Compute
IBM Draws OpenPower Line In The X86 Sand
History moves in spirals, not straight lines, widening our experience and our options, coming around again and again with variations on similar themes. …
Nvidia
Compute
Forecast Calls for GPU Packed Supercomputer Nodes
In the course of tracking commercial and research supercomputers here at The Next Platform, it has become apparent that this is the year for massive refreshes and updates to existing weather prediction systems. …
Cloud
New Network Architecture Bridges Supercomputer, Cloud Divides
As we have discussed at length here at The Next Platform, the dividing lines between high performance computing datacenters and their cloud or web-scale compatriots are blurring, fed in part by increasing data sizes and the speeds at which data must be moved. …
Compute
Future Systems: Pitting Fewer Fat Nodes Against Many Skinny Ones
Lining up the architectures of future supercomputers is interesting because it gives us a glimpse of what may be in the corporate datacenter many more years out. …
Cloud
Why Hyperscalers And Clouds Are Pushing Intel Into FPGAs
It has been almost two months since Intel announced its blockbuster $16.7 billion deal to acquire FPGA maker Altera, which will allow the world’s largest chip maker to move from fixed function into programmable devices and potentially shake up the entire spectrum of computing, from handhelds all the way to datacenters. …
Compute
IBM Readies Power8+ For OpenPower Push
When it comes to high performance computing, IBM is in a phase change that will take it several years to complete with its key OpenPower infrastructure partners, Nvidia and Mellanox Technologies. …
Compute
GPU Computing Still Nascent On Public Clouds
The public cloud is precisely as conservative and innovative as the enterprise customers that make use of it. …
Compute
AI
GPU Accelerators Radically Boost SQL Queries
In-memory databases are all the rage for very fast query processing, but you have to have the right balance of compute and memory for queries against in-memory databases to really scream. …
Compute
Steep Uphill Climb For GPU Computing To Hyperscale
During his sabbatical at Twitter, GPU researcher and graph analytics whiz, UC Davis professor John Owens, made a list of the elements the social network might want to consider as it built out its recommendation and other real-time services. …