Compute
IBM Unfolds Power Chip Roadmap Out Past 2020
There are two things that underdogs have to do to take a big bite out of a market. …
OpenPower
Compute
Inside The Future Google Rackspace Power9 System
The OpenPower effort to create an alternative to the Xeon architecture in the datacenter just got a whole lot more real now that hyperscaler Google and cloud builder Rackspace Hosting have agreed to partner on a future server design based on IBM’s future Power9 processor that both companies intend to deploy in their datacenters. …
Compute
OpenPower: Accelerated Computing Will Be The New Normal
IBM did not just stake the future of its Power chip and the systems business on which it depends on the OpenPower Foundation, a consortium now with 160 members after more than two years of cultivation by Big Blue and its key early partners – Google, Nvidia, Mellanox Technologies, and Tyan. …
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. …
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. …
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. …
HPC
Behind The UK’s Bleeding Edge Supercomputing Plan
Just as the fervor died down around the massive deals for forthcoming pre-exascale supercomputers in the United States following the CORAL procurements (most recently, with the announcement of Aurora—the only one of three such HPC deals that is not betting the future on IBM OpenPower systems) the supercomputing spark was stoked again, this time, from across the pond. …
Compute
Tesla GPU Accelerator Unit Grows Fast For Nvidia
The broader adoption of GPU acceleration for workloads in the traditional high performance computing segment and expansion in new areas such as deep learning are driving revenues and profits at graphics chip maker Nvidia. …
Compute
Inside The Rackspace OpenPower Megaserver
With the growing adoption of custom servers tailored to specific workloads, a wide variety of Xeon processors available from Intel, and the quickening commercial ramp of machinery that is compliant with Open Compute designs, you might think the last thing that Rackspace Hosting, one of the largest cloud providers in the world, would do is strike out on its own and create a new line of servers that will be based on IBM’s Power processors. …
Control
HPC Schedulers Snap To Docker
Over the last couple of years, Docker has become an increasingly popular tool for web-scale companies like eBay, but it appears to finally be catching on for some supercomputing centers. …