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Using GPUs to Enable High Performance Cloud Computing

Hosting company SoftLayer to offer a new high-performance cloud computing service
By David Strom
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April 19, 2012 03:15 AM EDT
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More than five years ago, the fastest supercomputers were just a collection of individual CPUs that could be found in your average high-end Sun or IBM server.

But then computer scientists began marrying GPUs to these collections and the result was a new breed of hybrid supercomputer.


This week SoftLayer has taken things to the next level with a hosted service that runs on a hybrid GPU/CPU stack.

You can read more in my article that was posted on Tom’s IT Pro here.

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David Strom is an international authority on network and Internet technologies. He has written extensively on the topic for 20 years for a wide variety of print publications and websites, such as The New York Times, TechTarget.com, PC Week/eWeek, Internet.com, Network World, Infoworld, Computerworld, Small Business Computing, Communications Week, Windows Sources, c|net and news.com, Web Review, Tom's Hardware, EETimes, and many others.

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