Cloud
IBM Opens Its EDA Platform To Startup Chipmakers
From its mainframes to the modern Power architectures, few companies have pushed investments into chip designs with the gusto IBM has over the years. …
IBM
AI
Move Over Hadoop, IBM Has a New Spark
Although Spark has garnered a reputation as being a real-time analytics engine that is married to Hadoop, its life before being glued to that framework offers a different story. …
AI
We Need Only Three Hadoops, And Maybe Three Systems
Enterprises like choices, they abhor vendor lock in, and they like the options that open source gives. …
Control
An Old Platform Finds New Life Outside IBM Walls
William Lu was witness to one of the most successful business and technology stories in modern supercomputing from his long-term position as one of the first developers of the Load Sharing Facility (LSF) software from Platform Computing. …
Compute
Power8 Iron To Take On Four-Socket Xeons
The high ground in the server market used to be large-scale SMP and NUMA machines with 16, 32, 64, or 128 sockets all lashed together to make a big shared memory machine. …
Compute
Tesla GPU Accelerator Unit Grows Fast For Nvidia
The broader adoption of GPU acceleration for workloads in the traditional high performance computing segment and expansion in new areas such as deep learning are driving revenues and profits at graphics chip maker Nvidia. …
HPC
Supercomputers Bump Against the End of Another Era
When one looks at major milestones in supercomputer history, one of the relatively recently markers rests with IBM, which began work its work to create a massively parallel system for protein folding research. …
Connect
Big Iron Saves The Day For Big Blue
IBM finalized the spinoff of its System x X86 server business to Lenovo Group back in October, and the first quarter of 2015 is the first glimpse that we have of a Big Blue that is focused solely on its Power Systems and System z mainframes. …
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
Supercomputing Strategy Shifts in a World Without BlueGene
Last week when we broke the news about the upcoming 180-plus petaflops Aurora supercomputer set to be installed at Argonne National Lab in 2018, we spent our time scrambling for whatever feeds and speeds we could muster. …