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More CPU Cores Isn’t Always Better, Especially In HPC

January 19, 2023 Tobias Mann 7

If a few cores are good, then a lot of cores ought to be better. …

Compute

HBM Gives Xeon SPs A Big Boost On Bandwidth Bound Work

November 15, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 5

If there is one bright spot in the Xeon SP server chip line from Intel, it is the version of the “Sapphire Rapids” Xeon SP processor that has HBM memory welded to it. …

AI

With AI, You Need To See The Bigger Hardware And Software Picture

November 9, 2022 Joseph Martins Comments Off on With AI, You Need To See The Bigger Hardware And Software Picture

Sponsored Feature: It’s a decade and a half since researchers dazzled the tech world by demonstrating that GPUs could be used to dramatically accelerate key AI operations. …

Compute

One New Feature For Intel’s HPC Compute Engines: Contrition

November 9, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

It is very rare for any of the major semiconductor suppliers of the world to ever admit that things are going wrong, even when we all know that they have been. …

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