Recycled bits save energy
The secret to unleashing more computer power for very little energy cost could be in the laws of thermodynamics
Features - Chips
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Ready to dive into water cooling?
There comes a point when water should be prioritized over air, but the question is when?
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The new chip bestiary
With AI workloads set to dominate the future, there's an uncertainty around the hardware that’s aiming to dethrone the GPU
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Time for AI to get specialized?
Behold, the Nervana Neural Network Processors: Two new chips that Intel says will "revolutionize" the use of AI
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Building a home for AI
Design for the future today, lest you get left behind
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Processing the Edge
The future of computing will be spread across the network - from the device, to the Edge compute node, to the data center
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Phase-change memory and the quest to escape von Neumann's bottleneck
IBM plans to usher in a new age of deep learning
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AMD unveils second Epyc processor to take on Intel
AMD claims performance crown with launch of Rome chips
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Use what you have
Why buy fancy AI processors if you already have decent CPUs?
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Catalyst UK hopes to prove Arm's supercomputing capabilities
Academics aim to test whether Arm is ready for HPC workloads
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Intel’s year ahead: Xeon SP second gen, Agilex FPGAs, Optane DC Persistent Memory and more
An all-you-can-eat buffet of Intel news
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The race to exascale: A story of superpowers and supercomputers
The US, China, Europe & Japan are locked in a competition to build the world's first exaflops machine
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Inside Intel: From silicon fabrication plant, to energy-efficient data center
We all know Intel for its chips, but perhaps we should be paying more attention to its data centers
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The creation of the electronic brain
DCD reports on the epic decades-long quest to make computers more like the human brain
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The golden age of Intel shows signs of tarnish
Its market is expanding, its product portfolio is expanding, but faith in Intel’s Xeon appears to be shrinking
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Why Huawei is investing in the hybrid cloud
Going cloud-native sounds great - but it’s not what customers want, says Huawei’s Ron Raffensperger
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The PlayStation Supercomputer
The chip that started in the PlayStation 3 ended up in the world’s fastest supercomputer, and heralded a heterogeneous computing future
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To conquer the world, Nvidia will simulate it
The GPU king dreams of virtual worlds where artificial intelligence will learn to understand our chaos. We report from inside the experience machine
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Beyond the FPGA: Xilinx’s new CEO talks about what’s next
Victor Peng believes his company’s future lies in the data center. Here’s how he hopes to get there
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After the Storm: The supercomputer that saved Cray
Red Storm revived Cray, shot down a satellite, and gave birth to a generation of HPC systems
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AWS does not rest on its laurels
What re:Invent conference in Las Vegas told us about the future direction of the company
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Oracle promises apps-first cloud to beat AWS
After Ellison’s bluster, Oracle CEO Mark Hurd promised a cloud based on long-term applications development
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Google Cloud opens Singapore region
Diane Greene tells DCD that Google Cloud will win out because of technology
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AMD: The data center must change
The future is machine learning, heterogeneous computing, and lots of AMD… says the CEO of AMD
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Proprietary versus white box technologies
Both open and proprietary hardware is available to your data center; how do you decide?
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Intel's hyperscale blueprint
If Rack Scale Design succeeds, Intel will be defining how data centers will be built
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Where are my Zettabytes?
The way we store our data is changing. Max Smolaks attempts to predict what’s in store for the industry
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The age of the Zettastructure
The zettastructure is evolving to handle the Internet of Things. It will change every part of our technology infrastructure