Compute
Green500 Drives Power Efficiency For Exascale
Each year, at the ISC and SC supercomputing conference shows every year, a central focus tends to be the release of the Top500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. …
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Cloud
The Symmetry Of Putting Fluid Dynamics In The Cloud
There has been a lot of talk about taking HPC technologies mainstream, taking them out of realm of research, education and government institutions and making them available to enterprises that are being challenged by the need to manage and process the huge amounts of data being generated through the use of such compute- and storage-intensive workloads such as analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning. …
Compute
A Deep Dive Into NEC’s Aurora Vector Engine
We caught wind of the “Aurora” Vector Engine vector processor and the “Tsubasa” system from NEC that makes use of it ahead of the SC17 supercomputer conference, and revealed everything we could find out about the system and speculated a bit about how the underlying processor in the absence of real data. …
Compute
HPE Aims HPC Servers, Storage At The Enterprise
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has been busy this year in the HPC space. …
Cloud
Marvell And Cavium Forge A Datacenter Platform
It has taken what seems like forever, but Arm server processors are starting to get some legs just as a massive consolidation wave, driven as much by the end of Moore’s Law as by the desire to always be bigger, is undertaking the semiconductor industry. …
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Breaking Memory Free Of Compute With Gen-Z
Servers have become increasingly powerful in recent years, with more processing cores being added and accelerators like GPUs and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) being added, and the amount of data that can be processed is growing rapidly. …
Compute
HPC Revenues Under Pressure, But Outlook Optimistic
The market for high performance computing can be a capricious one in any short term, but in general has been growing and, at last according to some of the experts who have spent decades tracking it, is set to grow a little bit faster than the IT sector at large in the coming years. …
Compute
Gordon Bell Looks Out Into A Parallel World
It was 31 years ago when Alan Karp, then an IBM employee, decided to put up $100 of his own money in hopes of solving a vexing issue for him and others in the computing field. …
Compute
Europe Elbows For A Place At Exascale Table
When talking about the ongoing international race to exascale computing, it might be easy to overlook the European Union. …
Compute
The TOP500 is Dead, Long Live The TOP500
Twice a year, the TOP500 project publishes a list of the 500 most powerful computer systems, aka supercomputers. …