Compute
Shedding Light on Dark Bandwidth
We have heard much about the concept of dark silicon but there is a separate, related companion to this idea. …
Memory
Compute
Rambus, Microsoft Put DRAM Into Deep Freeze To Boost Performance
Energy efficiency and operating costs for systems are as important as raw performance in today’s datacenters. …
Compute
Memory And Logic In A Post Moore’s Law World
The future of Moore’s Law has become a topic of hot debate in recent years, as the challenge of continually shrinking transistors and other components has grown. …
HPC
3D Memory Sparks New Thinking in HPC System Design
Whether being built for capacity or capability, the conventional wisdom about memory provisioning on the world’s fastest systems is changing quickly. …
Compute
Memory is the Next Platform
A new crop of applications is driving the market along some unexpected routes, in some cases bypassing the processor as the landmark for performance and efficiency. …
Compute
Baking Specialization into Hardware Cools CPU Concerns
As Moore’s Law spirals downward, ultra-high bandwidth memory matched with custom accelerators for specialized workloads might be the only saving grace for the pace of innovation we are accustomed to. …
Compute
Changing the Exascale Efficiency Narrative at Memory Start Point
With this summer’s announcement of China’s dramatic shattering of top supercomputing performance numbers using ten million relatively simple cores, there is a perceptible shift in how some are considering the future of the world’s fastest, largest systems. …
AI
Innovative Memory Server Knocks Analytics Systems into Balance
As the shift in high performance computing has taken an efficient data-intensive supercomputing turn in recent years, fundamental rethinks in architecture are coming to the fore. …
Enterprise
The Myth Of In-Memory Computing
These days when you talk to people in the tech industry, you will get the idea that in-memory computing solves everything. …
Code
Steps Toward Programmability for Non-Volatile Memory
Among the trends that we have been tracking over the course of the year, few others, outside of key processor developments, have attracted more attention than what is happening in the non-volatile memory space. …