Monday, November 24, 2014
Intel's Knights Hill in 2017
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Omni PAth is Intel's fiber optics based network. Knights Landing will support Omni Scale interfaces directly on a chip.
Sunday, November 23, 2014
Japan can't reach exaflops by 2020 ?
But Akinori Yonezawa, deputy director at the Riken Advanced Institute for Computational Science, said, in an interview Tuesday, that the goal is to now build a 200- to 600-petaflop system by 2020, not an exascale system.
Not a merchant product, the new Sparc64 XIfx will appear only in Fujitsu supercomputers. The company has withheld the die size, power consumption, cost, package details, and production schedule, but we estimate the chip measures 500mm2, consumes 200W (typical), and will begin production in 1H15. Using the new processor, Fujitsu hopes to build a system that can execute more than 100 petaflops—three times better than today’s fastest supercomputer. Hopefully in 2016.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Then 200 PFlops in 2018. And 600 PFlops in 2020. EXA only in 2023.
Friday, November 21, 2014
Intel goes 3D NAND 10 TB drive
Intel plans to ship 3D NAND flash chips next year that will allow it to cram more bits into solid-state storage.
99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: 2 mm high NAND stack at 1 TB, 10 such stacks for PCI4.0 10 TB drive above
Sunday, November 16, 2014
Five-year-old passes Microsoft exam !
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: But do you have to help Microsoft's pro too ?
Any way, clever way to tame trined pros shortage for Microsoft's amititious gola to take world's company worth number 1 title form Apple :)
Friday, November 14, 2014
Robots will not do only jobs dangerous for them !
Data centric Coral supercomputer to reach 150 PFlops
The DoE announced today it has chosen IBM's "data centric" architecture for Oak Ridge National Lab's new "Summit" and Lawrence Livermore National Lab's new "Sierra," both to be completed by 2017.
Summit and Sierra will operate at 150 petaflops and 100 petaflops, respectively, compared to the world's current top supercomputer, the Tianhe-2 in China, which performs at 55 petaflops, Nvidia said in a separate news release. Summit will feature more than 3,400 nodes. The combination of very large memory per node and the powerful IBM POWER and NVIDIA processors provides an ideal platform for data analysis as well as computation.
Argonne National Labs will choose a different architecture (yet to be announced) for its pre-exascale supercomputer, reaching some 150 PFlops.
Perhaps the most interesting bit about these two computers, though, is their incredible power efficiency. Summit and Sierra are about five times more efficient than Titan, Sequoia, or Tianhe-2. 150 petaflops at 13.1 MW is about 11,000 megaflops per watt — way, way beyond any supercomputer currently in operation. Bluegene Q have had 1700 megaflops per watt efficiency, some 6.5 times less 6 years earlier.
To be precise. Then in 2022, IBM should be able to obtain some 55 GFlops per watt. That will be quite enough for EXAFLOPS level. Provided it will be able to calculate something else than the number of failures.
Anyway, 150 PFlops x 6.5 = 1020 PetaFlops under the same power consumption. Or even earlier to Exaflops goal at higher 20 MW power envelope.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK:
Summit will have a hybrid architecture, and each node will contain multiple IBM POWER9 CPUs and NVIDIA Volta GPUs all connected together with NVIDIA’s high-speed NVLink. Each node will have over half a terabyte of coherent memory (high bandwidth memory + DDR4) addressable by all CPUs and GPUs plus 800GB of non-volatile RAM that can be used as a burst buffer or as extended memory. To provide a high rate of I/O throughput, the nodes will be connected in a non-blocking fat-tree using a dual-rail Mellanox EDR InfiniBand interconnect.
Thursday, November 13, 2014
SUCESSS: EU probe has landed on comet, but doesn't know where exactly
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Or perhaps which one comet ? For project worth some staggering 1,7 B euros isn't it literally too little too late ? Nobody seems ever heard on old good fireworks upon Philae probe landindg ? Then everyone should see and know. :) Cheers !
LATEST UPDATE: BAD HARDWARE is clairvoyant !
13.15
Dr Holger Sierks who has been operating the OSIRIS camera on board Rosetta has said the team has checked the crater where they thought Philae was...BUT IT ISN'T THERE!
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
US Postal Service Suspends Telecommuting Following Massive Data Breach
The United States Postal Service (USPS) has suspended telecommuting for employees while it works to remediate a network intrusion that has exposed data on some 800,000 postal workers and an additional 2.9 million customers.
The virtual private network (VPN) service for postal employees was
taken down this weekend and will not be brought back up until a version
with more robust security features can be installed, USPS spokesman
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK:
Friday, November 07, 2014
Facevideo: Facebook will be mostly video in 5 years
"In five years, most of [Facebook] will be video," CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday during the company's first community town hall, in which he took questions from the public on a range of topics.
He was responding to a question about whether the growing number of photos uploaded to Facebook is putting a drag on its infrastructure. But Facebook's data centers have it covered, he said. The real challenge is improving the infrastructure to allow for more rich media like video in people's feeds.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Oh no ! I thought killer cats photos are the worst we have seen :(
To encrypt or not is the question of Google and Apple survival
Speaking at Web Summit in Dublin, Baker claimed that moves by Google and Apple and others to encrypt user data was more hostile to western intelligence gathering than to surveillance by China or Russia.
Thus, Apple and Google should stop encrypting or .. die like Blackberry.
"Blackberry pioneered the same business model that Google and Apple are doing now - that has not ended well for Blackberry," Baker was quoted as saying.
The comments come after the new boss of the UK eavesdropping nerve-center GCHQ blasted Google and Apple, and claimed US tech giants were "command and control networks" for terrorists.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Exclusive: Emails reveal close Google relationship with NSA
Thursday, November 06, 2014
CNN commentators using Microsoft Surface tablets as iPad stand.
CNN commentators using Microsoft Surface tablets as iPad stand.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Sounds like a very expensive stand one. Microsoft once more has showed ultimate compatibility with all imaginable hardware around the DESK :). Anyway,
Microsoft Surface loses on election night as CNN commentators use it in iPad mode
Wednesday, November 05, 2014
Intel's 14nm Broadwell -E only in 2016
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Low power 10nm Skylake we should see earlier, in 2015.
Tuesday, November 04, 2014
Hotspot world up to 2018
While Europe currently has the most dense wi-fi coverage, Asia will overtake it by 2018, according to the report. While in North America there will be one hotspot for every four people by 2018, in Africa it will be one for every 408.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Growth rate are enormous.
Monday, November 03, 2014
Exclusive: Intel's Omni Scale fabric will use integrated PCI express 4.0
Knight Landing HPC multicore will use it too in year 2016 ! Not before, because PCIe 4.0 standard will not be ratified till then.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Nothing new. IBM's Power 8 and Intel' Sandy Bridge have used integrated PCI 3.0 support.
