Compute
Compute Is The Boon And The Bane Of Supercomputing
Compute drives supercomputing, and networking is the chassis and storage just comes along for the ride. …
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Compute
Cray’s Ever-Expanding Compute For HPC
With choice comes complexity, and the Cambrian explosion in compute options is only going to make this harder even if it is a much more satisfying intellectual and financial challenge. …
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InfiniBand And Proprietary Networks Still Rule Real HPC
With the network comprising as much as a quarter of the cost of a high performance computing system and being absolutely central to the performance of applications running on parallel systems, it is fair to say that the choice of network is at least as important as the choice of compute engine and storage hierarchy. …
Compute
Cray Outpaces HPC Market, Books Historic Quarter
It is hard to tell which part of the systems market is lumpier – that for traditional HPC systems like supercomputers or that for massive cluster deployments for the hyperscalers that run public clouds and public facing applications on a massive scale. …
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Networks Drive HPC Harder Than Compute
It is hard to tell which part of the HPC market is more competitive: compute, networking, or storage. …
Compute
Bigger Iron Drives Better NOAA Weather Forecasts
Not every organization that relies on supercomputers can replace a whole machine in one fell swoop. …
Compute
Cray CTO Connects The Dots On Future Interconnects
The bottlenecks never get removed from a system, they just shift around as you change one component or the other. …
Connect
A New Age In Cluster Interconnects Dawns
Proprietary and quasi-proprietary interconnects are nothing new to the supercomputing space, and in fact, this is where they still live and thrive and evolve. …
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Intel Rounds Out Scalable Systems With Omni-Path
Even though Intel is best known in the datacenter as the maker of server processors and their chipsets, the company has increasingly become a platform thinker in the past decade. …