IBM did not just stake the future of its Power chip and the systems business on which it depends on the OpenPower Foundation, a consortium now with 160 members after more than two years of cultivation by Big Blue and its key early partners – Google, Nvidia, Mellanox Technologies, and Tyan. …
The progression in performance per watt for Nvidia’s Tesla line of GPU coprocessors is continuing apace now that the graphics chip maker is delivering two shiny new devices based on its “Maxwell” generation of chips. …
For more than a decade, graphics processor maker Nvidia has been championing the adoption of GPU accelerators as heavy-lifting compute engines for an increasing array of applications that can take advantage of the parallel processing inherent in a GPU. …
Back in 2000, Ian Buck and a small computer graphics team at Stanford University were watching the steady evolution of computer graphics processors for gaming and thinking about how such devices could be extended to fit a wider class of applications. …
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The “Knights Landing” Xeon Phi processor from Intel will be shipping by the end of the year and ramping in volume through 2016, and it is set to shake up the systems market in a number of significant ways. …
Intel is the undisputed champion when it comes to computing in the datacenter, and it is looking to vanquish IBM’s Power processors from enterprise systems and supercomputer clusters and to keep the handful of ARM server chip upstarts at bay as they try to get in the datacenter door, too. …
The public cloud is precisely as conservative and innovative as the enterprise customers that make use of it. …
When one thinks about the largest supercomputing sites on the planet and the approach to examining future technologies for next-generation systems, it might seem logical to guess they are at the bleeding edge of exploring entirely new, under-the-radar architectures and approaches that could spike the curve of Moore’s Law. …
Just as the fervor died down around the massive deals for forthcoming pre-exascale supercomputers in the United States following the CORAL procurements (most recently, with the announcement of Aurora—the only one of three such HPC deals that is not betting the future on IBM OpenPower systems) the supercomputing spark was stoked again, this time, from across the pond. …
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