The handwriting has been on the wall for some time now, but Intel has quietly dropped its 200 Gb/sec Omni-Path networking from its roadmaps and will be using other technology for interconnects going forward. …
Intel Goes Barefoot As It Leaves The Omni-Path was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The growing imbalance between computational performance and data access performance has spurred the development of a number of new random access memory (RAM) technologies. …
New Memory Technologies Poised for High Volume Production was written by Michael Feldman at .
The good news about having a diverse product line, as chip maker AMD increasingly does, is that the company operates like a multi-cylinder engine and that not all of the lines need to be firing full bore for the business to accelerate down its roadmap. …
Rome Is The Fulcrum Of AMD’s Datacenter Pivot was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Enterprises are putting a lot of time, money, and resources behind their nascent artificial intelligence efforts, banking on the fact that they can automate the way application leverage the massive amounts of customer and operational data they are keeping. …
Bringing DevOps Control To Bear On AI Applications was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
Nvidia’s DGX platforms are powerhouses for training neural networks, offering up to 2 petaflops of peak machine learning performance. …
Sometimes, AI Hardware Economics Argues For Colocation was written by Michael Feldman at .
There has never been a better time to wait to buy processors for servers, and in the second quarter of this year, based on the financial results that Intel has turned in, many companies did just that. …
Real Competition Puts Intel Data Center Group In The Pinchers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Microsoft is investing $1 billion in AI research company OpenAI to build a set of technologies that can deliver artificial general intelligence (AGI). …
The Singularity Is Nearer: Microsoft Places $1 Billion Bet On Artificial General Intelligence was written by Michael Feldman at .
In the HPC cloud business, Oracle is a relative newcomer. As we reported in November 2018, the company jumped into the fray less than a year ago with HPC bare metal servers hooked together with a 100 Gb/sec RDMA network. …
Bare Metal Cloud Takes the Fight To On-Premise HPC Clusters was written by Michael Feldman at .
It is hard to say what will happen first: Switching and routing will merge, or an independent networking operating system that can do both will emerge. …
The Switch-Router War Is Over, And Hyperscalers Won was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Perhaps, many years hence, we will call the company that, more than any other, created the enterprise computing environment Big Purple now that it has acquired the company that made open source software in the enterprise safe, sane, and affordable. …
Big Blue’s Red Hat Brings A Big Change Of Heart was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Intel has moved a step closer to commercial neuromorphic computing with the development of a 64-chip system that provides eight million artificial neurons. …
Intel Aims to Scale Up Neuromorphic Computing was written by Michael Feldman at .
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 .