Episode 198: Addison Snell and Michael Feldman analyze Cray's new Azure colocation and NEC's promised vector co-processor.
The National Computational Infrastructure(NCI) in Canberra has integrated IBM Power8 nodes into its Raijin petascale supercomputer.
Purchasing HPC hardware and software, as well as time spent developing and supporting applications, involve numerous options and trade-offs, meaning that making optimal decisions is far from easy. In a conversation with NAG's Andrew Jones, James Reinders describes what those options and trade-offs are and how managers can reach the best decisions on how to invest.
Episode 197: Addison Snell and Michael Feldman analyze Intel's Nirvana chip announcement and the happenings at HPC China and the HPC Advisory Council.
Amazon has created three new EC2 instances based on NVIDIAs Volta V100 GPU, making them the first public cloud provider to offer the blazingly fast accelerators.
NEC Corporation has launched SX-Aurora TSUBASA, the companys latest vector-based product line for high performance computing.
A report this week in the New York Times describes how the growing demand for AI is forcing big web companies to ratchet up salaries in this red-hot job category and sucking up all available talent. But the technology itself may provide the final solution.
Cray and Microsoft have announced a new HPC cloud solution that brings dedicated supercomputers into Azure datacenters.
OK, this story isnt about sports cars, or racing cars, or cars at all. But it is about an engine that has achieved remarkable success in the last three years. Lenovo has quietly roared to the #2 position on the TOP500 with 92 supercomputers on the June 2017 list, up from zero in 2014.
Episode 196: Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss Fujitsu's big AI win; plus Intel's Quantum Computing move.
