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The Taming of the GPU

The media has been alight with articles regarding the groundbreaking Summit supercomputer recently unveiled at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. It sports a mind boggling 9,216 IBM POWER9 CPUs, 27,648 NVIDIA Tesla GPUs, underpinned with 250 petabytes of storage.

Jun 20, 2019 - 3 min read
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Cool and quiet benchmarking on MACCHIATObin (Armada 8040)

I’ve recently taken delivery of a few new goodies to complement the MACCHIATObin Arm v8 powered board that I’ve written about recently on my blog.

Sep 15, 2017 - 1 min read
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Standing up a IBM Spectrum LSF Community Edition cluster on Arm v8

So, you’ve got yourself a shiny new (or maybe not) system based upon a 64-bit Arm (Arm v8) processor that you want to put through it’s paces.

Aug 31, 2017 - 11 min read
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Turning up the heat...on my Armada 8040

Although I took delivery of a shiny new SolidRun Marvell macchiatoBIN a few months back (end May), I’ve not really had a chance to put it through it’s paces until now.

Aug 29, 2017 - 9 min read

Oh Woe is 2016 - NOT!

As we enter a new year, 2016 seems to have been tarnished it the closing month by events around the world. Far be it for me to to talk about world events here, I’d like to focus on the good - at least from my perspective.

Jan 9, 2017 - 2 min read

SC16: Stir it up!

It’s been ages since I’ve posted to this blog. I’ve not forgotten about it - I’ve been figuratively stirring the technical computing goulash pot over on the IBM Systems In the Making blog.

Nov 10, 2016 - 3 min read