To meet demand for its pre-loaded server racks, Supermicro has opened a new integration facility in San Jose that uses robotics to move racks of servers.
NVIDIA Beefs Up Data Center GPUs, Teams with ARM on IoT Devices
NVIDIA today introduced beefier new GPUs, along with a new interconnect fabric to accelerate workloads, and an initiative to extend machine learning capabilities to smartphones and Internet of Things (IoT) devices.
Startup Ampere Enters Market for Low-Power ARM Cloud Servers
Startup Ampere came out of stealth today, and is making memory-intensive ARM servers for the fast-growing market for cloud services and hyperscale computing.
NVIDIA: Volta GPUs Now Available Across All Major Clouds, OEMs
In his SC17 presentation, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang said the company’s Volta architecture for GPUs is now available on every major cloud service to deliver AI and HPC.
The Raspberry Pi Tackles HPC With 750-Unit Cluster
Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have combined 750 Raspberry Pi systems to create a low-budget system to test HPC software.
Project Brainwave: Intel FPGAs Accelerate Microsoft’s AI Hardware
This week Microsoft unveiled Project Brainwave, a deep learning acceleration platform the latest fruits of its collaboration with Intel on FPGA-based computing.
Remote Infrastructure – The New Digital Remote Outpost
No business should keep provisioning its remote locations like it did in 2007. Read this whitepaper and learn about the critical factors when deploying a New Digital Outpost!
New Server Hardware Boosts Data-Crunching for AI, Cloud
The rise of specialized computing is bringing powerful new server hardware into the data center, a trend seen in new tech from Google, NVIDIA, AMD, ARM, Intel and Microsoft.
Intel Gets Scalable With New Xeon Processor Branding
Intel has rebranded its Xeon “Skylake” processors as the Intel Xeon Processor Scalable Family, a move designed to position Intel for an evolving IT landscape.
Microsoft, NVIDIA Roll Out Cloud AI Hardware
At the Open Compute Summit, Microsoft and NVIDIA unveiled a new hyperscale GPU accelerator for artificial intelligence workloads in the cloud. The HGX-1 harnesses eight NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPUs and high-speed interconnects.
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