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The Fourth Wave Of FPGA Compute

Ahead of The Next FPGA Platform event that we hosted recently in San Jose, we talked to Manoj Roge, vice president of product planning and business development at Achronix, about the three waves of FPGAs that have occurred over the past three decades, and in the course of our live conversation, we got a little more insight into the addressable market for FPGAs and also talked about the fourth wave, which is just starting now. …

The Fourth Wave Of FPGA Compute was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Putting In-Memory Processing Through The Paces

From a conceptual standpoint, the idea of embedding processing within main memory makes logical sense since it would eliminate many layers of latency between compute and memory in modern systems and make the parallel processing inherent in many workloads overlay elegantly onto the distributed compute and storage components to speed up processing. …

Putting In-Memory Processing Through The Paces was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Using Bayesian Inference To Reverse Engineer Decades Of HPC

A collaboration including the University of Oxford, University of British Columbia, Intel, New York University, CERN, and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center is working to make it practical to incorporate of Bayesian inference into scientific simulators. …

Using Bayesian Inference To Reverse Engineer Decades Of HPC was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Making The Red Hat Platform Bet Pay Off For Big Blue

In the long run of the history of International Business Machines, a conglomerate established back in 1911 whose Electric Tabulating System was custom built by Herman Hollerith for the federal government in the United States for the 1890 census and then commercialized, the acquisition of Red Hat by Big Blue might, in hindsight many years from now, turn out to be the most significant of the many transitions that IBM has undergone. …

Making The Red Hat Platform Bet Pay Off For Big Blue was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

The GPU Is The Worst – And Best – Thing To Happen To The FPGA

A decade or so before the GPU started storming the datacenter thanks to Nvidia’s Tesla GPU accelerators and their CUDA parallel programming environment and CPU offload model, FPGAs were starting to gain traction as accelerators in their own right. …

The GPU Is The Worst – And Best – Thing To Happen To The FPGA was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

The Supercomputing Efficiency Curve Bends In The Right Direction

Things get a little wonky at exascale and hyperscale. Things that don’t matter quite as much at enterprise scale, such as the cost or the performance per watt or the performance per dollar per watt for a system or a cluster, end up dominating the buying decisions. …

The Supercomputing Efficiency Curve Bends In The Right Direction was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Doing The Math On Fractal HPC

At every key leap in processing capacity in high performance computing – and just rattling off more than two decades from teraflops through petaflops, and now on the verge of exaflops in two years or so – there has been this tension between custom-built systems that break through performance barriers and more general purpose machines based on more off of the shelf components that cost less and tend to be fast followers. …

Doing The Math On Fractal HPC was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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