The first quarter of 2012 will mark the transition of the Sandy Bridge-E architecture into the server space in the form of the Xeon E5 series of CPUs, and a recent series of leaked Intel slides have come to detail the performance of this platform in comparison with Westmere-EP. The new Xeon E5 chips...
NVIDIA did make it fairly clear it was going to milk the ARM cow for all it was worth and, sure enough, it now has what it claims will enable ARM supercomputers. The idea of ARM supercomputers may not be particularly appealing, but some sorts of computations could definitely do with a more energy...
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) is preparing to unveil the Gordon supercomputer in January of 2012, which will become the first SSD-based HPC system in the world as well as the fastest data crunching machine of its kind ever built. The system is built around solid state drives delivering a total 300 terabytes...
Nvidia seems pretty confident that the high energy efficiency of the ARM architecture makes it a much better alternative for HPC computing than x86 and therefore is currently working on bringing this arch in the high-performance computing and server markets. In an interview with EETimes, Sumit Gupta, Director for High Performance Computing Products at...
HPC system expert Penguin Computing has just announced that the company has finalized the installation of the world’s first HPC cluster powered by AMD Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) at Sandia National Labs in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The system is comprised out of 104 servers that are interconnected through a QDR InfiniBand fabric capable of...
