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Rescaling to Meet the Needs of HPC Cloud
It has taken time and a lot of changes in the industry, but HPC in the cloud might actually be something that can work not just technically, but as a business model that is reasonable and sustainable. …
Rescaling to Meet the Needs of HPC Cloud was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Intel Makes Money Hand Over Fist In The Datacenter
Despite the increasing competitive pressures that Intel is feeling in the datacenter and very serious issues that the company is having ramping up its 10 nanometer manufacturing processes, the datacenter business at Intel were booming in the second quarter, helping to drive a record second quarter and what is looking like will be a record full year for the chip maker. …
Intel Makes Money Hand Over Fist In The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The End Of Xeon Phi – It’s Xeon And Maybe GPUs From Here
To a certain extent, the “Knights” family of parallel processors, sold under the brand name Xeon Phi, by Intel were exactly what they were supposed to be: A non-mainstream product that tried out a different architecture than its mainstream Xeon family of server processors and that was aimed at the high performance computing jet set that is, by definition, supposed to take risks on new architectures. …
The End Of Xeon Phi – It’s Xeon And Maybe GPUs From Here was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Getting All Zen About AMD’s Datacenter Business
Imagine, if you will, that your two biggest rivals were Intel and Nvidia, and that you had to fight a two front war to storm the datacenter. …
Getting All Zen About AMD’s Datacenter Business was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The Many Machine Learning Engines Of Google
If there is anything the hyperscalers have taught us, it is the value of homogeneity and scale in an enterprise. …
The Many Machine Learning Engines Of Google was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Google Takes On Public Cloud Rivals With Private Kubernetes Service
As the underdog in cloud computing, Google has to take a slightly different tack from industry pioneer and juggernaut Amazon Web Services, which simply believes that all applications should, in the fullness of time, move to the public cloud. …
Google Takes On Public Cloud Rivals With Private Kubernetes Service was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Steady InfiniBand, Booming Ethernet Propel Mellanox Higher
Mellanox got its start as one of the several suppliers of ASICs for the low latency InfiniBand protocol that was originally conceived as a kind of universal fabric to connect all devices in the datacenter. …
Steady InfiniBand, Booming Ethernet Propel Mellanox Higher was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Awaiting IBM’s Power Systems Growth Spurt
Given the rollout of the “ZZ” and “Boston” variants of its Power9 systems, which are aimed at customers who are building clusters and at midrange enterprises that use a Power System server as their main back-end system, you might be expecting for the Power Systems line at IBM to have had a big bump in the second quarter of this year. …
Awaiting IBM’s Power Systems Growth Spurt was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
AWS Chases HPC With Heftier Instances
It has been a year since Intel launched its “Skylake” Xeon SP processors, and even though the big cloud builders and hyperscalers had even earlier access to these chips, they are still only just now rolling out new hardware systems and related virtual machine instance types based on the Skylakes. …
AWS Chases HPC With Heftier Instances was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
When Does Kubernetes Become Invisible And Ubiquitous?
The sign of a mature technology is not just how pervasive it is, but in how invisible and easy to use it is. …
When Does Kubernetes Become Invisible And Ubiquitous? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Teasing Out The Top 500 Truth Through Networking
If you really want to know what is going on in the HPC market, you have to be careful about using the Top 500 rankings of “supercomputers” as a yardstick. …
Teasing Out The Top 500 Truth Through Networking was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Intel Takes Entry Xeons Up To Coffee Lake
The line between Intel’s high end desktop, midrange workstation, and low end servers has always been a blurry one, and changing the naming conventions on its products has not really changed the Intel strategy one bit. …
Intel Takes Entry Xeons Up To Coffee Lake was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Why Intel Must Respond To AMD’s Single Socket Threat
There are so many ironies in the hardware business that it is amazing that we aren’t covered in rust. …
Why Intel Must Respond To AMD’s Single Socket Threat was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
A Tale Of Two – Well, Three Or Four – Kubernetes
It is safe to say that VMware would have been perfectly happy if Docker containers had never been invented. …
A Tale Of Two – Well, Three Or Four – Kubernetes was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
A Sea Change Coming For Water Cooling In Datacenters
Back in the late 1970s and early 1980s, big iron in datacenters started out with water cooling, which was a pain in the neck in terms of the system and facilities engineering. …
A Sea Change Coming For Water Cooling In Datacenters was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Cracking Nuclear Fusion With Supercomputers And Smart Code
Nuclear fusion, the opportunity to harness the power of the stars, has been a dream of humanity from around the time of the Manhattan Project. …
Cracking Nuclear Fusion With Supercomputers And Smart Code was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The HPC Racket Sets Revenue Records
One of the hardest things in the world to do at either the International Supercomputing Conference in June or the Supercomputing conference in November is getting out of bed and to the rapid-fire, data-packed breakfast hosted by Hyperion Research, formerly known as IDC’s HPC research division. …
The HPC Racket Sets Revenue Records was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Peeling The Covers Off The Summit Supercomputer
The irony, of course, is that there is never a summit when it comes to supercomputing. …
Peeling The Covers Off The Summit Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Intel Opens Up About Next Generation Omni-Path Interconnect
If everything had played out as planned, then the original “Aurora” supercomputer planned by Intel and built by Cray for Argonne National Laboratory under contract from the US Department of Energy would probably have been at or near the top of the Top 500 charts this week at the International Supercomputing 2018 conference in Frankfurt, Germany. …
Intel Opens Up About Next Generation Omni-Path Interconnect was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The Art Of Supercomputing War
The shenanigans with the Top 500 rankings of the world’s most powerful supercomputers continues, but there are a bunch of real supercomputers that were added to the list for the June 2018 rankings, and we are thankful, as always, to gain the insight we can glean from the Top 500 on these new machines that are clearly used for HPC workloads. …
The Art Of Supercomputing War was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .