Compute
Big Blue Open Sources Power Chip Instruction Set
It has been a long time coming, and it might have been better if this had been done a decade ago. …
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Compute
Talking High Bandwidth With IBM’s Power10 Architect
As the lead engineer on the Power10 processor, Bill Starke already knows what most of us have to guess about Big Blue’s next iteration in a processor family that has been in the enterprise market in one form or another for nearly three decades. …
Compute
A New Era In Servers Is Starting Now
You know the world is a different place when shipping 2.58 million servers in a quarter feels like a slowdown, a disappointment, and perhaps a leading indicator of an overall economic slowdown in the world. …
HPC
Japan’s K Computer Shutdown Marks the End of an Era
Earlier this week, the RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS) announced that in August it will pull the plug on its flagship HPC system, the K computer. …
HPC
CPU Wars and Exascale Clarity: HPC in 2019
The year ahead for high performance computing promises some interesting twists and turns. …
Compute
One Linux Stack To Rule HPC And AI
It is amazing how fast open source Linux displaced open systems Unix from the HPC datacenters of the world. …
Compute
Moving Graph Analytics Testing On Supercomputers Forward
If it’s the SC18 supercomputing conference, then there must be lists. …
AI
Inferring The Future Of The FPGA, And Then Making It
Technologies often start out in one place and then find themselves in another. …
Compute
Trading Off Security And Performance Thanks To Spectre And Meltdown
The revelations by Google’s Project Zero team earlier this year of the Spectre and Meltdown speculative execution vulnerabilities in most of processors that have powered servers and PCs for the past couple of decades shook the industry as Intel and other chip makers scrambled to mitigate the risk of the threats in the short term and then implement plans to incorporate the mitigation techniques into future versions of the silicon. …
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Slicing Into The Post-K Supercomputer’s Tofu D Interconnect
Fujitsu has given us a peek at the future A64FX Arm server processor that it has forged for the future “Post-K” supercomputer that is being built by the Japanese government for the RIKEN laboratory, arguably the hotbed of HPC in the Land of the Rising Sun. …