, to keep the list focused this year, we singled out a few key small companies that are taking their chances to bring new processors and server gear to the supercomputing table. …
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