Today Mellanox introduced breakthrough Ethernet Cloud Fabric (ECF) technology based on Spectrum-2, the world’s most advanced 100/200/400 Gb/s Ethernet switches. ECF technology provides the ideal platform to quickly build and simply deploy state of the art public and private cloud data centers with improved efficiency and manageability. Spectrum-2 is at the heart a new family of SN3000 switches that come in leaf, spine, and super-spine form factors.”
Preliminary Agenda Posted for HP-CAST at ISC 2019
May 17, 2019 by 1 Comment
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has posted their Structural Agenda for HP-CAST at ISC 2019. The event takes place June 14-15 in Frankfurt, Germany. “HP-CAST provides guidance to Hewlett Packard Enterprise on the essential development and support issues for HPC systems.”
HPE to Acquire Cray for $1.3 Billion
May 17, 2019 by 1 Comment
Today HPE announced that the company has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Cray for approximately $1.3 billion. “This pending deal will bring together HPE, the global HPC market leader, and Cray, whose Shasta architecture is under contract to power America’s two fastest supercomputers in 2021,” said Steve Conway from Hyperion Research. “The Cray addition will boost HPE’s ability to pursue high-end procurements and will speed the combined company’s development of next-generation technologies that will benefit HPC and AI-machine learning customers at all price points.”
AI Chipmaker Hailo Releases Power-efficient Deep Learning Processor
May 16, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Today AI chipmaker Hailo announced the “world’s top performing deep learning processor.” The company is now sampling its breakthrough Hailo 8 chip with select partners across multiple industries, with a focus on automotive. The chip is built with an innovative architecture that enables edge devices to run sophisticated deep learning applications that could previously run only on the cloud.
Video: Atos Partners with Google Cloud for HPC
May 15, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Today Atos announced that the Google Cloud has selected the company as an HPC services partner, expanding the global partnership with new services for enterprise customers. “Leveraging the skilled workforce, speed and scale of the CEPP from Atos, customers’ workload management will be supported by key analysis and optimization for their application performance on Google Cloud.”
NVIDIA DGX-2 Delivers Record Performance on STAC-A3 Benchmark
May 13, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Today NVIDIA announced record performance on STAC-A3, the financial services industry benchmark suite for backtesting trading algorithms to determine how strategies would have performed on historical data. “Using an NVIDIA DGX-2 system running accelerated Python libraries, NVIDIA shattered several previous STAC-A3 benchmark results, in one case running 20 million simulations on a basket of 50 instruments in the prescribed 60-minute test period versus the previous record of 3,200 simulations.”
Diagnose Network Problems Faster with Mellanox WJH Technology
May 13, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Today Mellanox announced an advanced Network Telemetry technology that provides visibility into Data Plane Anomalies – for public cloud, private cloud and enterprise computing. “What Just Happened (WJH) is a new intelligent monitoring technology that goes well beyond conventional streaming telemetry and Inband Network Telemetry (INT) offerings. Every customer who has tried WJH has been amazed at how quickly they were able to discover behavior they never knew was occurring in their network.”
Software-Defined Visualization with Intel Rendering Framework – No Special Hardware Needed
May 13, 2019 by Leave a Comment
This sponsored post from Intel explores how the Intel Rendering Framework, which brings together a number of optimized, open source rendering libraries, can deliver better performance at a higher degree of fidelity — without having to invest in extra hardware. By letting the CPU do the work, visualization applications can run anywhere without specialized hardware, and users are seeing better performance than they could get from dedicated graphics hardware and limited memory.
HPE BlueData Appliance Accelerates AI and Data-Driven Innovation
May 10, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Today HPE announced a powerful new appliance for AI and data driven-innovation based on the HPE BlueData software platform and HPE Apollo systems. “To stay a step ahead of the competition, enterprise organizations in every industry are embarking on AI-enabled and data-driven digital transformation initiatives,” said Milan Shetti, GM, HPE Storage. “Having BlueData as part of HPE’s portfolio extends our best-in-class solutions for these customers, enabling us to provide differentiated hybrid IT solutions for AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics.”
Univa to Host HPC Cloud Breakfast Briefing at ISC 2019
May 10, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Our friends at Univa will host a Breakfast Briefing on HPC Cloud Efficiency at ISC 2019. The meeting takes place June 19 at 8:00am – 10:00am in Frankfurt, Germany. “Migrating workload to a hybrid cloud comes with expense and risks. Univa can greatly reduce the risk of HPC Cloud and save costs with intelligent workload placement, data staging and automation. A panel of product executives from Amazon Web Services will join Univa to share real-world use cases and discuss best practices.”
