Compute
Brad McCredie Is The Pedal To AMD’s Datacenter GPU Metal
Brad McCredie like engines, and more importantly, he likes to make them go fast. …
AMD
HPC
HLRS Takes First Steps To Exascale
The University of Stuttgart’s High Performance Computing Center (HLRS) in Germany tapped Hewlett Packard Enterprise back in December 2023 to build a prototype hybrid CPU-GPU supercomputer nicknamed “Hunter” to pave the way towards an exascale-class machine it is budgeting to have installed in 2027 called “Herder.” …
Store
Oracle Revs Up Exadata Database Machines To X11M
Transaction processing against relational databases may not be the focus of the datacenter, as it was when IBM created the first relational database and Oracle was founded to compete against it in the late 1970s. …
Connect
Nvidia, AMD, And Intel Help Stuff The Coffers At Ayar Labs
Everybody wants to get rich in AI these days, and if you can’t do it by investing in the compute engine makers or the hyperscalers and cloud builders, then the next best thing to put your money into is probably some form of optical I/O. …
AI
Fat Server Spending Props Up Slowing AI Servers At Dell
Just because you are the number one supplier of servers, storage, and PCs in the world does not mean the job of building those machines and making money is easy. …
HPC
HPE Upgrades Supercomputer Lineup Top To Bottom In 2025
If you want to buy an exascale-class supercomputer, or a portion of one so you can scale up, there are not a lot of places to go shopping because there are not a lot of companies who have a balance sheet that is big enough to get all of the parts to build the machines. …
AI
AMD ROCm 6.3 Has Goodies For AI Aficionados And HPC Gurus Alike
Speeds and feeds are great, but hardware is only as useful as the software that can harness it, and, for AMD, that’s the ROCm software stack. …
Compute
Microsoft Is First To Get HBM-Juiced AMD CPUs
Intel was the first of the major CPU makers to add HBM stacked DRAM memory to a CPU package, with the “Sapphire Rapids” Max Series Xeon SP processors. …
HPC
“El Capitan” Supercomputer Blazes The Trail for Converged CPU-GPU Compute
Every couple of years, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory gets to install the world’s fastest supercomputer. …
HPC
AMD Now Has More Compute On The Top500 Than Nvidia
There has been a lot more churn on the November Top500 supercomputer rankings that is the talk of the SC24 conference in Atlanta this week than there was in the list that came out in June at the ISC24 conference in Hamburg, Germany back in May, and there are some interesting developments in the new machinery that is being installed. …