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AMD Opens Up Heterogeneous Computing
Last week, AMD used its Financial Analyst Day to talk up heterogeneous computing, the technology that the company is betting on to be the next "big thing" in the microprocessor business. To that end, company execs explained how their newly hatched Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) will evolve over the next three years to drive their product roadmap forward. Read more...
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HPC Funding Models Need to Encompass More Than Just the Purchase Price
Beyond the question of how much funding should be invested in high performance computing resources, it is also important to strive for the optimum funding model: how funding is tied to the service and how it enables and drives user behavior. As it turns out, these models are wrapped up in an IT culture that is often at odds with the way HPC is used.
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AMD Unveils New Strategy for Server Silicon
AMD is plotting a relatively conservative roadmap for its Opteron CPUs over the next year or two, even as it preps its heterogenous computing technology for the big leap into the server arena. At the company's 2012 Financial Analyst Day last week, AMD execs re-pledged their commitment to the server market and outlined a strategy that puts less emphasis on high performance cores and design complexity and more on power efficiency and building SoC products tailored to specific datacenter workloads.
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Number Crunching, Data Crunching and Energy Efficiency: the HPC Hat Trick
In the world of high performance computing, there are three distinct metrics in play: number crunching speed, data crunching speed, and energy efficiency. Can a computer excel at all three, or is our best recourse to try for something less than a hat trick?
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SeaMicro Launches High-End Microserver
Server maker SeaMicro has unveiled the SM10000-XE, a new microserver aimed squarely at the burgeoning ultra-scale datacenter market. The company is best known for pioneering the microserver space using Intel's power-sipping Atom CPUs, but in this latest offering, SeaMicro has opted for high powered, low-wattage Sandy Bridge Xeons, which expands the application horizons of microservers considerably.
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Short Takes
Cray Yarcs Up Big Data
2/9/2012 |
Supercomputer maker goes after big data segment with new YarcData division.
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SGI Posts Q2 Loss as Revenues Rise
2/8/2012 |
Server and storage maker SGI delivered some unwelcome news to its investors on Wednesday.
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Microsoft Cranks its AMP
2/7/2012 |
Software maker offers heterogeneous computing in a C++ wrapper.
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The Power to Flop
2/6/2012 |
The race to exaflops could be one that the US is destined to lose.
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Cray Adds Baby Blue Waters to HPC Lineup
2/2/2012 |
New mid-range XE6/XK6 supercomputer configurations replace Xeon-powered CX machines.
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Tilera Chips In with 64-bit Manycore Processors
2/1/2012 |
Chip maker launches new 16-core and 36-core chips.
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Appro Video Blog: Interview with Sandia about Intel MIC Experimental Cluster
Doug Eadline, Editor of Cluster Monkey had a chance to sit down with Jim Ang, Technical Manager at Sandia National Laboratories for an interview about the “First of a Kind” Experimental Cluster, Appro Xtreme-X™ Supercomputer ,using Intel’s Knights Ferry (KNF) Software Development Platform for the Intel® Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture. Just for the record, Knights Ferry is available only to select individuals including Jim Ang’s group at Sandia and represents a potential new direction in HPC.
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As a multi-million and multi-year contract, the TLCC2 project was awarded to Appro as a joint procurement offered by the US Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) where Appro has begun delivering the Xtreme-X™ Supercomputer to 3 major national Laboratories including Sandia (SNL), Los Alamos (LANL) and Lawrence Livermore (LLNL). Matt Leininger of LLNL and Appro’s VP of Advanced Technology, John Lee, discuss the TLCC2 in further detail as the project is underway.
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Podcast: Cray Bites Into Big Data; AMD Commits to Open Hetero Standard
Cray launches a new division targeting big data apps and AMD offers a heterogeneous computing standard for the masses.
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