Applications vary wildly in what they demand from a system, making it difficult for a single benchmark to provide a broadly representative score. Benchmark suites try to address this by running a set of workloads that hopefully capture a range of typical…

“Split locks” are atomic operations that access memory across cache line boundaries. Atomic operations let programmers perform several basic operations in sequence without interference from another thread. That makes atomic operations useful for multithreaded…

Update (4-2-2026): After careful consideration of changing conditions, especially the change in current date, the transition to Claude’s C Compiler has been rescinded. The original article remains below. Our society has gone all-in on AI. Software and related…

Motherboard chipsets have taken on fewer and fewer performance critical functions over time. In the Athlon 64 era, integrated memory controllers took the chipset out of the DRAM access path. In the early 2010s, CPUs like Intel’s Sandy Bridge brought PCIe…

GB10’s integrated GPU is its headline feature, to the extent that GB10 can be seen as a vehicle for delivering Nvidia’s Blackwell architecture in an integrated implementation. The iGPU features 48 Streaming Multiprocessors running at up to 2.55 GHz, meaning…

Desktop and laptop use cases demand high single threaded performance across a large variety of workloads. Creating CPU cores to meet those demands is no easy task. AMD and Intel traditionally dominated this high performance segment using high clocked, high…

Arm’s 7-series cores started out as the company’s highest performance offerings. After Arm introduced the performance oriented X-series, 7-series cores have increasingly moved into a density focused role. Like Intel’s E-Cores, Arm’s 7-series cores today derive…

Hello you fine Internet folks, Here at CES 2026, AMD showed off their upcoming Venice series of server CPUs and their upcoming MI400 series of datacenter accelerators. AMD has talked about the specifications of both Venice and the MI400 series at their Advancing…

Hello you fine Internet folks, Today we are talking about Qualcomm's upcoming X2 GPU architecture with Eric Demers, Qualcomm's GPU Team lead. We talk about the changes from the prior X1 generation of GPUs along with why some of the changes were made. Hope…

GB10 is a collaboration between Nvidia and Mediatek that brings Nvidia’s Blackwell architecture into an integrated GPU. GB10’s GPU has 48 Blackwell SMs, matching the RTX 5070 in core count. The CPU side has 10 Cortex X925 and 10 Cortex A725 cores and is therefore…

Hello you fine Internet folks,Today we have an interview with the CEO of Cornelis Networks, Lisa Spelman, where we talk about what makes Omnipath different to other solutions on the market along with what steps has Cornelis taken in support of Ultra Ethernet.…

Nvidia has dominated the GPU compute scene ever since it became mainstream. The company’s Blackwell B200 GPU is the next to take up the mantle of being the go-to compute GPU. Unlike prior generations, Blackwell can’t lean heavily on process node improvements.…

Hello, you fine Internet folks, At Supercomputing 2025, EuroHPC, AMD, and Eviden announced that the second Exascale system in Europe was going to be called Alice Recoque. Powered by Eviden’s BullSequena XH3500 platform using AMD’s upcoming Instinct MI430X…

NUMA, or Non-Uniform Memory Access, lets hardware expose affinity between cores and memory controllers to software. NUMA nodes traditionally aligned with socket boundaries, but modern server chips can subdivide a socket into multiple NUMA nodes. It’s a reflection…

Hello you fine Internet folks, Here at Supercomputing the Gordon Bell Prize is announced every year. The Gordon Bell Prize is awarded every year to recognize outstanding achievement in high-performance computing applications. One of this year’s finalist is…

Hello you fine Internet folks, Last week I was in San Diego at Qualcomm’s Headquarters where Qualcomm disclosed more information about their upcoming Snapdragon X2 Elite SOC. Snapdragon X2 Elite is Qualcomm’s newest SOC for the Windows on ARM ecosystem that…

AMD’s Strix Halo aspires to deliver high CPU and GPU performance within a mobile device. Doing so presents the memory subsystem with a complicated set of demands. CPU applications are often latency sensitive with low bandwidth demands. GPU workloads are often…

Strix Halo is the codename for AMD’s highest end mobile chip, which is used in the Ryzen AI MAX series. It combines a powerful CPU with 16 Zen 5 cores and a large GPU with 20 RDNA 3.5 Workgroup Processors (WGPs). The sizeable iGPU makes Strix Halo particularly…

Hello you fine Internet folks! Today we are looking at AMD’s largest client APU to date, Strix Halo. This is an APU designed to be a true all-in-one mobile processor, able to handle high end CPU and GPU workloads without compromise. Offering a TDP range of…

Hello you fine Internet folks, At this year’s ITT, Intel announced their upcoming client SoC, Panther Lake (PTL) along with all of the improvements that they have made to this latest SoC. With a new node, improvements to the CPU cores, a brand new GPU, and…