HPC
A First Peek At China’s Sunway Exascale Supercomputer
The trade war between the United States and China is not just a top-down political and economic one, but also a technical one. …
China
HPC
Exascale Spending To Energize HPC Market Through 2025
At the ISC conference this week, HPC market analyst firm Hyperion Research offered its mid-year HPC market update, which recapped what happened in 2018 and provided some particularly interesting observations on the exascale space. …
HPC
China Fleshes Out Exascale Design for Tianhe-3 Supercomputer
One reason China has a good chance of hitting its ambitious goal to reach exascale computing in 2020 is that the government is funding three separate architectural paths to attain that milestone. …
HPC
China Navigating The Homegrown Waters For Exascale
A major part of China’s several initiatives to build an exascale-class supercomputers has been the country’s determination to rely mostly on homegrown technologies – from processors and accelerators to interconnects and software – rather than turn to vendors outside of its borders, particularly those from the United States. …
AI
China’s Global Cloud and AI Ambitions Keep Extending
Gone are the days of early warehouse scale computing pioneers that were based in the U.S.. …
HPC
A Look at What’s in Store for China’s Tianhe-2A Supercomputer
The field of competitors looking to bring exascale-capable computers to the market is a somewhat crowded one, but the United States and China continue to be the ones that most eyes are on. …
Compute
China Arms Upgraded Tianhe-2A Hybrid Supercomputer
As an economic powerhouse and with a rising military and political presence around the world, you would expect, given the inherent political nature of supercomputing, that China would have multiple and massive supercomputing centers as well as a desire to spread its risk and demonstrate its technical breadth by investing in many different kinds of capability class supercomputers. …
Compute
China Making Swift, Competitive Quantum Computing Gains
Chinese officials have made no secret out of their desire to become the world’s dominant player in the technology industry. …
Enterprise
Roadblocks, Fast Lanes for China’s Enterprise IT Spending
The 13th Five Year Plan and other programs to bolster cloud adoption among Chinese businesses like the Internet Plus effort have lit a fire under China’s tech and industrial sectors to modernize IT operations. …
Compute
ARM Gains Stronger Foothold In China With AI And IoT
China represents a huge opportunity for chip designer ARM as it looks to extend its low-power system-on-a-chip (SoC) architecture beyond the mobile and embedded devices spaces and into new areas, such as the datacenter and emerging markets like autonomous vehicles, drones and the Internet of Things. …