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. …
Memory
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. …
Compute
Automata Memory Processor Points to Future Systems
For someone like Steve Pawlowski, who spent well over thirty years at Intel working on a wide range of processors for an even more striking array of platforms, it seems only natural to take a cautious view of entirely new approaches to data processing that require a fundamental rethink of computing hardware and software. …
Compute
There Is No Such Thing As Memory Performance
Petar Radokjovic, who leads the memory systems division at the Barcelona Supercomputer Center, described his desk, messy with the latest research on next-generation memory systems for high performance computing, and says that for a time, the sight of them was enough to give him an ulcer. …
Control
A Wake Up Call for Hybrid Memory Cube Efficiency
There has been quite a bit of talk over the last couple of years about what role high bandwidth memory technologies like the Intel and Micron-backed Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) might play in the future of both high performance computing nodes as well as in other devices, but the momentum is still somewhat slow, at least in terms of actual systems that are implementing HMC or its rival high bandwidth memory counterpart, High Bandwidth Memory (backed by a different consortium of vendors, including Nvidia and AMD). …
Compute
Future Systems: Intel Ponders Breaking Up The CPU
When it comes to systems, the first thing that most people think of is compute. …