Training deep neural networks is one of the more computationally intensive applications running in datacenters today. …
Intel Prepares To Graft Google’s Bfloat16 Onto Processors was written by Michael Feldman at .
For The McLaren Group, it’s all about speed.
Born in 1963 as a Formula 1 race car company, it initially was about speed on the track. …
McLaren Builds Infrastructure And F1 Race Cars For Speed was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
Without the right kind and the right amount of I/O between the components of a system, all of the impressive feeds and speeds of the individual components don’t amount to more than a pile of silicon and sheet metal. …
What is The Next I/O Platform? was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
While accelerators have been around for some time to boost the performance of simulation and modeling applications, accelerated computing didn’t gain traction for most people until the commercialization of the Tesla line of GPUs for general computing by Nvidia. …
A Decade of Accelerated Computing Augurs Well For GPUs was written by Vincent Natoli at .
In 1985, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) established IEEE 754, a standard for floating point formats and arithmetic that would become the model for practically all FP hardware and software for the next 30 years. …
New Approach Could Sink Floating Point Computation was written by Michael Feldman at .
As it was emerging, cloud computing was seen as a fairly straight-up proposition for enterprises of finding a cloud, putting applications and data into it and running and storing it all on someone else’s infrastructure. …
Data as a Service in a Hybrid, Multicloud World was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
The alliance between high performance computing and artificial intelligence is proving to be a fruitful one for researchers looking to accelerate scientific discovery in everything from climate prediction and genomics to particle physics and drug discovery. …
New Twists In The Intertwining Of HPC And AI was written by Michael Feldman at .
It is very rare indeed to get benchmark data on HPC applications that shows it scaling over a representative number of nodes, and it is never possible to get cost allocations presented that allow for price/performance comparisons to be made for clusters of different physical sizes and the increase in throughput that more scale brings. …
Counting The Cost Of Scaling HPC Applications was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
One bit of news that almost got lost in the shuffle at the recent ISC 2019 conference was Intel’s announcement that it is bringing DAOS, the Distributed Asynchronous Object Storage platform, to supercomputing. …
A Storage Model for the Exascale Crowd was written by Michael Feldman at .
If there is anything we are learning about the emerging chip ecosystem for AI inference, it is that it is vast, rapidly evolving, and incredibly diverse. …
Balanced AI Inference Chip Benchmarking Is Underway was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
DataDirect Networks (DDN) has launched EXA5, the company’s fifth-generation Exascaler Lustre file system platform, which will be used to populate the company’s all-flash, mid-range, and high-end storage appliances. …
Auto-Tiered Storage for AI and HPC was written by Michael Feldman at .
Qumulo was born at a time of change. When the company was founded seven years ago, enterprises were still running most of their business on premises, but the cloud was out there now and software-defined was gaining steam. …
A File System for a Changing IT World was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
Hyperscalers change their datacenters – by which we mean whole generations of servers, storage, and switching – like regular enterprises upgrade server platforms. …
Bringing Big Bandwidth To Large Enterprises was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
When Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) installs its 1.5-exaflops Frontier supercomputer in a couple of years, it’s likely to be the most powerful system in the US, if not the world. …
Exascale System At Oak Ridge Will Blaze New Storage Path was written by Michael Feldman at .
For enterprises that want to take their compute, storage and networking, create fluid pools of datacenter resources and then use software to deploy and use them as needed, Hewlett Packard Enterprise for the past few years have offered them its Synergy composable appliances that include all that hardware capabilities as well as software like OneView for IT management. …
Composability Melts Into Rack Servers was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
Over the last couple of years, Hewlett Packard Enterprise has added to its already broad portfolio of storage, which includes 3PAR arrays, which HPE bought in 2010, and its homegrown XP7 lineup, aimed at mission-critical workloads that need high availability and uptime. …
Spreading Artificial Intelligence Across Storage was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
At the ISC conference this week, HPC market analyst firm Hyperion Research offered its mid-year HPC market update, which recapped what happened in 2018 and provided some particularly interesting observations on the exascale space. …
Exascale Spending To Energize HPC Market Through 2025 was written by Michael Feldman at .
The public cloud has given enterprises a taste of infrastructure that is highly agile and scalable, that is deployed and managed by someone else and that can be paid for based on the resources use, and now they increasingly are looking for tech vendors to give them a similar experience with their on-premises and hybrid cloud environments. …
HPE To Sell Every Product As A Service By 2022 was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
GPU chip maker Nvidia doesn’t just make the devices that end up in some of the largest supercomputers in the world. …
Inside Nvidia’s DGX SuperPOD Cluster was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
We have followed a fair number of system trends for the oil and gas industry over the years. …
Energy Giant Takes the AI Supercomputer Route was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .