Author Archives: Timothy Prickett Morgan
Author Archives: Timothy Prickett Morgan
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 .
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 .
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 .
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 .
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 .
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 .
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 .
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 .
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 .
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 .
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 .
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 .
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 .
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 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 .
Sales of various kinds of high performance computing – not just technical simulation and modeling applications, but also cryptocurrency mining, massively multiplayer gaming, video rendering, visualization, machine learning, and data analytics – run on little boom-bust cycles that make it difficult for all suppliers to this market to make projections when they look ahead. …
Turning The CPU-GPU Hybrid System On Its Head was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
OpenACC is one of the prongs in a multi-prong strategy to get people to port the parallel portions of HPC applications to accelerators. …
OpenACC: Things Are Getting Simpler More Quickly was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The twice-annual ranking of distributed computing systems based on the Linpack parallel Fortran benchmark, a widely used and sometimes maligned test, is as much a history lesson as it is an expectation always looking forward, with anticipation, to the next performance milestones in high performance computing. …
The Widening Gyre Of Supercomputing was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
AMD’s “Rome” processors, the second generation of Epyc processors that the company will be putting into the field, are a key step for the company on its path back to the datacenter. …
Competition Finally Comes To Datacenter GPU Compute was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
AMD president and chief executive officer Lisa Su is fond of saying that the road to Rome goes through Naples as a way of reminding everyone that they can’t sit on the sidelines and wait for the second generation “Rome” Epyc processors to come to market in 2019. …
AMD’s Long Road From Naples To Milan Centers On Rome was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .