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. …
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. …
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. …
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. …
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. …
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. …
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. …
Ever-increasing Greek prefixes of flops is what makes the simulations and models of the world hum, but we at The Next Platform like money. …
Tailoring systems for specific jobs is one of the foundational themes of The Next Platform, so we like to keep an eye on the segments of the systems market that have a particular platform bend to them. …
Over the last couple of years, Docker has become an increasingly popular tool for web-scale companies like eBay, but it appears to finally be catching on for some supercomputing centers. …
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