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 .
Containers have been getting a lot of attention in the enterprise over the past several years, thanks to them being an enabling technology for greater operational agility, especially in developing customer-facing applications and getting the code into production with greater speed. …
Microsoft’s Container Strategy Continues To Evolve was written by Daniel Robinson at .
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 .
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 .
By its very nature, HPC isn’t exactly cheap to do. Even moderate sized systems ring in at many hundreds of thousands of dollars. …
The Practice Of Collaboration Between Industry And HPC Centers was written by James Cuff at .
For many enterprises these days, managing data has the feel of a three-ring circus. …
Object Storage Tiering In A Cloudy World was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
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 .
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 .
HPC luminary Jack Dongarra (University Distinguished Professor University of Tennessee) presented a new direction for math libraries at the International Supercomputing conference (ISC) in Frankfurt Germany in his presentation “Numerical Linear Algebra for Future Extreme-Scale Systems (NLAFET)”. …
A New Direction for HPC Math Libraries was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Lustre has been an essential component of HPC systems for a decade and a half, and has experienced a somewhat turbulent history of shifting ownership followed by uncertain support from various backers as an open source project. …
DDN Breathes New Life Into Lustre File System was written by Daniel Robinson at .
A lot of money and time is being thrown at quantum computing by vendors, including IBM, Google, Microsoft, and Intel, and there is the normal competitiveness between the United States and China and Europe as well as work in Japan. …
Quantum Has Its Role, But In-Memory Is the Way To Go was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
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 .
It has been difficult for the supercomputing community to watch the tools they have honed over many years get snatched up by a more commercially-oriented community like AI and popularized. …
The Supercomputing of 2025 Looks Much Like AI Today was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
The relationship between the HPC and AI communities is not unlike sibling rivalry; both come from the same stock computationally speaking but are fundamentally different individuals. …
HPC Finding Footing in AI Present was written by James Cuff at .
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 .
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 .
Most companies in the HPC space have made the natural transition to moving into the deep learning and AI space over the last couple of years. …
Cray Bolsters HPC to AI Crossover Appeal was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
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 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 .
The business of business is continuing to move out of the traditional datacenter. …
Putting Enterprise Applications At The Edge was written by Jeffrey Burt at .