Researchers Scrutinize Optane Memory Performance
When Intel starts shipping its “Cascade Lake” Xeons in volume soon, it will mark a turning point in the server space. …
Researchers Scrutinize Optane Memory Performance was written by Michael Feldman at .
Intel Offers Up Yet Another Accelerator Interconnect Technology
This week Intel unveiled Compute Express Link (CXL), the chipmaker’s own cache coherent accelerator interconnect that it is grooming to become the industry standard. …
Intel Offers Up Yet Another Accelerator Interconnect Technology was written by Michael Feldman at .
Inside Facebook’s Future Machine Learning Platforms
The hyperscalers and cloud builders of the world build things that often look and feel like supercomputers if you squint your eyes a little, but if you look closely, you can often see some pretty big differences. …
Inside Facebook’s Future Machine Learning Platforms was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
AI Infrastructure Needs Systems Level Thinkers
If we are talking about infrastructure it might seem obvious to take a systems-level view. …
AI Infrastructure Needs Systems Level Thinkers was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Summit Simulations to Change How we Drive and Explore Space
At the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee, Professor Joe Oefelein, from the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech, is heading up a team of researchers working to solve the multifaceted grand challenge of simulating turbulent reactive flows in propulsion and power systems. …
Summit Simulations to Change How we Drive and Explore Space was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The Evolving Infrastructure at the Edge
The edge is getting a lot of attention these days, given the fast-growing amount of data that is being generated by the proliferation of devices and systems located outside of the traditional core datacenter. …
The Evolving Infrastructure at the Edge was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
NVM-Express Storage Goes Mainstream Over Ethernet Fabrics
Among the emerging themes for 2019 in the datacenter, one of them is that NVM-Express is finding its place in the storage hierarchy. …
NVM-Express Storage Goes Mainstream Over Ethernet Fabrics was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Voracious Appetite For Compute Is The New Normal
The hyperscalers and cloud builders of the world put a third of their installed base into the trash compactor every year because it is much less costly for them to keep upgrading machinery than it is to operate older stuff that eats space and burns power and cooling less efficiently. …
Voracious Appetite For Compute Is The New Normal was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Connecting The Dots On Why Nvidia Is Buying Mellanox
The related but distinct HPC and AI markets gave Nvidia a taste for building systems, and it looks like the company wants to control more of the hardware and systems software stack than it currently does given that it is willing to shell out $6.9 billion – just about all of the cash it has on hand – to acquire high-end networking equipment provider and long-time partner Mellanox Technologies. …
Connecting The Dots On Why Nvidia Is Buying Mellanox was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Startup Sheds Some Light On Optical Processing
Optalysys, a startup based in the United Kingdom, has introduced an entry-level optical coprocessor, the first such system of its kind on the market. …
Startup Sheds Some Light On Optical Processing was written by Michael Feldman at .
IBM Pumps Up The Volume On Its Quantum Computing Effort
IBM has announced that it has achieved a new high-water mark in “quantum volume,” a metric the company is using to assess the capability of its quantum computers. …
IBM Pumps Up The Volume On Its Quantum Computing Effort was written by Michael Feldman at .
Lighting a Fire Under Liquid Immersion Cooling
As server racks become more thermally dense, the costs and logistics of conventional cooling becomes ever-more challenging. …
Lighting a Fire Under Liquid Immersion Cooling was written by Michael Feldman at .
NOAA Faces Winds of Architectural Change
When it comes to making swift pivots to keep pace with the newest architectural innovations, organizations like weather and climate prediction-focused NOAA have major constraints. …
NOAA Faces Winds of Architectural Change was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
One Step Closer to Deep Learning on Neuromorphic Hardware
A group of researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a tool that can cross-train standard convolutional neural networks (CNN) to a spiking neural model that can be used on neuromorphic processors. …
One Step Closer to Deep Learning on Neuromorphic Hardware was written by Michael Feldman at .
U.S. Air Force Adds to Supercomputer Arsenal
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has officially inaugurated its four newest supercomputers in a ribbon cutting ceremony at the AFRL DoD Supercomputing Resource Center (DRSC). …
U.S. Air Force Adds to Supercomputer Arsenal was written by Michael Feldman at .
An Introduction to SmartNICs
Mellanox has become a leading provider of networking hardware, particularly at the high performance end of the market where the company accounts for more than 70 per cent of ports shipped with speeds above 10GbE according to Crehan Research. …
An Introduction to SmartNICs was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Summit Supercomputer Clears Path to Seismic Discoveries
“The goal is to image the earth’s interior on a 3D scale,” says Jeroen Tromp, Blair Professor of Geology at Princeton University, leader of a team carrying out seismic research at the Oak Ridge Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee. …
Summit Supercomputer Clears Path to Seismic Discoveries was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
The New Bellwether For Enterprise IT
The amount of rejiggering among the IT vendors serving enterprise customers (as distinct from hyperscalers, cloud builders, and HPC centers) in the past decade and a half has been astounding. …
The New Bellwether For Enterprise IT was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Arm Sharpens Its Edge With The “Helios” Neoverse E1
For the past decade, we have documented the attempted rise of ARM processors in the datacenter, specifically in general purpose servers. …
Arm Sharpens Its Edge With The “Helios” Neoverse E1 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
AMD Takes High Performance Computing to the Edge
As the definition of high performance computing has morphed into some a lot broader than that just supercomputing, nearly every IT sector is adopting the technology as one of its own. …
AMD Takes High Performance Computing to the Edge was written by Michael Feldman at .