While exascale systems, even at the single precision computational capability commonly used in the oil and gas industry, will cost on the order of $250 million, that cost pales in comparison to the capital outlay of drilling exploratory deep water wells, which can cost $100 million a pop. …
DUG Sets Foundation For Exascale HPC Utility With Xeon Phi was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
In the fast-paced world of algorithmic trading, speed is of the essence – not just for the execution of the trades themselves, but also for developing the trading models that are becoming obsolete in increasingly shorter timeframes. …
GPUs Set High Water Mark for Financial Trading Algorithm was written by Michael Feldman at .
Five years ago, Lenovo spent almost $4.5 billion to buy IBM’s X86 server business and Google’s Motorola mobile phone unit, moves that instantly made the company a top-tier player in the datacenter and more competitive in the lucrative global smartphone market. …
Lenovo Puts An Edge On Infrastructure was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
Intel’s struggles to get its 10 nanometer processors out the door has forced the company to do some serious soul-searching. …
Intel Gives Moore’s Law A Makeover was written by Michael Feldman at .
Sometimes here in the 21st century, cloudy means good.
Like most of its counterparts in the IT industry, SAP sees much of its future and that of its HANA in-memory database platform being in the cloud. …
The Cloudy Future Of SAP HANA was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
The thrust of much of the message that Red Hat was putting out last week at the Red Hat Summit 2019 conference in Boston revolved around multicloud and hybrid cloud environments – adopting them, deploying them, and managing them. …
Making The OpenShift To The Hybrid Cloud was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
It is difficult to talk about AI at scale without invoking the decades of work that has happened in the supercomputing trenches. …
Storage Underpins Interplay Between HPC and AI was written by Michael Feldman at .
With any operating system, there is a tension between leaving something that is stable and that works alone and adding new features to keep it relevant. …
The Tension That Drives Innovation In Linux was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has not been a stranger to traditional high performance computing or the emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, and data analytics that are driving rapid changes in the datacenter. …
HPE Starts To Pull AI Levers With BlueData was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
The CPU does not rule the computing roost when it comes to machine learning training, but it still has a role when it comes to machine learning inference and for other kinds of data analytics related to machine learning. …
The CPU Still Matters In The AI Stack was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The competition for the compute engines in hybrid HPC and AI supercomputer systems is heating up, and it is beginning to look a bit like back to the future with Cray on the rise and AMD also revitalized. …
Cray, AMD Tag Team On 1.5 Exaflops “Frontier” Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Hardware is the most tangible part of any system, and it is the aspect of the system that tends to get the most attention. …
Starting Thinking About AI Workflows, Not Just AI Platforms was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
As the largest buyer of supercomputers of any government agency in the world, the US Department of Energy (DOE) has relied on the relentless improvement of semiconductors to pursue the science it needs to advance the nation’s energy goals. …
DoE on Collision Course with End of Moore’s Law was written by Michael Feldman at .
DataDirect Networks announced it is purchasing Nexenta, a software-defined storage (SDS) specialist based in Silicon Valley. …
DDN Adds Nexenta to Expanding Storage Empire was written by Michael Feldman at .
One reason China has a good chance of hitting its ambitious goal to reach exascale computing in 2020 is that the government is funding three separate architectural paths to attain that milestone. …
China Fleshes Out Exascale Design for Tianhe-3 Supercomputer was written by Michael Feldman at .
Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have notched some noticeable wins as a platform for machine learning, Microsoft’s embrace of the technology in Azure being the most notable example. …
FPGAs Open Gates in Machine Learning was written by Michael Feldman at .
Although artificial intelligence is relatively new to the HPC scene, it can arguably cast as the quintessential high performance computing workload. …
AI Forces Storage and I/O Rethink was written by Michael Feldman at .
By all accounts, artificial intelligence is still in its early days. …
An Evolving View of AI Infrastructure was written by Michael Feldman at .
Considering all of the hundreds of different moving parts, as gauged by different types of features and services, that Amazon Web Services delivers on its public cloud, and the ever-increasing complexity of the AWS platform, it is pretty amazing that the cloud juggernaut can delivery pretty consistently growing revenue growth. …
AWS Is Now The Largest Systems Business In The World was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
As enterprises shift more of their workloads into public clouds and grow out their multicloud strategies – many are using three or more public clouds for their applications and data to as much protect them against problems with the cloud provider as to take advantage of particular strengths that each cloud provider offer – there can be the tendency to think that many will end up putting everything in the cloud. …
Dell, VMware Team Up To Tackle The Hybrid Cloud was written by Jeffrey Burt at .