CXL Consortium Launches CPU-to-Anything High Speed Interconnect Protocol
Another front has been opened in the long campaign to enable any-to-any connectivity in high performance data center computing. The Compute Express Link (CXL) consortium – with tech heavies ...Full Article
Oil and Gas Supercloud Clears Out Knights Landing Inventory: All 38,000 Wafers
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 ...Full Article
Nvidia Wins Mellanox Stakes for $6.9 Billion
The long-rumored acquisition of Mellanox came to fruition this morning with GPU chip maker Nvidia’s announcement that it has purchased the high-performance network interconnect maker for $6.9 billion – ...Full Article
Optalysys Switches on Commercial Optical Co-Processor
Optalysys, Ltd., a U.K. company seeking to advance it optical co-processor technology, moved a step closer this week with the unveiling of what it claims is the first commercial optical ...Full Article
In Stock Market Return, Dell Delivers Revenue Growth, Operating Loss
In its return to publicly traded markets, Dell Technologies announced a mixed bag of final quarter and fiscal year financial results: fourth quarter (period ending February 1) revenue totaled ...Full Article
Intel FPGA Accelerator Targets 5G Rollouts
Intel unveiled an FPGA-based programmable acceleration card aimed at 5G wireless service providers handling growing volumes of virtualized workloads. The N3000 acceleration card was rolled out during the first ...Full Article
Arm Unveils Neoverse Platforms for Cloud-to-Edge Computing
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 ...Full Article
Transforming Your IT ‘Home’ while Preserving Legacy Investments
Sooner or later, every home needs updating. Styles come and go, needs evolve, core attributes come to the end of their lifecycle. But tearing down the house, or taking ...Full Article
DARPA Upgrades Battlefield Simulations
The demands of training soldiers and pilots, a domain that is gradually incorporating AI-enabled technologies, has heightened the U.S. military’s need for far greater computing power. Hence, the Pentagon’s ...Full Article
IBM Extends $3B Cloud Streak, Signs Santander to 5-Year Deal
IBM continued to make inroads into the big bank sector, announcing this morning at its annual Think conference in San Francisco that Banco Santander, the fifth largest bank in ...Full Article
