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Fujitsu’s A64FX Arm Chip Waves The HPC Banner High
The processing world would be a whole lot less diverse and interesting if it were not for a healthy amount of nationalism. …
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Getting All Zen About AMD’s Datacenter Business
Imagine, if you will, that your two biggest rivals were Intel and Nvidia, and that you had to fight a two front war to storm the datacenter. …
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Details Emerge On Post-K Exascale System With First Prototype
This story has been updated with new information since it originally ran. …
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What Qualcomm’s Exit From Arm Server Chips Means
Broadcom may not have wanted to be in the Arm server chip business any more, but its machinations since it was acquired by Avago Technology two years ago have certainly sent ripples through that nascent market. …
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VMware’s Platform Can Only Reflect The Enterprise Datacenter
When a company has 500,000 enterprise customers that are paying for perpetual licenses and support on systems software – this is an absolutely enormous base by corporate standards, and a retro licensing model straight from the 1980s and 1990s – what does it do for an encore? …
AI
There is No Such Thing as Easy AI — But We’re Getting Closer
The dark and mysterious art of artificial intelligence and machine learning is neither straightforward, or easy. …
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How Spectre And Meltdown Mitigation Hits Xeon Performance
It has been more than two months since Google revealed its research on the Spectre and Meltdown speculative execution security vulnerabilities in modern processors, and caused the whole IT industry to slam on the brakes and brace for the impact. …
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Samsung Puts the Crunch on Emerging HBM2 Market
The memory market can be a volatile one, swinging from tight availability and high prices one year to plenty of inventory and falling prices a couple of years later. …
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The Spectre And Meltdown Server Tax Bill
The new year in the IT sector got off to a roaring start with the revelation of the Meltdown and Spectre security threats, the latter of which affects most of the processors used in consumer and commercial computing gear made in the last decade or so. …
AI
NVLink Shines On Power9 For AI And HPC Tests
The differences between peak theoretical computing capacity of a system and the actual performance it delivers can be stark. …