Post SC16: Top 10 Things in Retrospect

In this special guest feature, Kim McMahon shares her perspectives on SC16. ""Faster" is the game in HPC. You can achieve speed with GPUs, FPGAs, or faster CPUs. GPUs have been around a while - you go to NVIDIA and that's where your GPUs are. FPGAs have also been around a while, but recent market actions are now making them a more viable option: Intel's acquisition of Altera, the maturation of the OpenCL toolchain, Microsoft's adoption and use of Bing in their data center, AWS adding FPGAs to their cloud offerings."

The post Post SC16: Top 10 Things in Retrospect appeared first on insideHPC.