Compute
Show Me The Money: What Bang For The HPC Buck?
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. …
Intel
HPC
Future Intel Chips Shine in 180 Petaflops Argonne Supercomputer
Update: 5:08 p.m. Eastern – We have been able to dig into more details about the system architecture and confirm Knights Hill architecture and other interconnect/system details. …
Cloud
InfiniBand Too Quick For Ethernet To Kill
Try as it may, Ethernet cannot kill InfiniBand. For the foreseeable future, the very high-end of the server, storage, and database cluster spaces will need a network interconnect that can deliver the same or better bandwidth at lower latency than can Ethernet gear. …
Compute
Why Intel Might Buy FPGA Maker Altera
For the past two decades, Intel has taken on the processor makers for servers and storage in the datacenter and vanquished all but a few suppliers of alternative architectures from the glass house. …
Compute
Where Will Future Xeon Phi Chips Land?
Intel’s forthcoming “Knights Landing” Xeon Phi processor is certainly an impressive beast, as The Next Platform revealed earlier this week. …
Compute
Future Xeon Phi Specs Emerge At Open Compute Summit
With the upcoming “Knights Landing” chip from Intel, the company is not only creating a follow-on motor for its Xeon Phi coprocessors, which are used as accelerators in conjunction with X86 processors inside servers. …
Compute
Intel Crafts Broadwell Xeon D For Hyperscale
The first of the server processors based on Intel’s “Broadwell” cores and using its 14 nanometer chip making processes comes to market today. …
Compute
Broadwell Xeon D Chips Give Intel Datacenter Breadth
The first Xeon processor aimed at datacenter workloads that is based on Intel’s “Broadwell” core has been launched. …
Enterprise
Tracing the Enterprise Path for Lustre
While it is generally considered stable and reliable in large-scale environments, Lustre is not without a few key weaknesses, which the small vendor community supporting it are often first to point out. …