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HPC Scales Out of Balance With CPU-Heavy Thinking

March 19, 2015 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 1

Evaluating the true performance of HPC systems has never been quite as simple as tracking incremental improvements across processor generations, but is increasingly focused on how these tweaks affect the entire stack–and whether such gains are even useful from a memory or I/O perspective. …

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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. …

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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. …

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Balancing Scale And Simplicity In Shared Memory Systems

March 5, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Sometimes it takes a bit of tweaking to make a technology that is created for supercomputing centers more suitable for high-end enterprise customers, even sophisticated ones that are not afraid to take risks and try something different. …

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When Data Needs More Firepower: The HPC, Analytics Convergence

March 4, 2015 Steve Conway, IDC 1

Big data arguably originated in the global high-performance computing (HPC) community in the 1950s for government applications such as cryptography, weather forecasting, and space exploration. …

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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. …

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Tesla Compute Drives Nvidia Upwards

February 25, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

The graphics processor business was humming along as Nvidia ended its fiscal 2015 year in late January. …

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