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Building Diversity and Broader Engagement in the HPC Community

Increasing diversity and inclusion in HPC is a community-building effort. Representation of both issues and individuals matters - the more people see HPC in a way they can relate to, the more lik …

By AJ Lauer

Liquid Cooling Makes a Splash in Enterprise Data Centers

Direct liquid cooling is now gaining momentum in mainstream data centers — for many good reasons.

As servers get faster, they generate more heat, and that increases the need for innovative a …

Intel Adds 56-core Socketed Cooper Lake to Lineup

Intel today announced that its forthcoming Cooper Lake Xeon Scalable processors, based on Intel's 14nm++ process, will come with up to 56-cores in a socketed form factor, leveraging the capabilit …

By John Russell

Intel Confirms Retreat on Omni-Path

Intel Corp.’s plans to make a big splash in the network fabric market for linking HPC and other workloads has apparently belly-flopped. The chipmaker confirmed to us the outlines of an earlier …

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Xilinx–SolarFlare Deal Closes, Combines FPGAs, High Performance Networks

July 31, 2019

In a year of major M&A activity in the high performance technology sector, Xilinx announced today the closing of its acquisition of low latency network prov Read more…

By Doug Black

IEEE Releases Expansive 2018 Roadmap for Devices and Systems

July 24, 2019

IEEE yesterday released the 2018 update to its International Roadmap for Devices and System (IRDS). It’s part history text, part crystal ball, and as IEEE emp Read more…

By John Russell

AWS Expands Worldwide Availability to AMD-based Instances

July 22, 2019

Setting aside potential setbacks caused by U.S. trade policies, the steady cadence of AMD’s revival in HPC and the datacenter continued last week with AWS exp Read more…

By Staff

IBM Closes Red Hat Deal for $34 Billion

July 10, 2019

Going all-in on its bet that enterprises are poised to move mission-critical workloads across hybrid clouds, IBM finally announced the closing of its blockbuste Read more…

By George Leopold

Mellanox Partners with Storage Startups

July 10, 2019

As GPU leader Nvidia closes its $6.9 billion acquisition of Mellanox Technologies announced earlier this year, the HPC network interconnect specialist’s venture arm remains active, investing in two storage startups. Read more…

By George Leopold

U.S. Blacklists Sugon, 4 Others from Access to Advanced Technology

June 21, 2019

Just as ISC19 wrapped up yesterday, showcasing the latest in supercomputing technology, the U.S. added five Chinese entities including Sugon to its blacklist pr Read more…

By John Russell

ISC Keynote: Thomas Sterling’s Take on Whither HPC

June 20, 2019

Entertaining, insightful, and unafraid to launch the occasional verbal ICBM, HPC pioneer Thomas Sterling delivered his 16th annual closing keynote at ISC yesterday. He explored, among other things: exascale machinations; quantum’s bubbling money pot; Arm’s new HPC viability; Europe’s... Read more…

By John Russell

HPC on Pace for 5-Year 6.8% CAGR; Guess Which Hyperscaler Spent $10B on IT Last Year?

June 20, 2019

In the neck-and-neck horse race for HPC server market share, HPE has hung on to a slim, shrinking lead over Dell EMC – but if server and storage market shares Read more…