DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - HPC & Quantum, Max Smolaks, Uptime Institute
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Rigetti raises $79m to spend on quantum chip development
Who knew that quantum hardware could be so beautiful
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Oracle Cloud introduces bare metal instances
Hardware from Oracle, without software from Oracle
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EcoDataCenter set to open 2MW facility in Falun, Sweden
The ‘climate positive’ data center will start operations on October 15
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Penguin Computing is expanding manufacturing in Fremont, CA
The company says new building will triple production capacity
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Storage vendor DDN establishes virtualization and analytics software division
Moving further into the enterprise market
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Hokkaido University is getting four petaflops of HPC infrastructure
Made by Fujitsu and Mirantis, and supported by a cloud platform based on OpenStack
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DDN attempts to buy struggling competitor Tintri
A year after the company went public on Nasdaq
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DDN is buying Intel’s Lustre file system business
Everybody loves Lustre, but who is willing to pay for it?
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Iceland’s Advania opens ‘test drive center’ for Nvidia GPUs
Get your Tesla V100 direct from Reykjavik
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Intel is working on discrete GPUs
First devices are expected by 2020
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Catalyst UK to build 12,000-core Arm-based supercomputer
Joint program brings together industry and academia
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IBM unveils mainframes in 19-inch form factor
To be deployed side-by-side with traditional servers
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Intel’s Q3 results beat expectations on data center success
Strong sales of server CPUs, SSDs
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NEC launches a family of vector systems for HPC
From the desktop to the rack, SX-Aurora Tsubasa hopes to democratize access to vector processors
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University of Exeter moved supercomputer into temporary housing
New machine spent fresher year in a container designed by Stulz
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Lenovo introduces premium data center support in Australia, New Zealand
Aiming to replace some of the in-house IT staff
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British start-up Graphcore raises $30m to accelerate machine learning
First Intelligence Processing Units will ship later this year
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Italy chosen to host meteorological supercomputer
The new machine will improve accuracy of weather forecasts across Europe
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Huawei upgrades its HPC cloud service
High performance infrastructure will be available in Europe through the Open Telekom Cloud
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Atos set to deliver the first commercial ARM-based supercomputer
Powered by chips from Cavium, Sequana X1310 will ship in 2018
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NEC is building a supercomputer for Czech Hydrometeorological Institute
Promising 80-fold increase in performance over the current system
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American, Chinese genomics researchers partner on cloud-based tools
Genome Analysis Tool Kit will be available as a free service
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PSSC Labs claims to have created the ‘greenest’ blade server
Eco Blade promises to cut electricity bills
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Fujitsu joins Linaro to develop HPC software for ARM
As the company looks to build 1,000 petaflop ARM-based system
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IBM hopes to commercialize quantum computing with ‘IBM Q’
The company promises a 50-qubit machine accessible via cloud, but offers no specifics
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White Space 69: New and improved
Now with 33 percent female presence
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Google Cloud opens access to GPUs in its data centers
Nvidia’s Tesla K80 now available on a pay-as-you-go basis
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ARM acquires Allinea Software to improve HPC tooling
Upcoming ARM-based supercomputers will get advanced performance analytics