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AI Is Driving Storage Down New Avenues

January 27, 2020 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 0

Storage systems are inherently data intensive. But the rapid emergence of artificial intelligence as a standard datacenter workload has storage vendors scrambling to design platforms that better meet the more stringent performance needs of these applications. …

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The Datacenter Starts To Perk Up For Nvidia

November 15, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

The datacenter business at Nvidia hit a rough patch a little less than a year ago, but it is starting to pick up again after a few quarters of declines and may soon be in positive growth territory. …

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It Takes Liquidity To Make Infrastructure Fluid

November 14, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Stranded capacity has always been the biggest waste in the datacenter, and over the years, we have added more and more clever kinds of virtualization – hardware partitions, virtual machines and their hypervisors, and containers – as well as the systems management tools that exploit them. …

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Europe Opens Second Front For Domestic HPC Processors

November 14, 2019 Michael Feldman 0

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center has launched the European Laboratory for Open Computer Architecture (LOCA), a five-year effort aimed at developing energy efficient, high performance computing chips based on open architectures. …

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A64FX Arm Chip Gets A Big Push From Cray

November 13, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

There are many good processors out there, but there are few that are excellent and elegant inasmuch as they are co-designed for specific workloads and then do them very well. …

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Oil And Gas Giants Build Up Their Strategic GPU Reserves

November 12, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

When you are always looking for what platform architecture will be mainstream, you have to look at what those on the bleeding edge are doing to see what the leading edge might do, which in turn tells you what everyone else might eventually do. …

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Tooling Up For Exascale

November 12, 2019 Michael Feldman 0

The importance of achieving exascale computing has been discussed at great length in this publication and elsewhere. …

HPC

Bursting the HPC Bubble

February 11, 2019 Michael Feldman 1

Historically, high performance computing has operated in a closed loop, enclosed in its own software cocoon. …

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In-Depth at SC18: The Early Adopters of Quantum Switches

November 20, 2018 Dan Olds 0

The “Great Lakes” supercomputer at the University of Michigan is the first cluster in the world to make use of 200 Gb/sec HDR InfiniBand switching from Mellanox Technology, which is sold under the Quantum brand. …

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