One of the breakthrough moments in computing, which was compelled by necessity, was the advent of symmetric multiprocessor, or SMP, clustering to make two or more processors look and act, as far as the operating system and applications were concerned, as a single, more capacious processor. …
Pattern analytics, deep learning, and machine learning have fueled a rapid rise in interest in GPU computing, in addition to GPU computing applications in high performance computing (HPC) and cloud-based data analytics. …
Switch chips have a very long technical and economic lives, considerably longer than that of a Xeon processor used in a server – something on the order of seven or eight years compared to three or four. …
Whenever companies that sell compute components for a living get into the systems business, they usually have a good reason for doing so. …
The revolution in GPU computing started with games, and spread to the HPC centers of the world eight years ago with the first “Fermi” Tesla accelerators from Nvidia. …
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