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. …
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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. …
Store
What Faster And Smarter HBM Memory Means For Systems
If the HPC and AI markets need anything right now, it is not more compute but rather more memory capacity at a very high bandwidth. …
Compute
How The FPGA Can Take On CPU And NPU Engines And Win
We made a joke – sort of – many years ago when we started this publication that the future compute engines would look more like a GPU card than they did a server as we knew it back then. …
AI
Changes Go Far Beyond Just AI, Machine Learning
SPONSORED SambaNova Systems is a technology startup founded in 2017 by a group of far-sighted engineers and data scientists who saw that the current approaches to AI and machine learning were beginning to run out of steam, and that an entire new architecture would be necessary in order to make AI accessible for everyone as well as deliver the scale, performance, accuracy and ease of use needed for future applications. …
AI
Software Has To Lead Hardware In The AI Dance
A lot of the people who are working at the many AI chip startups have a long history in processor development in the datacenter, and that is certainly true of the folks who founded SambaNova Systems. …
HPC
With Fugaku Supercomputer Installed, RIKEN Takes On Coronavirus
Supercomputers are designed for a number of big jobs that can only be done by massively powerful machinery, and one of those jobs has been the modeling of chemical compounds and biological systems, often in concert to model diseases and to help find cures for them. …
AI
The Next AI Platform: 2020 Edition
The Next AI Platform is going virtual for 2020.
This was, of course, not the plan. …
HPC
Arm Supercomputer Captures The Energy Efficiency Crown
When it comes to energy-efficient supercomputing, sometimes less is more. That was illustrated this week by Fujitsu with its A64FX prototype, which captured the top spot on the Green500 list. …
HPC
A64FX Arm Chip Gets A Big Push From Cray
There are many good processors out there, but there are few that are excellent and elegant inasmuch as they are co-designed for specific workloads and then do them very well. …