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What If NUMA Scaling Was Easier And Cheaper?
How different the datacenter would look if symmetric multiprocessing could somehow magically scale well beyond 32, 64, or 128 processors. …
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Momentum Building For Knights Landing Xeon Phi
Intel is the undisputed champion when it comes to computing in the datacenter, and it is looking to vanquish IBM’s Power processors from enterprise systems and supercomputer clusters and to keep the handful of ARM server chip upstarts at bay as they try to get in the datacenter door, too. …
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The Top 500 Supercomputer List is In: China’s Reign Continues
This morning the list of the Top 500 fastest, most powerful global supercomputers was released. …
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Dell Taps SGI For Scale-Up SAP HANA
Those of us who focus on the infrastructure layer of the next platforms that companies are building sometimes forget about the applications that ride on those platforms and give them a reason to be. …
HPC
China’s Top Supercomputer Dramatically Speeds Genomics Pipeline
It has been somewhat difficult to ascertain what problems the fastest supercomputer on the planet has been chewing on since it was announced in 2013, but there are some signs that China is now pinning the machine’s mission on the future of genomics, among other areas. …
AI
Cores Alone Will Not Drive Haswell Xeon E7 System Sales
Intel still has one more processor to get out the door to complete the “Haswell” generation, with the impending Xeon E5-4600 v3 for low-end, four-socket machines. …
Compute
Power8 Iron To Take On Four-Socket Xeons
The high ground in the server market used to be large-scale SMP and NUMA machines with 16, 32, 64, or 128 sockets all lashed together to make a big shared memory machine. …
AI
Intel Puts More Compute Behind Xeon E7 Big Memory
It has been more than a decade since Intel fielded its first credible processors aimed at four-socket machines, and it is no coincidence that makers of RISC and Itanium systems that used to enjoy high revenues and margins on big iron systems have been in decline since that time. …
Compute
OpenPower Collective Opens For System Business
It has been about a year since the OpenPower Foundation was formed to provide a development locus for systems based on the Power8 processor and its varied I/O technologies. …