Mellanox Roars Through Second Quarter As InfiniBand Revenue Takes Off
With the rollout of high performance, lossless Ethernet products over the last few years, there were more than a few analysts predicting the slow retreat of InfiniBand. But thanks to a peculiar...
View ArticleFLOPS Fall Flat for Intelligence Agency
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) is putting out some RFI feelers in hopes of pushing new boundaries with an HPC program. However, at the core of their evaluation process is...
View ArticleHPC Systems Post Solid Revenue Growth in Q1
Worldwide sales of HPC servers perked up by 5.3 percent during the first quarter of 2013, to $2.5 billion, industry watchers at IDC reported last week. The increase was driven by sales of small and...
View ArticleLustre Founder Spots Haskell on HPC Horizon
As a small 20-person company, Boulder-based Parallel Scientific flies just under the mainstream radar, but for those who have been in the HPC community for a number of years, its CEO and Chief...
View ArticleCommentary: Microsoft Reorg Sidesteps HPC
Today Microsoft announced a sweeping realignment of their corporate strategy, one that takes a loose collection of disparate divisions and clusters them around a few key themes. As you probably...
View ArticleMany Cores, Large Memory, Low Latency Memory Access – Numascale Shows a New Way
Shared Memory – Cluster Price The big differentiator for Numascale’s interconnect, NumaConnect, compared to other high-speed interconnect technologies is the shared memory and cache coherency. These...
View ArticleSGI ERI Installation Illustrates Multi-use HPC
Traditional research and Big Data apps are increasingly run on the same HPC system as lines between their computational requirements blur and demand for dual-use capability grows, said Bob Braham, SGI...
View ArticleTracking the Trajectory to Exascale and Beyond
The future of high performance computing is now being defined both in how it will be achieved and in the ways in which it will impact diverse fields in science and technology, industry and commerce,...
View ArticleIDC: The Changing Face of HPC
At IDC’s annual ISC breakfast there was a good deal more than market update numbers although there were plenty of those: “We try to track every server sold, every quarter, worldwide,” said Earl Joseph,...
View ArticleDell to Buy EMC for $67B; Sharpen Focus on Large Enterprises and High-End...
Dell will buy the storage provider EMC (NYSE: EMC) in a deal worth about $67 billion, reports The New York Times today (Dell Announces Purchase of EMC for $67 Billion). Dell and the investment firm...
View ArticleHPE Expands HPC Lineup; Targets Deep Learning, Lustre, and FS
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) for the second straight week introduced new server products with today’s launches aimed at high performance computing. The centerpiece is a GPU-accelerated deep...
View ArticleNew File System from PSC Tackles Image Processing on the Fly
Processing the high-volume datasets, particularly image data, generated by modern scientific instruments is a huge challenge. Last week, a team of researchers from the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center...
View ArticleFor IBM/OpenPOWER: Success in 2017 = (Volume) Sales
To a large degree IBM and the OpenPOWER Foundation have done what they said they would – assembling a substantial and growing ecosystem and bringing Power-based products to market, all in about three...
View ArticleSC17
SC17, the International Conference for High Performance Computing, sponsored by ACM and IEEE-CS offers a complete technical education program and exhibition to showcase the many ways high performance...
View ArticleNew Blueprint for Converging HPC, Big Data
After five annual workshops on Big Data and Extreme-Scale Computing (BDEC), a group of international HPC heavyweights including Jack Dongarra (University of Tennessee), Satoshi Matsuoka (Tokyo...
View ArticleCommentary: Microsoft Reorg Sidesteps HPC
Today Microsoft announced a sweeping realignment of their corporate strategy, one that takes a loose collection of disparate divisions and clusters them around a few key themes. As you probably...
View ArticleLeveraging Standards-Based Parallel Programming in HPC Applications
Last month I discussed why standards-based parallel programming should be in your HPC toolbox. Now, I am highlighting the successes of some of the developers who have already made standards-based...
View ArticleCOVID-19 Shines a Light on Genomics Research
The integral role genomics played in combating the COVID-19 pandemic brought this field to the forefront of the public’s mind as new variants were continually announced. Genomics enabled near real-time...
View ArticlePNY Draws on Over 30 Years of Experience to Offer Industry-Leading HPC...
The year 1985 was a milestone in the history of computing. In a single visit to a ComputerLand store, customers could ask employees how to get online with a 300 baud (0.3 kbps) modem, learn about...
View ArticlePowering Innovation in the Enterprise with the HPE Cray XD2000
The world has entered the age of insight—an era marked by rapid growth, shifting industry demands, and escalating technology requirements. Massive data growth is impacting organizations, big and small,...
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