Deepening Storage Hierarchies Spark New Set of Challenges

Storage hierarchies just aren’t what they used to be.

In the good old days, you stored files on hard disk or magnetic tape.  …

Deepening Storage Hierarchies Spark New Set of Challenges was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.

Get Used to the Ever-Expanding Storage Hierarchy

The storage landscape is being transformed thanks to the introduction of technologies like NVM-Express, and newer types of non-volatile memory (NVM). …

Get Used to the Ever-Expanding Storage Hierarchy was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.

Arm’s Chances In Servers May Hinge On Success In HPC

It has been eight years since Arm announced its intentions to enter the server arena. …

Arm’s Chances In Servers May Hinge On Success In HPC was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.

Quantum Annealing Advances Woven Into Next-Gen D-Wave System

D-Wave Systems is getting ready to roll out its next quantum annealing computer, a system that will encompass more than 5,000 low-noise qubits, as well as a new topology to connect them. …

Quantum Annealing Advances Woven Into Next-Gen D-Wave System was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.

AMD Rome Epyc Processor Shatters Numeric Benchmarks

Good news is continuing to gather around AMD’s second-generation “Rome” Epyc processors. …

AMD Rome Epyc Processor Shatters Numeric Benchmarks was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.

Europeans Push FPGA-Powered Exascale Prototype Out the Door

The European Exascale System InterconNect and Storage (ExaNeSt) project has wrapped up, having completed development of its prototype system and run a series of application benchmarks on it. …

Europeans Push FPGA-Powered Exascale Prototype Out the Door was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.

Arm Adds Muscle To Machine Learning, Embraces Bfloat16

Arm Holdings has announced that the next revision of its ArmV8-A architecture will include support for bfloat16, a floating point format that is increasingly being used to accelerate machine learning applications. …

Arm Adds Muscle To Machine Learning, Embraces Bfloat16 was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.

TSMC Thinks It Can Uphold Moore’s Law For Decades

If you thought the gang at Intel were Moore’s Law biggest devotees, you probably haven’t heard Philip Wong expound on the subject. …

TSMC Thinks It Can Uphold Moore’s Law For Decades was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.

PRACE Supercomputing Resource Awards Spread The HPC Gospel

The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) has selected five new small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to receive access to supercomputers and HPC expertise under its SHAPE initiative. …

PRACE Supercomputing Resource Awards Spread The HPC Gospel was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.

On-Chip Optical Links Are One Step Closer To Reality

Ayar Labs looks like it is just about ready to put its optical I/O chiplet technology into commercial datacenter products.  …

On-Chip Optical Links Are One Step Closer To Reality was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.

High Performance Storage Sets Sail

While the natural habitat of HPC storage is supercomputing and enterprise datacenters, the growing popularity of edge computing means sometimes that hardware must live outside its comfort zone. …

High Performance Storage Sets Sail was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.

Will HPC Centers Say ADIOS To POSIX I/O?

The widening performance disparity between compute and I/O is not likely to get any better in the fast-approaching exascale era. …

Will HPC Centers Say ADIOS To POSIX I/O? was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.

The Myth Of Peak Performance

High performance computing isn’t what it used to be. Performance, in particular, has become a slippery metric as a result of the design constraints of modern clustered systems.  …

The Myth Of Peak Performance was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.

SDSC Doubles Up Performance With Expanse Supercomputer

The San Diego Supercomputing Center is overdue for a new supercomputer and thanks to a $10 million grant from the National Science Foundation, next year it will finally get one. …

SDSC Doubles Up Performance With Expanse Supercomputer was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.

Habana Takes Training And Inference Down Different Paths

Processor hardware for machine learning is in their early stages but it already taking different paths. …

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Machine Learning Chip Breaks New Ground With Waferscale Integration

Startup Cerebras Systems has unveiled the world’s largest microprocessor, a waferscale chip custom-built for machine learning. …

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Nvidia Elevates The Conversation For Natural Language Processing

As artificial neural networks for natural language processing (NLP) continue to improve, it is becoming easier and easier to chat with our computers.  …

Nvidia Elevates The Conversation For Natural Language Processing was written by Michael Feldman at .

US Military Buys Three Cray Supercomputers

Under two unrelated US Department of Defense procurements, Cray has been awarded a total of $71 million to supply the Air Force and Army with a trio of HPC systems. …

US Military Buys Three Cray Supercomputers was written by Michael Feldman at .

Xilinx Keeps A Low Profile With Mainstream FPGA Accelerator

Accelerators of many kinds, but particularly those with GPUs and FPGAs, can be pretty hefty compute engines that meet or exceed the power, thermal, and spatial envelopes of modern processors. …

Xilinx Keeps A Low Profile With Mainstream FPGA Accelerator was written by Michael Feldman at .

Nvidia GPU Accelerators Get A Direct Pipe To Big Data

Nvidia has unveiled GPUDirect Storage, a new capability that enables its GPUs to talk directly with NVM-Express storage. …

Nvidia GPU Accelerators Get A Direct Pipe To Big Data was written by Michael Feldman at .