When you look at IBM, it is as if you are seeing many different instantiations of Big Blue across time playing out in the present, side by side. … “Someone Has To Pay To Push The Bleeding Edge Of Systems”
Historically and traditionally, academic supercomputing centers have been very open about the architecture and setup of their HPC systems, and it makes sense if you think about it. … “Fishing For Insight Into The Ocean Economy With HPC And AI”
Making money from sand is not as easy as making money from oil, and the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, which has been assembling the GlobalFoundries chip making giant for the past decade is finding that out the hard way and as a consequence, the company is backing off on its development of 7 nanometer manufacturing techniques, which included a double whammy of traditional immersion lithography techniques as well as a move towards bleeding-edge extreme ultraviolet (EUV) technology. … “The Datacenter Impact Of The GlobalFoundries 7 Nanometer Spike”
In the wonderful world of software containers, it can feel like the ground is constantly shifting beneath your feet as new projects spring up to address problems that you thought had been solved long ago. … “Istio Aims To Be The Mesh Plumbing For Containerized Microservices”
Sometimes, a workload needs more memory, more compute, or more I/O than is available in the two socket server that has been the standard pretty much since the dot-com boom two decades ago. … “IBM Finishes Power9 Systems Rollout With Big Iron”
Given the rollout of the “ZZ” and “Boston” variants of its Power9 systems, which are aimed at customers who are building clusters and at midrange enterprises that use a Power System server as their main back-end system, you might be expecting for the Power Systems line at IBM to have had a big bump in the second quarter of this year. … “Awaiting IBM’s Power Systems Growth Spurt”
The irony, of course, is that there is never a summit when it comes to supercomputing. … “Peeling The Covers Off The Summit Supercomputer”
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center is one of the flagship HPC facilities in Europe and it arguably has the most elegant and spiritual of datacenters in the world, located inside of Torre Girona Chapel. … “BSC Fires Up Power9-V100 Hybrid Compute On MareNostrum 4”
The challenge with many of the complex modern technologies that are coming into datacenters is making them easy and cheap enough for enterprises to use at a their own scale, which is much more limited than that of hyperscalers and cloud builders, and employing their own skillsets, which are also more limited. … “Driving AI At Higher Speed Into The Enterprise”
On the face of it, if you just look at the top level numbers, the server market is booming like we have not seen since the recovery in the wake of the Great Recession for a few quarters here and there between late 2009 and early 2011. … “The Server Boom Town Is Built On High Component Prices”
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