Evaluating the true performance of HPC systems has never been quite as simple as tracking incremental improvements across processor generations, but is increasingly focused on how these tweaks affect the entire stack–and whether such gains are even useful from a memory or I/O perspective. …
Search engine giant Google only talks about the underlying technology that it deploys in its datacenters years after they have been commercialized and a replacement has been developed and put into use. …
For a company that was formed well before electricity, consumer products company, Procter and Gamble, has continued to modernize. …
Chip maker Nvidia has come a long way in transforming its graphics processors so they can not only be used to drive screens, but also to work as efficient and powerful floating point engines to accelerate modeling and simulation workloads. …
Hoarding data using commodity storage servers is “cheap and cheerful,” as the phrase goes. …
Update to the original story post-funding and DARPA contact
When Rex Computing CEO, Thomas Sohmers, was working with embedded computing systems for military applications at MIT at age 13, his thoughts turned to much larger scale systems. …
With the upcoming “Knights Landing” chip from Intel, the company is not only creating a follow-on motor for its Xeon Phi coprocessors, which are used as accelerators in conjunction with X86 processors inside servers. …
Linux is far and away the dominant operating system inside the largest supercomputing sites with 485 of the Top 500 list of fastest machines sporting some variant. …
The number of production Hadoop clusters is growing, but far too often, that means the number of dedicated clusters just for running it is expanding as well. …
When it comes to chip companies that have claimed a stake in the future of high performance computing, there used to be more competition. …
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