For the past two years now, we have been picking apart the semi-annual rankings of supercomputers known as the Top500 is a different way, focusing on the new machines that come into each list in either June or November. …
Space has always been a premium in the datacenter, but the heat is on – quite literally – to drive up the density of GPU and XPU compute not just because real estate is expensive, but because latency is perhaps more expensive. …
Hewlett Packard Enterprise PE has a long history in supercomputing, with efforts like its Apollo family of systems aimed at data-intensive workloads like HPC, data analytics, and storage, and its $275 million acquisition in 2016 of SGI to help expand its presence in HPC. …
The newest of the exascale-class supercomputer to be profiled in the Top500 rankings in the June list is the long-awaited “Jupiter” system at Forschungszentrum Jülich facility in Germany. …
The International Super Computing 2025 conference is going on this week in Hamburg, Germany and is celebrating its 40th anniversary. …
This probably happens more than we know, but sometimes OEMs and ODMs walk away from big deals because something is fishy. …
There has been a lot more churn on the November Top500 supercomputer rankings that is the talk of the SC24 conference in Atlanta this week than there was in the list that came out in June at the ISC24 conference in Hamburg, Germany back in May, and there are some interesting developments in the new machinery that is being installed. …
We were away on vacation at a lakeside beach in northern Michigan when we caught the news that the UK government was pulling the plug on a plan for an exascale supercomputer to be installed at the EPCC at the University of Edinburgh. …
Two Gordons loom large in the history of computing, and both made observations about the interplay of economics and technology and how they foster progress, which have both been enshrined as laws. …
If you stare at something for a little bit of time and let your mind wander, you can think of a new way to analyze something that you have looked at a bunch of times. …
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