Based on HPE's Apollo 70 the Astra supercomputer will be comprised of 2,592 dual-socket nodes, containing 145,000 cores—the largest such system the company has delivered. Each node will have two 28-core Cavium ThunderX2 processors running at 2.0 GHz. The nodes will draw 1.2 MW of power. The Astra supercomputer is the first deployment of the of the Department of Energy’s … Read more
Basemark just released its Basemark GPU, a new graphics performance evaluation tool for systems with Vulkan 1.0, OpenGL 4.5, or OpenGL ES 3.1 graphics APIs. This tool, says the company, enables the industry to objectively and reliably quantify and compare graphics performance of next-generation mobile, automotive, and desktop processors. “We have poured all of our soul and expertise in making … Read more
If you were lucky enough to get to go to the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference in Salt Lake City, and if you were one of the twenty lucky enough once there to get tapped by Nvidia’s gregarious CEO Jensen Huang, then you went home with a 32 GB Titan V supercomputer AIB. Jensen Huang demonstrating his largesse in … Read more
Not above the rules, but his vision and mission is at risk
In the beginning, back in when the fabulous 286 was introduced in 1982, several companies sought to clone it, AMD being the most successful. That started the MHz wars, and we users and the happy replicants of the war, the ISVs, enjoyed the bi-annual clock increases and subsequent performance boosts. Ah, those were the days when we have a simple … Read more
Huawei has announced its Honor Play smartphone will employ the company's new “GPU Turbo” technology. Huawei and Honor claim to have improved the graphics processing efficiency by 60 percent while reducing the SoC energy consumption by 30 percent with the new GPU Turbo Boosts. Honor Play smart phone The company says the GPU Turbo technology is built on hardware-software integrated … Read more
In March 2018, TECHnalysis Research conducted an online survey of 1,000 US consumers that identified themselves as gamers and who owned some type of augmented reality or virtual reality capable device. Ages of the respondents ranged from 18 to 74, with nearly 60% falling in the 18–34 range; For VR users, it was discovered that most users had tried a … Read more
Researchers from the Holst Centre in Belgium, an open innovation initiative of IMEC and TNO in Netherlands, have demonstrated a new class of flexible, large-area sensor technology for detecting finger- and palmprints. It is less than 0.2 mm thick and doesn’t use prisms or any moving parts. The sensors can be built into mobile phones and notebooks, or door handles to … Read more
Seven words set the web on fire
In an unprovoked tweet, in the style of a certain golf playing president who now likes kimchi, senior vice president of the Core and Visual Computing Group, general manager of edge computing solutions and chief architect at Intel Raja M. Koduri set off a meme by tweeting from Intel News, “Intel's first discrete GPU coming in 2020:” Every pundit, blogger, … Read more
Penguin Computing (Freemont), led by CEO Tom Coull, has been around since 1998. Prior to Penguin, Tom was a serial entrepreneur, and also founded Sense 8, a leading VR company of the day. Penguin carved out a place in HPC with some clever innovations like its POD or Penguin on Demand, making high-density HPC available as a cloud service. SGI … Read more
But it Can Get You a Curved Display You’ll Fall in Love With
