HPC
For HPC Cloud, The Underlying Hardware Will Always Matter
Decades of cloud collaborations and optimizations have brought solid performance and cost efficiencies to cloud. …
HPC
AI
Graphcore Thinks It Can Get An AI Piece Of The HPC Exascale Pie
For the last few years, Graphcore has primarily been focused on slinging its IPU chips for training and inference systems of varying sizes, but that is changing now as the six-year-old British chip designer is joining the conversation about the convergence of AI and high-performance computing. …
Store
Panasas Adapts To The Ebbs And Flows Of Enterprise HPC
With enterprises increasing embracing HPC environments to help manage the tidal wave of data that’s washing over them and the rise of AI and machine learning workloads, tech vendors selling into the market need to demonstrate both flexibility and adaptability. …
AI
Data Analytics Can Be The Next HPC For IBM Power
In the next few months, Big Blue will launch its entry and midrange Power10 servers, and to be blunt, we are not sure what the HPC and AI angle is going to be for these systems. …
HPC
Wanted: A Complete – And Heavily Customizable – HPC Software Stack
Sponsored Feature. There are a lot of things that the HPC centers and hyperscalers of the world have in common, and one of them is their attitudes about software. …
HPC
“Milan-X” 3D Vertical Cache Yields Epyc HPC Bang For The Buck Boost
Last fall ahead of the SC21 supercomputing conference, AMD said it was going to be the first of the major compute engine makers to add 3D vertical L3 cache to its chips, in this case to variants of the “Milan” Epyc 7003 series of processors that debuted in March 2021 called the “Milan-X” chips. …
AI
Liqid Launches Its Own Systems, Chases AI And HPC
To hardware or not to hardware, that is a real question for vendors peddling all kinds of software in the datacenter. …
Cloud
Will HPC Be Eaten By Hyperscalers And Clouds?
Some of the most important luminaries in the HPC sector have spoken from on high, and their conclusions about the future of the HPC market are probably going to shock a lot of people. …
Compute
AMD “Dimensions For Success” In The Datacenter
Only two quarters ago, AMD’s datacenter business – meaning sales of Epyc CPUs plus Instinct GPU accelerators – broke through $1 billion. …
Connect
Cray’s Slingshot Interconnect Is At The Heart Of HPE’s HPC And AI Ambitions
Whenever one company buys another, every product line, every research project, and every employee is ultimately in play. …