FPGA
New TI SoC Halves System Costs
Texas Instruments is challenging makers of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and targeting high-performance vertical markets with today's release of its Keystone-based 66AK2L06 System-on-Chip (SoC). The solution, which uses the JESD204B interface ...Full Article
Inside IBM’s “Hollow Core”
Like any other seller of processors and systems in the datacenter, IBM is in an uphill battle with Intel, whose Xeon processors have become the de facto standard in ...Full Article
IBM Accelerates Power8 Clusters With GPUs, FPGAs, And Flash
It is perhaps a lucky stroke of timing or perhaps by design that only days after Big Blue sold off its System x X86 server business to Lenovo Group ...Full Article
Convey-Dell FPGA Appliance Accelerates Hyperscale Image Resizing
Convey Computer, a maker of hybrid supercomputers based on a mix of X86 processors and field programmable gate array (FPGA) chips, is teaming up with Dell's Data Center Solutions ...Full Article
Intel Mates FPGA With Future Xeon Server Chip
Intel is taking field programmable gate arrays seriously as a means of accelerating applications and has crafted a hybrid chip that marries an FPGA to a Xeon E5 processor ...Full Article
Wall Street Wants Tech To Trade Smarter And Faster
The HPC Linux on Wall Street conference was held in New York City this week, and a lot of the talk at the event was on high frequency trading ...Full Article
MIT Prototypes Zippy Flash-FPGA Hybrid Storage Array
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, working with funding from server maker Quanta and flash chip maker Samsung, are combining flash storage and field programmable gate arrays in ...Full Article
3M and Allied Control Cool Clusters with Novec Bubble Bath
One of the more interesting demonstrations at the SC13 supercomputing conference last week in Denver was a Xeon E5 server dunked in a tank of Novec fire suppressant fluid. ...Full Article
Lucera Opens Door On High Frequency Trading Cloud
If you think supercomputing is challenging, you should try high frequency trading. High frequency trading and traditional supercomputing simulation have plenty in common, but there are big differences, too. ...Full Article
Convey Revs Up Memcached With Hybrid X86-FPGA Appliance
Convey Computer, a maker of hybrid computers that marry Xeon processors from Intel to field programmable gate array accelerators from Xilinx, has quite possibly come up with the killer ...Full Article
