As we have noted over the last year in particular, GPUs are set for another tsunami of use cases for server workloads in high performance computing and most recently, machine learning. …
There is no question that the memory hierarchy in systems is being busted wide open and that new persistent memory technology that can be byte addressable like DRAM or block addressable like storage are going to radically change the architecture of machines and the software that runs on them. …
Letting go of infrastructure is hard, but once you do – or perhaps more precisely, once you can – picking it back up again is a whole lot harder. …
More than anything else, over its long history in the computing business, IBM has been a platform company and say what you will about the woes it has had through several phases of its history, what seems obvious is that when Big Blue forgets this it runs into trouble. …
The Power9 processor that IBM is working on in conjunction with hyperscale and HPC customers could be the most important chip that Big Blue has brought to market since the Power4 processor back in 2001. …
There are two things that underdogs have to do to take a big bite out of a market. …
After close to twenty years at IBM, where he began as an IBM Fellow and Chief Architect for the SOA Foundation, Rob High has developed a number of core technologies that back Big Blue’s enterprise systems, including the suite of tools behind IBM WebSphere, and more recently, those that support the wide-ranging ambitions of the Watson cognitive computing platform. …
Over the last several rankings of the Top 500 most powerful supercomputers, the conversations in high performance computing have shifted from hardware optimization to data and workflow tuning. …
Like so many tried and true software platforms for high performance computing, the IBM-developed distributed computing management software, xCAT (Extreme Cluster Administration Toolkit), has been powering cluster needs since before the dawn of the new millennium. …
When we talk about the major cloud players, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and to a lesser extent, Rackspace Hosting and a few others tend to dominate the conversation. …
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