If you want to understand where we are going with computer architectures and the compilers that drive them, it is instructive to look at how compilers have made the leap from architecture to architecture starting six decades ago. …
Compiling History To Understand The Future was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Having multiple related but distinct product lines turns a company into an economic engine that runs a lot smoother than an it would run with a single cylinder. …
Datacenter 25G Ethernet Upgrade Wave Lifts Mellanox was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
People have been talking about software defined networking and its related network function virtualization for so long that it must appear to many organizations that everyone else is doing it. …
Delivering On The Promise Of Network Function Virtualization was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The Ohio Supercomputer Center’s mission to supply supercomputing capabilities to educational institutions and companies throughout the state is about to get a significant boost in the form of a powerful and highly-efficient cluster based on Dell EMC servers and leveraging liquid-cooling technology from CoolIT. …
Ohio Supercomputer Center Picks CPUs, GPUs, and Liquid Cooling For Pitzer Cluster was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
NVM-Express has been creating a quiet revolution in servers for several years now, providing a way for flash storage to bypass the traditional storage stack and the limitations of interfaces such as SATA and SAS, and instead pipe data directly into and out of the CPU through the high-speed PCI Express bus. …
Broadening The Appeal Of Distributed NVM-Express Storage was written by Daniel Robinson at .
Computing power and big data are fundamental to the bioinformatic research being carried out by the Leadership Computing Facility at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL) in Tennessee. …
How NVIDIA’s Tensor Core GPUs Power Pioneering Biometric Discoveries was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
While processors and now GPUs tend to get all of the glory when it comes to high performance computing, for the past three decades as distributed computing architectures became the norm in supercomputing, it has been the interconnects that made all the difference in how well – or poorly – these systems perform. …
Cray Slingshots Back Into HPC Interconnects With Shasta Systems was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
For the past five years, supercomputer maker Cray has been diligently at work not only creating a new system architecture that allows for a mix of different interconnects and compute for its future “Shasta” systems, but has also brought long-time Cray chief technology officer, Steve Scott, back into the company after two stints spent at Nvidia and Google to create a new interconnect, called “Slingshot,” that is the beating heart of the Shasta system and that signals a return of the Cray that we know and love. …
Berkeley Lab First In Line for Cray “Shasta” Supercomputers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
There are two key barriers to fully exploring the emerging use of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) at the scale found in data centers: capital investment for private equipment, and gaining full, unfettered access to shared equipment. …
Bringing Researchers to the Frontier of FPGA Development was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
In one fell swoop that is going to cost Big Blue a whopping $34 billion, IBM is going to become a modern software powerhouse in the datacenter that has to be contended with in an entirely different way. …
Big Blue Dons A $34 Billion Red Hat was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Sometimes, you just have to be amazed by a good stroke of luck in the IT sector. …
Intel’s Data Center Group Rides A Wave Of Compute Demand was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
IT shops are notorious when it comes to avoiding risk, and this is something that we should be grateful for because it increases the odds that this increasingly compute-dependent world keeps working. …
AMD Inches Up Server Share On The Way To Rome was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The rise in interest in deep learning chips for training and inference has reignited interest in how reduced precision compute can cut down on energy, bandwidth, and other constraints inherent to double-precision. …
Broader Reduced Precision HPC on Horizon was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
It has been a long time since Europe has had indigenous suppliers of the core components that go into high performance computing systems. …
The Plan For Europe’s Homegrown Exascale HPC was written by Dan Olds at .
The data-heavy medical field has long been seen as fertile ground for artificial intelligence (AI), where machine learning and deep learning techniques could crunch through mountains of data to drive everything from research to personalized medicine. …
GPU And Genomics Heavyweights Team On AI for Healthcare was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
Recognizing that the most important application of machine learning in HPC is to replace production numerical simulation models with machine learning approximations, one European organization is pushing these frontiers with innovative AI HPC research. …
Transforming HPC Research with AI Approaches was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
The appetite for network bandwidth is insatiable, as is that of compute and storage, but our enthusiasm to acquire larger and larger chunks of all of these things is curtailed significantly by cost. …
The 400G Ethernet Ramp About Radix As Much As Bandwidth was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
There are only so many quantum hardware architectures available but as that number grows, the need to understand which processor is best for specific quantum algorithms will be more pressing. …
Why Large-Scale Quantum Simulators Matter was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Enterprises are looking at a future of multiple clouds and hybrid clouds where they can run not only their new cloud-native applications but also migrate many of their legacy workloads and take advantage of cost savings and the agility that comes with cloud computing. …
Spanning The Clouds, Public And Private, With The Kubernetes Stack was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
It is hard to say for sure, but there is probably as much aggregate computing capacity in the academic supercomputing centers of the world as there are in the big national labs. …
Great Lakes Super To Remove Islands Of Compute was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .