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Micron Exposes the Double Life of Memory with Automata Processor
If we had to take a pick from some of the most compelling announcements from SC13, the news from memory vendor (although that narrow distinction may soon change) Micron about its new Automata processor...
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Intel Brings Knights to the Roundtable at SC13
This week during SC13, Intel hosted a roundtable session to discuss the future of its upcoming Knights Landing product, hitting on where the key benefits are expected for technical computing users and...
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Micron, Intel Reveal Memory Slice of Knight’s Landing
As we move into the pre-exascale era, issues of power consumption, network bandwidth, I/O and other issues will continue to push increasing integration. This was a key theme during the International...
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Japan Concludes Exascale Feasibility Study
One of the leading contenders in the race to establish an exascale supercomputer has published the results of a feasibility study began in 2012, exploring ways to achieve high-bandwidth sufficient for...
View ArticleCo-designing for Big Data in Barcelona
The third annual Big Data and Extreme Computing conference gathered in Barcelona last month, bringing more than 100 experts from around the world together to report on ground-breaking research at the...
View ArticleMicron Reveals HPC Ambitions with Convey Purchase
If you’re looking to establish yourself as an HPC player, you can either develop the technology yourself or purchase an established HPC company. Today, advanced memory maker Micron went with the latter...
View ArticleISC 2015 Keynoter Thomas Sterling on Memory in HPC
The Wednesday keynote at this year’s ISC High Performance conference by HPC veteran Dr. Thomas Sterling promises to be an enlightening and lively presentation of the HPC year in review. And if previous...
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HP Removes Memristors from Its ‘Machine’ Roadmap Until Further Notice
One year after Hewlett-Packard launched its ambitious “this will change everything” project called “The Machine,” the company is making some concessions to its initial vision, something it says is...
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Micron Steers Roadmap Around Memory Scaling Obstacles
In a packed session at IDF 2015 in San Francisco last week, Scott Graham, Micron’s general manager of Hybrid Memory, discussed some of the key themes occurring in the memory landscape from Micron’s...
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Knowm Snaps in Final Piece of Memristor Puzzle
Adaptive computing company Knowm Inc. says it has cleared a major technological hurdle in the pursuit of practical artificial neural network (ANN) chips that has stymied deeper-pocketed competitors,...
View ArticleThe Promise and Progress of NVM Express
The high-performance computing community has started to take notice of Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) technology. This communications interface and protocol was developed for SSDs by NVM Express...
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SGI UV 3000 Sets New Throughput Records
Today SGI’s Gabriel Broner announced that the company’s SGI UV 3000 system had set two new benchmarking records, demonstrating the machine’s advanced throughput prowess enabled by its shared memory...
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IBM Puts 3D XPoint on Notice with 3 Bits/Cell PCM Breakthrough
IBM scientists have broken new ground in the development of a phase change memory technology (PCM) that puts a target on competing 3D XPoint technology from Intel and Micron. IBM successfully stored 3...
View ArticleMicron, Intel Prepare to Launch 3D XPoint Memory
Micron Technology Inc. used last week’s Flash Memory Summit to roll out its new line of 3D XPoint memory technology jointly developed with Intel Corp. while demonstrating the technology in solid-state...
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STREAM Benchmark Author McCalpin Traces System Balance Trends
When Dr. John D. McCalpin introduced the STREAM benchmark in 1991, it had already become become clear that peak arithmetic rate was not an adequate measure of system performance for many applications....
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Research Team Propels In-Memory Arithmetic
A team of top international scientists is working to create memory chips that double as processing elements, a breakthrough that could pave the way for novel computing approaches. Researchers from...
View ArticleIntel Ships Drives Based on 3D XPoint Non-volatile Memory
Intel Corp. has begun shipping new storage drives based on its 3D XPoint non-volatile memory technology as it targets data-driven workloads. Intel’s new Optane solid-state drives, designated P4800X,...
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HPE’s Memory-centric The Machine Coming into View, Opens ARMs to 3rd-party...
Announced three years ago, HPE’s The Machine is said to be the largest R&D program in the venerable company’s history, one that could be progressing toward the epic grandeur envisioned by HP (then,...
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SKA Astronomy Project Gets Boost with Hybrid Memory Cube
An ambitious astronomy effort designed to peer back to the origins of the universe and map the formation of galaxies is underpinned by an emerging memory technology that seeks to move computing...
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MIT, ETH Develop Scheme to Boost On-package DRAM Performance 50%
It’s no secret memory-to-processor bottlenecks have become a chief obstacle in boosting computer performance. Recent efforts to place DRAM onto chip packages have helped mitigate the problem, but the...
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