Like all major server-focused tech companies, HPE has been keeping close tabs on where quantum computing might go in the future. …
Why HPE Abandoned Quantum Computing Research was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
In theory, customers running HPC simulation and modeling applications want to cram as much compute in as small of a space as they can. …
Stacking Up Cascade Lake Xeons Against AMD Epyc For HPC was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Even though the race to the exascale computing is based entirely on an arbitrary milestone, it does serve to focus the attention of the HPC community to think about advancing the state-of-the-art for supercomputer hardware. …
Exascale Is An Opportunity To Advance The HPC Software Stack was written by Michael Feldman at .
RIKEN and Fujitsu announced that they have finished the design of the Post-K exascale platform, paving the way for production of the hardware, followed by shipping and installation. …
Japan Strikes First in Exascale Supercomputing Battle was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Incremental change is the secret to the success of the human race, and it is also its most difficult aspect in some regards. …
The Long View On The Intel Xeon Architecture was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Over the last two decades, hyperscale datacenters have reshaped the computing industry, making possible cloud computing, online retail, and media streaming on vast scales. …
Building Out The Edge One Datacenter At A Time was written by Michael Feldman at .
Google hiring of longtime Oracle executive Thomas Kurian to take over for Diane Greene as the head its cloud unit was a signal that the hyperscale company was serious about generating more enterprise businesses in hopes of better competing with larger public cloud providers Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. …
Google Turns To Partners In Cloud Tangle was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
The advent of scalable analytics in the form of Hadoop and Spark seems to be moving to the end of the Technology Hype Cycle. …
Big Data In Little Spaces: Hadoop And Spark At The Edge was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
According to Hyperion Research’s latest market update, the high performance computing business boomed last year. …
High Performance Computing Racks Up The Bucks was written by Michael Feldman at .
The emergence of machine learning has forced computer architects to realize the way they’ve been developing hardware for the last 50 years will no longer suffice. …
GPUs Setting the Pace for the Machine Learning Age was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
The announcement last fall that top Hadoop vendors Cloudera and Hortonworks were coming together in a $5.2 billion merger – and reports about the financial toll that their competition took on each other in the quarters leading up to the deal – revived questions that have been raised in recent years about the future of Hadoop in an era where more workloads are moving into public clouds like Amazon Web Services (AWS) that offer a growing array of services that many of the jobs that the open-source technology already does. …
Breaking Out of the Hadoop Cocoon was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s latest incidence data, cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States, exceeded only by heart disease. …
Aurora Exascale AI Supercomputer To Light A Path In The Cancer Fight was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Lenovo has partnered with Excelero, an up-and-coming NVM-Express solution provider that sells a scale-out software-defined storage platform. …
Lenovo Meshes with Software Defined Storage Specialist was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
By its very nature, high performance computing is conflicted. On the one hand, HPC belongs on the bleeding edge, trying out new ideas and testing new technologies. …
Back To The HPC Future With Next Generation AMD Epyc Processors was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Now that Optane Persistent Memory Modules, based on bit-addressable 3D XPoint memory, are finally available from Intel, everybody in the storage business is trying to figure out how to best make use of them. …
MemVerge Converged Storage Makes Clever Use Of Optane Memory was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Imagine for a second that you are Intel.
The few server CPU makers that remain in the market – AMD, IBM, Marvell, and Ampere – have more memory controllers on their sockets than you do. …
Prying Open The Lid On Intel’s Multichip Cascade Lake-AP was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
With the launch of the “Cascade Lake” processors, the second generation of its Xeon SP family of server CPUs, the fullness of the “Purley” server platform that we heard about way back in 2015 is finally being delivered. …
Intel Pushes Xeon SP To The Next Level With Cascade Lake was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
When Intel purchased Altera in 2015 for $16.7 billion, company officials predicted that up to a third of servers would be equipped with FPGAs by 2020. …
With AgileX, Intel Gets A Coherent FPGA Strategy was written by Michael Feldman at .
Add to the list of AI chip startups forthcoming new silicon based on the MiLDreD platform. …
AI Chip Startup Inches Forward with $800 Million in Series A was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
The promise of edge computing is to better deal with the massive amounts of data that are being created by the rapidly growing numbers of mobile devices, remote systems, and sensors that are connecting into the network and that are critical to the business. … “Getting A Handle On Data At The Edge”
Getting A Handle On Data At The Edge was written by Jeffrey Burt at .