Our modern industrial world depends on raw materials. Whether oil, steel or cotton, raw materials have been of huge importance to the development of the industriaized world. While these physical products remain as vital as ever, the modern era has brought us a new raw material in the form of data. As consumers, we are familiar with data as we use our smartphones and computers. However, the volume of data that is created by modern systems is on a scale that many of us might struggle to … [Read more...]
Daily Updates from SuperComputing 2017 – November 15, 2017
SuperComputing 2017 remains in full force this week from the Colorado Convention Center in Denver. There are lots of activity in presentations, seminars, demonstrations and exhibits on the tradeshow floor. Stay tuned to the Samtec blog the rest of the week for more highlight. CCIX Interconnect Standard FPGA acceleration of high-performance algorithms remains a constant and growing theme in the supercomputing industry and at SC17. Several new approaches to improve the flow of data … [Read more...]
Daily Updates from SuperComputing 2017 – November 14, 2017
The high-performance computing (HPC) industry is converging in Denver this week for SuperComputing 2017. Representatives from universities, hardware providers, system designers, cloud services, semiconductor and interconnect suppliers (Samtec!) and other participants are sharing ideas and launching new products at this annual event. Samtec's team of technical experts are roaming the convention floor, attending classes and visiting with partners and customers. Stay tuned to our blog this … [Read more...]
Chip-to-Chip at 25 Gbps+ . . . Over Fiber?
As another year dawns, the demand for data remains insatiable. The number crunching of Big Data requires larger and faster supercomputers to analyze immeasurable data sets. New server architectures leverage hardware accelerators – in FPGAs or via expansion cards – to offload system processing. The growth of the IoT gives rise to data acquisition systems aggregating GBs of data. High-speed test and measurement equipment emulate signal traffic found in next generation routers, switches and … [Read more...]