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. …
It has always been our contention that recessions drive successive waves of technology transitions in the datacenter. …
For those who marveled at the $16.7 billion deal Intel made to acquire field programmable gate array maker, Altera, an equal number raised eyebrows at the estimate given by Intel CEO to announce the purchase that one-third of cloud workloads would take advantage of FPGA acceleration by 2020. …
The Computex trade show in Taipei, Taiwan is the traditional place where Intel has put out its Xeon E3 processors for diminutive and graphics-accelerated servers, and this week the chip maker is indeed rolling out a variant of this chip using its “Broadwell” cores. …
Now that the on-again, off-again deal between Intel, the world’s largest maker of processors, and Altera, one of the dominant makers of field programmable gate arrays, is going to happen for the tidy sum of $16.7 billion in cash, Intel is poised to usher in a new era of computing while at the same time countering the many competitive threats it has in the datacenter. …
Everybody who is operating at any sort of scale is looking to pack more compute into a smaller space for less money. …
If one had to make a guess about which of the big cloud infrastructure providers is sitting on eight million servers globally with a potential 1,400 petaflops of compute capacity, the list of companies is relatively short. …
The server space was a-buzz this weekend with what looks like a big leak of Intel’s future Xeon processor and chipset roadmaps for the next couple of generations of machines. …
For some users in high performance computing and a growing range of deep learning and data-intensive application segments, the shift toward mixed (heterogeneous) architectures is becoming more common. …
The people behind the OpenStack cloud controller do not spend a lot of time worrying about the competition, whoever or whatever that might be. …
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