HPC
Argonne Aurora A21: All’s Well That Ends Better
When it comes to a lot of high performance computing systems we have seen over the decades, we are fond of saying that the hardware is the easy part. …
Falcon Shores
Compute
Intel Downplays Hybrid CPU-GPU Engines, Merges NNP Into GPU
When Intel announced its “Falcon Shores” project to build a hybrid CPU-GPU compute engine back in February 2022 that allowed the independent scaling of CPU and GPU capacity within a single socket, it looked like the chip maker was preparing to take on rivals Nvidia and AMD head on with hybrid compute motors, which Intel calls XPUs, AMD calls APUs, and Nvidia doesn’t really have if you want to be strict about what its “superchips” are and what they are not. …
Compute
Intel Pushes Out Hybrid CPU-GPU Compute Beyond 2025
One of the reasons why Intel can even think about entering the GPU compute space is that the IT market, and indeed just about any market we can think of, likes to have at least three competitors. …
Compute
The Increasingly Graphic Nature Of Intel Datacenter Compute
When you get to the place where Intel is at in datacenter compute, you cannot dictate terms to customers. …