HPC
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. …
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Compute
IBM Overclocks Power8 To Take On “Broadwell” Xeon E7
In the absence of Power8+ processor upgrades this year, and with sales of midrange systems taking a bit of a hit in the third quarter, IBM has to do something to push its iron against Xeon E7 and Sparc M7 systems between now and when the Power9 machines are available in the second half of 2017. …
Compute
Opening Up The Server Bus For Coherent Acceleration
When IBM started to use the word “open” in conjunction with its Power architecture more than three years with the formation of the OpenPower Foundation three years ago, Big Blue was not confused about what that term meant. …
Compute
Server Encryption With An FPGA Offload Boost
Everyone talks about security on infrastructure, but it comes at a heavy cost. …
Cloud
The Server At Peak X86
One of the reasons why Dell spent $60 billion on the EMC-VMware conglomerate was to become the top supplier of infrastructure in the corporate datacenter. …
Compute
Exascale Might Prove To Be More Than A Grand Challenge
The supercomputing industry is accustomed to 1,000X performance strides, and that is because people like to think in big round numbers and bold concepts. …
Compute
AMD Strikes A Balance – And Strikes Back – With Zen
Being too dependent on one source for a key component is not just a bad idea because of supply chain risks, but because it can result in higher prices. …
Cloud
Inside the Manycore Research Chip That Could Power Future Clouds
For those interested in novel architectures for large-scale datacenters and complex computing domains, this year has offered plenty of fodder for exploration. …
Compute
Melding Hyperscale And HPC To Reach Exascale
It is going to take a lot of different things to build an exascale system. …
Compute
Stacking Up Oracle S7 Against Intel Xeon
Even though the Xeon processor has become the default engine for most kinds of compute in the datacenter, it is by no means to only option that is available to large enterprises that can afford to indulge in different kinds of systems because they do not have to homogenize their systems as hyperscalers must if they are to keep their IT costs in check. …