HPC
Argonne Aurora A21: All’s Well That Ends Better
When it comes to a lot of high performance computing systems we have seen over the decades, we are fond of saying that the hardware is the easy part. …
Ponte Vecchio
HPC
Aurora Rising: A Massive Machine For HPC And AI
As long as great science gets done on the final incarnation of the “Aurora” supercomputer at Argonne National Laboratory, based on Intel’s CPUs and GPUs but not on its now defunct Omni-Path interconnect, people will eventually forget all of – well, most of – the grief that it took to get the massive machine to market. …
Compute
The Most Complex Chip Ever Made?
Historically Intel put all its cumulative chip knowledge to work advancing Moore’s Law and applying those learnings to its future CPUs. …
Compute
HBM Gives Xeon SPs A Big Boost On Bandwidth Bound Work
If there is one bright spot in the Xeon SP server chip line from Intel, it is the version of the “Sapphire Rapids” Xeon SP processor that has HBM memory welded to it. …
AI
With AI, You Need To See The Bigger Hardware And Software Picture
Sponsored Feature: It’s a decade and a half since researchers dazzled the tech world by demonstrating that GPUs could be used to dramatically accelerate key AI operations. …
Compute
One New Feature For Intel’s HPC Compute Engines: Contrition
It is very rare for any of the major semiconductor suppliers of the world to ever admit that things are going wrong, even when we all know that they have been. …
Compute
Intel Hopes To Accelerate Datacenter And Edge With A Slew Of Chips
It is hard to say how many Xeon and Xeon SP CPU sales have been obliterated by Nvidia GPUs, but the number is a big one. …
Compute
Intel Let The Chips Fall Where They Might
This day always comes. It is the nature of monopoly and hubris. …
Compute
Intel Adjusts, However Slowly, To New Realities In The Datacenter
While chip designer and maker Intel has a new strategy and a new executive team to implement it, it is going to take a long time for changes made last year and this year to be felt and for product and process roadmap changes to put the company into a better competitive situation. …
Compute
Aurora In A Socket: What Intel’s “Falcon Shores” XPU Might Do
We are still chewing through some of the announcements that came out of Intel Investor Day and the ISSCC 2022 chip conference, and one of the things we want to circle back on is the “Falcon Shores” hybrid CPU-GPU that Intel is working on for future servers. …