Rolling Out the Advanced Scale Computing Crystal Ball for 2018
We all know where we are and where we’re headed. We’re early into the AI Era, and it has an end-game aura about it. Not in an apocalyptic, “end-of-days” ...Full Article
Chip Flaws ‘Meltdown’ and ‘Spectre’ Loom Large
The HPC and wider tech community are abuzz over the discovery of critical design flaws that impact virtually all contemporary microprocessors. The bugs leave processors vulnerable to side channel ...Full Article
Memory Boom Propels Samsung Past Intel
The turbulent—and profitable—memory chip market has a new leader: Samsung Electronics has overtaken Intel Corp. as the world's largest memory supplier, ending Intel's 25-year reign. Gartner reported Thursday (Jan. ...Full Article
Microsoft Extends Hybrid Cloud Push With Avere Deal
Microsoft continued its foray into the high-end cloud storage sector with a deal this week to acquire hybrid cloud data storage and management vendor Avere Systems. The deal announced ...Full Article
Net Virtualization Gets Real in 2017
Despite a slowdown in global investment in networking technology, particularly in Asia, 2017 is seen as the year when network virtualization came of age. Meanwhile, industry groups are rolling ...Full Article
FPGAs, ASICs Seen Driving Machine Learning
As machine learning makes steady progress in enterprise datacenters, industry observers are forecasting the emergence of a new wave of machine learning chips in the coming year, a market ...Full Article
Gartner: Worldwide Server Revenue Grew 16% in Q3; Shipments Up 5.1%
Driven by expansion of hybrid cloud IT strategies, worldwide server revenue grew by a healthy 16 percent year-over-year in the third quarter of 2017, industry watcher Gartner has announced. ...Full Article
IBM Begins Power9 Rollout with Backing from DOE, Google
After over a year of buildup, IBM is unveiling its first Power9 system based on the same architecture as the Department of Energy CORAL supercomputers, Summit and Sierra. The ...Full Article
From Iceland, HPC-as-a-Service Finds Toehold in FinServ, Automotive, Scientific R&D
While high-demand workloads (e.g., bitcoin mining) can overheat data center cooling capabilities, at least one data center infrastructure provider has announced an HPC-as-a-service offering that features 100 percent free ...Full Article
