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Spanning The Database World With Google
If relational databases had just worked at scale to begin with, the IT sector would be a whole lot more boring and we wouldn’t be having conversation a conversation with Andrew Fikes, the vice president and Engineering Fellow at search engine, application, and cloud computing giant Google who has been instrumental in the creation of many of its databases and datastores since joining the company in 2001. …
Spanning The Database World With Google was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The Slow But Inevitable Shift To Cloudy Infrastructure
Architectural transitions for layers in the IT stack at hyperscalers can happen in a matter of years, and cloud builders and HPC centers can move at almost the same speed. …
The Slow But Inevitable Shift To Cloudy Infrastructure was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Two Thirds of The Way Home With Exascale Programming
To effectively make use of the level of concurrency in forthcoming exascale systems – hundreds of thousands of compute elements with millions of threads – requires some new thinking, both by programmers and in development tools. …
Two Thirds of The Way Home With Exascale Programming was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Huawei Jumps Into The Arm Server Chip Fray
Arm chip designers who make processors for mobile devices, such as Apple, Samsung, and Qualcomm, that do not have pre-existing server businesses have been skittish about entering the server fray with heftier versions of their Arm chips for datacenter compute. …
Huawei Jumps Into The Arm Server Chip Fray was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
IBM Bets On Samsung Fabs For Power10 Chips
When Globalfoundries decided to stop its development and rollout of both immersion lithography and extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography at the 7 nanometer process node back in August, it looked as if IBM, second only to AMD as a server chip customer for its most advanced fab in Malta, New York, would be left in a lurch with its future Power processors. …
IBM Bets On Samsung Fabs For Power10 Chips was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Intel Unfolds Roadmaps For Future CPUs And GPUs
It would not have been an Architecture Day, as it was earlier this week at the former estate of Intel co-founder Robert Noyce, if the chip giant did not unfold a few pages in the roadmaps for its future CPUs and GPUs. …
Intel Unfolds Roadmaps For Future CPUs And GPUs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The Vital Engines Of Commerce
It took a very, very long time, but if current conditions persist, we could see a server market that rakes in more than $100 billion next year. …
The Vital Engines Of Commerce was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Intel Bets Heavily On Chip Stacking For The Future Of Compute
Innovation requires motivation, and there is nothing quite like a competitor trying to each your lunch to wake you up every morning to the reality of the situation. …
Intel Bets Heavily On Chip Stacking For The Future Of Compute was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Talking Databases With Hadoop Creator Doug Cutting
The list of technologies that has been created because of the limitations of traditional, enterprise-grade relational databases is quite long, and yet these tried and true technologies persist at the heart of the modern enterprise. …
Talking Databases With Hadoop Creator Doug Cutting was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Exploring The Frontiers of Chemistry With HPC
The husband and wife team of Abdurrahman and Tülay Ateşin are experimental scientists who unexpectedly became involved with supercomputers when they moved to Texas in 2013. …
Exploring The Frontiers of Chemistry With HPC was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Programmable Networks Get a Bigger Foot In The Datacenter Door
Barefoot Networks is on a mission, and it is a simple one: To give datacenter switches the same kind of openness and programmability that X86 servers have enjoyed for decades in the datacenter. …
Programmable Networks Get a Bigger Foot In The Datacenter Door was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Atos Rejiggers Sequana Supercomputers, Adds AMD Rome CPUs
The Sequana line of supercomputers from the Bull division of Atos offers some of the highest compute density available in the HPC realm. …
Atos Rejiggers Sequana Supercomputers, Adds AMD Rome CPUs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Opening Up The Aperture On The World With Summit
We have spent the past several years speculating about what the “Summit” supercomputer built by IBM, Nvidia, and Mellanox Technologies for the US Department of Energy and installed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory might be. …
Opening Up The Aperture On The World With Summit was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
AWS Tests The Waters With Homegrown Arm Servers
What is the difference between a SmartNIC and a server processor? …
AWS Tests The Waters With Homegrown Arm Servers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
One Linux Stack To Rule HPC And AI
It is amazing how fast open source Linux displaced open systems Unix from the HPC datacenters of the world. …
One Linux Stack To Rule HPC And AI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Applying Machine Learning At The Front End Of HPC
IBM and the other vendors who are bidding on the CORAL2 systems for the US Department of Energy can’t talk about those bids, which are in flight, and Big Blue and its partners in building the “Summit” supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and “Sierra” at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory – that would be Nvidia for GPUs and Mellanox Technologies for InfiniBand interconnect – are all about publicly focusing on the present, since these two machines are at the top of the flops charts now. …
Applying Machine Learning At The Front End Of HPC was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The Confluence Of HPC And AI Flows Through The GPU
Nvidia co-founder and chief executive officer, Jensen Huang, would be the first one to tell you that the graphics chip maker was an unintended innovator in supercomputing, that what the engineers who created the first Nvidia GPUs were really trying to do was enable 3D video games. …
The Confluence Of HPC And AI Flows Through The GPU was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Interconnect Pioneer On Bridging HPC, Hyperscale Divide
The HPC market is opening up in a lot of different ways these days, and Cray is right smack dab in the middle of all of this change, embracing it. …
Interconnect Pioneer On Bridging HPC, Hyperscale Divide was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Gearing Up For Exascale And Its Trickle Down With Lenovo
Lenovo is, among all of the major suppliers of HPC systems in the world, perhaps uniquely positioned to have a very large share of the HPC market. …
Gearing Up For Exascale And Its Trickle Down With Lenovo was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
OpenMP Reaches Into The Parallel Universe Of GPUs
OpenMP is probably the most popular tool in the world to parallelize applications running on processors, but ironically it is not a product, but rather a specification that those who make compilers and middleware use to implement their own ways of parallelizing code to run on multicore processors and now, GPU accelerators. …
OpenMP Reaches Into The Parallel Universe Of GPUs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .