HPC
Argonne National Lab Lead Details Exascale Balancing Act
It’s easy when talking about the ongoing push toward exascale computing to focus on the hardware architecture that will form the foundation of the upcoming supercomputers. …
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Compute
Fujitsu Looks to 3D ICs, Silicon Photonics to Drive Future Systems
The rise of public and private clouds, the growth of the Internet of Things, the proliferation of mobile devices and the massive amounts of data that need to be collected, stored, moved and analyzed that are being generated by such fast-growing emerging trends promise to drive significant changes in both software and hardware development in the coming years. …
Cloud
Applied Micro Renews ARM Assault On Intel Servers
The lineup of ARM server chip makers has been a somewhat fluid one over the years. …
AI
Japan to Unveil Pascal GPU-Based AI Supercomputer
A shared appetite for high performance computing hardware and frameworks is pushing both supercomputing and deep learning into the same territory. …
Cloud
Server Makers Try To Adapt To A Harsher Climate
So, who was the biggest revenue generator, and showing the largest growth in sales, for servers in the final quarter of 2016? …
Compute
AMD Researchers Eye APUs For Exascale
Exascale computing, which has been long talked about, is now – if everything remains on track – only a few years away. …
Compute
Putting ARM-Based Microservers Through The Paces
When ARM officials and partners several years ago began talking about pushing the low-power chip architecture from our phones and tablets and into the datacenter, the initial target was the emerging field of microservers – small, highly dense and highly efficient systems aimed at the growing number of cloud providers and hyperscale environments where power efficiency was as important as performance. …
Cloud
ARM Server Chips Challenge X86 in the Cloud
The idea of ARM processors being used in datacenter servers has been kicking around more most of the decade. …
Cloud
Skylake Xeon Ramp Cuts Into Intel’s Datacenter Profits
Every successive processor generation presents its own challenges to all chip makers, and the ramp of 14 nanometer processes that will be used in the future “Skylake” Xeon processors, due in the second half of this year, cut into the operating profits of its Data Center Group in the final quarter of 2016. …
Compute
Is This A Server Slowdown, Or Increasing Efficiency?
If you happen to believe that spending on core IT infrastructure is a leading indicator of the robustness of national economies and the global one that is stitched, somewhat piecemeal like a patchwork quilt. …