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Tiffany Trader
With over a decade’s experience covering the HPC space, Tiffany Trader is one of the preeminent voices reporting on advanced scale computing today.Why Nvidia Bought Mellanox: ‘Datacenters Will Be…Like High Performance Computers’
March 15th, 2019 (0)
“Future datacenters of all kinds will be built like high performance computers,” said Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang during a phone briefing on Monday after Nvidia revealed scooping up the high performance networking company Mellanox for $6.9 billion. If that’s your ...
Oil and Gas Supercloud Clears Out Knights Landing Inventory: All 38,000 Wafers
March 13th, 2019 (0)
The McCloud HPC service being built by Australia’s DownUnder GeoSolutions (DUG) outside Houston is set to become the largest oil and gas cloud in the world this year, providing 250 single-precision petaflops for DUG’s geoscience services business and its ...
Panasas Secures Growth Investment, Jorge Titinger Joins Board
February 27th, 2019 (0)
High performance storage supplier Panasas, maker of scale-out NAS appliances, has announced a funding round and an expansion to its board of directors that it says will enable the acceleration of its technology roadmap. The funding round, of an ...
Arm Unveils Neoverse Platforms for Cloud-to-Edge Computing
February 21st, 2019 (0)
Following on its Neoverse roadmap announcement last October, Arm today revealed its next-gen Neoverse microarchitecture with compute and throughput-optimized silicon designs catered to general-purpose cloud and edge computing. The Arm Neoverse N1 platform, the first built on the 7nm ...
Nvidia Aligns with Colo Partners in AI Democratization Push
February 1st, 2019 (0)
AI is all the rage and so is AI democratization. Having developed an AI stack only science-level technologists could love, vendors are now courting customers with integrated hardware that would otherwise require a computer scientist and enormous data center ...
Nvidia Leads Alpha MLPerf AI Benchmarking Round
December 13th, 2018 (0)
Seven months after the launch of its AI benchmarking suite, the MLPerf consortium is releasing the first round of results based on submissions from Nvidia, Google and Intel. Of the seven benchmarks encompassed in version v0.5 of the would-be ...
AMD Sets Up for Epyc Epoch
November 19th, 2018 (0)
It’s been a good two weeks, AMD’s Gary Silcott and Andy Parma told me on the last day of SC18 in Dallas at the restaurant where we met to discuss their show news and recent successes. Heck, it’s been ...
Automating the Tedium of System Tuning
October 26th, 2018 (0)
From supercomputers to cell phones, every system and software device in our digital panoply has a growing number of settings that, if not correctly set, constrain performance, wasting precious cycles and watts. Yet systems tuning is tedious and requires ...
Penguin’s New Practice for Piecing AI Strategies Together
October 19th, 2018 (0)
AI stands before the HPC industry as a beacon of great expectations, yet market research repeatedly shows that AI adoption is commonly stuck in the talking phase, on the near side of a difficult chasm to cross. In response, ...
Massive, ‘Geophysically Configured’ Oil & Gas Supercomputer Coming On Line in Houston
October 12th, 2018 (0)
Based on some news stories in circulation, one might get the impression that the next system to take No. 1 on the Top500 list could be an industrial oil and gas monster, which would be a first for a ...