It is safe to say that VMware would have been perfectly happy if Docker containers had never been invented. …
A Tale Of Two – Well, Three Or Four – Kubernetes was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Back in the late 1970s and early 1980s, big iron in datacenters started out with water cooling, which was a pain in the neck in terms of the system and facilities engineering. …
A Sea Change Coming For Water Cooling In Datacenters was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
HPC luminary Jack Dongarra (University Distinguished Professor University of Tennessee) presented a new direction for math libraries at the International Supercomputing conference (ISC) in Frankfurt Germany in his presentation “Numerical Linear Algebra for Future Extreme-Scale Systems (NLAFET)”. …
A New Direction for HPC Math Libraries was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Lustre has been an essential component of HPC systems for a decade and a half, and has experienced a somewhat turbulent history of shifting ownership followed by uncertain support from various backers as an open source project. …
DDN Breathes New Life Into Lustre File System was written by Daniel Robinson at .
A lot of money and time is being thrown at quantum computing by vendors, including IBM, Google, Microsoft, and Intel, and there is the normal competitiveness between the United States and China and Europe as well as work in Japan. …
Quantum Has Its Role, But In-Memory Is the Way To Go was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
Nuclear fusion, the opportunity to harness the power of the stars, has been a dream of humanity from around the time of the Manhattan Project. …
Cracking Nuclear Fusion With Supercomputers And Smart Code was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
It has been difficult for the supercomputing community to watch the tools they have honed over many years get snatched up by a more commercially-oriented community like AI and popularized. …
The Supercomputing of 2025 Looks Much Like AI Today was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
The relationship between the HPC and AI communities is not unlike sibling rivalry; both come from the same stock computationally speaking but are fundamentally different individuals. …
HPC Finding Footing in AI Present was written by James Cuff at .
One of the hardest things in the world to do at either the International Supercomputing Conference in June or the Supercomputing conference in November is getting out of bed and to the rapid-fire, data-packed breakfast hosted by Hyperion Research, formerly known as IDC’s HPC research division. …
The HPC Racket Sets Revenue Records was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The irony, of course, is that there is never a summit when it comes to supercomputing. …
Peeling The Covers Off The Summit Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Most companies in the HPC space have made the natural transition to moving into the deep learning and AI space over the last couple of years. …
Cray Bolsters HPC to AI Crossover Appeal was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
If everything had played out as planned, then the original “Aurora” supercomputer planned by Intel and built by Cray for Argonne National Laboratory under contract from the US Department of Energy would probably have been at or near the top of the Top 500 charts this week at the International Supercomputing 2018 conference in Frankfurt, Germany. …
Intel Opens Up About Next Generation Omni-Path Interconnect was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The shenanigans with the Top 500 rankings of the world’s most powerful supercomputers continues, but there are a bunch of real supercomputers that were added to the list for the June 2018 rankings, and we are thankful, as always, to gain the insight we can glean from the Top 500 on these new machines that are clearly used for HPC workloads. …
The Art Of Supercomputing War was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The business of business is continuing to move out of the traditional datacenter. …
Putting Enterprise Applications At The Edge was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
Japanese computer maker Fujitsu, which has four different processors under development at the same time aimed at different workloads in the datacenter – five if you count its digital annealer quantum chip – has unveiled some of the details about the future Arm processor, as yet unnamed, that is being created for the Post-K exascale supercomputer at RIKEN, the research and development arm of the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). …
Details Emerge On Post-K Exascale System With First Prototype was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
It has been four years since Kirk Bresniker, HPE Fellow, vice president, and chief architect at Hewlett Packard Labs, stood before a crowd of journalists and analysts at the company’s Discover show and announced plans to create a new computing architecture that puts the focus on memory and will eventually use such technologies as silicon photonics and memristors. …
HPE Boots Up Sandbox Of The Machine For Early Users was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
The incumbent switch makers of the world could learn a thing or two from the server racket. …
A Deep Dive Into Cisco’s Use Of Merchant Switch Chips was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The server market has been spoiling for a fight for so long that it is hard to remember a time when there was intense competition across multiple processor vendors and architectures. …
AMD’s Epyc Return To The Datacenter Ring was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Edge computing can mean different things to different people, as is the case with any new phenomena in the IT sector. …
Crating All Of The Data That The Edge Creates was written by Daniel Robinson at .
Pathology laboratories are big data environments. However, these big data are often hidden behind expert humans who manually and with great care visually parse large complex and detailed datasets to provide critical diagnoses. …
Augmenting Pathology Labs With Big Data And Machine Learning was written by James Cuff at .