Enterprise
High Sticking With Flash Memory
Making the transition from disk storage to flash and other non-volatile media is perhaps more difficult for the makers of storage than it is for customers. …
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HPC
The Middle Ground for the Nvidia Tesla K80 GPU
Although the launch of Pascal stole headlines this year on the GPU computing front, the company’s Tesla K80 GPU, which was launched at the end of 2014, has been finding a home across a broader base of applications and forthcoming systems. …
Compute
Knights Landing Will Waterfall Down From On High
With the general availability of the “Knights Landing” Xeon Phi many core processors from Intel last month, some of the largest supercomputing labs on the planet are getting their first taste of what the future style of high performance computing could look like for the rest of us. …
Compute
China’s Triple Play For Pre-Exascale Systems
Before any country can deploy an exascale system, they have to get pre-exascale prototypes into the field to test out their underlying technologies and determine what approaches have the best chance of scaling up performance and being manufactured affordably. …
Compute
The Challenge Of Coding Across HPC Architectures
With the International Supercomputing 2016 conference fast approaching, the HPC community is champing at the bit to share insights on the latest technologies and techniques to make simulation and modeling applications scale further and run faster. …
Compute
Tesla Pushes Nvidia Deeper Into The Datacenter
If you are trying to figure out what impact the new “Pascal” family of GPUs is going to have on the business at Nvidia, just take a gander at the recent financial results for the datacenter division of the company. …
Compute
NVLink Takes GPU Acceleration To The Next Level
One of the breakthrough moments in computing, which was compelled by necessity, was the advent of symmetric multiprocessor, or SMP, clustering to make two or more processors look and act, as far as the operating system and applications were concerned, as a single, more capacious processor. …
HPC
Bolder Battle Lines Drawn At Extreme Scale Computing Borders
The race to reach exascale computing has been a point of national ambition in the United States, which is currently home to the highest number of top-performing supercomputers in the world. …
HPC
Exascale Timeline Pushed to 2023: What’s Missing in Supercomputing?
The roadmap to build and deploy an exascale computer has extended over the last few years–and more than once. …
Compute
Power9 Will Bring Competition To Datacenter Compute
The Power9 processor that IBM is working on in conjunction with hyperscale and HPC customers could be the most important chip that Big Blue has brought to market since the Power4 processor back in 2001. …