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University Gears Up to Receive One of the First Omni-Path Machines

February 25, 2016 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 0

One of the first Knights Landing, Omni-Path supercomputers will be hitting the floor in Colorado in the coming months, and while one of the lead decision-makers for the system says they are expecting to see it in May (well ahead of when Knights Landing and Omni-Path were expected to appear, even for early ship programs), that buffer time provides a chance to make the necessary tweaks and optimizations to ensure that a scientific computing software stack is primed and ready for the changes Omni-Path in particular will bring about. …

CPU Based Exascale Supercomputing Without Accelerators

February 23, 2016 Rob Farber 9

Intel has been pursuing a long-term, multi-faceted set of investments to create the processors and technologies needed to build CPU-based supercomputers that can deliver exascale levels of performance in a cost and energy efficient fashion. …

Dense Eurotech Hive System Broadens Compute

November 27, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

Every supercomputing center in the world is wrestling with the issues of power, cooling, and compute density, but some have tighter constraints than others and need to have more energy efficient machines than they can get with standard clusters of rack servers. …

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A New Age In Cluster Interconnects Dawns

November 22, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

Proprietary and quasi-proprietary interconnects are nothing new to the supercomputing space, and in fact, this is where they still live and thrive and evolve. …

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Intel Rounds Out Scalable Systems With Omni-Path

November 16, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Even though Intel is best known in the datacenter as the maker of server processors and their chipsets, the company has increasingly become a platform thinker in the past decade. …

Taking The HPC Pulse With Hewlett Packard Enterprise

November 16, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

The hardware part of the high performance computing market is somewhere around $10 billion or so, depending on how you want to count it and who you want to ask, and Bill Mannel, vice president and general manager of a combined HPC and Big Data group within the newly constituted Hewlett Packard Enterprise half of the former Hewlett-Packard, reckons that his employer has north of a third of the business. …

Intel’s Plan To Grow Its Share Of Datacenter Wallets

September 8, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 11

The only number you need to remember about Intel’s Data Center Group business for the next three years is this one: 15 percent. …

A New Fabric for the Next Age in Computing

September 1, 2015 Joe Yaworski 1

The next generation, high speed, low latency fabric known as the Intel Omni-Path Architecture (OPA), made an informal debut in July at this year’s ISC conference in Frankfurt. …

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Future Systems: Intel Ponders Breaking Up The CPU

August 3, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

When it comes to systems, the first thing that most people think of is compute. …