Compute
BSC Keeps Its HPC Options Open With MareNostrum 4
When it comes to supercomputing, you don’t only have to strike while the iron is hot, you have to spend while the money is available. …
IBM
Compute
Details Emerge On “Summit” Power Tesla AI Supercomputer
The future “Summit” pre-exascale supercomputer that is being built out in late 2017 and early 2018 for the US Department of Energy for its Oak Ridge National Laboratory looks like a giant cluster of systems that might be used for training neural networks. …
Compute
IBM Shows Off AI And HPC Oomph On Power8 Tesla Hybrids
While the machine learning applications created by hyperscalers and the simulations and models run by HPC centers are very different animals, the kinds of hardware that help accelerate the performance for one is also helping to boost the other in many cases. …
Compute
IBM Overclocks Power8 To Take On “Broadwell” Xeon E7
In the absence of Power8+ processor upgrades this year, and with sales of midrange systems taking a bit of a hit in the third quarter, IBM has to do something to push its iron against Xeon E7 and Sparc M7 systems between now and when the Power9 machines are available in the second half of 2017. …
Cloud
A Snapshot Of Big Blue’s Systems Business
It is the job of the chief financial officer and the rest of the top brass of every public company in the world to present the financial results of their firms in the best possible light every thirteen weeks when the numbers are compiled and presented to Wall Street for grading. …
Compute
Opening Up The Server Bus For Coherent Acceleration
When IBM started to use the word “open” in conjunction with its Power architecture more than three years with the formation of the OpenPower Foundation three years ago, Big Blue was not confused about what that term meant. …
AI
Pushing Database Scalability Up And Out With GPUs
What is good for the simulation and the machine learning is, as it turns out, also good for the database. …
Cloud
IBM Builds A Bridge Between Private And Public Power Clouds
Two years ago, when Big Blue put a stake through the heart of its impartial attitude about the X86 server business, it was also putting a stake in the ground for its Power systems business. …
Cloud
The Server At Peak X86
One of the reasons why Dell spent $60 billion on the EMC-VMware conglomerate was to become the top supplier of infrastructure in the corporate datacenter. …
Compute
Refreshed IBM Power Linux Systems Add NVLink
The very first systems that allow for GPUs to be hooked directly to CPUs using Nvidia’s NVLink high-speed interconnect are coming to market now that Big Blue is updating its Power Systems LC line of Linux-based systems with the help of hardware partners in the OpenPower Foundation collective. …