Compute
Moving Graph Analytics Testing On Supercomputers Forward
If it’s the SC18 supercomputing conference, then there must be lists. …
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AI
Inferring The Future Of The FPGA, And Then Making It
Technologies often start out in one place and then find themselves in another. …
Compute
Trading Off Security And Performance Thanks To Spectre And Meltdown
The revelations by Google’s Project Zero team earlier this year of the Spectre and Meltdown speculative execution vulnerabilities in most of processors that have powered servers and PCs for the past couple of decades shook the industry as Intel and other chip makers scrambled to mitigate the risk of the threats in the short term and then implement plans to incorporate the mitigation techniques into future versions of the silicon. …
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Slicing Into The Post-K Supercomputer’s Tofu D Interconnect
Fujitsu has given us a peek at the future A64FX Arm server processor that it has forged for the future “Post-K” supercomputer that is being built by the Japanese government for the RIKEN laboratory, arguably the hotbed of HPC in the Land of the Rising Sun. …
Compute
Fujitsu’s A64FX Arm Chip Waves The HPC Banner High
The processing world would be a whole lot less diverse and interesting if it were not for a healthy amount of nationalism. …
Compute
Getting All Zen About AMD’s Datacenter Business
Imagine, if you will, that your two biggest rivals were Intel and Nvidia, and that you had to fight a two front war to storm the datacenter. …
Compute
Details Emerge On Post-K Exascale System With First Prototype
This story has been updated with new information since it originally ran. …
Cloud
What Qualcomm’s Exit From Arm Server Chips Means
Broadcom may not have wanted to be in the Arm server chip business any more, but its machinations since it was acquired by Avago Technology two years ago have certainly sent ripples through that nascent market. …
Compute
VMware’s Platform Can Only Reflect The Enterprise Datacenter
When a company has 500,000 enterprise customers that are paying for perpetual licenses and support on systems software – this is an absolutely enormous base by corporate standards, and a retro licensing model straight from the 1980s and 1990s – what does it do for an encore? …
AI
There is No Such Thing as Easy AI — But We’re Getting Closer
The dark and mysterious art of artificial intelligence and machine learning is neither straightforward, or easy. …