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The Pure Unification Of Block And File Storage
Companies have been working for years to pull together block, file, and object storage under a single umbrella, giving enterprises that are at times dealing with petabytes of data spread across datacenters, the cloud, and the edge a simpler way to manage, organize, and access all that information. …
The Pure Unification Of Block And File Storage was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Keeping Large Language Models From Running Off The Rails
The heady, exciting days of ChatGPT and other generative AI and large-language models (LLMs) is beginning to give way to the understanding that enterprises will need to get a tight grasp on how these models are being used in their operations or they will risk privacy, security, legal, and other problems down the road. …
Keeping Large Language Models From Running Off The Rails was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Accelerating Chip Design With GPUs, And Adding AI To Push It Further
Two decades ago, all the chip makers, including Intel, had to buy Unix machines, usually massive ranks of Sparc/Solaris systems, to do electronic design automation to design and test their chip designs. …
Accelerating Chip Design With GPUs, And Adding AI To Push It Further was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Internet-Scale Video Requires Its Own Kind Of Supercomputing
Video has taken over the Internet, with almost 80 percent or so of the traffic being video. …
Internet-Scale Video Requires Its Own Kind Of Supercomputing was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
HPE Converges 3PAR Block And Vast Data File Onto One Alletra MP Platform
If incumbent storage suppliers want to have a business in the hybrid cloud world, they have to find ways to erase the line between what’s in the cloud and what’s on-premises – and increasingly what’s at the edge. …
HPE Converges 3PAR Block And Vast Data File Onto One Alletra MP Platform was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The Dream Of Placing Blocks On Chip Designs With AI
Similar to interior designers trying to fit the chairs, tables, and other furniture in rooms inside of a home, chip designers have to figure out where the various bits and pieces of a processor will lie on confined floor plans where latency between parts matters. …
The Dream Of Placing Blocks On Chip Designs With AI was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Docker Helped Invent Containers, And Is Now Reinventing Itself
Containers are still the hot new technology in the datacenter to some, but many of the pieces and parts that eventually would find their way into today’s container platforms have long-since been used by enterprises and developers thanks to Docker. …
Docker Helped Invent Containers, And Is Now Reinventing Itself was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Preparing For Upcoming Hybrid Classical-Quantum Compute
If quantum computers are going to become a commercial thing sometime down the road – and there’s a lot of money and time going into the effort to make them viable for use by HPC organizations and enterprises – it’s increasingly likely that it will be in combination with classical computers. …
Preparing For Upcoming Hybrid Classical-Quantum Compute was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Nvidia Bends The Clouds To Its Own Financial Will
Nvidia is not rich enough – or dumb enough – to build a cloud to rival the likes of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud. …
Nvidia Bends The Clouds To Its Own Financial Will was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Taking Another Stab At Massively Parallel Data Analytics
For many years, and quite a long time ago in computer time, Hadoop was seen as the best way to store and analyze mountains of unstructured data. …
Taking Another Stab At Massively Parallel Data Analytics was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Who’s Going To Build The UK’s Homegrown Exascale Supercomputer?
The years-long run-up to the first exascale supercomputers was really a story about the ongoing competition between the United States and China. …
Who’s Going To Build The UK’s Homegrown Exascale Supercomputer? was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Getting To Zettascale Without Needing Multiple Nuclear Power Plants
There’s no resting on your laurels in the HPC world, no time to sit back and bask in a hard-won accomplishment that was years in the making. …
Getting To Zettascale Without Needing Multiple Nuclear Power Plants was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Pandemic Downtime Let Kraft Rebuild The IT Behind Patriots Football
In a lot of ways, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on The Kraft Group was no different than most other companies around the world. …
Pandemic Downtime Let Kraft Rebuild The IT Behind Patriots Football was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
A Database For All Locations, Models, And Scales
Enterprises are creating huge amounts of data and it is being generated, stored, accessed, and analyzed everywhere – in core datacenters, in the cloud distributed among various providers, at the edge, in databases from multiple vendors, in disparate formats, and for new workloads like artificial intelligence. …
A Database For All Locations, Models, And Scales was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Supercharging Cassandra NoSQL For Machine Learning
DataStax, the driving force behind the ongoing development of and commercialization of the open source NoSQL Apache Cassandra database, had been in business for nine years in 2019 when it made a hard shift to the cloud. …
Supercharging Cassandra NoSQL For Machine Learning was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
With Sapphire Rapids Launched, Gelsinger Focuses On The Future
Pat Gelsinger returned to Intel as CEO in early 2021, the same year that the company was supposed to launch is much-touted fourth-generation Xeon SP processor, dubbed “Sapphire Rapids.” …
With Sapphire Rapids Launched, Gelsinger Focuses On The Future was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
HPE Adapts Boosted Alletra Storage For GreenLake Utility Consumption
Nearly two years ago, Hewlett Packard Enterprise rolled out a new battle plan for storage and a new kind of storage array to implement it. …
HPE Adapts Boosted Alletra Storage For GreenLake Utility Consumption was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
oneAPI 2023: One Plug-In To Run Them All
Intel has a lot at stake with its oneAPI software stack. …
oneAPI 2023: One Plug-In To Run Them All was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
For HPE, The Cloud Is A Private And A Public Matter
Three years ago, Hewlett Packard Enterprise was the first major hardware and software infrastructure vendor to announce plans to make its entire portfolio available as a service, setting 2022 as the deadline for making that happen. …
For HPE, The Cloud Is A Private And A Public Matter was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Intel Chip Research Pushes Power Efficiency And Performance
Since Pat Gelsinger’s return to Intel as chief executive officer in early 2021, the company has bet big on bolstering its manufacturing processes and foundry business, expanded its fab footprint in the United States, and advocated for expanding the country’s chip making capabilities. …
Intel Chip Research Pushes Power Efficiency And Performance was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.