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Supercomputers Bump Against the End of Another Era

April 23, 2015 Nicole Hemsoth 1

When one looks at major milestones in supercomputer history, one of the relatively recently markers rests with IBM, which began work its work to create a massively parallel system for protein folding research. …

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Where Will Future Xeon Phi Chips Land?

March 26, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Intel’s forthcoming “Knights Landing” Xeon Phi processor is certainly an impressive beast, as The Next Platform revealed earlier this week. …

Compute

Google Looks Ahead To OpenPower Systems

March 18, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

Search engine giant Google only talks about the underlying technology that it deploys in its datacenters years after they have been commercialized and a replacement has been developed and put into use. …

Compute

Lessons And Time Drive Better Microserver Designs

March 12, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

Sometimes a microserver is just a little too micro to do the job, something that a lot of skeptics have been saying about so-called “wimpy core” machines since the idea took off about five years ago. …

Compute

Future Xeon Phi Specs Emerge At Open Compute Summit

March 11, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

With the upcoming “Knights Landing” chip from Intel, the company is not only creating a follow-on motor for its Xeon Phi coprocessors, which are used as accelerators in conjunction with X86 processors inside servers. …

Compute

Intel Crafts Broadwell Xeon D For Hyperscale

March 9, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 4

The first of the server processors based on Intel’s “Broadwell” cores and using its 14 nanometer chip making processes comes to market today. …

Compute

Broadwell Xeon D Chips Give Intel Datacenter Breadth

March 9, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

The first Xeon processor aimed at datacenter workloads that is based on Intel’s “Broadwell” core has been launched. …

Compute

OpenPower Lays Out HPC Roadmap

March 5, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

When the OpenPower Foundation was formed a year and a half ago, IBM had a number of reasons, driven by enlightened self-interest, for fostering a partnerships with Google, Nvidia, Mellanox Technologies, and Tyan. …

Compute

Prototype ARM Clusters Muscle Into HPC

February 27, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

Server maker Lenovo might have just shelled out billions of dollars to acquire IBM’s System x X86 server business, but don’t be confused. …

Compute

How Machine Learning Will Improve Servers

February 28, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

In an ideal world, you would not buy a server unless you knew how all of the components that comprise it would work together for several years supporting your specific applications. …

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