Senior Editor at The Next Platform
Bonn, Germany
Joined February 2013
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Google Cloud has an enormous booth this year at #SC18. Think it was just a couple of years ago, they had something the size of a lemonade stand.
TOP500 list released. US owns top two spots now, with ascendance of Sierra supercomputer to number 2 top500.org/news/china-extend…
My take on Intel's newly unveiled Cascade Lake AP processor -- a more mainstream version of Xeon Phi that aims to revive their #HPC aspirations: top500.org/news/intel-steers…
The competition in #AI inference accelerators is heating up. We covered NVIDIA's latest T4 offering and Habana Lab's new Goya chip at top500.org. More are on the way.
Astute analysis of Intel's 10 nm woes in my favorite #HPC publication: top500.org/news/in-intels-ar…
#Intel finally nails down Xeon roadmap: three new processors over next two and a half years: top500.org/news/intel-lays-o… #AI
Chinese news agencies are reporting that the prototype of the #exascale #supercomputer Tianhe-3 has been completed. Announcement made by National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin. xinhuanet.com/english/2018-0… #HPC
Leaked Intel roadmap slide offers glimpse into #HPC products for 2019-2020 top500.org/news/leaked-intel…
The x86 space is really getting interesting. With Zen 2, #AMD is poised to take on #Intel in a whole new way top500.org/news/amd-may-be-a…
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#Intel and #Micron will go their own ways on 3D XPoint development starting next year top500.org/news/intel-and-mi…
The race to exascale is being shaped by a confluence of forces that are conspiring to slow down the various efforts. My latest thoughts here: top500.org/news/a-tightening…
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Chinese company is now manufacturing what are essentially clones of #AMD #EPYC processors – and it’s all legal. top500.org/news/china-begins…
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Catch ParTec CEO Bernhard Frohwitter's critique of US exascale approach in this video @insideHPC bit.ly/2lW9kGs Says monolithic architectures of US machines will not succeed for exascale. Frohwitter’s comment begins at 9:00, but whole video is worth watching.
A new first for NVIDIA: their GPUs accounted for more than half the added FLOPS on the latest TOP500 list. My take in its significance here: bit.ly/2MmjrzJ #HPC #supercomputing #AI #ISC18
Our friend Andrew Jones @hpcnotes looks at some of the quirks in the newly released TOP500 list top500.org/news/distortions-… #HPC #ISC18
Thomas Sterling on the US-Chinese rivalry in supercomputing: "It is not the Chinese success I worry about, it is the US stagnation I fear." Entire interview here: bit.ly/2K5E2LK #HPC
