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Early NVLink Tests Show GPU Speed Burst
Crunching data is not as big of a problem as moving it around so it can be crunched. The PCI-Express bus that links CPU processors to peripheral accelerators has ...Full Article
Nvidia Doubles Up Tesla GPU Accelerators
Those who have an insatiable appetite for floating point performance – and who doesn’t, really? – prepare for a new crunchy course of Tesla iron from Nvidia. As the ...Full Article
IBM Accelerates Power8 Clusters With GPUs, FPGAs, And Flash
It is perhaps a lucky stroke of timing or perhaps by design that only days after Big Blue sold off its System x X86 server business to Lenovo Group ...Full Article
Cray CS-Storm Packs A Serious GPU Punch
GPU accelerators for technical workloads are apparently like potato chips. You can’t have just one, or even two. That is why Cray has forged a new rack-based variant of ...Full Article
Fat Xeons Best Accelerated Systems For Option Pricing
Sometimes you can throw hardware at a problem and speed up an application, and other times, if you delve into the software stack and make changes, that works. Sometimes, ...Full Article
IBM Juices Hadoop With Java On Tesla GPUs
Commercial applications written in Java have plenty of parallel tasks that can be accelerated through the use of GPU coprocessors. IBM is very keen on leveraging the combination of ...Full Article
Product Design Streamlined By Nvidia Iray VCA
While the forthcoming “Pascal” GPUs stole most of the show at the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose this week, these GPUs won’t be here until 2016. But motorheads ...Full Article
Future Nvidia ‘Pascal’ GPUs Pack 3D Memory, Homegrown Interconnect
Graphics chip and GPU accelerator maker Nvidia is hosting its GPU Technical Conference in its stomping grounds of San Jose, California this week, and company co-founder and CEO Jen-Hsun ...Full Article
IBM Power8 Rollout To Start With Scale Out Clusters
Officially, IBM has said that would be launching its twelve-core Power8 processors in new Power Systems servers and PureSystems converged systems sometime around the middle of the year. But ...Full Article
GPUs Take Monte Carlo Options Pricing Real-Time
In finance, an option or derivative is a contract that gives a firm the right, under certain conditions, to buy or sell an underlying asset or instrument. Financial firms ...Full Article
