Compute
Shedding Light on Dark Bandwidth
We have heard much about the concept of dark silicon but there is a separate, related companion to this idea. …
HMC
Compute
FPGAs, OpenHMC Push SKA HPC Processing Capabilities
Astronomy is the oldest research arena, but the technologies required to process the massive amount of data created from radio telescope arrays represents some of the most bleeding-edge research in modern computer science. …
HPC
3D Memory Sparks New Thinking in HPC System Design
Whether being built for capacity or capability, the conventional wisdom about memory provisioning on the world’s fastest systems is changing quickly. …
Compute
Memory is the Next Platform
A new crop of applications is driving the market along some unexpected routes, in some cases bypassing the processor as the landmark for performance and efficiency. …
Compute
Baking Specialization into Hardware Cools CPU Concerns
As Moore’s Law spirals downward, ultra-high bandwidth memory matched with custom accelerators for specialized workloads might be the only saving grace for the pace of innovation we are accustomed to. …
AI
Deep Learning Architectures Hinge on Hybrid Memory Cube
We have heard about a great number of new architectures and approaches to scalable and efficient deep learning processing that sit outside of the standard CPU, GPU, and FPGA box and while each is different, many are leveraging a common element at all-important memory layer. …
Compute
Systems To Morph As Memory Options Expand
Compute is by far still the largest part of the hardware budget at most IT organizations, and even with the advance of technology, which allows more compute, memory, storage, and I/O to be crammed into a server node, we still seem to always want more. …
Compute
Compute
Future Systems: What Will Tomorrow’s Server Look Like?
We can talk about storage and networking as much as we want, and about how the gravity of data bends infrastructure to its needs, but the server – or a collection of them loosely or tightly coupled – is still the real center of the datacenter. …
Control
A Wake Up Call for Hybrid Memory Cube Efficiency
There has been quite a bit of talk over the last couple of years about what role high bandwidth memory technologies like the Intel and Micron-backed Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) might play in the future of both high performance computing nodes as well as in other devices, but the momentum is still somewhat slow, at least in terms of actual systems that are implementing HMC or its rival high bandwidth memory counterpart, High Bandwidth Memory (backed by a different consortium of vendors, including Nvidia and AMD). …