HPC
Doing The Math On Future Exascale Supercomputers
We are not shy of playing guessing games here at The Next Platform, as you all well know. …
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HPC
First European Pre-Exascale Supercomputers Forgo Homegrown CPUs
It is now pretty much assured that the first three pre-exascale systems being installed in the European Union will not be powered by processors being developed under the European Processor Initiative (EPI). …
Compute
Has Arm Discovered the Ecosystem Keys?
Arm server development is a reality and a growing one at that. …
Connect
Speeding I/O for Multi-GPU Clusters
As GPU-accelerated servers go, Nvidia’s DGX-2 box is hard to beat. …
Cloud
Public Cloud Giants Fight For HPC Supremacy
Microsoft Azure has been able to put actual Cray XC series supercomputers and CS Storm clusters in the public cloud for more than two years now, and it is unclear how many companies have commissioned Cray, now part of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, to do so. …
Compute
Nvidia Arms Up Server OEMs And ODMs For Hybrid Compute
The one thing that AMD’s return to the CPU market and its more aggressive moves in the GPU compute arena have done, as well as Intel’s plan to create a line of discrete Xe GPUs that can be used as companions to its Xeon processors, has done is push Nvidia and Arm closer together. …
HPC
The Calm Before The Exascale Storm
The latest list of the world’s top 500 floppiest supercomputers was released this week and the biggest news to report is that there is almost no news to report. …
Compute
The Four Workhorses Of The Data Apocalypse
The days when the X86 processor could do just about every kind of processing in the datacenter are gone. …