Compute
Cores, Clocks, And Caches Cranked With Latest NEC Vector Engines
Whenever a process shrink is available to chip designers, there are several different levers they can pull to make a more powerful compute engine. …
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Compute
IBM Power10 Shreds Ice Lake Xeons For Transaction Processing
Here is a simple algebraic equation that describes the relative computing oomph of two different CPU architectures over the past two decades: If Intel an X86 core is X, then an IBM Power core equals 2X. …
AI
Precision, Accuracy, Scale – And Experience – All Matter With AI
When it comes to building any platform, the hardware is the easiest part and, for many of us, the fun part. …
HPC
So, You Think You Can Design A 20 Exaflops Supercomputer?
UPDATED* Perhaps Janet Jackson should be the official spokesperson of the supercomputing industry. …
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Can MongoDB Build A Humongous, And Profitable, Database Business?
When you want to build a software business in the 21st century successfully, you have to borrow some ideas from the 20th century. …
Compute
How Much Of A Premium Will Nvidia Charge For Hopper GPUs?
There is increasing competition coming at Nvidia in the AI training and inference market, and at the same time, researchers at Google, Cerebras, and SambaNova are showing off the benefits of porting sections of traditional HPC simulation and modeling code to their matrix math engines, and Intel is probably not far behind with its Habana Gaudi chips. …
HPC
Stacking Up L2 Cache, RIKEN Shows 10X Speedup For A64FX By 2028
Let the era of 3D V-Cache in HPC begin.
Inspired by the idea of AMD’s “Milan-X” Epyc 7003 processors with their 3D V-Cache stacked L3 cache memory and then propelled by actual benchmark tests pitting regular Milan CPUs against Milan-X processors using real-world and synthetic HPC applications, researchers at RIKEN Lab in Japan, where the “Fugaku” supercomputer based on Fujitsu’s impressive A64FX vectorized Arm server chip, have fired up a simulation of a hypothetical A64FX follow-on that could, in theory, be built in 2028 and provide nearly an order of magnitude more performance than the current A64FX. …
AI
Cerebras Shows Off Scale Up AI Performance For Big Pharma And Big Oil
Historically, the largest organizations in the world – the Global 2000 plus the biggest national government and academic research institutions – have always had the most complex data processing needs. …
Compute
In The Absence Of A Xeon Roadmap, Intel Makes Us Draw One
One of the oldest adages in the systems business is that customers don’t buy processors, but rather they buy roadmaps. …
Compute
Oracle Still Hanging In There With Exadata Engineered Systems
It may not seem like it, but Oracle is still in the high-end server business, at least when it comes to big machines running its eponymous relational database. …