Amazon Web Services has introduced a new CPU customized for high-performance computing (HPC) and the next generation of its Nitro smart networking chip, plus instances that take full advantage of the hardware. The Arm-based...
Thanks to some engineering wizardry involving existing technologies, Seagate has introduced a new line of hard disk drives that can match the throughput of a solid state drive. The drives are part of Seagate’s...
Nvidia has released performance data for its forthcoming Hopper generation of GPUs, and the initial benchmarks are tremendous. The metrics are based on MLPerf Inference v2.1, an industry-standard benchmark that analyzes the performance of...
IBM has unveiled the next generation of its LinuxONE server, which uses the Telum processor found in the System Z mainframe, promising both scale-out and scale-up performance and much lower power use. Officially dubbed...
Arm has introduced the next generation of its Neoverse high performance core technology, and Nvidia will be one of the first licensees to offer it out of the gate. Arm introduced the Neoverse N-Series...
Supercomputers are super expensive, but Hewlett Packard Enterprise has announced plans to make supercomputing accessible for more enterprises by offering scaled down, more affordable versions of its Cray supercomputers. The new portfolio includes HPE...
Dell Technologies has announced new products and services for data protection as part of its security portfolio. Active data protection is often treated as something of an afterthought, especially compared to disaster recovery. Yet...
AMD has announced plans to work with French chip designer SiPearl to build exascale-level supercomputing systems that use SiPearl’s Arm-based Rhea processor with AMD’s Instinct GPU accelerators. SiPearl is a relatively small startup that...
AMD has officially launched the fourth-generation of its Epyc server processors for high performance computing (HPC) in the data center, and all the top OEMs showed up for the party. Officially named the Epyc...
The chip maker says tests of its BlueField-2 data-processing units (DPU) in servers results in significant power savings over servers that don’t use the specialized chips to offload tasks from the CPUs. The DPUs,...
