Compute
Future Systems: Pitting Fewer Fat Nodes Against Many Skinny Ones
Lining up the architectures of future supercomputers is interesting because it gives us a glimpse of what may be in the corporate datacenter many more years out. …
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Cloud
Why Hyperscalers And Clouds Are Pushing Intel Into FPGAs
It has been almost two months since Intel announced its blockbuster $16.7 billion deal to acquire FPGA maker Altera, which will allow the world’s largest chip maker to move from fixed function into programmable devices and potentially shake up the entire spectrum of computing, from handhelds all the way to datacenters. …
Compute
GPU Computing Still Nascent On Public Clouds
The public cloud is precisely as conservative and innovative as the enterprise customers that make use of it. …
AI
GPU Accelerators Radically Boost SQL Queries
In-memory databases are all the rage for very fast query processing, but you have to have the right balance of compute and memory for queries against in-memory databases to really scream. …
Compute
Steep Uphill Climb For GPU Computing To Hyperscale
During his sabbatical at Twitter, GPU researcher and graph analytics whiz, UC Davis professor John Owens, made a list of the elements the social network might want to consider as it built out its recommendation and other real-time services. …
Code
Startup Weaves Software Mesh to Net Hybrid Systems
For some users in high performance computing and a growing range of deep learning and data-intensive application segments, the shift toward mixed (heterogeneous) architectures is becoming more common. …
AI
Deep Learning Pioneer Pushing GPU Neural Network Limits
Back in the late 1980s, while working in the Adaptive Systems Research Department at AT&T Bell Labs, deep leaning pioneer, Yann LeCun, was just starting down the path of implementing brain-inspired machine learning concepts for image recognition and processing—an effort that would eventually lead to some of the first realizations of these technologies in voice recognition for calling systems and handwriting analysis for banks. …
Code
Programming Challenges on the Road to Summit’s Peak
In the wake of today’s announcement of the codes selected to be tuned for the 2018 Summit supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Lab, questions around how application teams are thinking about the massive amount of memory across new tiers, the swapping out of PCIe for a new interconnect, and the pervasive GPUs were first to mind. …
Compute
Procter and Gamble Moves Closer to GPU Computing
For a company that was formed well before electricity, consumer products company, Procter and Gamble, has continued to modernize. …
Compute
AMD Hints At Future HPC Push
When it comes to chip companies that have claimed a stake in the future of high performance computing, there used to be more competition. …