Support for unified memory across CPUs and GPUs in accelerated computing systems is the final piece of a programming puzzle that we have been assembling for about ten years now. …
Unified Memory: The Final Piece Of The GPU Programming Puzzle was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The secret to the longevity of any big corporation is a nearly constant process of reinvention. …
Playing The Long Game In Systems was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
This week at the High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation (HiPEAC) Vision conference in Valencia Spain, researchers and industry stakeholders are gathering to talk about the future of computing and how Europe can ride some of the emerging trends. …
A Vision for the Future of Computing in Europe was written by Michael Feldman at .
This week we delved into a wide variety of European projects that address future needs of systems in research and industry at HiPEAC in Valencia, Spain. …
HiPEAC: Shifting Focal Points in European HPC Research was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Cloud providers can be like sharks in that they have to keep moving forward – in their case, growing the number of services they can offer enterprises – or be overtaken by competitors. …
Battle Of The Document Databases was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
Interest in neuromorphic computing has spurred research into new types of memory devices that can replicate the function of biological neurons and synapse. …
New Technologies Give Neuromorphic Computing Better Memories was written by Michael Feldman at .
For exascale hardware to be useful, systems software is going to have to be stacked up and optimized to bend that hardware to the will of applications. …
DOE’s E4S Software Stack Takes An Extreme Step Towards Exascale was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
It might be a bit early to call generative adversarial networks (GANs) the next platform for AI evolution, but there is little doubt we will hear much more about this beefed up approach to deep learning over the next year and beyond. …
Deep Learning Hardware for the Next Big AI Framework was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
If you want to see what the future of iron to support machine learning looks like, then perhaps the best place to look at what the hyperscalers and cloud builders who account for the vast majority of processing and applications in this field are deploying. …
Peering Into The Future Of Machine Learning Hardware was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
I have been frequently asked when the OpenMP and OpenACC directive APIs for parallel programming will merge, or when will one of them (usually OpenMP) will replace the other. …
Burying The OpenMP Versus OpenACC Hatchet was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
One of Germany’s foremost scientific research centers, Jülich Forschungszentrum, will receive a €36-million infusion of government funding to advance quantum and neuromorphic computing technologies. …
Germany Makes Massive Quantum, Neuromorphic Investment was written by Michael Feldman at .
Memcache has become the ubiquitous way of loading objects quickly for most of the world’s largest websites and for that matter, for plenty of smaller enterprises that need to store and retrieve other objects from dense data stores. …
Reducing Managed Memcache Cost with NVM was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
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 .
Containerized high performance computing is fast becoming one of the more popular ways of running HPC workloads. …
GPU Applications Get The Container Treatment was written by Michael Feldman at .
With a timeline to early production sometime in the next decade (if not longer), the business model for quantum computing has been nebulous from the beginning. …
The Winding Road to Quantum Computing ROI, Competition was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
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 .
The cloud has been helping lower the cost and improve the quality of technology infrastructures and business practices for more than a decade, but implementation of cloud technologies can still pose challenges. …
Supermicro, Intel Tackle Next Wave of Cloud Demand was written by Daniel Robinson at .
The year ahead for high performance computing promises some interesting twists and turns. …
CPU Wars and Exascale Clarity: HPC in 2019 was written by Michael Feldman at .
We spent some time at the end of 2018 getting a handle on how parallel file systems in HPC need to evolve to meet the shifting demands in workloads driven by machine learning. …
Re-Architecting Parallel File Systems in the Post-Disk Era was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Sharing data via remote direct memory access (RDMA) has typically been a local affair, restricted to a single server or tightly bound clusters of servers. …
Startup Sees Potential for Long-Distance RDMA on Horizon was written by Michael Feldman at .