Cloud
Telcos Call On ARM To Compete For Compute
The hyperscaler and HPC organizations of the world are not the only places where innovation happens with infrastructure. …
Xeon
Compute
Hybrid Compute Drives Energy Efficient Oil Reservoir Modeling
It is convenient, perhaps, that large scale computing evolved just about the time the easiest and biggest strikes for oil and natural gas were over. …
Enterprise
Drilling Into The Systems At The Oil And Gas Majors
HPC centers like to boast about the details of their supercomputing systems because they are political machines as much as they are tools for running simulations. …
Compute
ARM Servers: Qualcomm Maps Out Datacenter Battle Plan
Breaking into the datacenter with a new chip architecture is probably more difficult than getting by the security in a modern glass house and literally breaking into it, either physically or digitally over the wire. …
Compute
Future Systems: What Will Tomorrow’s Server Look Like?
We can talk about storage and networking as much as we want, and about how the gravity of data bends infrastructure to its needs, but the server – or a collection of them loosely or tightly coupled – is still the real center of the datacenter. …
Compute
The Glass House Is Still Intel’s Piggy Bank
Intel had been warning for several months that revenues for its Data Center Group would decelerate a bit as 2015 wound down, and this has indeed happened. …
Uncategorized
Atos Carves Its Own Path To Exascale With Bull Sequana
Like other makers of supercomputers, the Bull unit of French services and system maker Atos is embracing the new processing technologies coming out of Intel. …
Enterprise
Taking The Locks Off Transactional Memory
The earliest paper on Transactional Memory that can be found – Transactional Memory: Architectural Support for Lock-Free Data Structures – was written about twenty years ago. …
Compute
The Knights Landing Xeon Phi Rollout Begins
The natural place for Intel to launch the next iteration of its “Knights” family of parallel X86 processors is at one of the two major supercomputer conferences that are hosted each year, which is the ISC conference in Germany and the SC conference in the United States. …
Enterprise
Transactional Memory Comes To The Storage Hierarchy
These are exciting times for the memory hierarchy in systems. New kinds of DRAM and non-volatile memories are becoming available to system architects to enhance the performance and responsiveness of the applications that run upon them. …