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The New IBM Glass Is Almost Half Full
It takes an incredible amount of resilience for any company to make it decades, much less more than a century, in any industry. …
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BSC Keeps Its HPC Options Open With MareNostrum 4
When it comes to supercomputing, you don’t only have to strike while the iron is hot, you have to spend while the money is available. …
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Details Emerge On “Summit” Power Tesla AI Supercomputer
The future “Summit” pre-exascale supercomputer that is being built out in late 2017 and early 2018 for the US Department of Energy for its Oak Ridge National Laboratory looks like a giant cluster of systems that might be used for training neural networks. …
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Big Blue Aims For The Sky With Power9
Intel has the kind of control in the datacenter that only one vendor in the history of data processing has ever enjoyed. …
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The Once And Future IBM Platform
More than anything else, over its long history in the computing business, IBM has been a platform company and say what you will about the woes it has had through several phases of its history, what seems obvious is that when Big Blue forgets this it runs into trouble. …
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Power9 Will Bring Competition To Datacenter Compute
The Power9 processor that IBM is working on in conjunction with hyperscale and HPC customers could be the most important chip that Big Blue has brought to market since the Power4 processor back in 2001. …
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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. …
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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. …
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Exascale HPC Needs An Application Innovation Spark
Every evolution in computing hardware brings with it big challenges for software developers. …
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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. …