HPC
Looking Ahead to Intel’s Secret Exascale Architecture
There has been a lot of talk this week about what architectural direction Intel will be taking for its forthcoming exascale efforts. …
Knights Hill
Compute
Some Surprises in the 2018 DoE Budget for Supercomputing
The US Department of Energy fiscal year 2018 budget request is in. …
Cloud
Mapping Intel’s Tick Tock Clock Onto Xeon Processors
Chip maker Intel takes Moore’s Law very seriously, and not just because one of its founders observed the consistent rate at which the price of a transistor scales down with each tweak in manufacturing. …
AI
Why Intel Is Tweaking Xeon Phi For Deep Learning
If there is anything that chip giant Intel has learned over the past two decades as it has gradually climbed to dominance in processing in the datacenter, it is ironically that one size most definitely does not fit all. …
HPC
Tall Stepping Stones for One of Next Top U.S. Supercomputers
Although the Top 500 list of supercomputers has come to something of a standstill in the last few incarnations of the bi-annual benchmark, the next few years will provide plenty of the way of interesting new machines worldwide. …
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. …