HPC
U.S. Bumps Exascale Timeline, Focuses on Novel Architectures for 2021
It has just been announced that there has been a shift in thinking among the exascale computing leads in the U.S. …
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Compute
Is This A Server Slowdown, Or Increasing Efficiency?
If you happen to believe that spending on core IT infrastructure is a leading indicator of the robustness of national economies and the global one that is stitched, somewhat piecemeal like a patchwork quilt. …
Cloud
What it Takes to Build True FPGA as a Service
Amazon Web Services might be offering FPGAs in an EC2 cloud environment, but this is still a far cry from the FPGA-as-a-service vision many hold for the future. …
AI
Nvidia CEO’s “Hyper-Moore’s Law” Vision for Future Supercomputers
Over the last year in particular, we have documented the merger between high performance computing and deep learning and its various shared hardware and software ties. …
Compute
FPGAs Give Microsoft a “Von Neumann Tax” Break
At the annual Supercomputing Conference (SC16) last week, the emphasis was on deep learning and its future role as part of supercomputing applications and systems. …
Compute
Stacking Up Software To Drive FPGAs Into The Datacenter
Every new hardware device that offers some kind of benefit compared to legacy devices faces the task of overcoming the immense inertia that is imparted to a platform by the software that runs upon it. …
Compute
How Nvidia’s Own Saturn V DGX-1 Cluster Stacks Up
Not all of the new and interesting high performance computing systems are always in the upper echelons of the Top 500 supercomputing list, which was announced at the opening of the SC16 supercomputing conference in Salt Lake City this week. …
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Inside Six of the Newest Top 20 Supercomputers
The latest listing of the Top 500 rankings of the world’s most powerful supercomputers has just been released. …
Compute
IBM Shows Off AI And HPC Oomph On Power8 Tesla Hybrids
While the machine learning applications created by hyperscalers and the simulations and models run by HPC centers are very different animals, the kinds of hardware that help accelerate the performance for one is also helping to boost the other in many cases. …