Author Archives: Tiffany Trader

Tiffany Trader

With over a decade’s experience covering the HPC space, Tiffany Trader is one of the preeminent voices reporting on advanced scale computing today.

Arm Unveils Neoverse Platforms for Cloud-to-Edge Computing

February 21st, 2019 (0)

Following on its Neoverse roadmap announcement last October, Arm today revealed its next-gen Neoverse microarchitecture with compute and throughput-optimized silicon designs catered to general-purpose cloud and edge computing. The Arm Neoverse N1 platform, the first built on the 7nm ...

Nvidia Aligns with Colo Partners in AI Democratization Push

February 1st, 2019 (0)

AI is all the rage and so is AI democratization. Having developed an AI stack only science-level technologists could love, vendors are now courting customers with integrated hardware that would otherwise require a computer scientist and enormous data center ...

Nvidia Leads Alpha MLPerf AI Benchmarking Round

December 13th, 2018 (0)

Seven months after the launch of its AI benchmarking suite, the MLPerf consortium is releasing the first round of results based on submissions from Nvidia, Google and Intel. Of the seven benchmarks encompassed in version v0.5 of the would-be ...

AMD Sets Up for Epyc Epoch

November 19th, 2018 (0)

It’s been a good two weeks, AMD’s Gary Silcott and Andy Parma told me on the last day of SC18 in Dallas at the restaurant where we met to discuss their show news and recent successes. Heck, it’s been ...

Automating the Tedium of System Tuning

October 26th, 2018 (0)

From supercomputers to cell phones, every system and software device in our digital panoply has a growing number of settings that, if not correctly set, constrain performance, wasting precious cycles and watts. Yet systems tuning is tedious and requires ...

Penguin’s New Practice for Piecing AI Strategies Together

October 19th, 2018 (0)

AI stands before the HPC industry as a beacon of great expectations, yet market research repeatedly shows that AI adoption is commonly stuck in the talking phase, on the near side of a difficult chasm to cross. In response, ...

Massive, ‘Geophysically Configured’ Oil & Gas Supercomputer Coming On Line in Houston

October 12th, 2018 (0)

Based on some news stories in circulation, one might get the impression that the next system to take No. 1 on the Top500 list could be an industrial oil and gas monster, which would be a first for a ...

DDN, Nvidia Blueprint Unified AI Appliance with DGX-1s

October 4th, 2018 (0)

Continuing the roll-out of the A3I (Accelerated, Any-Scale AI) storage strategy kicked off in June, DDN today announced a new set of solutions that combine the A3I platform with Nvidia DGX-1 AI servers in a validated, pre-configured solution available ...

IBM Talks Power’s Future at Hot Chips

August 24th, 2018 (0)

With processor, memory and networking technologies all racing to fill in for an ailing Moore’s law, the era of the heterogeneous datacenter is well underway, and IBM is positioning its chips to be the air traffic controller at the ...

Nvidia’s Turing Architecture for Real-Time Ray Tracing

August 17th, 2018 (0)

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang this week unveiled Turing, the company’s next-gen GPU platform that introduces new RT Cores to accelerate ray tracing and new Tensor Cores for AI inferencing. Announced at the SIGGRAPH graphics conference in Vancouver, Nvidia considers ...