Compute
The New General And New Purpose In Computing
The term “general purpose” in regards to compute is an evolving one. …
GPU
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Accelerated Databases In The Fast Lane
Hardware accelerated databases are not new things. More than twenty years ago, Netezza was founded and created a hybrid hardware architecture that ran PostgreSQL on a big, wonking NUMA server running Linux and accelerated certain functions with adjunct accelerators that were themselves hybrid CPU-FPGA server blades that also stored the data. …
Compute
Diving Deep Into The Nvidia Ampere GPU Architecture
When you have 54.2 billion transistors to play with, you can pack a lot of different functionality into a computing device, and this is precisely what Nvidia has done with vigor and enthusiasm with the new “Ampere” GA100 GPU aimed at acceleration in the datacenter. …
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The GPU Database Evolves Into An Analytics Platform
As the name of this publication suggests, we are system thinkers and we like to watch the evolution of a collection of tools into a platform. …
Compute
Before Long, Datacenter Will Be Nvidia’s Biggest Business
It is hard to remember sometimes way back when, in 2008, as Nvidia first took a stab at GPU compute in the datacenter with the original Tesla GPU accelerators and a very rudimentary CUDA programming environment for offloading parallel algorithms from CPUs to GPUs. …
Compute
Ampere DGX Servers Pack A Wallop, Including AMD Epyc CPUs
A new CPU or GPU compute engine is always an exciting time for the datacenter because we get to see the results of years of work and clever thinking by hardware and software engineers who are trying to break through barriers with both their Dennard scaling and their Moore’s Law arms tied behind their backs. …
Compute
The Metronomic Cadence Of Chippery From AMD
Companies invest in platforms over a decade or more, and that is why architectures persist longer than we might think given technological differences and economic forces. …
HPC
Oak Ridge Trials Arm-GPU Combo On HPC Testbed
The GPU has become a standard platform for accelerating high performance computing workloads, at least for those that have had their code tweaked to support acceleration at all. …
AI
AI Recommendation Systems Get A GPU Makeover
Like their US-based counterparts, Google and Amazon, the Chinese Internet giants Baidu and Alibaba rely on GPU acceleration to drive critical parts of their AI-based services. …
Compute
Talking System Architecture With AMD CTO Mark Papermaster
It is funny to think that in a certain light, AMD has Big Blue to thank for its resurgence in the datacenter. …