Computing
A Thirst for Energy: Solving AI’s Power Problem
Last year, scientists at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Hardware for AI program, their University of Maryland colleagues, and collaborators from Western Digital built a neural network that aced a wine-tasting test. A better-than-human sommelier wasn’t the project’s goal, though; its goal was to explore new ways of addressing AI’s power consumption […]
May 10, 2023 • 8 min read Technology
Where Do Storage and Compute Meet?
An overview of the umbrella term computational storage and the trends driving the technology forward
August 24, 2021 • 5 min read Technology
Driving to Data-Centric Architectures and 1B RISC-V Cores
Our open sourced RISC-V-based SweRV Core family is growing by two as we announce the world’s first commercial dual-threaded embedded core, SweRV Core EH2, and the company’s smallest SweRV Core to date, EL2.
December 10, 2019 • 4 min read Data
Pushing HPC Boundaries to Design Future Hard Drives
We set a high-performance computing (HPC) record with AWS by running 2.5 million tasks on 1 million cores. Here's what prompted it.
July 1, 2019 • 5 min read Data
RISC-V SweRV CoreTM Available to Open Source Community
We delivered on our promise to open source the SweRV Core, which supports our internal RISC-V development efforts & those of the growing RISC-V ecosystem.
April 11, 2019 • 3 min read Data
The Ultrastar® Memory Drive – How Our Memory Extension Drive Works
Cloud architects, digital platform stakeholders, and the HPC user community may use the Ultrastar memory drive to scale memory pools for real-time analytics, scientific workloads, and addition memory-demanding workloads. In this blog, I will show you the step-by-step boot process for a Linux environment and the availability of Ultrastar memory drive “virtualized memory pools” for use by in-memory workloads.
December 21, 2018 • 4 min read Data
Unleashing Innovation from Core to the Edge
At the first RISC-V Summit in Santa Clara, California, Western Digital EVP & CTO Martin Fink delivered a keynote entitled, "Unleashing Innovation from Core to the Edge," punctuated by announcements of three new Western Digital developed open-source innovations.
December 19, 2018 • 2 min read People
Introducing the New WesternDigital.com
This morning we launched a fully redesigned westerndigital.com—and it’s more than a visual makeover. This new site truly reflects who Western Digital is today. If you have been witness to Western Digital for the past six years, you might be familiar with our journey. We have made some notable acquisitions with HGST, SanDisk and Tegile. […]
November 12, 2018 • 3 min read People
In-Memory Computing at Scale? Look Beyond Physical DRAM
Western Digital announces its entry into the in-memory computing market with the Ultrastar DC ME200 Memory Extension Drive. This memory drive leverages Western Digital data infrastructure leadership and NVMe technology to augment physical DRAM by creating virtual memory pools.
November 12, 2018 • 5 min read Data
Accelerating the RISC-V Ecosystem
Learn about accelerating the RISC-V ecosystem: 1. The current state of the ecosystem; 2. What it needs and the work that must be done. For those who want to be part of defining, inventing and creating where the world's going to be and how the next generation of applications are going to be optimized, this is the time to be involved.
October 1, 2018 • 2 min read People