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A New Age In Cluster Interconnects Dawns
Proprietary and quasi-proprietary interconnects are nothing new to the supercomputing space, and in fact, this is where they still live and thrive and evolve. …
Mellanox
Compute
Taking The HPC Pulse With Hewlett Packard Enterprise
The hardware part of the high performance computing market is somewhere around $10 billion or so, depending on how you want to count it and who you want to ask, and Bill Mannel, vice president and general manager of a combined HPC and Big Data group within the newly constituted Hewlett Packard Enterprise half of the former Hewlett-Packard, reckons that his employer has north of a third of the business. …
Compute
OpenPower: Accelerated Computing Will Be The New Normal
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. …
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Mellanox Turns InfiniBand Switches Into MPI Accelerators
One of the key themes to improving the performance of clusters running simulations has been the offloading of common routines from the central processors in the servers to accelerators in the network adapter cards that plug into the servers and that interface with switches. …
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Dell Goes Modular With Tomahawk 25G Switches
The “Tomahawk” switch chips from Broadcom, which are based on the new 25G Ethernet standard crafted by hyperscalers, are starting to appear in more and more devices. …
Compute
IBM Draws OpenPower Line In The X86 Sand
History moves in spirals, not straight lines, widening our experience and our options, coming around again and again with variations on similar themes. …
Cloud
Arista Wields Tomahawks In 25G Ethernet Price War
It looks like networking price war is getting set to break out in the largest datacenters of the world, and this is precisely what Google and Microsoft had in mind when they formed the 25G Ethernet consortium back in July 2014. …
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Ethernet Will Have To Work Harder To Win HPC
While supercomputing centers and hyperscalers would agree about many things when it comes to systems architecture and the need to use certain technologies to goose the performance and the scale of their applications, they often have a fundamental disagreement when it comes to networking. …
Compute
IBM Readies Power8+ For OpenPower Push
When it comes to high performance computing, IBM is in a phase change that will take it several years to complete with its key OpenPower infrastructure partners, Nvidia and Mellanox Technologies. …
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Mellanox Comes Out Swinging With 100G Spectrum Ethernet
Mellanox Technologies has long desired to be a major player in the Ethernet switching space, and with its forthcoming Spectrum switch ASICs and ConnectX-4 adapter cards, the company is positioning itself well to ride the next upgrade wave of Ethernet to roll into the datacenter. …