Compute
Large-Scale Quantum Computing Prototype on Horizon
What supercomputers will look like in the future, post-Moore’s Law, is still a bit hazy. …
Articles by Jeffrey Burt
AI
Memristor Research Highlights Neuromorphic Device Future
Much of the talk around artificial intelligence these days focuses on software efforts – various algorithms and neural networks – and such hardware devices as custom ASICs for those neural networks and chips like GPUs and FPGAs that can help the development of reprogrammable systems. …
Compute
Juggling Applications On Intel Knights Landing Xeon Phi Chips
Intel’s many-core “Knights Landing” Xeon Phi processor is just a glimpse of what can be expected of supercomputers in the not-so-distant future of high performance computing. …
Compute
ARM Gains Stronger Foothold In China With AI And IoT
China represents a huge opportunity for chip designer ARM as it looks to extend its low-power system-on-a-chip (SoC) architecture beyond the mobile and embedded devices spaces and into new areas, such as the datacenter and emerging markets like autonomous vehicles, drones and the Internet of Things. …
Code
Top Chinese Supercomputer Blazes Real-World Application Trail
China’s massive Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer sent ripples through the computing world last year when it debuted in the number-one spot on the Top500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers. …
Cloud
Getting Down To Bare Metal On The Cloud
When you think of the public cloud, the tendency is to focus on the big ones, like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform. …
AI
Making the Connections in Disparate Data
Enterprises are awash in data, and the number of sources of that data is only increasing. …
Compute
Putting ARM-Based Microservers Through The Paces
When ARM officials and partners several years ago began talking about pushing the low-power chip architecture from our phones and tablets and into the datacenter, the initial target was the emerging field of microservers – small, highly dense and highly efficient systems aimed at the growing number of cloud providers and hyperscale environments where power efficiency was as important as performance. …
HPC
Rise of China, Real-World Benchmarks Top Supercomputing Agenda
The United States for years was the dominant player in the high-performance computing world, with more than half of the systems on the Top 500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers being housed in the country. …
AI
A New Twist On Adding Data Persistence To Containers
Containers continue to gain momentum as organizations look for greater efficiencies and lower costs to run distributed applications in their increasingly virtualized datacenters as well as for improving their application development environments. …